WIS, WWA | $27
What I Spent
I did not do an actual shopping trip this week; just a quick $27 fill-in trip.
That's pretty boring! So here are some kitten photos from our rescue shift.
October Grocery Spending
Week 1: $224
Week 2: $152
Week 3: $27
What We Ate
Saturday
Zoe and I were gone camping, and I think Mr. FG and Sonia had sushi. I have no idea what Lisey ate after her work shift.
Sunday
Lisey passed her senior tech test at Valvoline while I was gone camping...so Sunday night, I told her we'd get takeout from wherever she wanted to celebrate.
Unsurprisingly, she picked tacos.
She is definitely my daughter. 😉
Monday
I made a pan of Shrimp Viennese, which we ate with cut-up raw veggies and fruit.
Tuesday
Braces-tightening day, so I made pancakes for dinner. Nice and easy to chew!
Wednesday
I tried a chicken and dumplings recipe which was just ok.
Most of us agreed that we'd rather just have chicken noodle soup with biscuits on the side.
Thursday
I noticed we had some veggies that needed to be used, so I made a green salad, cooked some chicken (using this brinerade), chopped and cooked some bacon, and added the chicken and bacon to the salad.
To go with our salad, I thawed a loaf of bread from the freezer (which I made from the yeast from Zoe's science experiment).
Friday
Sonia is getting her wisdom teeth out today, which means that she will not really be up for eating a regular dinner for a bit.
So. Applesauce for her, and homemade pizza for the rest of us.
As usual I can't remember what we had. I cooked a chicken on Sunday and that gave us several meals. I made rissoles out of beef and vegetables and that gave us several meals. Last night we ate at my daughter's. We have had noodles and vegetable stir fry as well.
I had to google rissoles! I'd never heard of them before.
I just wanted to say "Thanks" for turning my head toward Aldi!
With my favorite store for produce closing, I needed to find an alternative ASAP, as we go through obscene amounts of produce. Thanks largely to this blog's and the comments' talk of Aldi, I finally ventured forth to one of the two locations in my area. The most convenient Aldi is farther than I like but on the same road as other stores we hit routinely, so I now streamline my errands by stopping at Aldi first and working my way back. The prices and quality are definitely worth the hype! My husband's strict low salt diet means that Trader Joe's still wins for some staples (honestly, they're the best when having to shop for no-to-low salt), but I'm all about Aldi's inexpensive produce! Thanks again!
Man I sure miss how a busy family schedule makes the weeks fly by...time seems to just crawl here lately. Hubby and I eat the same things - there is no one that has a dietary restriction here. Pretty boring, I have to say. Here's what we ate:
Monday - Chicken Rio for Tacos with cheese, avocado, tomato
Tuesday - Tuna Salad Bowls (never got my romaine from Imperfect so I had to wing it with canned beans and leftover tomato and avocado and it was DELISH)
Wednesday - Farro and Sausage Skillet with corn, onions, peppers (very meh)
Thursday - Baked Meatballs, green beans (WINNER)
Friday - Pastor Chicken Thighs, carrots, a twice baked potato
Saturday - Free Choice (Hubby said he will cook me a Dutch oven meal)
Sunday - Classic Shrimp Rolls, low salt chips
I had to cancel Imperfect, for now. I really don't mind grocery shopping, and I would rather not split the groceries up from two places anymore. Plus, Imperfect seems pricey to me...
Same old Same old over here. Kind of a crumby week here in the cooking dept.
Saturday- Had pizza before going to DD soccer game/and my niece cake/coffee for her birthday
Sunday- at mom/dads eye round roast, mashed, corn/peas and then DD soccer game
Monday- home made Chicken pot pie kids had naan pizza. since they do not like pot pie,
Tuesday- fish sticks and mac / cheese (easy button)
Wednesday- ordered Chinese.
Thursday-dd had practice, ds had hs soccer game, dd and I had Panera's after her practice.
Friday- think its going to be chicken alfrado.
Fall sports are wrapping up so dinner planning is starting to get easier - not eating at 4:30 or 7:30 is a win for me!
Monday - Grilled Chicken- our grilling season is almost done
Tuesday- BBQ pulled pork sandwiches in the crockpot
Wednesday- Breakfast for dinner (Brinner) - pancakes
Thursday- celebrating my birthday a few days early- take out from Red Robin (FYI - Free burger on your birthday!)
Friday- Tacos
Appropriate sides and veggies for each of these days, but I am happy remember the main dish.
