What I Spent, What We Ate |
What I Spent
I didn't do a big shop this week; just a smaller fill-in at $88.50.
Which is a good thing, considering I spent $285 last week.
(!)
Here's how things stack up for the month of June:
June Spending
Week 1: $104
Week 2: $194
Week 3: $285
Week 4: $88.50
What We Ate
Saturday
We were supposed to go to a small, outdoor gathering, but it got cancelled somewhat last minute.
And as of right now, I cannot at all remember what we ended up eating.
I can tell you it was nothing virtuous or homemade, though.
Sunday
We got a pizza (Mr. FG's favorite food is pizza!), but some sushi for Sonia, since she doesn't do well with cheese (this spending is included in my grocery totals above).
Monday
I made tacos on corn tortillas with mango salsa. And I wondered why I do not make mango salsa more often. SO GOOD.
I make it kinda like this pineapple salsa except that I usually do not add red peppers.
Tuesday
I made pulled pork sandwiches, which we ate with some fresh fruit.
Wednesday
Sonia and Zoe were out on the boat with their cousins, and I made homemade mac and cheese for Mr. FG, Lisey, and me, topped with leftover pulled pork from Tuesday.
Thursday
We barely squeezed in our shift at the cat rescue before the store closed, and after that shift I made some hot subs at home.
Friday
I was thinking grilled pizzas or pizza subs. But we did just have subs last night, so maybe I will not take the sub option.
Although, sandwiches two nights in a row is no worse than tacos two nights in a row.
And we know tacos twice is not wrong at all. 😉
Satuday: French Bread Turkey, Bacon Sandwhiches and Strawberry Salad
Sunday: French Bread Pizza with Grilled Chicken and Salad
Monday: Miscellaneous leftovers
Tuesday: Chili, Salad and Chips
Wednessday:Baked Cod, Sweet Potato Salad and Garden Salad
Thursday: Suffed Peppers using leftover Chili and Cornbread
Friday: Grilled Chicken Skewers with Potatoes and Veggies (maybe)
Saturday: Elk chili, cheese quesadillas, frozen peas
Sunday: Dad's choice. Roast leg of lamb--almost the very last of the sheep we slaughtered in the spring, and something of a surprise to find when I was excavating the freezer--roasted potatoes, garlic/lemon yogurt sauce, roasted garlic heads, leftover coleslaw, leftover curried cauliflower
Monday: Leftover elk chili, rice, frozen green beans
Tuesday: Finished the elk! Elk stir-fry, leftover rice
Wednesday: Leftover lamb meat heated up in a marinara sauce and then covered with melted cheese, pasta with pesto, leftover cauliflower with pesto, carrot sticks, frozen green beans
Thursday: Carnitas-style pork, boiled potato chunks, frozen peas
Tonight: Tuna patties, fried leftover potatoes, carrot sticks with curry dip (literally just mayonnaise and sweet curry powder)
You used up all the elk!! Good job on your resourcefulness. 🙂
Oh no. Not all the elk. Just all the elk in that particular bag. Two more bags in the freezer. 🙂
Saturday- hot dogs over the bonfire with husbands fmaily, picnic side dishes and made fry pies over the fire
Sunday- oldest at work so we will do yummy Fathers Day food on Monday
Skyline Chili night, 1 kid ate the chili/sketty. the other and I ate salads and pasta with butter and garlic salt!
Monday-ordered in Chinese for *fathers day* with everyone home
Tuesday-keilbasa links, pierogies, green salad
Wednesday-Marinated Pork loin on the grill, baked sweet potatoes, corn, biscuits
Thursday- Beef roast in the crock pot with carrots, instant mashed potatoes, leftover corn, biscuits
Friday- I pulled some ground beef out. Thinking I will make taco seasoned meat and its burritos, tacos or nachos!
Grilled bbq chicken strips. Chips and strawberries blackberries and raspberries.
Salmon. Rice. Fruit.
Pizza. Salad. Frozen yogurt.
Homemade pesto ( home grown basil )fettuccine and Parm garlic toast
Grilled kielbasa roasted potatoes strawberries and salad
Tomorrow : Chinese takeout from local family place
Sunday: slow cooker roasted whole chicken. Green beans. Stove top stuffing ( my kids love it. Don’t ask)
I spent $100.61 at Aldi and $18.78 at Winn Dixie.
Saturday -- leftover pepper steak, rice, roasted zucchini
Sunday -- Father's day meal of sweet & sour meatballs, potato salad, applesauce, lemon meringue pie. We've had the pie for dessert on other days.
Monday -- Salmon, baked potatoes, caesar salad
Tuesday -- leftover sweet & sour meatballs made into sandwiches, potato salad, applesauce, chips, crackers, avocado
Wednesday -- we ate, but for the life of me I can't remember what.
