WIS, WWA | $18!
What I Spent
It was a cheap week at my house. I spent $18 at Safeway, and that was it!
That's an awfully short spending report. So, here's a picture of the brilliant blue sky from yesterday. I walked out of an appointment, looked up, and felt so happy when I saw it, so I stopped and took a picture.
Also, when I got home from the appointment, I went out for a walk, stopped in a sunny spot, closed my eyes, and just soaked up the sunshine. So, so good.
I am the queen of sunshine appreciation. 🙂
What We Ate
Saturday
Zoe was at a gathering with a friend, and I made myself some whole-wheat blueberry pancakes for dinner.
Sunday
I cannot remember where Zoe was. No, wait, I remember...she went to a concert with a friend!
I continued my little breakfast-for-dinner weekend by making a plate of potato wedges, fried eggs, and sliced avocado with a grapefruit on the side.
So good and so easy.
I made something nearly identical for breakfast the next morning too!
Monday
I had clinical until 8:30, but I had cooked a pork butt on Sunday in anticipation of this schedule.
So, Zoe ate that at home on a bun with BBQ sauce, and I packed some for my dinner along with sweet potatoes, cilantro, a spicy sauce, and some fruit.
There's a microwave in the nursing break room and also in the cafeteria, so that makes packing a dinner much more feasible!
Tuesday
Another clinical that ended at 8:30, and I packed a repeat meal. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 🙂
Zoe got dinner out with a friend while I was gone.
Wednesday
My mom dropped off some of this baked potato soup for us, so that was dinner, plus some fruit.
Thursday
An eat-up-leftovers night! Zoe had some mac and cheese, I had some soup, and we both had some fruit.
Friday
Hmmm....well, since I spent so little on groceries this week, I kinda think we will get some takeout tonight. 🙂
Sunday was beautiful, unseasonably warm weather so I made the husband grill a pile of chicken breasts and I baked an entire bag of potatoes. Rounded it out with a bowl of sautéed apples.
Monday we went out for the twins birthday at a local Mexican restaurant.
Tuesday- Fend for yourself with leftovers in the fridge or something frozen!
Wednesday- I tossed a pork shoulder into the crock pot before work- had that shredded with frozen peas and a box of scalloped potatoes.
Thursday- I air-fried a few chicken breasts sliced into tender/strips. Served with fresh fruit and mini pierogis and green beans.
Not sure about tonight.. I believe I have a free pizza on my app.. might have to use that as I am getting really tired of cooking lately! lol
@jes,
I sympathize. I really get tired of cooking too. Now that my family has grown my meals have gotten simpler.
I'm also so happy to see the sun! Rainy weeks are very long when you work with small children...
WIS: 131.36 @Aldi and 80.59 on wine for 211.95 this week. Not too shabby.
WWA: generally speaking, all salads were boxed greens with spray dressing and crispy onions because I am still recovering from being super sick so I've been pressing the easy button.
Fri: salad and focaccia topped with turkey bacon, mozzarella and parmesan.
Sat: salad, fried eggs, green beans and Mac and cheese.
Sun: fancy ramen bowls with lots of veggie toppings like peppers, carrots, and celery as well as protein toppings like shredded chicken, turkey meatballs and soy marinated eggs.
Mon: salad and pizza bagels on homemade bagels.
Tue: salad, chickpea, sweet potato and lentil curry over brown rice.
Wed: salad and cheese and veggie lasagna.
Thu: fruit salad, veggie burgers topped with cheese and salad greens on homemade buns.
Tonight: salad and focaccia.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
You really need to come to New Mexico. I myself tend to hide from the sun, but if you like sunshine, you'd like it here. Basically one big UV lamp.
Anyway. Food. We were heavy on the cheese this week, and rather light on vegetables.
Saturday: We had quite a bit of the grocery-store fried chicken left, which some people had as sandwiches, and some had plain with bread and butter. And JD, the one child who didn't much like the chicken did like it when I cut it up and the breading was off it. So I guess it was the coating that was objectionable. Understandable, since fried chicken from a store is not really top-shelf.
