WIS, WWA | a mere $75
What I Spent
Let's see!
I spent:
- $20 on a box of bruised peaches
- $45 at Sam's Club
- $10 at Safeway
And that's it! $75 and I was good to go.
What We Ate
I did a REALLY bad job of photographing my meals this week! Not that I took bad photos...it's just that I didn't take many photos at all. Whoops.
Saturday
It was my second day of working and I just ate a peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread once I got home.
Sunday
Ummm, I don't know.
So here's a picture of Chiquita instead.
Monday
Tuna melts! With pepper on top because OF COURSE.
I had some yogurt and peaches on the side.
Tuesday
I made some burgers (to use up some ground beef from my freezer. Look at my working on my to-do list!) and we had some fruit on the side.
Wednesday
Burgers again. With fruit again. 🙂
Thursday
As I prepped my food for my next two work days, I had a rather haphazard dinner of rotisserie chicken and some fruit and veggies. I did a better job of lunch prepping than I did with dinner-cooking! 😉
Zoe had some French toast after she got home from work.
Friday
Not gonna lie, Zoe and I will probably have some takeout after we both get off of work! Then I will shower, and go to bed so I can get enough sleep before the next shift. 🙂
These are my last two shifts before school starts, and from there on out, I will probably only work two shifts a month. School will be the priority!
WIS: $22 at the Thai restaurant where my JASNA friends and I had our Triple Birthday Celebration, and $19 at Wegmans.
WIA: While JASNA BFF was still here, I made a “caramelized lemon chicken” NY Times recipe on Sunday, since BFF loves lemon in all forms. It got a wee bit scorched since I forgot to tent it with foil in my distraction over the garage door opener (see yesterday's Thankful Thursday), and it also didn’t taste quite as lemony as we were both hoping. But it was quite edible nonetheless, and it also enabled me to use up the remains of a jar of aging lemon curd.
This week, I made a very thrifty minestrone that used up some aging veggies (a zucchini, a small tomato, and an ear of corn), a can of tomatoes and a box of chicken broth that were past their best-by dates, and a can of chickpeas I trashpicked. (I know that corn isn't a traditional minestrone ingredient, but no one I've shared the soup with has complained.)
@A. Marie,
I would never complain about some corn in my minestrone. 🙂
@Liz B., Me neither, but no pasta?
@Rose, I used orzo.
I wrote down what we had on weekdays:
Mo: Tortellini with creamy tomato/peper sauce and "deconstructed pesto"
Tu: Paella
We: Tex Mex salad and corn on the cob
Th: It was only the two of us and husband took me out for a Chinese meal
Fr: brinerated chicken has been planned and preparations for a Thai dish for tomorrow
This weekend I also plan to cook some relish to oompf up future sausage or burger meals.
@JNL,
I love that brinerated chicken recipe. I waited far too long before trying it.
@JNL,
A friend gave me a pepper relish recipe to try....she uses it to oomph up burgers and sandwiches. I need to make some this weekend, thanks for the reminder!
WIS: 124 and change @Aldi and then my husband and kids did a post doctor's appointment treat run to Aldi and spent another 33 dollars for a total of 157 this week.
WWA:
Fri: sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and figs, mozzarella and Parmesan focaccia.
Sat: Greek salad, watermelon, pasta carbonara.
Sun: watermelon, sliced cucumbers, chicken, chickpeas and apricots over jasmine rice.
Mon: watermelon and leftover chicken and chickpeas with rice.
Tue: watermelon, salad, toad in the hole (bread fried with eggs cracked into holes in the middle).
Wed: salad, spaghetti and meatballs.
Thu: salad, watermelon, meatball subs.
Tonight: focaccia, salad and probably the last of the watermelon.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
@Becca, We use the same name for fried bread with an egg in the middle hole, but most people seem confused by it. I guess there's a British dish with the same name but very different ingredients. Anyway, I'm glad to know at least you would know what we're talking about. 🙂
@kristin@going country, Toad in the hole now always includes sausage.