Thursday -- salmon, sautéed spinach, smashed red potatoes
Friday -- take out ribs, baked beans and cole slaw
tonight -- we have a bunch of leftovers so we'll have what my mom called a "picky" supper. You pick out what you want from what's in the refrigerator.
You often forget what you ate on certain days. Since you have a weekly blog post about it, why don’t you keep a small notebook in the kitchen and write it down?
That would be very forward-thinking of me! I'll try to remember.
Actually, I find the fact that you sometimes forget makes you very relatable, as we all forget things. Even to take notes!
I agree, Heather! In the big picture, what's important is that no one went hungry. 🙂
I agree with both of you Heather and Kris!
Sandwiches and tacos sound like perfect summer fare to me. Bonus: the kitchen can stay cool. This week we ate:
Monday - Pesto Chicken Bites, skillet chard (I have decided I love chard!)
Tuesday - Taco Bowls with turkey taco meat and black beans, tomato, green onions, cilantro, shredded cheese, sour cream on rice
Wednesday - Cowboy Quiche (made with pork sausage), chopped salad
Thursday - Salmon, black eyed pea salad
Friday - Crock Pot Ranch Pork Chops, skinny mashed potatoes, green beans
Saturday - Dinner out, most likely
Sunday - One Pot Spaghetti, lemony broccoli - if I actually feel like cooking.
I spent $176 at the grocery store on Thursday and that should hold two people for a month. There is plenty in the freezer and pantry and I get regular Imperfect Produce boxes.
I spent $0 this week on groceries.
Saturday-chicken casserole, butter beans, pineapple
Sunday-burger, tater tots, blueberry crisp
Monday-leftovers from Saturday
Tuesday-burger, chips
Wednesday-waffles, tater tots, fruit
Thursday-homemade pimento cheese on crackers, salad, fruit
Friday-fried eggs on toast, pineapple
Saturday- Mom and dads, pulled pork, I made cole slaw, sister made pasta salad. kids had hot dogs, hamburgers.. since non of them like pork,
Sunday- back to mom and dads, (pork was huge) so today it was pork loin on the grill, left over cole slaw, pasta salad, oven potato wedges.
Monday- kids where at friends swimming, dh and i had Mcdonalds, before we had to pick up DS from his friends.
Tuesday- since we didn't order out on sat, we did tonight. we ordered out subs.
Wen-- BBq chicken on the grill, butter noodles, corn
Thursday- Ravoloi's with sauce, salad, bread
Friday- steaks on the grill, baked potatoes, corn.
Spent $159 today which should last 2 weeks, plus $16 on fish and $25 for rockin' sales at another store. Working backward:
Friday: chicken banh mi sandwiches
Thursday: homemade pizza
Wednesday: Thit Heo Nuang Xa (Grilled Lemongrass Pork Chops with a nuoc cham sauce); sweet potato pancake with ginger and soy; grilled broccoli
Tuesday: cedar-planked grilled salmon with compound garlic butter; grilled broccoli; kale rib, sundried tomato, corn and quinoa sauté
Monday: beans & rice; salad
Sunday: homemade duck pastrami; socca; grilled zucchini & eggplant; salad
Saturday: Laotian pork larb served in lettuce cups, with Ipuddo cucumbers and red peppers
Betta, every week I read your menu and think, "Would she adopt me?"
Thanks for sharing!
I don't have kids and my partner and I both enjoy cooking (and he doesn't mind doing the dishes, so he does all of them). So I, personally, only cook 3-4 nights a week. If I had to do it every night, or if I had to consider picky eaters, it would get tedious. Most of what we cook is deceptively quick and easy. I'm also a professor so cooking gives me a great excuse to escape from grading papers!
I loved how resourceful you are and what great planning you have with your meal plan and budget. I wish I could remember what we had this past week as meals, I might have to take some of you ideas for the coming week.
We decided to eat vegetarian this week and it went well so far.
Saturday: We ate out and had fries specialities before heading to the cinema for the first time since February. It wasn‘t crowded and felt quite safe.
Sunday: made pizza with mushrooms at home
Monday: leftover pizza and bread
Tuesday: potatoes and pan-fried asparagus with chili and basil
Wednesday: the weather was so fine that we ordered pizza and ate it outside
Thursday: torillas filled with roasted marinated vegetables and refried beans
Friday: leftovers
These days we seem to eat one dish over and over again. I make a meal for four and it seems that dish gives us for four meals. This week week has seen us Mussaman curry three times. There was soup once and that is all I can remember.
We haven’t been to the grocery store yet this week so at this point $0, but I’m probably going today. Husband has been battling tummy troubles all week so he’s off his feed. Most of the week I was eating a pork roast that I fixed on Sunday and last nite I had some black bean sauce that I hauled out of the freezer, over noodles. Oh and one nite I had a baked potato with fixen’s.