Sunday: I cooked a bag of elk stew meat as a kind of saucy chili to use for burritos. I also made the flour tortillas this time. I hadn't made flour tortillas in a long time. We also had the chili beans I had made earlier in the week. For dessert I made a baked custard. It's egg season, and that means I can use ten eggs for custard again. Whee!
Monday: Last of the chili elk and chili beans combined with rice and cheese to make a skillet meal. And raw radishes.
Tuesday: I was subbing at school, and hadn't planned on that, so I didn't have food ready to go. Luckily, as I said, it's egg season. So I made bacon and cheese omelets, with bread and butter.
Wednesday: Working again. I had some deli ham, so we had toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, Snow's clam chowder (a canned condensed soup--condensed is much better because then you can add the milk and cream), and apple slices.
Thursday: Not working! Finally time to actually cook. I made a boneless leg of lamb, mashed potatoes, sauteed zucchini, raw radishes for the children, and lemon jello. I made the jello for the most recent sick child. All I did was make our standard lemonade recipe--with bottled juice that I buy in bulk--and stir in the gelatin. This worked well, and almost everyone liked it.
Friday: We have had a bag of carp heads in the freezer for almost a year, I think. My husband kept saying he would make fish stock out of them for chowder. I forced his hand by taking those heads out to thaw overnight. Use 'em or lose 'em, babe. I also took out a few random tilapia fillets for the actual fish in it. I suspect he will make a creamy chowder with potatoes. So my house will probably not smell very good today, but at least that bag of fish heads will be out of the freezer. 🙂 I am also making bread today, so I will make some garlic bread with some of the dough, and those who aren't enthused about fish chowder (that would be me, and probably my daughter, whose tastes are very similar to mine) can have that and cheese. I have mini bell peppers, broccoli, and carrots on hand, so I will make some ranch dip and put all that out before dinner as the vegetable course.
@kristin @ going country, OK, now I can't decide which of these I want for the name of my next rock group: "Bag of Carp Heads" or "Random Tilapia Fillets." 😉
@kristin @ going country,
Okay, then, I have to agree that store-bought fried chicken often has a coating I don't care for, either. I'm satisfied now. Thanks for the explanation. 🙂
@kristin @ going country, Oh no! You reminded me of that awful '80s song!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I
@Bobi, Actually, you reminded me of it. As soon as I read your comment, I heard it in my head before I even went to the video. Ha. I think maybe they played it on the Dr. Demento show? Along with everything ever from Weird Al. My brother always listened to that show.
@kristin @ going country,
It is actually a song about a very bad meal at a Chinese Restaurant. It was one of the songs played often when MTV was launched in the very early 80s. I am sure that was before your time. However, this was the time when Punk and New Wave music was coming out of Great Britain. Although this song is “interesting,” it was a super creative and interesting period in music.
On another note, fish can really make things stinky. Once many years ago, I made fish and broccoli for dinner. After we ate, one of my son’s friends came over. Walking into my house, he announced loudly to my son, “Dude, your house smells like farts!”. I have never cooked these two things together again.
@Bee, Good thing I'm not cooking the broccoli tonight, then. 🙂 Also, the early 80s is . . . not really before my time. My children like to talk about me being born in the 70s, although I insist that's just a technicality, since I was actually born just four days before 1980 started. I was pretty young in the early 80s, though, so I wasn't watching MTV.
I was born in 78, but like you, I think of myself as a child of the 80s. I was alive for less than two years of the 70s, and I have no memories of that time!
@JD, Our local grocery, Publix, has a deli that makes delicious fried chicken (IMHO) -- and I will devour the coating LOL. And, free marketing on their part --if the wind is in your favor.....you can SMELL the fried chicken in the parking lot LOLOL.
@Bee, I think you mean BEST EVER TIME FOR MUSIC. Siiiigh.
