WIS, WWA | a $94 week
What I Spent
This week I spent:
- $15 at Target
- $18 at Whole Foods
- $27 for a Hungry Harvest box
- $20 at Aldi
- $14 at Trader Joe's
So, $94 for me...a pretty cheap week!
What We Ate
Saturday
Mac and cheese for Miss Zoe (easy to chew!), and I do not remember what I made for myself.
Sunday
Zoe had a friend over and neither was terribly hungry at dinnertime.
Zoe was still hesitant to chew very much, so I just heated up some chicken noodle soup for the two of them, and I made myself a naan pizza to use up the last naan in the freezer.
Monday
Sonia was over, and I made Swedish meatballs over egg noodles, one of her favorites.
Is this traditional 4th of July fare? No, but we didn't care. 😉
Tuesday
More pasta...Zoe thought spaghetti with red sauce sounded good, and it has the bonus of being easy to chew.
I didn't feel like pasta, so I made myself a fried egg on top of mashed sweet potatoes.
The green onions are ones I regrew from grocery store onions. And the bowl is from the treasure house. 🙂
Wednesday
I made ham and cheese panini, which we ate with cucumber slices and grapes (Zoe can handle chewing both of those).
Thursday
Chicken tacos!
Friday
Zoe was craving nuggets and fries after her wisdom teeth removal, but this was at a point when she could not properly chew such a meal.
So, I might offer this as an option for her tonight now that her chewing situation has improved.
I had a bunch of leftovers one of the days this week (carbs, veg, a little meat, so I stir fried them all up together and added 2 eggs and that was a nice filling dinner. Thanks for the tip!
Glad she's getting better everyday.
This was a cheaper week for me, too. (Thank goodness because I spent way too much in June.) Just $51 yesterday between Aldi and Meijer.
Saturday: My 4yo's first friend birthday party! Not only did I buy too much to begin with, but 2 of the 3 families that came had never been to a party at our house before and I think they ate lunch before they came and weren't very hungry. We had a taco bar, fruit, cake, and ice cream.
Sunday: My side of the family came over to celebrate my daughter's birthday. We had more tacos, fruit, and ice cream from the day before. Unfortunately the leftover cake did not survive and I had to make another cake.
Monday: We cooked burgers, brats, and hot dogs over a fire in the backyard. We also had cheese balls and smoothies.
Tuesday: Burrito bowls to use up more taco leftovers. After this, a bunch of food went in the freezer.
Wednesday: Vegetables beef soup and crescent rolls.
Thursday: Spaghetti and green beans. The green beans were from our garden and I added diced zucchini from our garden to the sauce with some ground beef and onion.
Friday: Chicken sandwiches with zucchini and asparagus from our garden. I think we're nearing the end of our asparagus and our zucchini is starting to come in really well!
@Ruth T,
I will confess that I'm someone who pre eats before a party, if I don't know how the hosts handle food. There's nothing worse than showing up hungry and realizing that you're not going to be getting a meal haha
@Natalie J,
Since both families had preschoolers I totally understood! I was caught off guard, but it made sense once I thought about it. Gotta weigh the risk! 😉
I bought some sweet potatoes yesterday - I'm going to cube them and cook in my tiny crock pot with butter and cinnamon brown sugar - a taste of Fall! This week:
Monday - Grilled Hot Dogs, BBQ beans, potato salad, bakery cookies, chips, Jalapeno Limeade Margaritas with my peeps
Tuesday - Garlic and Herb pasta shells with sauteed shrimps, zucchini
Wednesday - Mole Pork Shepherd's Pie in my little cast iron skillet
Thursday - Rough day at work...picked up BBQ brisket and made a sammich, enjoyed with the rest of the potato salad and a pecan praline.
Friday - Grilled Chicken with peppers and onions, salad with lemon vinaigrette
Saturday - Crockpot Ribs and the aforementioned sweet potatoes, corn
Sunday - Italian Meatballs and Marinara over linguini with the rest of the salad or some freezer broccoli.
