WIS, WWA | And I'm outta here!
See Friday below for the post title reference. 😉
What I Spent
I spent:
- $30 on wings
- $49 at Aldi
- $13 at Safeway
- $11 at Chick-Fil-A
So, that's $103 for the week.
What We Ate
Saturday
The three of us were all different places; I was babysitting my nieces and nephew, and we ate some Aldi pizzas together (the refrigerated type).
My littles niece spilled water all over part of a pizza after it had been baked, but luckily we had two pizzas, so it was ok.
Waterlogged pizza crust is exceedingly unappealing.
Sunday
Usually the girls and I do a takeout night on Saturdays together, but we bumped it to Sunday night this time.
They wanted wings, and I discovered that a restaurant super close to our rental house has wings. So that was easy!
Monday
For some reason, my stomach had been not feeling great, so I did not feel particularly inspired about cooking. Lisey was out, but Zoe was hungry for Chick-Fil-A, though, so I got her a meal.
And then I just ate a couple of fried eggs and some fruit.
Tuesday
Poor Zoe had a minor complication with her wisdom teeth recovery, so she was back on soft foods for a few days. Mac and cheese fit the bill.
Wednesday
More soft foods for Zoe; she requested French toast, which we ate with OJ and bacon.
Thursday
Last night of soft foods for Zoe; I made pasta alfredo, topped with grilled chicken.
Friday
Well...I'm flying to Texas this afternoon to visit one of my best friends for the weekend!
So, I have no idea what I am eating for dinner tonight. 😉
Have a great trip Kristen!
We ate several kinds of salad this week when it was so hot (couscous and veg salad, pasta and veg salad, potato/egg/veg salad) - basically anything that could be prepared ahead in the cool morning.
Plus meat loaf from the slow cooker (and salad) since the slow cooker does not heat the kitchen too much.
Yay!! I'm so glad you get to spend time with her. Praying you have a wonderful, heart-filling time together.
Saturday: My side of the family came over to celebrate my son's birthday. He requested turkey broccoli fettuccine alfredo. My mom brought a fruit salad to go with it and we also had cake and ice cream.
Sunday: Sheet pan dinner of brats, carrots, asparagus, green beans, potatoes, and zucchini for lunch. Pizza for dinner.
Monday: I tried a new recipe to use up zucchini - Baked zucchini fritters. It was pretty good! The kids ate a lot of green beans because they weren't quite a excited about the zucchini fritters, though none of them hated them. We also had peach slices.
Tuesday: Sloppy joes, blueberries, and zucchini with potatoes
Wednesday: BBQ chicken legs, snap peas, potato salad, smoothies
Thursday: My son's actual birthday. He requested spaghetti and meatballs that we had with green beans. Hooray for an easy meal! I was also glad to change it up from cake... He asked for peach pie with vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Friday: We're heading to Lake Michigan for the day to meet up with my aunt and uncle from Massachusetts and my cousin and his family from Chicago. My mom suggested we all go to someplace like Wendy's for dinner. I think she's awfully optimistic about the emotional stability of 6 kids ages 2-8 after a full day of playing at the beach. Ha! We'll see if we can pull that off or just need to hit a drive-thru on the way home.
@Ruth T, I vote for an ice cream dinner. Those Lake Michigan beach days are fun, but exhausting. Keep up on your sunscreen reapplication and watch the flags for avoiding rip currents!
@Kris, We were at Warren Dunes and got ice cream with our meals from McDonald's (the only restaurant in town). We did pretty good on sunscreen!! But, oh my goodness, the water was perfect! Water temp of 75 and a yellow flag day. We had so much fun playing in the waves. Absolute perfection! And so, so good to be with family.
And dinner tonight was definitely to go and eaten in the van!
Oh, I'm so happy for you! I hope you really enjoy your visit.
So glad you are getting a chance for some bestie time! I have day scheduled to visit my college roommate next month, and some days I think looking forward to it is the only thing getting me through the days.
WIS: 85.31 @ Giant and 81.35 @ Aldi, for a total of 166.66 this week.
WWA:
Fri: crudites (celery, carrots, red and yellow peppers, cucumbers with ranch dip made using ranch seasoning and sour cream); sourdough discard crackers; focaccia topped with eggplant, pepper and onion tapenade, mozzarella cheese and pepperoni.
Sat: bagged spinach; bean and tofu chili from the freezer on top of hotdogs in buns, tortilla chips and shredded cheddar cheese.