@Cheryl,
Publix is near my work place and it sure does smell good when they are cooking , but still, nothing beats well-made homemade fried chicken, to me.
@Rose, I have to say that I agree,
@Rose,
Amen, sister from another mister! 🙂
@Bee,
I'm right there with you! 🙂
@Bee, remember could have been worse - Brussel Sprouts have way more "stank" than broccoli. I won't touch them, younger kiddo won't, better half and other kiddo love them. Wasn't but a few weeks ago better half cooked Brussel Sprouts AND broccoli since "there wasn't enough broccoli left in the bag". Trust me, I passed, they enjoyed.
That sauce looks like it would be a hit in our house. And the sky is beautiful. It was gray and misty here yesterday.
As usual I can't remember anything about meals this week except I had a Blue Apron box. Last night we had chicken with orzo and capers, and tonight probably one-pot udon stir fry. I had the rest of my Roquefort, crackers and sliced apple one night. Dunno what the kids ate.
@Rose, but she put it on potatoes!
Those breakfast plates look delicious!
WWS: $345 at Kroger. As I remind myself, though, it's all good food, no junk. DH says he's seen people eyeball our cart as we go through the self-checkout, the amount of produce we get. Well, we have four boys who love fresh fruit for snacks, as do I, and I like roasted vegetables.
Saturday/Sunday: Saturday most of us were fasting for First Saturday; those who weren't made themselves some pizzas. Sunday night we all feasted on pizzas! And leftovers.
Monday: Baked chicken drumsticks, steamed asparagus, roasted broccoli, brown rice. I finally got the hang of cooking brown rice in the rice cooker.
Tuesday: Burgers, red lentil cauliflower soup, popcorn.
Wednesday: Hamburger stew.
Thursday: Fish burgers (mackerel/tuna), leftovers, yogurt parfaits. (side note, I think it is funny that our cat prefers mackerel to tuna and always waits for a little bowl of the mackerel juice DH drains from the cans. After slurping up as much as he can hold, Clark then toddles off for a big nap, as if he's in a food coma.)
Tonight is taco night!
WIS: $15.50 at the Regional Market, $11 at Price Chopper, and $19 at Ollie's. (Note: $8 of the Ollie's bill was for a new lampshade for my recently thrifted $7.50 table lamp in the guest room. I wasn't having much luck with thrifting an attractive lampshade in decent condition.)
WIA: Highlights: A split pea soup with a nice meaty ham bone from the freezer; another in my continuing series of stir-fries to use up miscellaneous vegetables; and a sort of black-and-white pizza with cheese, Kalamata olives, and mushrooms. (I was having a bit of indigestion yesterday and decided not to add onions or tomato sauce to the pizza. And it came out very well.)
Oh, I think you earned take-out for sure! And your mom's soup looks so comforting. I spent $56 this week - cheaper because we are eating out of the freezer. This week at my house:
Monday - kitchen closed - I ate a meatloaf/potatoes/broccoli ready to go meal from HEB
Tuesday - (freezer) Christmas Ham with creamy poblano pasta
Wednesday - (freezer) Turkey with Rice Pilaf, peas and carrots, dinner rolls
Thursday - (freezer) Crockpot BBQ Chicken Drums with homemade BBQ sauce, baked potatoes, and side salads with avocado and orange bell pepper
Tonight - I had tilapia on the menu, but I'm not sure I'll fix that. I might go grab some things at HEB for the weekend, like more fruit, eggs, and bakery ciabatta. In which case I may grab a pizza for us.
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed so to each their own
Happy Weekend!
I, too had a very low spend week at $17.63 for groceries, plus $22 for takeout. I was very happy with that, plus we used up a lot of items in our freezer, pantry, fridge....
Saturday- we were at camp and some friends came to visit us there. We grilled bacon cheeseburgers, I made cheesy potatoes and our friends brought salad. I had made chocolate chip cookie bars for dessert.