Happy Weekend!
https://cannaryfamily.blogspot.com/
This last week has been bizarre. My mother had a flash pulmonary oedema after a heart attack, She deteriorated so very quickly and I am so thankful that the paramedics were fast and so well trained. She might be coming home tomorrow. Then mum's best friend became critically ill as well. My daughter who has hyperemesis while pregnant caught gastro and needed an overnight trip to the emergency room. Poor little Pip was left lying on a gurney groaning, "I am never doing this again." By Wednesday I didn't know if I was Arthur or Martha. So my meals have been quite strange as I look in the fridge and use things up.
@Suzan,
What a stressful week! I hope this one coming up is much better!
@Suzan, Yikes. That is, to paraphrase Alexander, a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. I hope all involved fully recover quickly. (Also, I have never heard the phrase "I didn't know if I was Arthur or Martha." Love it.)
@Suzan, my sympathies, and I hope everyone is doing better by now.
@Suzan, With what you are living with, I am impressed that you looked in the fridge to use things up---I would have headed for the nearest fast food place!
@Suzan, good grief! I hope your weekend is relaxing - you could use it!
Love free berry foraging! I picked a quart of black raspberries yesterday...
WWS: $70 Mystery grocery (will be reimbursed); $27 Market Basket; $12 fish monger
Sat: take out pizza (partner paid)
Sun: cod provençal, parsley potatoes, grilled zucchini, red pepper, broccoli
Mon: grilled sweet/sour marinaded pork, rice, sautéed kale/kale stems & cauliflower leaves and core
Tues: taco pasta with cauliflower (budget bytes)
Wed: ate at work
Thus: see Tuesday
Fri: Mystery shop dinner
@BettafmdaVille,
I love budget bytes, but I haven't tried that recipe. How was it?
@Natalie J -- it was goodish, but I think I missed the crunch of a taco shell! It was certainly easy enough and it reheated well.
WIS: All the dollars! Seriously, local health food store: 35.46, Aldi trip 1a: 195.60, Aldi trip 1b: 230.81 and -3.99 for a return, then Aldi trip 2: 107.76, for a grand total of 565.64!
For trips 1a and 1b, I got all the shelf stable items first and put them in the car, then turned around and went back in for the fridge and freezer items. However, one Aldi was out of a couple of the frozen things I needed for our vacation, so I stopped by another Aldi on my way back from picking up my farm shares. I'm definitely Aldi-ed out for a while!
I am actually pleased with this total though because I did a little bit of stocking up, got my regular 2-3 weeks of grocery shopping done AND bought about 80% of the food we will eat on our ten day vacation in August which will be more expensive items than usual since we will be eating prepared frozen meals for the easy factor. I will just need to buy milk, eggs and fresh produce on our way there.
My freezer is very stuffed right now and my fridge looks like the crazy place it often becomes during farm share season when random bags of radish greens roll off the door when you open it, but this is the kind of problem I like having. I much prefer a full fridge to an empty one even if it does mean keeping careful tabs on it so nothing gets forgotten. My fridge is also fairly small (limited by the size of my 1935 doorframes), so there's that.
WWA:
Fri: sliced cucumbers, cubed watermelon, garlic scapes pesto focaccia with mozzarella, red onions and feta cheese crumbles, and grilled tuna steaks.
Sat: watermelon, soup made with leftover "meat"balls and sauce, chicken broth, and random veggies from the fridge including more zucchini, with leftover focaccia for dipping.
Sun: yup, more watermelon, corn on the cob, purple potato salad, tofu fried rice, and elderflower strawberry lemonade.
Mon: all the same food from Sunday plus sweet and spicy kale and homemade pretzels and more lemonade, this time with limes added.
Tue: leftover sweet and spicy kale and zucchini fajitas with peppers and onions, crumbled queso and homemade flour tortillas, more lemonade mixed with cranberry juice.