In the 1880s, "But, after all, as they said, there was nothing to beat a 'toad'. For this the meat was enclosed whole in a suet crust and well boiled, a method which preserved all the delicious juices of the meat and provided a good pudding into the bargain." Pudding being a savory boiled item, not a milk pudding.
@kristin@going country, Becca,
Hereabouts it’s called egg on an island.
@kristin@going country, Yes, toad in the hole is sausages in a Yorkshire pudding batter, usually served with onion gravy. Delicious!
@Becca, I've always called it "egg in a window". My mom never made it, but I taught myself from her Betty Crocker Illustrated Cookbook, and that's what I remember them calling it.
@kristin@going country,
Technically, this was toads in the holes, because we used extra long pieces of bread so we could put two eggs in each slice, like eyeballs. The watermelon was the mouth and we used lots of salad greens to make bushy mustaches. Life is too short not to play with your food a little. 😉
Saturday - We drove home from camping this day (it ended up taking 11 hours to get home!) and stopped at Wendy's for dinner. My stomach was feeling a little off, so I had a baked potato.
Sunday - Pizza and breadsticks
Monday - Chicken sandwiches, peaches, cottage cheese, and corn on the cob
Tuesday - BBQ chicken leg quarters, mac and cheese, zucchini, and pears
Wednesday - Slow cooker beef stroganoff and peas
Thursday - Fajitas
Friday - Slow cooker cheesy Italian tortellini - which I guess I should probably get started! We will probably have salad with it.
Saturday: Barbecue meatballs, baked potatoes, cucumber and tomato salad, watermelon
Sunday: A skillet meal kind of like Spanish rice that used canned ground pork, leftover rice, canned beans, frozen corn, salsa, spices, and cheese. I also made a pork soup for the child with a sore throat. And then a cucumber and tomato salad with feta for me. Far too many individual meals going on there. We had ice cream for Sunday dessert.
Monday: I had made garlic bread when I was baking bread a couple of days earlier, and then saved it for this after-work meal. My children had leftover chicken drumsticks with it. My husband had some chili from the freezer. I made a green salad with ranch dressing, which everyone had and to which I added some chicken for my meal. We also had more watermelon and some sorta elderly plums.
Tuesday: Bunless cheeseburgers, boiled potato chunks, tomato/cucumber/feta salad
Wednesday: I purposely saved some of the ground beef to make burrito filling after work. After-work taco or burrito filling is very lazy: browned ground beef, a can of pinto beans, salsa, and spices. I don't even chop an onion or garlic. This is what onion and garlic powder are for. 🙂 We also had carrot sticks with ranch dressing.
Thursday: It was very hot and I very much did not want to turn on the stove. So we had sandwiches with ham and/or salami, chips, cucumbers with ranch dressing, and cottage cheese with canned pineapple. We eat sandwiches for dinner rarely enough that it still feels like a treat to my family, thankfully.
Tonight: Well. I might have gotten overly ambitious, but the plan is chiles rellenos. These are whole roasted green chiles, stuffed with cheese, coated with flour and eggs, and then fried. They look like a huge pain to make, and I really hate frying like that, but I had stopped at the chile truck in the city on Tuesday and bought a five-gallon bucket of chiles to have on hand for soups and stews and whatever. They roast them for you, too, so I have the chiles all ready to go. Chiles rellenos are a very traditional New Mexican food that I have never made, so I figure I have to try it at least once. Wish me luck. I have leftover burrito filling, too, for those who find the chiles too spicy (which will probably include me).
@kristin@going country, chiles rellenos are difficult to do right and also so amazing.
@Karen., Yeah, I really need an abuelita. Do you have any tips for me?
@kristin@going country, I love chiles rellenos, yum. Also I practically always use fresh minced garlic in jars now. I just hate chopping garlic, something that my daughter rolls her eyes about.
@kristin@going country ... um, buy them from an abuelita, or maybe her son who learned from her and started a restaurant. lol.
I have had better success using an electric skillet that maintains an accurate oil heat better than a stovetop.
Hatch chiles roasted on the roadside are one of God's greatest gifts.