Sunday - daughter invited us over for dinner at her new apartment, we had salad, marry me chicken, green beans and hubby and I took mini cheesecakes for dessert.
Monday - takeout after an ER visit for hubby. He had smashed his hand at camp, but luckily nothing is broken.
Tuesday - Roast, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans
Wednesday - Chicken sandwiches, fries, fresh pineapple
Thursday - Penne pasta with mini meatballs & sauce & cheese, salad
Friday - dinner out with friends!
Take out sounds like a great plan after your busy week!
We also did breakfast one night.
I spent $110.08, but $15 of that was a quick run for soup/crackers/ginger ale/gatorades/lysol for my daughter-in-law. She got a stomach bug while my son was at work so I picked her up some items and dropped them on the porch.
We ate:
Saturday: Dinner at a friend's house
Sunday: made a birria poutine (birria meat over fried potatoes and various toppings) and salad
Monday: birria tacos/beans/rice
Tuesday: was just me so I made a grilled ham & cheese sandwich and some roasted veggies
Wednesday: breakfast night with eggs and biscuits/gravy/baked apples
Thursday: philly sandwiches with onion rings and some raw veggies
Friday: I don't have a plan yet for tonight.
I have the luxury of working from home this week, which makes meal prep easier.
Saturday: we got Vietnamese takeout.
Sunday: leftover takeout, scrambled eggs for the toddler
Monday: pasta with tomato sauce, and cucumber salad.
Tuesday: Miso soup, scrambled eggs, and sauteed frozen broccoli
Wednesday: My parents came over and brought us soup, fish, and some salads.
Thursday: Home made pizza. Edible, but I should have made the crust thinner and the oven hotter.
Friday: I'm at a union meeting from 1 until 6, so I'll make beef and vegetable stew, and challah in the morning. As long as the meat defrosts by 9:30, it'll work!
Oh my gosh, this was such a great week in that my kitchen remodel is concluded and I was fully back into my kitchen for the first time in six weeks. Plus, it's now beautiful to boot. 🙂
WIS : $129 for two retired adults. It was a restock week due to above, so just $4 over my self-imposed weekly allotment of $125. We've been around $100 for 2024 so far, so I'm still well under in general.
WWA:
Sat: Pesto pasta, salad, garlic toast
Sun: Clam chowder tasting event at the beach - really fun, and pretty reasonable - $15 per person for 10 tastings.
Mon- Vegetarian chili in the crockpot, corn bread
Tue- Chicken fajitas, rice beans.
Wed- Sat leftovers
Thur- Mon leftovers
Fri- Veggie burgers, sweet potato fries, salad, raspberry crumble bars
Congratulations on getting your kitchen back!
Woohoo for a kitchen again!
That is a really low-spend week, Kristen!
I had a low-spend week too, last week, because I don't shop but every other week and last week wasn't it, ha.
But I did eat, so:
Friday night was my birthday dinner, which was pork loin, asparagus that my daughter cooked somehow that was really good, baked sweet potatoes and the other daughter made homemade banana pudding and whipped cream. Yum.
I made cubed pork cutlets with mashed parsnips and cranberry sauce, which I had twice. I had a salad of garden lettuce and a garden carrot with that, one night.
The leftover beef "stroganoff" with peas and applesauce.
Turkey wings with leafy greens from my garden and of course, cranberry sauce, which I also had twice.
Tuna salad, made as always with onion, celery and carrot, plus raisins, along with GF toast and an orange.
Tonight I will shop for groceries, so I'll either find something good (and fast) to make or I'll finish off the tuna salad.
That's a low spending week! I have a pile of receipts to go through tonight.
Saturday: We ate dinner at our school's fundraising auction. It was delicious BBQ - one of my favorites!
Sunday: It was really nice out, so we made a fire and cooked mountain pies over the fire for dinner.
Monday: Pork chops, cantaloupe, cottage cheese, and potato chips with dip
Tuesday: Chicken thighs, green bean casserole, and oranges. Side note: My two youngest kids decided this night that they don't like green bean casserole. What?! My oldest child even said, "What? You guys love this." I thought I was making something special for them. Go figure. Kids and their ever-changing taste buds and preferences!