Wed: leftovers of tofu fried rice, kale and zucchini fajitas all mixed into the tortillas with crumbled queso but we ate them cold because it was so hot. We each had a leftover pretzel, but we skipped the lemonade because it was too hot to drink anything but water.
Thu: arugula and radish green salad, beef and vegetable goulash.
Tonight: oh, I dunno, how about salad and focaccia? 😉
Just about every night this week featured a leftover of some kind. Sometimes the whole meal was leftovers. Sometimes we remade them into something new (soup and fried rice) and sometimes it was just the salad item leftover from the day before. Even the lemonade was basically a constantly evolving pitcher of leftovers that started as elderflower cordial and had lemons, limes, strawberries, etc added to it each night to make it different. Embracing leftovers is probably the single most frugal thing we do around here and that's saying something. Kristen often says the most frugal thing you can do is cook at home, and I agree but I would add that we also try really hard to eat all that we cook! I mean, we did all that work and spent all those dollars on ingredients...be a real shame to waste it.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
@Becca, it sound all so very delicious!
Well, I think Swedish meatballs are a perfectly American meal. Hadn't you heard we're a melting pot? 🙂
Saturday: Pork chops with the first sauerkraut of the summer, baked potatoes, roasted carrots, raw kohlrabi sticks
Sunday: Hanger steak, spaghetti with carrot-greens pesto (I forget who told me about this in the comments here, but I tried it!), raw radishes, fake banana chocolate ice cream
Monday: Grilled cheeseburgers with homemade sourdough buns, not-at-all-baked beans (simmered those on the stove), coleslaw, American flag cake.
Tuesday: Okay. If I had had ANY OTHER option besides getting in my kitchen to cook on this hot day when I was grumpy and uninspired, I would have taken it. I have these days rarely, but it was my kingdom for pizza delivery. 100 miles is a little far to expect
a pizza delivered, though, so instead I had freezer takeout. Which means I took out (haha) processed (pressure-cooked and then pulsed in the food processor) bull meat from the freezer, along with some rice I had frozen, and fried those together in a skillet with the rest of the carrot-green pesto. Cooking of the most minimal sort. Looked like dog food, but it tasted pretty good.
Wednesday: Still hot, so I cooked most of this meal in the morning. Baked pork chops and baked potatoes, which I then diced and fried at dinnertime. Also leftover coleslaw.
Thursday: Leftover bull/rice skillet and coleslaw, and I had a salad.
Tonight: My daughter requested "pork and spaghetti." I do not think she meant together, however. I do have half a can of the excess commodities spaghetti sauce in the refrigerator, plus the very last cube of frozen pesto from last year, so I think spaghetti sounds reasonable for the children (I usually add a bit of heavy cream). And I can easily fry some of the canned commodities pork, too. The snow peas are getting a second wind in the garden in some spots, so we can have some of those.
P.S. Kristen, I sent you an e-mail yesterday. You might want to check your spam . . .
@kristin @ going country, Your "looked like dog food" comment brought back quite a memory. When I was a teen, I cooked meals before my mom came home from work. She bought beef called cube steaks, (not even sure they make them anymore) and we added some kind of spice packets and a can of tomatoes.
On one particular night, I guess I overcooked them, she came home, declared they looked like dog food and dumped the whole skillet in the trash (she had quite a temper!) Later, this became a funny family story, but that might it wasn't funny!
@Bobi,
Holy moly, I cannot imagine throwing out an entire pan of beef! She must have been really mad!
@Bobi and @kristin, you're forcing me to retell my story of the time I first brought DH home to meet my parents, and my mother (unbeknowst to either of us) threw hamburgers into her 1970s Crock Pot and left them to cook all day while we toured the local Civil War battlefields. DH was the first one in the door on our return, and the first words out of his mouth were "My God, something's spoiled!" DH and Mom patched it up eventually, but it took a while.
I am trying to imagine a slow-cooked hamburger. My goodness.
Kristen, trust me, you can't imagine it. And this episode is the main reason I've resisted getting any Crock Pot, InstaPot, etc. The bad vibes are still there.