@Karen., These were Socorro chiles. I expect they will also be good, however. 🙂
@Karen., Yes, another vote for an electric skillet here. I basically use mine only for chicken cutlets (which we eat very often) but it's worth it for that alone, as I can cook quite a few at a time. Sometimes I make onion rings, too. Now I'm wondering about chiles rellenos. Can't get fresh Hatch chilis here that I know about but probably can use something else.
@Karen., One of my friends was telling me yesterday, that since she and her family used to live in NM, roasted hatch chiles were everywhere. They now live in NEMO and it's been quite a change. They were able to get a bucket full of smoked hatch chiles in the nearest bigger town at a Hy-Vee store this week. They bag them up and freeze them to use all season long. Our local Hy-Vee has them, but I don't think they smoke or roast any.
@kristin@going country, no doubt. It's the climate and not the marketing that makes the chile. 🙂
@Chrissy, oof, that's a pretty big change both culturally and climate-wise. Glad they got some chiles, though. My opinion of Hy-Vee is decidedly mixed but they do come up with some good non-local foods.
@Rose, you could try with poblano or Anaheim peppers. Those are more widely distributed, I think. They are very good with poblano.
@Rose,
I'm 100% with you on the fresh minced garlic in a jar. I haaaate chopping garlic, and frankly, I don't notice any difference in the taste of what I've added the jarred stuff to. Maybe I don't have a very sensitive palate, lol.
@Karen.,
One of my sisters, who lives in Colorado, buys roasted hatch chiles at their local farmers market. She and her DH love all foods Mexican, Tex-Mex, etc., and are both fabulous cooks, so they do not go to waste. 🙂
@Karen., Yummy, I think I will. I sketched it in for a dinner next week. Son wants homemade KFC bowls, too. I don't eat KFC and there are no fast food places closer than an hour away, so whatever, I'll try it.
@Liz, my daughter doesn't trust any shortcuts to cooking. I forget what she wanted to make but the recipe required a kitchen scale and she couldn't find ours, so my suggestion of "Just convert the weights to cups etc" did not go over well. Flours have different weights depending on humidity etc etc oh for heaven's sake this is a recipe for scones jeez.
I like just hoiking my finger into the garlic jar and flinging it into whatever without measuring. I just take a guess. If it needs more, I can add more.
@Rose, homemade KFC bowls should not be hard to make. Corn, chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, and for some reason, topped with cheese. Almost how I like to eat my T-day meal. Roll (or other bread) topped with mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing optional, and gravy.
Hot dogs with various other leftovers
Spaghetti and meatballs
Grilled brinerated chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans from the garden
Chicken alfredo, broccoli
Tonight we are heading to a friend's house and I think we are having cheeseburgers
In a way it comforts me that your meals have become more "basic" after you started working and studying so much. Before, my meal plan never could compare to yours - but I was (and continue to be) in the situation that you are in now. Rotisserie chicken and veggies IS a meal after all 🙂
@Maggie, I was actually just thinking the same! Ive always either been a full time student or more than full time worker and stick to basics with minimal cleanup.
One of my goals is to regularly introduce new foods. We kind of got into a rut of only eating things we know my daughter likes, so we tried new things on Monday and Tuesday.
Monday: Chicken, loosely flavoured like chicken tikka masala, roasted potatoes, and rice (verdict: toddler-approved)
Tuesday: Mr. B was out, toddler and I had soy/ginger snapper, rice, and cucumbers. (Verdict: Snapper tastes fine but it has a strong fishy smell.)
Wednesday: My mom came over, we had baked chicken katsu and kale salad.
Thursday: Mr. B Tilapia and pasta with tomato sauce.
Friday: Mr. B will likely make us salmon, vegetables, and challah. And we will get our weekly ice cream after dinner.