Wednesday: Quesadillas
Thursday: Spaghetti and homemade meatballs
Friday: I think pizza. We have a day off school and are heading to the Henry Ford Museum for most of the day, but I think I'm going to get some pizza dough ready while I'm packing lunches.
Hi Kristen - long time reader, first time commenting. I aways wonder how you handle your grocery budget when it comes to household goods. I find I'm always adding non-food items (paper towels, OTC meds, cat food/litter, greeting cards) to my grocery cart and I feel like the receipt is not always a reflection of my actual food budget. Do you split expenses or just roll with it? Thanks!
I have never separated out cleaning stuff or paper goods. But hmm, cat food and greeting cards definitely do not seem like grocery expenses! 🙂
In the end, it's up to you and how detailed you want to be about calculating this out for your budget. I think what matters most is tracking things over time, and making sure your overall spending fits into your budget and income.
Saturday - tried a new pizza place that is run out of someone’s home. It was also a fundraiser for my kids school. It was delicious, would definitely get it again.
Sunday - sesame chicken and peas with rice. I had perfected making rice on the stovetop when we had a gas stovetops but ever since we got induction, the rice never turns out right. I decided to try making rice in my instant pot and it made the most delicious rice, the whole family raved about it! Good to have a solution to the rice problem.
Monday - chimichurri chicken and rice. I quickly forgot the lesson from the day before and made this on the stove, worst rice ever! It was still crunchy, and I didn’t blame my kids for not eating it. At least it served as an extra lesson to use the instant pot!
Tuesday - creamy mushroom pasta, accidentally dumped the pasta water when I was supposed to save a cup for the sauce. I made a replacement out of cornstarch and water, and the dish still turned out well (probably would have been better with the pasta water though)
Wednesday - impossible burger for husband, California veggie burger for me cut up and put on a salad, chicken nuggets and popcorn shrimp for the kids, French fries and steamed broccoli and green beans for everyone
Thursday - leftover soups from the freezer: alphabet and turkey corn chowder and crescent rolls
Friday - I have book club so will snack there, the rest of the family is going to have pizza with the neighbors and then go to rec swim at the public pool (obviously an indoor pool, no polar bear swimmers here)
@LB, When I was in Lithuania, I went to the coolest pool. You left the changing room to a pool of warm water in a sort of cave made of real stone. As you swam out, the cave ended and you were out in the open in a large pool. It was winter and steam was rising from the warm water. By the sides of the pool were tall trees, now bare of leaves, and it was snowing big flakes that were clinging to the empty branches. I spent about an hour just lying on my back sort of aimlessly drifting and watching the snow. Turned out the pool was actually built around a hot spring, not heated by another means. Suddenly a large group of teens swam out from the cave; their teacher was dressed in a thick coat and fur hat and high heeled boots. She stood on the edge of the pool and shouted exercise orders at the kids. Time for me to get out.
@Lindsey, Am I the only one here who thinks this sounds like a surreal dream?
We received a record snowfall this past week, so no green here but yay for the moisture! WWA:
Saturday - baked steelhead trout, oven fries, Greek village salad
Sunday - roasted spatchcocked chicken, baked potatoes, broccoli, corn, brownies from a mix
Monday - leftover chicken and a salad
Tuesday - falafel, grilled naan, hummus, tzatziki, slices cucumbers, olives
Wednesday - make your own sandwiches
Thursday - hectic day so we ordered Chinese food
Friday - the unstuffed peppers skillet I had planned for Thursday
Wishing a wonderful weekend to all
WIS: Right at $110, all at Food Lion. It was a restocking week and thus about $30 higher than usual.
WWA: Leftover pizza from the freezer. Salads with added cheese and tuna, depending on preferences. Fresh fruit and veggies. Protein shake mix added to frozen berries for yummy smoothies. A few sandwiches: Pb&J, cheese, and some salami for my husband. Except for two servings of fish, I was an accidental vegetarian this week.