There are a LOT of things that are not ok in a crock-pot, and hamburgers must certainly fall into that category. I cannot even imagine the mushiness!!
WIS: We were trying to eat out of the fridge since we had plans to travel yesterday so only things I bought was take out on Saturday ($30) and online to take advantage of a sale at my favorite organic shop. $120 spent on flour, nuts, sugar and of course chocolate 🙂
WWA:
Friday: Grilled some fancy sausages I’d bought at 50% at one time and freezed. Served with potatosalad and coleslaw. Strawberry with cream to dessert.
Saturday: Went swimming and got burgers on the way home.
Sunday: tried a lemon marinade for the first time and it was delicious. Marinated two chickenbreasts, grilled them and served with ovenbaked potatoes and feta/tomato salad. Ate the rest of the strawberrys for dessert.
Monday: homemade burgers with sweet potato fries and onions rings.
Tuesday: was home alone so ate leftovers.
Wednesday: taco (to eat up 1/2 avocado, an apple and cheese).
Thursday: partner made moose steak with ovenbaked potatoes, honeymarinated beetrot and mushrooms in cream.
Friday: homemade pizza with ingredients from the freezer as I don’t have it in me to go the stores today.
WIS: $84 at Aldi. Also an online order of $39 (before tax) of ten boxes of Kashi Go Lean cereal after a search of multiple stores turned up nada.
WWA: Meatloaf with corn on the cob, tangerine glazed carrots, and cheesy-herb muffins on Monday. The muffins and corn were all eaten up at that meal. My husband ate meatloaf and carrots at lunch until they were all gone yesterday. (Lunch is our big meal of the day.) I gave myself the week off cooking something for my brown bag lunches and tried out the Harvest Grain Bowls from Aldi. The Italian version is especially good: it has grilled eggplant. Our Monday meal used up lots of "the last of" items from the freezer and pantry.
I had shopped for 14 days last time I shopped, but went 16 days between shopping, so my meals on Friday and Saturday were just whatever leftovers I could scare up, and I don't even remember what they were.
But, I went shopping on Sunday after church and visiting DH, so:
My food co-op had Irish bangers again, so I had those twice, both times with raisin-carrot salad and cut up jicama.
I really, really wanted to have an oven-roasted chicken from a local farm, so I waited until after the heat of the day and cooked other dishes with the chicken to make it worthwhile and not heat the house so much. I stuffed it with onion, garlic and a cut up lemon from my tree. I had the roast chicken with buttered cauliflower rice and balsamic-honey beets. Another night I had it with the cauliflower rice and slow-cooked green beans from the freezer.
I make leftover-chicken quesadillas one night with cassava tortillas, spinach, onion and mushroom, with Nomato sauce on top. I forgot to add cheese, but it was fine without it. Fresh pineapple was dessert.
I will have a hamburger tonight, with whatever sides strike my fancy.
I also made frozen banana "ice cream" this week, since I'd been craving it.
Saturday - I was visiting with friends earlier in the day and we just end up chatting and snacking for hours so was not hungry at dinner time. I fed the kids snacks for dinner which they were happy with.
Sunday - takeout ramen
Monday - we hosted 4th of July, we provided ribs, chicken, corn and macaroni salad, everyone else provided other sides and dessert
Tuesday - Swedish meatballs and green beans from the garden
Wednesday - sesame chicken with broccoli and rice
Thursday - beyond burgers, fries and steamed broccoli and carrots (pearl cous cous for the kids as it was my sons first day in his new pre-k class and he loves pearl cous cous)
Friday - chicken, butter pasta, leftover corn from the 4th, more steamed broccoli
I'm always so impressed that everyone can remember what they had during the previous week! We used lots & lots of garden items this week.