Your meals sound perfect for summer. I enjoy tuna on a salad or in a cold sammie - have never had a tuna melt! Its so hot here that I can't believe I turned on the oven this week. I can barely cook - I am OVER it, but I ate:
Monday - I have no memory of what I fixed, but I was off and I bought groceries
Tuesday - Meatloaf with Portobello Mushroom Sauce, mashed potatoes, corn
Wednesday - Grilled Chicken on salad with fresh berries
Thursday - Crockpot BBQ Pork Loin Chop, baked sweet potato from the freezer, collards
Friday - Leftovers from Tuesday for dinner, but eating out for lunch
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed! But as per usual, I will pack food from home
Happy Weekend!
@Gina from The Cannary Family,
These are excellent dinners for having to cook in hot weather!
@Gina from The Cannary Family,
I've never had a tuna melt, either! Question: is it just plain tuna from the can or pouch, or do you make tuna salad (with mayo, etc), spread it on bread, cover with cheese, and "melt"? (I don't think I'd like it made with tuna salad, myself, but not yucking anyone else's yum).
@Liz B., Tuna melts are made with tuna salad. It's basically a grilled cheese sandwich with tuna salad in it. It's way better than it has any right to be. Although I don't typically make tuna salad with crunchy vegetables in it--onions, celery, whatever--and I don't think I would like those in the sandwich. The same idea is also really good with tortillas, like a tuna quesadilla.
@kristin@going country,
Thank you! I don't like crunchy veggies in my tuna salad, either. I think if I made the tuna salad not too mayonaise-y, I might like a tuna melt. Worth a try!
@Liz B., we buy the pouches of flavored tuna and mix one pouch with a pouch of regular tuna (in water or safflower oil). The flavored pouches can be a bit intense. I *love* mayo, the more the better. Better half is a mayo light person. Tomato, avocado, cheese on a non-grilled sandwich is good.
Last night, orecchiette with broccoli rabe and sausage, with salad.
Wednesday, a kind of saute of garden excess tomatoes and jalapenos, onion and garlic, with chicken chunks, sprinkled with finely chopped cilantro stems (whoops, no leaves left) served in tortillas with sour cream.
Tuesday, steak au poivre, fries, salad.
Monday... ravioli with garlic sauce, broccoli.
I was thinking meatloaf tonight but Son is offering to treat for takeout.
WIS: $150, divided pretty much evenly between Food Lion, Aldi, and Ollie's Outlet. I did a lot of stocking up of non-perishables at Ollie's.
WWA: Homemade chili with gluten-free cheddar-herb corn muffins. Beef-mushroom-veggie soup with Bob's Red Mill Wonderful gluten-free bread (it lives up to its name). Big salads with cherry tomatoes and Cubano peppers from my container garden. I had my salad with some excellent canned salmon (purchased at Ollie's for just $1.29 per small can) on top and Wasa rye crisp crackers on the side. A homemade gluten-free apple-raspberry-blackberry crisp for several days of desserts.
WIS: $36 at Kroger
WIA: Let's see, I had a cheesy rice casserole with chicken and broccoli, and before that, I had just chicken and rice. I had polenta with beans and cheese on top. And last night I had finished baking bread so late, with no real dinner plans, that as soon as it was cool enough to slice I just used some of that to make a sunbutter and jam sandwich.
WIS
Aldi- $153
Harris Teeter- $30
WWA
Chicken braised in tomatoes and green olives with pasta and asparagus
Shaved beef, onion and pepper sandwiches with lemon rosemary potatoes and green beans
Grilled drumsticks with potatoes and grilled zucchini
Moqueca (Brazilian fish stew)
Tonight will probably be flatbread, hummus, and vegetables
Saturday we will have friends here for lunch and she’s type 2 diabetic, so I need to figure out something low carb as she is on a very strict diet
@Tarynkay,
Some type of meat (maybe grill some chicken? or Kabobs?), veggies, maybe a salad?, maybe some sort of starch (corn, potatoes, whatever you've got) that she can either partake of, or not. Diabetics CAN eat things like white or sweet potatoes (no marshmallow topping), beans, noodles, etc., just not huge portions of it - though she may or may not choose to eat these foods.
@Liz B.,
Thanks for the ideas! She was non-compliant for a very long time so she is having to be pretty careful about it now.