Sat - Spaghetti w/salad and biscuits
Sun - Scrambled Eggs w/fried potatoes and sausage gravy w/biscuits
Mon - BBQ drumsticks, mashed potatoes & gravy and corn
Tues - Cheeseburgers and fries
Wed - Buffalo Chicken, Bacon & Potato Casserole w/salad
Thurs - Mongolian Ground Beef w/jasmine rice, (frozen) teriyaki veggies, (frozen steamable) skinny green beans and leftover corn. Oh and Spicy Cucumbers!
@kris,
What are spicy cucumbers?
@Gina, Thinly sliced mini cucumbers marinated in Sesame Oil, Soy Sauce, Sweet Chili Sauce, Rice Vinegar, Minced Garlic, Salt, Green Onions and Sesame Seeds.
You have to play around with how much of each ingredient to get it how you like it. But it's so good, I'm addicted. lol
@kris,
Thanks for sharing! Sounds good!
We had several breakfast-y dinners this week, too!
* Blueberry pancakes
* Fried egg on toast
* Raisin bran cereal
* Corn chowder
* Butternut squash-carrot-coconut milk soup
* Salad with mixed greens, cannellini beans, walnuts, raisins, and shredded cheese, spritzed with olive oil and rice vinegar and topped with cracked black pepper. So simple, tasty, filling and frugal.
* Sweet and sour tofu/veggies
Love your “Blue Skies” photo, Kristen! And the lyrics to that old song are perfect for you, and where you find yourself right now: “Blue skies, smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see… Blue days, all of them gone. Nothing but blue skies from now on. Never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things going so right.”
WIS: $29.54 on groceries, which I thought would win the week but … No! Kristen beat me. And $20 (tax + tip included) on lunch out with a friend I hadn’t seen “in person” for several weeks because of her hip replacement surgery. And we’ll be going to lunch tomorrow with another friend for a very belated tripartite birthday celebration (me on December 28 and the two of them on December 29) because health and travel issues kept us apart the end of December.
WIA: Chicken enchiladas with Spanish rice and roasted sweet corn and peppers. Hamburger with sauteed mushrooms and Swiss cheese and sweet gherkins. Chicken fajitas with peppers and onions. Tempura shrimp with jasmine rice and a cole slaw-type salad with sesame ginger dressing. Potsticker soup with bok choy, shitake mushrooms, scallions and sesame oil. The broth was the best part of that soup.
@JDinNM, Willie Nelson!
I was out of town for a few days, in Napa with my mom & sister, so this will be my meals. The boys appeared to have survived at home, but no idea what they ate.
Friday - picked up my mom & sister from their very delayed flight. Everything was closed when we got to the hotel, and room service had a tiny menu. We ordered a couple of items to share, and had that with a bottle of champagne, to kick off our trip.
Saturday - we went out for Italian, to "carb load" ahead of the race. We shared (we always do) a delicious pizza & some pasta. The highlight of the meal was the olives stuffed with sausage & lightly fried. Insanely good.
Sunday - we found a last minute reservation close to our hotel, and shared fresh mozzarella (created when you ordered?) + ravioli, a salad & dessert
Monday - went back to Sunday's restaurant, as it was so delicious. Shared the arancini, and a different pasta.
Tuesday - I made gyros for everyone, and my picky eater had a grilled cheese
Wednesday - I made a chicken peanut noodle dish, that was delicious & will get added to our recipe rotation.
Thursday - I was at DS17's tennis match, so it was a quick dinner. Shrimp scampi for DH (from Costco) & the rest of us had chicken patties. The teens had them as sandwiches, using up the last of the hamburger buns. I had mine over a salad
I'm meeting up with an old coworker tonight, so DH will likely make pizza for everyone else, and I'll have leftovers when I get home.