WWS: $132 (yikes! I hope it lasts longer than 2 weeks); WWA:
Saturday: old school tacos (but with ground turkey & mushrooms); corn, zucchini & green bean "succotash"
Sunday: beer-battered fried haddock and green beans; roasted potatoes; cole slaw; tartar
Monday: chicken, barley and veg soup; cheddar tartine
Tuesday: Thai red curry with tofu
Wednesday: Greek grilled shrimp & halloumi; green beans, red pepper & summer squash
Thursday: Moroccan lamb kefta tajine; eggplant marinated in chermoula; Lebanese cucumber and labneh salad with mint & dill
Chuckling here because $132 is high for you, but I'm happy if I spent that much in a week.
Your meals are always so creative and interesting!
Woops!
Friday: homemade pizza!
There are only 2 of us!
Those kittens are SO cute! I am grateful for the pictures as I had 3 kitties for over 15 years and now we have a dog whom I adore...but there is nothing like warm snuggles from a kitty.
So I spent $55 at the grocery store this week and $89 at Costco. The grocery expense was just basics...eggs, milk and the like. Costco was butter, greek yogurt smoothies, Jet Dry, some OTC meds, and some white chocolate peppermint pretzels that jumped off the shelf into my cart.
I roasted a pork shoulder Sunday and we ate that with lemon parsley potatoes, peas, and applesauce.
Monday some of us ate leftovers of the roast dinner while others made bbq sandwiches with homemade peach salsa & bbq sauce. We all ate the same sides.
Tuesday I chopped the remaining pork shoulder and stewed it with great northern beans, green chiles, jalapenos, onions, corn, cilantro to make chile verde. I served this with rice, jack cheese, lime wedges and homemade cornbread. This was a fantastic fall supper.
Wednesday leftover chili verde & fixins.
Thursday - hubby had leftover chili verde & the rest of us had eggs with leftover homemade biscuits or lemon parsley potatoes.
Friday - remaining chili verde will be stashed in the freezer for an easy quick winter lunch. It is a beautiful cool day so I am thinking about a fire in our fire pit and maybe a steak on the grill tonight.
Saturday - I am thawing a chicken carcass to make broth and will make a big pot of chicken noodle soup for us.
Sunday - not sure yet but copious amounts of yard work and window cleaning point to takeout pizza or something of the sort. We will see what my energy levels turn out to be.
Happy Friday everyone 🙂
This week was a bunch of new recipes that all turned out meh. Nothing terrible, but nothing we'll make again.
Sunday: White bean stuffed poblanos
Monday: Korean beef
Tuesday: Pizza on the grill (a local take and bake pizza place does $10 Tuesdays, so that's usually our Tuesday dinner. It was the best dinner all week!)
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Thai kale chicken soup
Friday: The last of the meh leftovers
Fri: Pan cooked pork chops (butcher shop) in a cranberry (local farm) onion sauce, delicata squash (from CSA) & rice Special for our 49th anniversary.
Sat: Sausage & Beef casserole with some of a loaf of sourdough from a local farm
Sun: I had lunch out with older daughter's family so I was not hungry for dinner. Just some cheese and crackers.
Mon: Leftover sausage & beef
Tues: Pot roast, corn bread (with younger daughter's familyfrom our farm box & CSA)
Wed: Butternut squash risotto (had leftover for lunch on Thurs in a salad with CSA greens and dried cranberries)
Thurs: Eggs, baked beans and toast
I did not go to a grocery store this week. Had just done special shopping last week at the butcher (pork chops, stew beef & sweet sausage) and local farm for locally sourced breads & cheeses for anniversary dinner.
This week I paid my half of the bi-weekly farm box that I share with my younger daughter. I will be going to the market sometime. I want to start stocking up baking supplies for the holidays. I need brown sugar. The store I was in was out.
This week:
Monday: "souped up" take & bake pizza from Sams Club - I added fresh tomatoes & sweet peppers, and more cheese (leftovers today)
Tuesday: kielbasa with baked beans, green beans for the veggie
Wednesday: barbecued chicken, with stuffing, & brussel sprouts (with onions & bacon)
Thursday: chicken & dumplings (with the leftover chicken), and broccoli
Today & tonight it's leftovers! I still have applesauce to make & can, and 12 pounds of onions to cut up for the dehydrator today. Tomorrow, we're going to a bonfire/picnic, so I'll make a potato salad and a dessert something to take.
No shopping until Sunday.DH is hunting,I don’t drive . Meals have been simple. Peanut butter, cheese and crackers,eggs, a frozen pot pie from the freezer. Will need a few things when he returns.
Onions - we sliced ours ,placed on a baking sheet,drizzled with olive oil and baked. Cooled and placed in Small zip bags. Just amazing on burgers!
Sadly no Aldi here in Maine. Our Save a Lot closed,too. Not sure if that was a national thing or not. Hope Sonja feels better soon.