@Tarynkay,
You're welcome! And now I want some kabobs. 🙂
$105.52
$30 of my grocery budget was on a sale for 10 lbs of ground beef from a local butcher.
Saturday: lasagna/salad
Sunday: pork bbq/broccoli casserole/fruit
Monday: carnitas/beans/rice
Tuesday: swedish meatballs w/gravy, mashed potatoes, asparagus
Wednesday: leftovers
Thursday: sausage & cheese ravioli with sauce/salad/homemade olive/redpepper/onion bread
Friday: smashburgers and maybe grilled corn
Sunday: Chicken tortilla soup with homemade bread, chocolate no-bakes for dessert
Monday: BBQ chicken sandwiches, waffle fries
Tuesday: Takeout pizza, breadsticks, wings
Wednesday: We weren't super hungry, so we made mini pizzas and I had a side of marinated cucumbers & onions
Thursday: Turkey Meatloaf, oven roasted potatoes, peas
Friday: Tonight we will be at camp and I'm making spaghetti and meatballs, salad and we will have Italian bread
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Saturday - takeout from a taqueria, veggie burrito for me, shrimp burrito for husband and quesadilla, rice and beans for the kids. This is almost the only place we get takeout that costs less than $50 lately (Dominos pizza being the other)
Sunday - I was visiting some friends with the kids and got home later than planned so my husband ordered dominos pizza.
Monday - we replicated kfc bowls, so made mashed potatoes, topped with gravy from the freezer, breaded chicken pieces, cheese and corn. I had lentils on mine instead of chicken, kids had theirs deconstructed since they don’t like things mixed together
Tuesday - impossible burger for husband, black bean burger for me on a salad rather than bun, hot dogs for the kids, corn on the cob for everyone, steamed broccoli
Wednesday - salads, topped with chicken for husband, topped with Trader Joe’s vegetable masala burger for me, kids had chicken nuggets with cut veggies and fruits. I made the plant-based corn muffins I’d mentioned a few weeks ago. No one in my family liked them haha But since I’ve been reducing my consumption of added sugar and animal products over the last few weeks, my taste buds have changed and I thought they tasted great. I froze them so when I make regular bread products for the family, I can grab one of these muffins for myself.
Thursday - back to school night so needed a fast dinner. Alphabet soup with tofu from the freezer, made regular drop biscuits for the family and had one of the corn muffins for myself
Friday - I’m thinking I’ll do Trader Joe’s orange chicken and brown rice for the family, and have roasted romenesco cauliflower(came in my produce box, never had it before and it’s beautiful to look at!) and sweet potato with my brown rice rather than the chicken.
Groceries cost us around $65 this week.
Morning all. This week we ate:
Sunday - Was at the coast so clam chowder, with fries and a shared raspberry beer...it's not a bad combo..honest!
Monday - Rice bowls with beans, assorted peppers and cherry tomatoes.
Tuesday - Taco casserole topped with sour cream (I was grateful for past me who doubled up and had this freezer meal waiting to chuck into the oven come dinnertime on a real hairball of a day) had buttered tortillas to go with.
Wendsday-Leftover taco casserole with tortillas to go with.
Thursday -Had a piecrust in the freezer (thank goodness for premade piecrust you can get at the super market) so I made a tomato and green onion tart. Spinach salad to go with.
Friday - Found a package of deer steak in the freezer last night while I was morning smoothie fruit prepping so I thawed it and soaked the steaks in some milk overnight and got a stew going in the crockpot this morning. Rumor going round is that I will go to the local bakery and pick up some sort of bread product to go with.
Happy weekend!
I don't have my receipts with me so idk WIS (and probably don't want to know)
WIA:
Fri - Date night at a local place. I had a smashburger w/fries
Sat - My daughter and I did a little shopping and decided to go to IHOP for a dinner of breakfast foods, lol. My husband decided to join. I had the Eggs Benedict with homefries.
Sun - Chicken w/potatoes, carrots & zucchini sheet pan dinner
Mon - Beef, celery & rice casserole with corn and salad
Tues - Enchiladas w/rice
Wed - Grilled burgers w/ fries
Thurs - Ranch Chicken Pasta w/biscuits
We were on the same plane. I also had peanut butter and jelly on whole wheat bread and tuna melts this week.