WWS
It was a crazy week. We had three grocery store trips totally a little over $90, but $14 of that amount was for treats for Rescue Pup and $15 was for another orchid at Trader Joe’s. ( I couldn’t resist. It had stripes.) $60 was spent on food.
WWA
Meals were simple. I had a cold and hubby also wasn’t feeling tiptop.
• A GF frozen costco pizza doctored up with mushrooms and spinach added
• Roasted chicken, rice and Lima beans.
• Salads and baked potatoes
• hamburgers, oven fries and broccoli
• beef, rice and veggie stir fry.
• Leftovers at least twice
I feel better so I may cook tonight.
Friday – Sunday’s meals were all restaurant meals on my son’s band trip to Chicago that I was lucky enough to chaperone. My husband fended for himself while we were away. I am more than done with eating out for a while.
Friday: We visited a food hall in downtown Chicago. We all got a $20 gift card to visit any restaurant in the hall. My son and his friends picked a hot chicken restaurant, I opted for a kale salad and tomato soup. All leftover funds on the gift cards were left as tips for the staff of the food hall.
Saturday: Deep dish pizza for lunch (because of course). Hard Rock Café for dinner – my son picked a hamburger and I picked a chicken sandwich. The kids asked to stay longer at the restaurant because a live band was playing!
Sunday: We stopped by a few fast food restaurants on the bus ride home. Spicy Chicken Sandwiches for my son and me. This was the only meal we had to purchase on the trip.
Monday: Leftovers – all the goodies my husband had while we were gone but I don’t remember what they were.
Tuesday: Spinach Chicken Poppers, Tater Tots, fresh veggies
Wednesday: Greek Chicken Tzatziki Salad – my son was with his dad and my husband had a last-minute work event
Thursday: leftover Greek Chicken Tzatziki Salad
Hi all, I'm envious of your warm day and blue sky. Were still buried under two feet of snow here and it's a balmy 28 degrees. Brr. Soak up some sun for me.
Anyway, this week:
Spent around 140.00 but that includes some house hold items and a hay bale for our two goofy spoiled rotten goats.
Sunday - Made chicken stock from two carcases I found in the freezer so we had loaded veggie and chicken soup and since I was already poking around the kitchen (pantry needed a go through and organized) I made bread to go with.
Monday - Canilli beans with capers and sundried tomatoes, green salad, leftover bread.
Tuesday - Stuffed meatballs, perogies, sweet and spicy peppers.
Wendsday - Random leftovers...thank goodness husband doesn't mind odds and ends for dinner.
Thursday - Spaghetti with meat sauce, spinach salad with mandarins, cucumber and lots of croutons.
Friday - Plan on spicy maple salmon with rice and most likely random veggies that need to be eaten.
Saturday - Got some deer steak so I'll marinate those in milk, pan fry and serve with mashed potatoes and parsnips with sugar peas and peppers to round out.
Happy weekend!
I love that your mom recognized how busy your week was being and brought you the soup. And that you, a chip off the old block, packed a cooked, nutritious dinner for a long clinical work day.
Soaking up sunshine is how I am trying to heal from the worst cold of my life. The sun is a bit hard to find this week, though!
$44 pizza; $11 grocery; $35 mystery shop grocery (will be reimbursed)
Sat: stopped for pizza for lunch before picking up 2 new [feline] family members from a shelter. We ate the leftover pizza for dinner
Sun: 3-Cup chicken [Tawainese], rice, roasted Brussels sprouts and broccoli. Side of sliced cucumbers with the best dressing https://pantryno7.com/ippudo-cucumber-salad/
Mon: grilled flank steak with chimichurri, baked potato, grilled zucchini
Tues & Wed: I ate tortellini, vegetable & tomato soup from the freezer while at the work apartment. Don't know what my partner ate.
Thurs: mystery shop burger & fries during the long commute home
Fri: pork banh mi burgers with pickled veg, sliced cucumbers and potato wedges. These burgers are SO good! https://themodernproper.com/pork-banh-mi-burger
LOVING the sunshine yesterday and today!!!