Never heard of doing that with onions! I will try this this week, since I have a bag of onions hanging about. Thanks.
We had roast chicken followed by chicken sandwiches all week, accompanied with various grab and go sides like fruit, pickles and sliced carrots. Tonight I will probably pick the meat off the chicken carcass and turn it into easy BBQ.
For my breakfast and lunch this week, I had, respectively, apple-raisin baked oatmeal and homemade curried beef and veggies. The oatmeal used up some free apples from work.
I brought my notebook with me today, so my shopping list and my menu are both with me.
So...
We had wings, seasoned and baked instead of fried, and a salad with homemade Ranch dressing.
Bacon, the last of our garden okra, sauteed summer squash and zucchini with onions.
I pressure cooked a pulled pork roast, and made baked beans and sliced cucumbers.
Pressure cooker beef stew with mushrooms, celery, carrots, onion, sweet potatoes and garlic, cooked in bone broth.
Slow-cooker chuck roast with mushrooms and onions, roasted beets and mashed white potatoes. My husband was thrilled to see mashed white potatoes again after their long absence from our table.
Leftover pulled pork, beans, and fried cinnamon apples.
An exact repeat of chuck roast night.
Tonight may be the rest of those wings that are in the freezer. We'll see. I got my Misfits produce box so I will work around those items when planning my menu.
I see you wrote that you got a Misfits box... I signed up and my first box never showed up, my second box was supposed to show up on Wed and it's not showing that it's even out for delivery yet? I so badly wanted to like it but was starting to think its not legit? Glad to hear its working for you, maybe I'll have to try them again later
Praying all goes smoothly for Sonia and recovery is quick.
I hope Sonia's wisdom teeth removal went well.
Pulled a gigantic moose roast from the freezer. It had come to us already frozen, so we were not able to chop it into more manageable sizes before putting it in our freezer. SOOO...we ate moose pot roast on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday we finished it off in a leek/potato/moose hash. On Thursday it was breakfast for dinner, and tonight it will be salmon (instead of beef) Wellington, to use up a box of puff pastry I saw in the freezer while digging out the moose roast. We also had a large bag of oranges to eat up, so we had oranges for dessert every night this week. A very boring week food wise, but we didn't have to go to the grocery store except for milk, so it was a thrifty week (especially when you consider that the moose and halibut were given to us!)
Poor Sonia. I hope the wisdom tooth extraction goes well. I had mine out when I was in college and then went to work that night. I'm not bragging; I was young, broke and stupid.
Monday: BLTs and salads.
Tuesday: I know we ate but I am drawing a complete blank here.
Wednesday: Fried clams, tater tots and vegetables. Not healthy but we were in a time crunch.
Thursday: Celebrating birthdays by going to Red Robin. All in my family have October birthdays so outside of the appetizer we bought, we paid nothing (well, tip too.)
Friday: Just eating up leftovers in the house.
Oh man, that's a quick return to work! Sonia's pretty tired right now, and she's on pain meds, so she would be pretty useless at a job right now. Did you just skip the pain meds so you could work?
I spent $99 in groceries this week because my daughter came home from college unexpectedly because of an increase in COVID at her college. She is a vegetarian, so I needed to stock up on some things for her. Here's what we ate:
Saturday - BBQ chicken, wild rice, veggie medley of broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts
Sunday - Grilled hotdogs, beans, cheese and crackers
Monday - Broccoli and cheese quiche
Tuesday - Fully-loaded black bean enchiladas
Wednesday - Pancakes and bacon
Thursday - Pasta with homemade sauce and garlic flat bread.
Friday - We are ordering takeout from a local diner
We're getting pretty low on meat (low for us, that is), so our meals are a bit different this week.
Saturday: Breakfast sausage patties, scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes, fried tomatoes and onions, leftover coleslaw
Sunday: Tuna patties, oven fries, green salad with vinaigrette, peanut butter balls (these are SO GOOD, just peanut butter mixed with a bit of regular butter and powdered sugar, then dipped in melted chocolate chips--like a much superior version of commercial peanut butter cups)
Monday: Leftover pork, frozen chicken patties for the kids, rice, mashed squash, frozen peas
Tuesday: Oxtail and vegetable soup, grilled cheese sandwiches
Wednesday: Leftover soup, scrambled eggs, rice, tomatoes or frozen peas
Thursday: Beef goulash with sauerkraut and carrots, mashed potatoes, mashed squash, frozen peas
Tonight: Pizza. One with bacon, bell pepper, and onion, one cheese. Plus a green salad with ranch dressing.
Kristin, in the upper midwest your peanut butter balls would be known as Buckeyes. And yes, super yummy!
