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Since my digestive system has calmed down, I am still drinking kombucha, just at a slower rate. Please enjoy Chiquita observing the kombucha bubbles.
Her fluffy cheeks are really 10/10.
What I Spent
I spent:
- $37 at Safeway
- $30 on a Hungry Harvest box
So, $67.
(Are Gen Alpha kids still obsessed with the whole 6-7 thing? My kids are all Gen Z, so I have completely avoided the 6-7 craze. Ha.)
What We Ate
Saturday
I made a big bowl of Greek pasta salad, and I cooked some shrimp to go with it. I used the Barilla protein pasta, of course. It honestly tastes like regular pasta to me, and I appreciate that it makes pasta salad a little bit more of a stick-to-your-ribs meal.
Sunday
I worked, and I ate Greek pasta salad with shrimp for my lunch. After work: a trusty bowl of cereal. 😉
Monday
I worked again, had Greek pasta salad with shrimp for lunch again, and had a bowl of raisin bran after work.
Tuesday
I was originally scheduled to work (three in a row), but a coworker needed to swap. So she took my Tuesday shift, and I took her Thursday shift.
I ate the very last of the pasta salad for dinner, since Zoe was with friends.
Wednesday
I saw I had some frozen blueberries that needed to be used, so I made some blueberry pancakes. It's been a minute since I had a pancake night!
Thursday
Shift 3! Overnight oats for breakfast, and for lunch, I had a rather random combo of things.
Here we have cottage cheese with fruit, some popcorn chips, an orange, some cucumbers mixed with a Greek yogurt dressing (just plain Greek yogurt with dill, salt, pepper, and garlic powder...plus two pieces of chocolate. 🙂
After work: plain shredded wheat with a banana, because I am always trying to get plenty of fiber.
Friday
I'm off today (two Fridays in a row!!), and I have absolutely no idea what my plans are for dinner, but I will figure out something easy.
I have started subbing canned great northern beans for pasta in many dishes. Adds fiber and protein while decreasing cooking time and cost.
Saturday: This was the final day of the county fair, which is also always the most tiring. I have a couple of hours in between getting home from the rodeo and leaving for the dance in which to feed everyone. I always make it as easy on myself as I can. In this case, that meant thawing a quart of gyro-spiced ground beef to mix with the rice I had cooked in chicken stock in the morning. I also added some feta cheese before heating that up. Pickles for a very low effort vegetable.
Sunday: Grilled steaks, leftover chicken-y rice, leeks (the ones I entered into the fair --grand champions 🙂 sliced and cooked in butter, chicken juices, and cream; coleslaw, and my daughter's grand champion gingerbread with whipped cream. The gingerbread was one of her fair entries. They only need three squares for judging, so I froze the rest of the 9"x13" inch pan of it for dessert this night. These were grand champion, too. It was a very victorious meal.
Monday: Hamburger steaks with milk gravy and some leeks in the gravy, mashed potatoes, leftover coleslaw
Tuesday: I had both leftover steak and hamburger steak, which I divvied out according to preference. Most people had leftover mashed potatoes, too, although a couple of people had fried bread. And carrot sticks.
Wednesday: Bacon and cheese omelets, fried potatoes, cherries
Thursday: I thawed a whole, fully cooked ham, then I cut steaks off of that and fried them because this is not the weather to turn the oven on to bake a whole ham. I also made mashed potatoes again, and we had corn on the cob from the produce bus in the city (most places have trucks--this is New Mexico, and so the produce comes in an old school bus), watermelon
Tonight: The whole family is driving to town--100 miles--so my eldest can get his unrestricted drivers license and all the kids can get their passports. I was planning on making a Spanish tortilla before we leave so it will be ready when we get home at dinnertime. However, I reserve the right to eat at Sonic or something if our DMV and passport appointments run late.
Oooooh! Getting everyone a passport sounds like fun days ahead!
Sounds like a great victorious meal- congrats on all the fair wins!
For fiber, have you tried Kashi Go Original? 7 grams fiber per ounce, all of it from "real" fiber such as bran (rather than inulin). Also 7 grams of protein.
My usual breakfast is about 4 oz yogurt, about 2 oz cereal, and some soaked chia seeds. Not only do I find it tasty, it's means a good nutritional start to my day, whatever else happens after.
Happy Friday, everyone!
The 6-7 craze ... I was talking with a girl the other day and we were sharing our ages. When I told her I was almost 67 (she guessed 16), she got the biggest grin, clapped her hands, raised them in the air and yelled 6-7! She's five.
We spent $101 ($51 at Aldi, $25 at Eastside Co-op, and $25 at Trader Joe's).
-- Raw cauliflower and dip; graham crackers
-- Wedding reception: pasta salad, potato salad, veggies and dip, bun, rhubarb bar and pecan bar
-- Egg bites, cottage cheese, and warm pumpkin bread topped with vanilla yogurt, toasted almonds and cinnamon
-- Mediterranean orzo salad
-- Banh mi sandwich (homemade bread, spicy tofu planks, cabbage, cukes, mayo, sriracha sauce) - twice, sooo good
-- Zoodles with homemade tomato sauce