I also had chicken and rice bowls. Chicken was purchased on mark down for two nights and French bread pizza.
Lots of salads for sides or beans from the garden. Apples are delicious and getting cheap where I live too.
Friday: ‘Soprano Pasta” and my husband’s garlic bread. The pasta is based on a dish served in The Sopranos and is a favorite of my husband’s. We were hosting friends and wanted something special. His garlic bread is labor intensive so I let him prepare it.
Saturday: Hosting again! Beef Bourguignon over mashed potatoes and my husband’s garlic bread.
Sunday: We enjoyed the beautiful day and went out for dinner on a patio on a lake.
Monday: Ramen Veggie Stir Fry
Tuesday: Leftovers
Wednesday: Swordfish, roasted brussels sprouts, mac and cheese. I wanted to make a parmesan orzo but I was out of orzo so the box of mac and cheese came to the rescue!
Thursday: Birria Enchiladas with brown rice
@Geneva, What is Soprano Pasta? They ate a lot of pasta on the show!
@Rose,
I was wondering the same thing! Lol!
@Rose,
Maybe it's Tony"s mother's baked ziti? I'll never forget AJ's response when Tony tells him his grandmother can't come to Sunday dinner because she's sick or in the hospital or something. "What? So no f---ing ziti, then?"
@Becca, so funny. Or after Karen dies, when Janice throws out her last baked ziti. (Aida Turturro lives in my town. I often see her at the dog park and we chat.)
It just doesn't occur to me to give ziti a fancy name. It's pretty standard in the NY area.
WIS: $85 @ Walmart
WWA
Saturday: I roasted some boneless skinless chicken breasts in a homemade honey mustard vinaigrette and we had those with roasted potato wedges and broccoli
Sunday: Roasted Pork Tenderloin with green beans and baby potatoes
Monday: Leftovers
Tuesday: I laid out ground turkey and when dinner time came I decided to make a hash of sorts modeled after Zuppa Toscana. I added baby potatoes, onions, chopped mustard greens, Zucchini, and lots of garlic, thyme, salt and pepper. We ate this with steamed broccoli and everyone loved it.
Wednesday: Leftovers for some sandwiches for some since we had several appointments that day.
Thursday: BBQ drumsticks in the crockpot, pea salad, and the last of the sweet potato fries in my new air fryer
Friday: I have ground beef laid out and will make a spaghetti meat sauce - some will eat this with protein pasta and some with spaghetti squash
Happy weekend to all!!!
Happy Friday Frugal Friends! Don't mean to shout, but man oh man it has been a week.
WIS: $37 @ Grocery Outlet, $96 @ Costco (dog/cat/human dairy food), $7 @ Scratch & Dent, $10 wind fall peaches, $6 @ Walmart
WWA: Sunday Family Dinner (18 attended) Salad bar w/garlic bread, brisket, watermelon
M: Sliders, baked beans & veggies w/ranch
T: Salmon, coleslaw & green beans
W: Salmon patties, green salad & watermelon
T: Rotisserie chicken, fresh corn, tomato slices & watermelon
F: Chicken salad on green chopped salad & watermelon
Sat & Sun work this week, have 3 days off and work 3 1/2 days
Becca, we call it toad in the hole, too!
Friend brought me 3 huge watermelons from his uncle's farm, I filled the shop's fridge and cut up one for the garage fridge. He also brought me 50 lbs of Walla Walla onions from a dear family friend. I wrap each one in brown paper toweling, recycled tin foil (washed and saved year to year) and they go in the larder and will last thru late spring.
In April I will take the onions that are sprouting and plant them in a raised bed for fresh onions.
Let me see if I can even remember. I had my Math in Health Sciences profiency test today and, to borrow a phrase I saw Kristen use a while back, my brain is crispy right now.
WWS: $431 at Kroger.
Sat/Sun: homemade pizzas, and I made chocolate pudding pops.