-We went out for one last date night, before the kids came home
-My husband & son had Subway on a very long (and unexpected) drive back from my parents. I had caprese salad & ice cream. 😉
-Steak & caprese salad
-Chicken coconut curry (new recipe, that I loved)
-For the 4th, we had hot dogs, steak, macaroni salad, watermelon/feta/blueberry salad & a cake
-Last night was baked chicken, more caprese & blueberries & cucumbers on the side
-I think tonight will be grilling some sausages, trying a recipe for grilled zucchini (we have lots) & maybe a repeat of the watermelon/feta/blueberry salad, which is delicious.
After last week's huge grocery expense I am grateful to note that I spent $25 @ Publix this week for milk, bread, and some coffee creamer.
Saturday....I canned a bushel of tomatoes and prepped and froze a bushel of green beans. I don't remember what everyone ate for dinner but I know that I had toast.
Sunday...major yard work day for my husband & I. We went out for a late afternoon date with a gift card and the others had hot dogs and leftover beans and rice.
Monday...extended family blow up...sigh. Why is it that some people have no clue what a boundary is? I roasted pork tenderloin and made a batch of German potato salad. Yellow squash & zucchini from the garden and a homemade chocolate cake to round it out.
Tuesday...more of an extended family drama sent us out for pizza & wings.
Wednesday...leftovers. I canned a bushel of peaches.
Thursday...everyone ate a hotdog from Costco since this was the day that our yard was hydroseeded and the last bit of grading was completed. I was sweaty and beyond tired and cooking was just not happening.
Friday....tonight we are loading the trailer for a weekend road trip and I have a ton of tasks to complete. I am thinking it will be something really glamorous like peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for all.
Happy weekend everyone!
@Angie, This sounds like an exhausting week. I hope your road trip is relaxing for you and you get some rest.
@Angie, my sympathy on the extended family blow-up. I had a few of those with DH's family back in the day. Best story: DH and I had just hosted a Memorial Day family cookout, during which my MIL and SIL freely criticized my perceived domestic shortcomings as usual. Just as I was sitting on our deck steps yearning for everyone to go home already, our then dog cheerfully pranced up, having just rolled in something unspeakably smelly. The family cleared out in record time, and I gave the dog a few extra treats after I scrubbed her down.
@A. Marie,
Best dog story ever!!!!!!
@A. Marie,
Dogs always know!
Took a break from the usual meal-planning at the beginning of this past week since I was the only human in the house. It was a good reminder of the reasons why planning and a little effort is better for me. WWA:
Saturday - Bagel with peanut butter
Sunday - pre-made salad with home cooked chicken breast
Monday - “the package looked so good frozen Chinese food”, not
Tuesday - garlic sausage, pan fried potatoes, sauerkraut
Wednesday - homemade pizza
Thursday - Greek oven fries, chicken fried steak
Friday - “pirate’s feast” (mixed leftovers)
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend
@kj,
Pirate's feast! I love it and I'm totally stealing it!
@kj,
The packages always make those meals look so good! Lol!
I spent 122 at Kroger pick up. My college aged weight lifting son is home so I need to pick up more eggs chicken and beef than normal.
Monday. Turkey burgers corn on the cob air fryer potatoes salad
Tuesday. Chicken and rice. Salad
Wednesday. Leftovers and milkshakes
Thursday. Big chef salad with hot ham n cheese sand
Friday. Breakfast for dinner. Bacon on the grill!
Many nights son cooks for himself the high protein options!
Sat - I can't remember
Sun - Baked Chicken w/mashed potatoes, green beans and asparagus
Mon - Grilled Hot Dogs, pasta salad, coleslaw and chips
Tues - Pork Chops with leftover pasta salad and creamed corn
Wed - Chicken Pita Wrap and Fries (takeout)
Thurs - Grilled Chicken Thighs with potatoes and zucchini (veggies were air fried) and green beans
Fri - Date night (Outback with a gift card)
Wisdom teeth removal is the worst. I went too hard, too fast with a milkshake straw when I had them out and ended up with dry sockets. I'm glad she is feeling more up to chewing.
This is an unusual week for me since my husband came up to work with me for the long weekend, so more eating out than normal.