We had Various grilled meats, cucumber salad.
Used some of the grilled chicken to make chicken Cesar salad. Strawberries
BBQ ribs salad and strawberries
Leftover ribs, green beans and pasta
Tonight will be BLTs probably.
We had:
-Appetizer night
-Carnitas nachos
-Egg roll in a bowl
-Carnitas salads
-White bean chili soup x2
Saturday - Taco salad and grapes
Sunday - Steak, chips, cantaloupe, and asparagus
Monday - Fajitas
Tuesday - Chicken pot pie and roasted cauliflower. It was finally cool enough to use the oven!
Wednesday - Sloppy joes, pineapple, and broccoli with cheese. On a side note, this was the first time that I took hamburger buns (your recipe) out of the freezer and used them (buttered and toasted) and they were still delicious!
Thursday - Grilled chicken breasts, watermelon, and chips with dip
Friday - Chili cheese dogs, carrots with hummus, and watermelon
You've never used buns out of the freezer?! I think that is the only time we make garlic bread. Buns in the freezer to use? Drizzle them in EVOO, scrape the garlic clove all over the bread, then toast. Viola!
Saturday: Hawaiian pasta salad, carrot and celery sticks
Sunday: takeout lobster rolls with fries and coleslaw (for Father's Day--we have these about once a year, if that)
Monday: leftover skillet lasagna and salad
Tuesday: crockpot sesame chicken, baked potatoes, salad, corn
Wednesday: baked mac and cheese, peas, apple slices
Thursday: taco salad
Friday: hamburgers, potato salad, baked beans, corn on the cob, carrot and celery sticks
Saturday (tonight): leftover sesame chicken (shredded in buns), leftover potato salad, corn on the cob (again...I bought 4 ears, 1 apiece each night)
I often cook just 2-3 meals a week and then we have leftovers the other days. This week was out of the ordinary. There are just the two of us at home now.
You all always make such interesting meals. There's just my husband and me - and I still over prepare. Right now, I don't remember what I made for each day - I did a big pork butt, which we ate for two days (putting the rest in the freezer), I made a lasagna for Father's Day, and we had it again a couple of days later (I froze enough for another two meals). There was homemade tomato soup & grilled cheese. I make a "stew" for my dogs, which included baked chicken leg quarters, so we had chicken meat on green salads one night. I boiled part of that 10# bag of chicken, and saved the broth. I used that to make a ham (scraps frozen & saved from a ham we had a few months ago - still have the bone & more meat) & potato soup for tonight. My husband thought we needed eggs, so I ended up with five dozen in the fridge. I made deviled eggs with a dozen, and gifted a bunch to my son. Along with two dozen eggs!
M-Spaghetti and meatballs, caprese salad, garlic toast
T-Crock pot chicken shish kabobs, fruit salad, rice
W-Grilled cheese, fruit salad
T-Baked chicken, roasted butternut and roasted broccolini
F-Pizza, caesar salad, watermelon
S-Fried chicken, coleslaw, squash casserole
Su- ?
M- Lazy Lasgnana
T- Pork Chops, Oven Fries
W- Tacos, Nachos
T- Spam Casserole
F- Beef Stirfry
S- Eggs, Toast
S- BBQ Meatballs, Italian Noodles
Do you have vegetables with these meals? The homemade Mac and cheese with pulled pork sounds great but I would probably want homemade coleslaw (no bagged cabbage mix and no pre-made dressing) with half the volume of dressing per recipe and another veggie, maybe green beans or baby beets with greens. The cost of the vegetables would really increase the grocery budget. We grow most of our own but not everyone can do that.
If memory serves me right, we ate watermelon with our mac and cheese. I know a veggie or two would have been more ideal, but I didn't manage it that night.
But I figure hey, at least I did make dinner at home, and at least we did have some produce. Better to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
I spent $74.26 this week, mainly because we used meat from the freezer. I've been super unmotivated this past week, and it's showing in my meal planning.
Sunday - chicken tikka masala
Monday - I think just sandwiches, but we did have them on fresh sourdough bread that I made.
Tuesday - Pretty sure this was the day I made tacos.
Wednesday - We were super busy, so the kids had mac and cheese and we had leftovers.
Thursday - pizza night, which is an event as much as a meal, because the kids get to make their own.
Friday - I made a generic but satisfactory Italian-ish pasta dish
Saturday - grilled burgers
Each day we did have some sort of fresh fruit and veggie, as well.
Saturday: takeout bbq brisket for Father's day, homemade Mac and cheese, leftover coleslaw, homemade peach pie (pretty proud of that!
Sunday: leftovers
Mom: pesto shrimp with pasta
Tues: leftovers
Wed: takeout pizza plus salad for me because I don't like pizza
Thurs chicken salad sandwiches with veggies
Fri grilled burgers over campfire yummy
Saturday takeout