What I Spent, What We Ate | I skipped Tuesday's cooking
What I Spent
I spent $151 at the grocery store and $25 on my Hungry Harvest box.
So, $176 total.
June Spending
Week 1: $160
Week 2: $176
What We Ate
Saturday
Mr. FG and I went out to Five Guys for a quick date night. Five Guys is always a great option for staying within our date night goal of $20.
Sunday
Mr. FG was out with his uncle, and I made pfannekuchen for the girls and me.
(Mr. FG is not much on eggy dishes, so we eat these in his absence!)
Monday
I made BLT salad (greens with bacon, tomatoes, chicken, and croutons), and I made a loaf of homemade French bread to go with that.
Tuesday
It was an unseasonably lovely evening, so I scrapped my dinner plans.
We picked up subs, picked up a friend of the girls, headed to a local park, ate our dinner on a picnic bench by the water, and explored the park afterward.
This is obviously not the most frugal choice ever, but I did pack drinks, grapes, and dessert, so all we had to buy were the subs.
Wednesday
Mr. FG was out with a friend, Zoe was at a friend's house, and that left just Sonia and me.
So, I heated two chicken sausages in a pan and we ate those along with a bunch of the veggies that I cooked/prepped up in my Hungry Harvest session.
Sonia LOVES spaghetti squash, so she ate the whole squash herself.
Thursday
I made corn and cheese quesadillas, which we ate with a fruit salad. I noticed our two bags of grapes were getting down to the bottom, and no one seems to like to eat the last few grapes.
But if I put them into a fruit salad, they get eaten up with no problem.
Friday
I'm planning to make Asian chicken lettuce wraps and I'll probably add some Costco frozen potstickers.
I never have a problem with those last, soft grapes at the bottom of the bag. My daughter loves grapes so much she'll eat them all, even the ones starting to go bad if I don't stop her.
I noticed you've started including your weekend meals in these, so I shall do likewise. Wouldn't want to deprive the internet. 🙂
Saturday: Ribeye steaks, garlic-scape pesto bread, sauteed mushrooms, raw cabbage (the vegetable choice of the middle son, who helped me prepare this dinner)
Sunday: Ground beef tacos with homemade corn tortillas, chocolate chip cookies made by my older son (and me--he's still learning). Incidentally, the cookbook his grandma gave him is from ATK, and their recipe (at least in this book for kids) for chocolate chip cookies has you melt the butter instead of creaming with sugar. I was highly skeptical, but it turned out some delicious chewy cookies and I am doing it this way from now on. No forethought required to soften butter to room temperature, and no electric mixer required. Sold.
Monday: Skillet meal of leftover taco meat, rice, and grated cheddar cheese. Plus carrot sticks.
Tuesday: Rib steaks, pasta with garlic scape pesto, sauteed mushrooms and onion, nuked sweet potato, frozen green beans
Wednesday: Meatloaf, baked potatoes, frozen peas
Thursday: Beef 'n' scapes (braised beef ribs with the meat pulled off and then re-fried in tallow with garlic scapes), rice, baked sweet potato, what I call "burned cabbage," but is technically caramelized, I suppose. In a lot of butter.
Tonight: The only certainty is that I'm going to make coleslaw. It's supposed to be over 90 degrees today and I need to use up the half head of store-bought cabbage before the eight cabbages in our garden are ready to harvest. Next week. I have plenty of leftover rice, so that will be eaten as well. Besides that? Well, we'll just see what the spirits of the chest freezer offer up, I suppose.
I feel you on the butter softening to room temp. Any recipe that skips that step is a winner to me.
Ok, how were you commenting this early? 7 am EST is really early over where you live!
The birds wake me up by singing at 4:30 a.m. and the baby wakes up at 5:30 a.m. In between those two times is my only opportunity for silence (besides the birds). I take advantage. 🙂
Hooray for unanticipated picnic dinners! That really sounds lovely.
Monday- beef and broccoli, watermelon, chocolate chip blondies and ice cream
Tuesday- Cobb salads with chicken, steak fries (I’ve been adding shredded parm and garlic powder to give them extra flavor-delicious!)
Wednesday- pulled pork sandwiches, leftover salad
Thursday- Naan pizzas (pesto, sausage, peppers)
Friday- I’ve got a chicken to roast as we’ve got a crowd coming for dinner. I usually do a Peruvian style rub and make cilantro mayo, so maybe something with rice to go along with it? Time shall tell!
Saturday- Went to the outlets, kids need sneakers, we stopped for a bite (we were kind of down the shore) I had fried shrimp, ds chicken parm, dd, tortellini alfrado, dh, stuffed shells, Ds friend ravioli, stopped for ice cream on the way home.
Sunday- DS soccer team won the championship for their age group! pizza and ice cream for the team!
Monday- chicken cutlet, butter noodles, corn
Tuesday- DS had left over pizza before his summer soccer team practice (its an hour away) The rest of us had Chicken alfrado before a school meeting.
Wednesday- dd had tortellini before soccer practice, the rest of us had hamburgers/hotdog on the grill, beans, tarter tots.
Thursday- Ds soccer for summer team, DD/DH had her soccer teams party, so pizza, and then escape room fun! (DD team made it out in time!!!) I stopped for Chick fila before my haircut, then met up with the team party, unfortunately the parents did not get out! 🙁
Friday- took out sauce/meatball from the freezer, so I think pasta, good bread my dh gets by work, and maybe a salad.