Sunday- I was on rotation, so I scarfed at avocado toast with an egg around noon. Then I ate some In'n'Out fries at 11pm after a transport somewhere in Los Angeles.
Monday- We went to a brewery in Mammoth after I took a nap and had more nachos than recommended for lunch, so dinner was an El Pollo Loco salad and some cheese
Tuesday- I was on shift so I made myself a salad at the crew house around lunch. My next food was midnight in Reno after a transport. Shout out to Kevin Hart's entourage for the free Chik-fil-A nuggets that were left at the private plane terminal. Flight nursing is wild y'all.
Wednesday- I drove home after my rotation and got home kinda late. I'm proud that I did not succumb to temptation and get takeout but instead made pasta with the leftover roasted veggies I brought with me.
Thursday- My mom was v nice and left a rotisserie chicken in my fridge while I was gone, so I turned this into burrito bowls with some odds and ends from my freezer. And copious amounts of avocado
Friday- My friend is coming over to help me start on a few house projects and I have promised to take her to an amazing pizza place for dinner in return
Saturday- I am helping with my best friends baby shower, so I don't know what time I am coming home. I will leave it up to fate.
They always tell us no straws! Which is hard because a lot of nice soft things like smoothies and milkshakes come with straws. I always have to remember to take the straw away. lol
I hope your house projects today are successful!
Saturday: I was at my parents, and my husband had bbq steak and potatoes with his friends.
Sunday: Hmmm. I cooked, but I don't recall what!
Monday: I was on call, so I brought bread and soup to work.
Tuesday: I made chicken meatballs with sauce that my husband made last week, and whole wheat pasta.
Wednesday: Leftovers, but I made potato-leek soup to round out the meal.
Thursday: burgers
Friday: BBQ chicken tonight!
I do not remember what I spent as I didn't go to the store this week (that I can recall.....it's been one of those weeks)
Meals included:
Takeout hawaiian food on the 4th. My friend was in in town visiting and he picked it up for us.
A milkshake one night when I didn't really feel like eating.
Frozen burrito that I had made previously (thanks previous self!)
Leftover hawaiian plate lunch
A quesadilla
This week was a weird one as I had my friend here for part of it, and most of the time I was just concentrating on keeping my dogs from losing their minds over the fireworks. Honestly really glad this week is over!
@Morgan,
I don't have any dogs and my cats seem unperturbed by fireworks, but I am personally SO sick of hearing them go off practically every night starting with Memorial Day and going well through the summer. I was more understanding of it during the early lockdown days, but I've really had enough with this crappy new fad. It's so uniquely American to be so selfish and inconsiderate of everyone else around you, not to mention the fact that it sounds like gunfire sometimes and that always sets my teeth on edge.
@Becca, we suffered through that most of the holiday weekend with the noise from a neighborhood a few blocks away (some of which did sound like gunfire), and then on July 4th night, the neighbors directly behind us joined in well after 10 p.m. Even our usually unflappable cats were upset, and my husband and I had spent night after night with upset dogs in our laps. I am thoroughly over amateur fireworks.
@Morgan et al., this 4th of July weekend was an unusually quiet one here in my corner of Upstate NY. Not sure whether this was due to the local p0lice department's declared intention to crack down on amateur fireworks or to the reported spike in the price of fireworks, but I'll take it either way. No real problems till the night of the 4th itself, by which time I'd already closed the windows, cranked up the AC, and put my bedroom fan on high.
@Morgan,
Between our dog and our toddler with an early bedtime, we don't love fireworks around here either. Unfortunately there's a state holiday on July 24th which is also a firework holiday, so they basically go off for three straight weeks... we'll make it through!
This week we had:
Sat: Red pepper pasta with chicken parm sausage and red sauce
Sun: leftovers from saturday
Mon: Went to a friends house and had cheeseburgers, macaroni salad, corn.
Tues: Fennel and grapefruit salad, Flatbread with fava beans, cucumbers, and burrata
Wed: Salmon, rice, amaranth, and snap peas. Cherry chocolate chip cookies for dessert.