Saturday - we grilled burgers and hot dogs
Sunday - leftovers
Monday - ham, macaroni and cheese, peas
Tuesday - baked potato soup
Wednesday - stroganoff over egg noodles, lima beans, applesauce
Thursday - leftovers
Friday - steak, leftover macaroni, loaded potato skins (saved from making the soup on Tuesday)
I envy your grapefruit meal. I cannot eat grapefruit due to a medication interaction and I miss it very much. I used to peel and eat them like an orange; when I was lazy or the fresh ones were no good, I would buy one of those huge jars of grapefruit segments packed in their own juice.
Easy meals this week: I found some chicken breasts that were starting to get freezer burn so I made a simple chicken and mushroom soup with noodles thrown in. We ate it for four nights. I cook the noodles separately and we dish out the amount we want each night and add it to the soup. That way they don't get mushy. We ate sumos every night, too. (Thanks Artist Jana, for letting me know the season is only going to last a few more weeks so I can stock up now!)
Two other nights we are homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. We had this last week, too, but it was below zero and we got cold taking the dogs out so it sounded good.
The final night of the week, tonight, it is McDonald's fish sandwich for me and a home made burger for him. I love Friday suppers!
Oh yes, in nursing school we have learned about a lot of meds that grapefruit interacts with! We're doing a unit on cardiac meds right now, and I learned that you can have grapefruit juice with statins (like Atorvastatin) or with calcium channel blockers, like diltiazem or amlodipine. I'm sorry you can't have it right now.
Oddly, you can't have OJ with beta blocker meds, like metoprolol or propranolol. That one is odd to me because almost always it's grapefruit juice that is prohibited.
I do the same thing as you with chicken noodle soup; leaving the noodles on the side. Otherwise they just absorb SO MUCH broth.
@Lindsey,
Fellow Sumo lover here....I'm stocking up, too!
We went to Costco yesterday so $223 and then to the local grocery store $40.
Sunday left over pizza at lunch and a ham & cheese sandwich for supper
Monday ham & cheese for lunch , Roast beef, potatoes and carrots for supper
Tuesday ham & cheese fir lunch and tacos for supper
Wednesday out for lunch and popcorn for supper
Thursday out for breakfast and bean and ham soup (from scratch dry beans and pork hocks for supper
Friday bean and ham soup for lunch and leftover roast for supper
I made a beef barley leftover rice veggie soup. Got a big ham so lots of eggs and ham, Mac n cheese and ham, baked beans and ham, etc. Potatoesare cheap so meals with that also.
The most notable thing we ate was a very large pot of vegetable beef soup. We ate it and ate it and ate it. So many days.
Sunday - ate out. Splurged a bit after the kinda-share-the-wealth payday.
Monday - I ate leftover dine out with leftover Saturday potatoes. Better half turned leftover dine out plus some veggies into a meal.
Tuesday - stuffed pork w/potatoes and carrots. Stuffed pork was $3 per serving
Wednesday - grilled chicken, rice with mushrooms, last of of a baguette from the freezer
Thursday - burgers and enhanced mac-n-cheese. I do so love red meat.
Friday - goulash that makes a lot so sharing some with another person.
Leftovers are fun. Though there are times when they turn into a meal that you'll likely never be able to create again.
WIS: Aldi $100 I had not been to the store in a couple of weeks.
Stop& Shop $13.
Friday: Salmon with a seafood stuffing.
Saturday: Tomato bisque
Sunday: Meatloaf
Monday: Leftover
Tuesday: Fish&chips (frozen from Aldi. Not bad for $1.99) and the few remaining onion rings. (Tuesday is work day)
Wednesday: Shrimp with orzo and corn and a pesto sauce (used up remaining cream and chicken stock)
Thursday: Store roasted chicken with salad and pita
Friday: Leftover Tomato Bisque and salad.
My freezer is pretty empty now. I am getting things used up.