Sonia, feel better soon! I got my wisdom teeth out when I was a high school senior. My friend brought me ice cream, which was very thoughtful, but didn't realize it had peanuts in it. Ouch!!!!
Tonight ..... hamburger/tomato/barley soup with some sort of bread. Last night was Thai chicken with polenta. Wednesday was grilled chicken fajitas. Tuesday we had some sort of food, don't remember. Monday we ate dinner on the road at Tim Hortons as we were coming home from our college tour.
Beef stew, beef stew, and more beef stew. Made it on Sunday with lots of root veggies in it and had leftovers all week with sourdough bread.
Tonight it will be falafel and salads, we are saving the last portion of stew for lunch tomorrow.
Not an exciting week foodwise, but still tasty.
Monday- KFC family deal at a park in the way home from our trip.
Tuesday- Quesadillas and pineapple
Wednesday- Sloppy joes, potatoes, and corn
Thursday- Chicken nuggets and popcorn. That's it. 🙂 But the kids and I had a fun night doing Halloween crafts from the library and watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
Friday- Chicken broccoli alfredo
1 free kroger grahams with coupon for crusts. But so good with slices of velveeta. 2. Good rommaine salad with peanuts...and shaved parm. Onions and green pepper and dried cranberries...black pepper . 3. 3.50 coverlet or table cloth made out of red blue yellow green upholstery scraps. Thrift store. 4. Made chicken cassarole with whole box of mushrooms rather than watch them rot 5. Called a shrink. Going to visit. Hope for a mild antidepressant
Susan--I hope you get good treatment for your depression. The right approach can make a real difference. Hang in there.
I enjoyed cooking this week with my daughter. She is either taking a much more active interest in cooking or she's super bored Either way, she helped in part or whole preparing dinner each night.
1. Ginger Basil Pork Stir Fry
2. Turkey Chili Over Butternut Squash
3. Articoke Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli
4. Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce- entirely thanks to my daughter who took over making this entire meal.
5. Encore Meal (basically leftovers to clear the fridge)
6. Pizzas and salad
The Artichoke Chicken sounds super interesting to me!
My food intake wasn't interesting, but I do have to say that there is almost nothing in the world as good as kitten pictures. 😀
Well, kitten snuggles might be even better than the pictures.
I luv the kitten photos too. I'd love to have one but allergies prevent any kind of pet for us. Bummer.
For dinner this week, it's been a menu of different items. Sometimes I cooked and other times, everyone did their own thing. So, I'll just throw it out there, in no particular order:
Battered baked fish, peppered onion rings, french bread pizza, spaghetti with garlic bread, beef veg noodle soup, stuffed cabbage, chicken & rice.....
Desserts were: fresh pineapple, applesauce & cinnamon, cranberry orange bread, raspberry orange bread, watermelon, bananas & cream, ice cream.....
Why do I find it so hard to remember what we ate? Lol Sheesh, bad memory here...Here are the ones I remember:
1. Chili topped sweet potatoes. Looove this! Super comforting with the snowy weather we already have. Ugh. Think we had steamed veggies on the side.
2. A huge egg skillet type dish. Breakfast for dinner! Loaded it up with chopped cooked potatoes, mushrooms, peppers, onions and spinach. Hub had his with salsa on top.
3. Veggie burgers with baked French fries and I think a spinach salad. I really love veggie burgers. Sometimes I’ll sauté up some onions and mushrooms to have on top.
4. A Thai chicken dish with loads of delicious peanut butter Thai-type sauce over rice. Hub made this one night and it lasted us three nights! (He makes sure to make a ton of the sauce, because it is incredible!!! It is a sauce with peanut butter, lime juice, a little soy sauce and a smidge of sesame oil.) Veggies on the side each night.
There, that is what I can remember! Love reading what all of you eat too.
Let me see what I can remember that we ate. I worked from Thursday till Sunday so it was a bit random this week.
Backwards from Monday(yesterday): leftover mashed potatoes and veggies for bubble and squeak, scrambled eggs, rice and tuna.
Sunday: Chris cooked mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, and sausages.
Saturday: Chris and Rhiannon walked down the hill to the local pizza place and met me after work.
Friday: Rhiannon and I had dinner at the pub, and Chris and Michael ate something at home.
Thursday: I ordered McDonald's after I came home from work.
Wednesday: I bought KFC on the way home and we ate it during the afternoon and evening.
Tuesday: Chinese takeaway lunch specials.
Monday: I can't remember what I cooked.
Sunday: leftovers, eggs and stuff.
Saturday: fish, veggies and potatoes for one. I don't remember what the rest of us ate.