Monday: DH cooked burgers outside, as well as a huge batch of tuna burgers for Tuesday, and I cut up a canteloupe that was malingering in the fridge and made a fruit salad. We had chips, too, I think.
Tuesday: Tuna burgers and corn on the cob, leftover burgers as well.
Wednesday: Chicken shawarma, rice, salad.
Thursday: Mexican night (not tacos, since we stopped buying taco shells when I realized people were just breaking them up to use as chips. We get unsalted tortilla chips instead.)
Tonight: we have tons of leftovers, we're tired, my brain is crispy, so it's leftovers and maybe some boxed mac and cheese as well.
I was hoping for some space for discussion of "complementarianism." It's a fascinating and disturbing concept, and I'd really like to hear what people think!
@Jean, It's gross and disgusting and repulsively sexist.
But Kristen didn't talk about it on the blog.
@Rose, I so agree with you. But let's be quiet lest some politician start yammering about that. Bad enough they are talking about eliminating head of household tax brackets so they can extend the tax cuts for rich people. "be a good girl and stay married". "Be a good girl and don't get pregnant out of wedlock". Raped - well some man will marry you.
@Selena, Oh I forget - if #2 or #3 happens, allow an agency or religious group to sell your baby. It is for the best you know.
Sat - decent fast food burgers with fries
Sun - barely mediocre fast food - under staffed but please I will wait two more minutes for all the fries in my order to be well cooked. Better half was in a bit of a snit.
Mon - grilled butter/garlic/Parmesan marinated chix breast w/homemade potato salad (with home grown potatoes) and cole slaw
Tue - dine out Mexican - fajita veggies with cheese over rice w/steak for me, shrimp for in-a-better-mood-better-half
Wed - burgers with the rest of the aforementioned potato salad and cole slaw
Thu - Tue leftovers enhanced with home grown zucchini, bacon (from butcher shop), and the last of the frozen cooked shrimp we had in the freezer
Fri - steak 4 me, salmon for better half.
Going to try a new place Saturday night for broasted (why spell check??) chicken (bar and grill place that states the from x to y minutes when ordering chicken).
I think Popeye's chicken sandwiches rock (KFC is so-so). Will never set foot in chik-hate-fil-a. Buffalo Wildwings are overpriced.
I can't believe Raising Cane's makes money selling chicken strips (oh yeah, I guess they have a sandwich), fries, cole slaw, and "Texas" toast. Besides a long drive, demolishing a perfectly good building to build a generic fast food building with a drive thru is just nuts. Money laundering comes to mind truth be told. And where it is located should not have a drive thru as traffic has been a bear for years. I suspect it won't last. The large city near me is quite fickle truth be told. Off soap box.
@Selena, @A. Marie post reminded me we had leftover sweetcorn in leftover Thursday meal.
Had kind of funny week. I didn’t keep track of the money but we had sandwiches on Sunday. Chicken thighs and broccoli on Monday, free steak supper on Tuesday (took half of my steak home, Wednesday had left over steak, broccoli and tater tots, Thursday I ate out and not sure what hubby had, Friday finished the chicken and broccoli. (The broccoli was from my friend from her garden and we have fresh tomatoes for hubby).
WIS: $77 at Aldi
WWA: I normally struggle with remembering the WWA part, so this week I astutely made notes on my phone so I can confidently and accurately state that we ate:
Saturday: Tacos
Sunday: Tacos (because leftovers and I love tacos!)
Monday: grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and cookies (two sons and gf came for dinner and younger son requested chicken legs--always his favorite!)
Tuesday: husband had salad with some leftover chicken; I had veg soup from the freezer, toast with jam, and an apple
Wednesday: husband out for evening, so it was a can of tuna with olive oil and pepper, sauteed plantains, & toast w/pb&j
Thursday: hmmm...my phone note system seems to have failed for Thursday, and I'm guessing salads??
Friday: daughter (celiac & vegetarian) and her friend (vegan) were here for dinner! 🙂 so black bean burgers, pickles, & peaches cut up and sprinkled with cinnamon