Thurs: Husband's birthday dinner out at a new Italian restaurant in town. They do small plates so we shared: Burrata with apricots and nuts, fried artichoke, grilled asparagus, branzino, and shrimp/crab paccheri. For dessert we shared strawberry rhubarb bamboloni (doughnut) and baked sorrentina (sweet cream gelato, yuzu cream, meringue, candied citrus)
Tonight: Husband's actual birthday and he is requesting enchiladas...so we will have beef enchiladas, refried beans, corn salad, tortilla chips and tomatillo salsa, and birthday churros
Thursday night was most certainly not frugal in anyway but totally worth it. Additionally, I have found out I love fava beans. They are only around a short time and this is the first time I have ever been able to buy them and I just can't get enough. If you are lucky enough to spot them at your local farmer's market grab them immediately. You won't regret it 🙂
@Jaime,
Not fava bean-related, but the current issue of Cook's Illustrated has a recipe/method for making fried artichokes! I've never had them, and frankly, have never heard of them before. Apparently, it has historically been a Roman Jewish preparation for artichokes.....I love food history! I read CI via my library's Libby app.
WIS: $4 at a produce stand, $39 at Price Chopper, and $12 at Wegmans. There was another BOGO on olive oil at Price Chopper, which I will again be sharing with neighbors.
WIA: A beef noodle soup from frozen beef stock, and some sheet pan roasted chicken and cauliflower. This cauliflower was so old it should have been collecting Social Security, but I just sliced off the moldy bits and used the rest.
And the Bestest Neighbors brought me back half a smoked whitefish from their holiday weekend stay at the lake house. I'll be using some of the whitefish on a chef salad tonight, along with salad greens harvested from another neighbor's garden.
@A. Marie, your cauliflower joke cracked me up!
Sunday: We spent the weekend at my in-laws place, and they had a BBQ Sunday night. Hot dogs, burgers, watermelon, yum!
Monday: We drove home this day, and my in-laws set us up with leftover food.
Tuesday: Still leftovers, haha
Wednesday: BBQ chicken casserole. I doubled it and gave one to a neighbor who recently had a baby. She asked for the recipe, so I guess it turned out well!
Thursday: Pizza salad. Not sure why it's named that, but it's a family favorite and it's stuck by this point. Salad with marinated beans, pepperoni, red onions, and cheese.
Friday/Saturday: More leftovers
I broke my Ankle last Friday so my Husband has been Cooking.
Monday Night we had Egg Rolls
Tuesday Night , can't remember
Wednesday night Burritos
Last night I cooked we had Philly cheesesteaks
And Tonight we had Hamburgs
@Cristy, sorry Hamburgers
WIS: Approx. $30 at Market Basket, Stop&Shop and Aldi
WWA: Saturday: Burgers
Sunday: Chicken marsala
Monday: Swedish meatballs and some vegetable.
Tuesday: Leftover--great when I get in from work late because of summer traffic.
Wednesday: Well, as I said I have been working out of my freezer--Thankfully.
I went for an appointment and the cleaning lady was here. I really like to not make a mess immediately after she is here. I offered my daughter that I would pick up the on-sale pizza at the market. They were busy, so I figured I would go back later. But I bought some ice cream and came home to put it in the freezer--that is when I found that the food in the freezer was thawed. I shared with my daughter--burgers, salmon, steak.
Thursday: Steak fajitas & Spanish rice
Friday: Leftovers.
And today I went out to buy a new refrigerator. The salesman did not try to oversell. I was prepared for $2K after researching (including tax, delivery and take the old one, and the extra 5-yr warranty); but it ended up at $1K, just a plain old (actually new) white, top freezer, no ice maker (that will be my job) or water dispenser--just more things to break. He was truthful to my questions that I asked based on the complaints people had. Appliances are made to not last--Maybe the climate change advocates should look into environmental causes from the massive amount of appliances that now end up in the landfill. Growing up, my family had same refrigerator. It was still there when my parents sold their house.