Sun: salad of mixed greens and sliced cucumbers topped with granola and feta cheese; sliced heirloom tomatoes; pork chorizo tamale pie.
Mon: sliced heirloom tomatoes and a tiny bit of leftover salad from Sunday; a quesadilla that used two leftover tortillas and some leftover Swiss cheese, leftover chili and leftover tamale pie.
Tue: salad with mixed greens, heirloom tomato slices and cut up pieces of mozzarella string cheese; broiled swordfish steaks (they do taste just like tuna steaks) with homemade peach and heirloom tomato salsa and sliced avocado; spicy chipotle sweet potato hash.
Wed: salad with mixed greens, strawberries, blackberries, cucumbers, pecans and feta cheese; rice, teriyaki marinated pork loin simmered in a lime seltzer until it fell apart, and homemade tortillas. We also had some leftover peach salsa, some leftover sweet potato hash and some sour cream.
Thu: Thaco Thursday (because we missed the alliteration of Tuesday) using up leftover pork loin, one leftover swordfish steak (shredded), leftover rice and about a half lb of new ground beef as the protein options. We also had spinach, salsa, chipotle Cholula sauce and grated cheddar cheese, plus sliced cucumbers and heirloom tomatoes on the side. Basically this meal was a way to use up a bunch of semi-random leftovers because our kids will eat just about anything if it's in a crunchy taco. We also used our colorful taco plates that had been hidden away in a cabinet for about a decade, so that was fun. It was like getting something brand new. I highly recommend hiding stuff from yourself. Ha!
Tonight: kale salad and focaccia (hopefully with more eggplant on it because it's my favorite way to eat eggplant!)
Have a great weekend!
@Becca,
Pork simmered in a lime seltzer? This sounds fascinating to me, because I love both pork and (any flavor) seltzer. Details, please?
@Liz B.,
I'm not too sure of all the details because my husband made it, but from what I saw he dumped the marinated pork loin into his cast iron pan, poured in a lime seltzer and I think a few extra seasonings like cumin, then put the cover on the pan and simmered it on the stove top on low heat until the meat started to fall apart. I bet you could do it in an instant pot or crock pot too because it was pretty hands off.
Enjoy your trip & stay cool! TX heat has been brutal according to family members who live/melt there.
I think we might just have to be inside most of the time!
Well, THAT'S an exciting trip! Have so much fun. I'll wave over the state line.
Saturday: Steak, pesto bread (fried bread with pesto spread on it), pasta salad, carrot sticks
Sunday: A skillet of processed bull meat fried with microwaved potatoes, cucumber spears, vanilla ice cream with chocolate shell
Monday: Pork steaks cooked on the stove top with the last of a can of spaghetti sauce and the last few tablespoons of pesto. When those were done, I took those out of the pan, added some water, and cooked rice in there. I did all this in the morning when it was cool so at dinnertime, all I had to do was re-heat it.
Tuesday: It was too hot to turn on the stove, so dinner was courtesy of leftovers and the microwave. Husband had the leftover pork and rice, some kids had egg salad sandwiches, some had barbecue beef sandwiches made with the rest of the processed bull. And then the kids all had a bowl of cereal because they were still hungry, and there really weren't a lot of other already-prepared options. This is the first time they've ever had cereal except for breakfast, and they were thrilled.
Wednesday: It cooled down a bit, so I made stir-fry with beef, carrots and snow peas from the garden, and foraged lamb's quarters.
Thursday: Cooler--only 90 degrees! whee!--and I had to bake bread, so I took advantage of the oven being on to make meatloaf and garlic bread. And we had a green salad with vinaigrette.
Friday: I also made a pan of meatballs when the oven was on yesterday, so I'll heat those up in a skillet with the last frozen bag of last year's roasted tomato/garlic sauce, make pasta for the kids, throw some raw garden vegetable out there, and call it good.
I always think of you when I fly out west! I look down at remote settlements and think, "hmm, I wonder if that's where Kristin lives!"
@Kristen, My brother is a pilot for Southwest, and he's sent us video before of our house as he flies over it, so it is actually possible.
@kristin @ going country,
Wow, that’s so cool about. having a aerial video of your home from a jet!
I spent $24 at Sam's Club for some snacks but $5 for grocery shopping this week. We mostly ate out of the garden, cuc salads, tomatoes, beets and green beans. I was super busy at work so hubs actually cooked most nights..so yay! I picked up a roasted chicken at Sam's and ate that for most days this week.
We also had spaghetti, steak sandwiches, parmesan noodles.
I never write these things down, so I find it hard to remember. But I do remember eating at home all week!