Tonight: probably pizza - I didn't plan well
Thursday: sushi bowls
Wednesday: lasagna, broccoli, cucumbers, cheese slices
Tuesday: bratwurst, green beans, mashed potatoes
Monday: frozen pizza
Sunday: curry and rice
Saturday: I'm not entirely sure, possibly leftovers
Very successful week of not going out to eat, but the grocery bill was higher than I wanted. Made a few "just one item" trips - those always turn into a $20 trip.
Sunday-Chicken ramen dish including carrots, mushrooms, green onion
Monday-Cube steak with couscous, broccoli, salad
Tuesday-went out for tacos
Wednesday-ravioli with strawberry pecan salad, toasted bread from freezer
Thursday-breakfast for dinner (french toast, bacon, mango+strawberries)
Friday-veggie kabobs with couscous and salad
Saturday-going over to friends' house
With my husband in in-patient physical therapy, I indulge myself and eat things I know he won't. So this week I ate a cut up rabbit, all by myself. I had rabbit and differing vegetables three nights, plus for a couple of lunches. The rabbit is gone.
I also cooked a pot of AIP cabbage and pork "curry," which I ate a couple of times for dinner and lunches, with random fruit sides such as grapes or applesauce. The recipe only calls for cabbage as the vegetables, but I always add onion to it as well.
Featured vegetables this week were cabbage of course, onion, mushrooms, kale, sweet potato, zucchini and summer squash. Some carrots, too, I think.
Next up in the "eat-it-while-he's-not-here" menu is probably lamb or salmon.
I had two farm orders this past weekend, so it ups my grocery bill some, but I'm coming in under budget, which I expected, since I'm only feeding one. I spent some on him, however, taking various snacks to his facility for him.
It's just like how we eat eggy things when Mr. FG is gone! 🙂
Will your husband get to come home soon?
We haven't been given a release date, but he should be out by the end of June. They want to see him a lot stronger than he is right now before he goes.
So you already checked off #5 on that bucket list. Go you!
Heh, yes. Yay me!
Saturday: birthday party for friend included dinner
Sunday: lamb burgers grilled in pitas (delicious!, from epicurious.com), garlic yogurt sauce, bitter green salad (garden lettuces)
Monday: bacon, leek, and leftover veg quiche
Tuesday: bacon, leek, and leftover veg quiche
Wednesday: vegetable samosa and cucumber salad
Thursday: cheese, salami & chips for the 3.5 hour drive home
Friday/night: probably pizza as partner wants to go out.
A picnic dinner sounds wonderful but the mosquitoes are everywhere right now.
Monday we had beef and green beans over noodles. I skipped the beef because I still have stitches.
Tuesday was lo mein, one of my favorite meals. I stir-fried the veggies a little longer so they were softer.
Wednesday we had lo mein again.
Thursday is pizza night. Pizza was too chewy for me so I had roasted carrots and some meatloaf from the freezer. Kristen, thanks for the reminder about the carrots. They were so good!
The soft food theme continues tonight with salmon loaf and more roasted carrots.
Luckily it's pretty windy right by the water, so mosquitoes aren't bad at all. On a still day away from the water, though, I totally hear you!
I hope your mouth feels better soon, and I'm so glad you enjoyed the carrots.
hi random internet friend here with a question about the beef-stitches connection??
Oral Surgery... soft foods due to stitches and hard to chew while healing?
This weeks easy meal plan
Chicken Alfredo - with spaghetti squash for me/Olive Garden salad (jar sauce, frozen cooked chicken)
Bang bang shrimp pasta- instapot recipe
BBQ chicken tostados- precooked everything
Chicken Spinach orzo salad- precooked chicken
Hot dogs/chips/beans
Beef nacho taco salads
Sounds like a good week !
A couple of questions- is that the ocean??? A bay? Or what? Looks gorgeous.
Are there any non-chain "support your local merchants" hamburger places around? Or is it that you just love 5 Guys? I got really tired of the burgers there, which to me are terrible, but those fries are delish!
Ditto- I like local restaurants and absolutely no ambiance at Five Guys. Ours actually closed- I was told the rent was too high.
It's actually a river!
There are some local sit-down-with-a-waiter restaurants that serve burgers, but that always ends up being over budget for us. We tend to stick to restaurants that don't have wait staff.
Saturday- pizza, cucumbers and fruit salad left over from an all day coding contest my son attended and I volunteered at (at the snack and lunch table as I know nothing about coding) lots of leftover food so I didn’t need to cook dinner. Yea!
Friday-Attended a graduation party for my youngest nephew- fruit salad, sandwich platters veggie platter very yummy!
Thursday- chicken meat ball subs from HH and DS, I’m not a fan so I dipped my meatballs in leftover wing sauce. Fruit and salad
Wednesday- left over home made beef a roni with cheesy zucchini in Italian sauce for the guys. I went out with a friend and we split wings and a large salad.
Tuesday- home made beef a roni corn on the cob and broccoli.
Monday. I forget!
On a sad note, my extra fridge in the back room malfunctioned and I lost everything in the freezer part. There was nothin in the fridge part but drinks. ARG! That’s one way to clean out the freezer.