Sunday: pasta with sauce from the freezer
Monday: Cauliflower pizza from Aldi (excellent substitute for pizza!)
Tuesday: Chili from the freezer
Wednesday: Grilled Chicken Salads or veggies on side instead of salad
Thursday: Rice and Beans
Friday: unknown at this point
First, Kristen, enjoy your time with your friend! And I'm sorry Zoe had a little setback; I hope that this is the last bump on Wisdom Tooth Road for her.
WIS: $12 at the Farmers' Market, $53 at Wegmans, $31.50 at Price Chopper, and (gulp) $610 to my beef-raising friends (see my TT comment yesterday). So I'm guessing I'll be the high scorer this week, if anyone's keeping score. But bear in mind that I'll be recouping some of the beef money when I sell some beef to friends, and that this is a year's supply for all of us.
WIA: It probably won't surprise anyone to learn that I grabbed a package of hamburger out of the Freezer Tetris before my friends and I shut the freezer door on our work. I had some of that tonight and will have the rest tomorrow.
But I also had another stir-fry with the redroot pigweed (aka wild amaranth) from my garden, and put some into a soup I made with some poultry leftovers. I'm even thinking of experimenting with the African American/Caribbean greens dish called callaloo, since amaranth is one of the greens that can be used in this.
And my tomatoes and cucumbers in the fenced garden I'm sharing with neighbors this summer are finally starting to come in! Huzzah!
Speaking of oral surgery...how's your mouth feeling?
@Kristen, the mouth is doing fine, thanks. The extraction site is completely healed, as far as I can tell. (And I'm doing well enough to handle a couple of big juicy hamburgers!)
Have a fun weekend!
This past week its been a scorcher. I think we are looking at pretty much a full week (tues‐next mon) of 90°+. This is not normal and I hate the heat. The less the oven goes on the better. We had:
Sat: Concert night. Got nachos to split (just chip and cheese kind). We're pretty hungry after the show ended and the hr drive home so got some burgers and tots
Sun: I can't remember. We were still canning peaches so probably something quick/ easy
Mon: lobster, corn/zucchini/tomato salad, over mozzarella peirogi
Tues: Spaghetti and zucchini noodles with marinara and mozzarella
Wed: Salmon tacos
Thurs: shrimp scampi, garlic bread, caprese salad
Fri: dinner at my parents. Who knows what we will be having
It sounds like a fun weekend, just know its like the surface of the sun here! I'm guessing your daughter had dry socket and OUCH. This week:
Monday - Lemon Pepper Chicken, twice baked, broccoli
Tuesday - Coconut Shrimp, rice, green beans
Wednesday - Foccacia Pizza, baby greens salad
Thursday - Carnitas Bowl with leftover rice, black beans, avocado and etc.
Friday - Hatch Chicken Salad Wraps, chips, watermelon
Saturday - In honor of Mark: Hamburger Patties, pork and beans, mashed potatoes for a family meal {this is likely the last time I will ever fix this meal! The only reason I ever did was that it was a favorite college days memory for Mark}
Sunday - Kitchen closed! What does Gina want to eat? Hmmm...
https://cannaryfamily.blogspot.com/
I am really visiting Texas at the wrong time of year. Ha.
WIS: $82.43 at Aldi. $21 and something at Food Lion. $3.75 at Dollar Tree. This put us over budget for the week, but $11.99 of what we spent at Aldi was for a whole duck that went into the bottom of the freezer for Christmas.
WWA: I had the day off work on Monday and cooked chili and mac and cheese for the family. This made leftovers that my husband could have for lunch, which is his big meal, all through the week. I cooked my old standby very veggie black bean and chicken chili for my brown bag work lunches this week and ate it with tiny tangerines from Aldi and some lovely crispy fruit cookies (made in the Netherlands) from Dollar Tree. Lunch is also my big meal. For my supper, I had some form of fruit salad using strawberries, blueberries and watermelon from Aldi.
@Kristin ENJOY your trip. I will be praying that it is a refreshing time for you 🙂
I spent $323 @ Publix this week. I feel like I have unintentionally become a bi-weekly shopper so I have large totals every other week.
Saturday...Leftovers
Sunday...Errands after church so we ate bits of whatever we had on hand and called it good.
Monday...Chicken Alfredo and assorted sauteed veggies
Tuesday....takeout wings & pizza
Wednesday...leftovers
Thursday...White Chicken Chili & cornbread
Friday....Leftovers
Thank God it is the weekend!
Our meals this week were on the uninspired side, as I was sick when I made the menu, and still recovering for most of the week. As a result, we kept things really simple.
-Steak kebabs, with caprese salad (so many garden tomatoes)
-Meatballs in fresh tomato sauce
-Tacos (meat from the freezer), with lots of...tomatoes
-Burgers & Greek salad (x2)
-Salmon & Greek salad
I'm not sure what we're having tonight. I need to drum up some inspiration.
Saturday - we were at a birthday party for my son’s friend so pizza and ice cream cake!
Sunday - my FIL came over so we could celebrate his birthday, I made a very meaty (ground beef and whole Italian sausages) spaghetti sauce and my husband and daughter made him a Cherry pie (his preference over cake)
Monday - spinach tortellini soup. This was a very frustrating dinner for me because the soup is essentially just canned tomatoes, cheese tortellini and frozen spinach, which my family happily eats in other forms (such as spinach lasagna the previous week) but they would not touch this dinner. Kids did not eat it at all, husband had a small serving that he picked at. My guess is the ratio of the ingredients is different, making it less appealing? This rarely happens that I make something no one eats, I am finally deleting the recipe from my collection though, as I think this has happened a few times now and I keep forgetting and making it again haha
Tuesday - creamy mushroom pasta with chicken
Wednesday - king ranch chicken casserole
Thursday - chicken patty sandwiches, butter pasta, steamed carrots
Friday - wanted to make pizza, not sure we will be home in time to let the dough rise in the pan a couple hours before baking. Spaghetti and meatballs are the backup meal plan.
@LB,
I'm sorry about the soup. I know that frustrating feeling when you've spent a lot of time making something and they don't even eat it let alone appreciate the effort. It really sucks.
Sat.: Takeout from Panera.
Sun.: We ate lunch really late so ended up having ice cream for dinner. Sure, we're responsible adults.
Mon.: Spaghetti and garlic bread.
Tues.: Chicken salad sandwiches, three-bean salad, and fruit.
Wed.: Hubby had leftover chicken salad, etc. I had fried eggs with rice and soy sauce.
Thurs.: Tacos! I was very grateful to my past self for prepping a huge batch of taco filling and freezing several dinner sized portions of it. AND remembering to take it out of the freezer Wednesday night.
For tonight I'm trying to decide between this https://www.budgetbytes.com/garlic-noodles-with-beef-and-broccoli/ and this https://goodcheapeats.com/egg-plus-salad-sandwiches/
@Danielle Zecher, My mother-in-law grew up on a farm with five siblings and a lot of extended family around. They would have a really big, late Sunday lunch, and then have ice cream and popcorn for dinner. So you see, you WERE being a responsible adult, as well as a traditional one. 🙂
@kristin @ going country, @Danielle Zecher, I have a girlfriend who told me that popcorn was the standard 'meal' on Sundays in her family. I am still shocked, even though she has told me it was quite common in Wisconsin . My mother would be cringing - she is of the 3 veg, carb, protein EVERY supper kind of attitude, and still makes that for herself almost every night at the grand old age of 92. I gotta say that I have never deliberately eaten popcorn for dinner, and that I have eaten a lot of not-mom-approved things around the dinner hour, now that I am pretending to be an adult (and have been for 40 + years, LOL)
@kristin @ going country, We often did the same thing growing up. A bigger Sunday lunch meant no one was terribly hungry in the evening. Popcorn, apple slices, and cheese slices were frequent Sunday suppers.
@kristin @ going country, I like that tradition!
Hooray for friend visits!
I've been under the weather here with what is becoming an annual summer cold/bronchitis. So that's been fun. Still, I have medication, I have a comfy house to be sick in, and I have a great spouse to check on me and clean up the dishes. So it could be much worse!
Last night we had shrimp poboys with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden, roasted potatoes and slaw.
Wednesday night we had a cheesy pasta with spinach, mushrooms, and pesto from garden herbs.
Tuesday we had turkey and swiss "stromboli" that I made with some pizza dough, honey mustard, deli turkey and swiss cheese. Salad.
Monday we had pesto chicken pizza and salad.
That's as far back as my sleep-addled brain will go. BUT I haven't been to the grocery store since Saturday and we're still clicking along just fine!
Aww, I hope you feel better soon!
Friend time is a balm for the soul. I hope you have a great visit and welcome to Texas!
This week we celebrated my twin's bday with breakfast for dinner (by request) and homemade hazelnut cheesecake.
Tuesday-chicken kabobs and veggies for Bible study group
Wednesday-spaghetti and meatballs
Thursday-Italian sandwiches
Friday-looking like egg rolls in a bowl
Am also looking forward to vacation time. First real one in over 3 years. Lots of prep this week, so several unambitious meals. WWA:
Saturday - chicken souvlaki, Greek salad, pita, tzatziki
Sunday - bbq steaks (on sale), potatoes, watermelon (forgot the veggies)
Monday - leftovers
Tuesday - takeout A & W hamburgers
Wednesday - leftovers
Thursday - fish tacos
Friday - airport/airplane food
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend.
Happy travels! Texas is cool. I threaten my kids constantly that I'm moving to Texas all by myself ... obviously not a real-life option, but a great exasperation outlet.
@Karen., Funny. I say I am moving to Panama. Have never even been there. We visited Costa Rica but too expensive to live there.
Have a great trip!
Travel edition continues. Many meals out. Not like us but planned for financially in advance.
Pasties
Breakfast out with old friends
Shared a fajita
Marg and quesadilla ( 10 dollar special) night
Brat cookout with friends we provided apple snickers salad and cheddar popcorn
Snacky dinner
We ordered water at most places and ate a late breakfast most days at our rental to save on costs : cream cheese on toast or egg sandwich on English muffins with a slice of cheese. We drive home tomorrow!
Have a good trip. I can't imagine traveling so far for just a weekend but then I don't exactly have friends to hang out with for an afternoon so my perspective means nothing. 😛
Enjoy your trip! It's hot here too, hi temps - heat index has been over 100 most of the week and should be all weekend. Yuck. Made a bean salad and a pasta salad to eat cold, made some zucchini corn fritters with leftover ingredients from the salads and got a rotisserie chicken and ingredients for green salad. I made an instant pot meal later in the week cause hubby didn't seem as keen on the salads as I did. Leftover lamb I found in the freezer, onion, spinach and the harvest blend from Trader Joe's. Top with feta, done. It's easy and fast and doesn't heat up the kitchen much.
Have a super fun trip. Our son and his family live in Austin, which is hot right now but they’re doing all their normal things. And the humidity is low…..it’s something! Can’t wait to hear about it.
I'm in Texas and it's HOT - get ready and enjoy 🙂
We did NOT have a frugal week, which I think is sometimes what has stopped me from commenting in the past. We are definitely at a place with our finances where we do not have to be as careful as we used to, and I think I can have a little guilt over that. I missed commenting yesterday with a thankful list, so I'll add here that I am extremely thankful for our current financial situation!
Saturday--My husband was craving take 'n bake pizza, so he ordered, picked up, and baked it while I did yard work.
Sunday--We had our best friends over to treat them because they were moving into their new house over the weekend. We had tacos with homemade refried beans, avocado crema, and all the fixings. I also made a lemon drizzle bundt cake with homemade whipped cream. I do love cooking and baking, but that was an uncomfortable and sweaty day for me in the kitchen preparing all of those things!
Monday--Leftover tacos and bundt cake. YAY for not having to turn the oven on!!
Tuesday--My husband booked a spa day for us as something to look forward to after this last horrendous school year. After the spa, he took me to get take out from our favorite local sandwich and soup place, which is not very frugal (especially after the day at the spa with treatments!)--but at least it makes me happy to support our local businesses.
Wednesday--We both had leftovers from our take out and we finished the last of the bundt cake.
Thursday--My step-daughter lives about an hour away from us, so we met her halfway between our houses and treated her to dinner. Definitely not a frugal option at all, but well worth the time we got to spend with her.
Friday--This is our normal takeout night, but we've had quite a bit of that this week. I think I am going to try making polenta in the Instant Pot (I really have a love/hate relationship with that thing, and I mostly regret purchasing it!!) so we can have polenta broccoli bowls.
@Jamie S., I totally relate to the love/hate relationship with the Instant Pot!
Are there any really frugal blogs on the internet? I'm looking for one. I find many socially supportive blogs with some frugal things and that's fine but I'm looking for more tightwad gazette really pinch those pennies hard type of thing. Anyone know of one or some?
@Tiana, there's one I like to read called Nana Pinches Her Pennies. The writer is a low-income senior citizen. She does not post frequently but it's worth reading for seeing how someone creatively manages on very little. She gets fruits and vegetables from a mobile food pantry and I think her grocery spending is something like $5 a week.
I also like two British ones: "Life After Money," written by a retired lady who was a truck driver, now a folk artist and cat rescue supporter; and "Shoestring Cottage," written by a lovely woman who had to retire early due to a medical issue. She shops at the British equivalent of yard sales for items to resell, rents out a room in her house, has a garden, and she and her husband really make do and mend.
@Tiana, you might also try The Non-Consumer Advocate if you haven't already been there.
@Tiana, Mary Hunt has a blog Cheapskate Monthly. I had been reading it since 1992. She took over from Amy somehow but I don't think there was much cooperation. Not sure. You can get tips for free but the whole blog access costs money. Mary Hunt has written books and does TV and all sorts of stuff. I don't read it anymore.
@Anita Isaac, I think that Mary's CM was among the ripoffs from Amy that Amy mentioned in her later TG issues. I don't believe that Amy authorized anyone to "take over" from her--which I personally regret. If Amy ever decided to do a blog, I think the line would form on the right!
@Tiana,
The Prudent Homemaker spends very little, and has very inexpensive recipes as well. This year she and her husband sunk all their spare money into gardens so they can be almost self-sustaining, but normally, she spends very, very little. She blogs once a week and is on Instagram.
@A. Marie, absolutely! Katy putting her kids through college without loans was a feat of frugality.
I also really like the now mostly vlog Frugal in France, by a British woman who moved to Brittany. She is no-nonsense about frugality and quite inspiring.
@Tiana,
Other than Kristen, I've been sort of blogged-out lately, but I have been watching some frugal YouTubers, mostly frugal cooking and some grocery hauls. Here's a few I'm liking right now for their various perspectives:
Meals with Maria
Mindful Family
That Lisa Dawn
WW2 Ration Book Recipes
Struggle Meals
Sometimes I watch them with the sound off. I find it relaxing to just watch someone cook especially when it's a relatively frugal meal.
@A. Marie, I had a mix up with my CM subscription and Mary actually called me in 1992. She told me she had taken over and implied that Amy did not support her efforts.
@Tiana,
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. I will look into them.
@Anita Isaac, your report of what Mary said about "taking over" the Tightwad Gazette was so different from what I remembered from the TG itself that I've just spent a few hours going through my TG back issues (I have a complete set). Here's what I found:
(1) Amy did not stop publishing the TG till December 1996. So any suggestion by Mary that she "took over" from Amy in 1992 was, to say the least, inaccurate.
(2) Because Amy knew she would stop publishing the TG in Dec. 1996, she included a 4-page insert in her Sept. 1996 issue called "Newsletter Reviews," to inform her subscribers about similar newsletters. Of these, the Cheapskate Monthly got the longest and most scathing review, including numerous weaknesses and several downright ethical violations. If you would like to see this, ask Kristen for my DM info when she gets back from Texas, and I'll send you a scan of the two pages involved.
Please understand that I am not criticizing you yourself in the least. But your report of Mary's claim that she "took over" the TG from Amy made my blood boil. I don't have many heroes, but Amy Dacyczyn is one of them.
@Tiana, Donna Freedman. com might have some articles of interest to you.
Have fun on your trip!
I got home really late one night and just had a bacon and cheese sandwich, period.
Irish bangers with a stirfry of sorts, of cabbage and carrot shreds, cooked in the sausage pan. I ate this meal twice. I pulled a biscuit or two from the freezer to have with it.
I finally got a cucumber on my vines that the bugs didn't eat, so I had chopped cucumber and leftover chicken from the freezer. Fruit of some kind on the side; I think a nectarine.
I used the rest of the leftover chicken meat to make a big pot pie with a cassava crust.
Tuna salad my way, made with shredded veggies plus raisins. I definitely had a nectarine with that.
A hamburger on "bread" with cut up carrots, ranch dressing, and figs from my tree for dessert.
Tonight will be another meal with ground beef, probably another hamburger. I thawed out a whole farm package of ground beef, which is 1.5 pounds, so ground beef will get used tonight and this weekend.
That is the worst with the wisdom teeth, you feel great for a few days and then you are back to oatmeal. Hopefully Zoe is over the hump and can be back to eating like a normal person.
Sunday- I was on shift, which means eat what you can, when you can. I ate a handful of Cheez-Its. I had made a really nice avocado, gai-lan rice bowl when I got toned out for a transport. I was gone for 8 hrs.
Monday- I picked up an extra 12 hrs since we were short an RN on one of the planes. I was able to eat a veggie bagel sandwich from a local place for breakfast before our first call. I came home around 9pm and devoured a stuffed baked potato with veggies and cheese for dinner
Tuesday- Back on shift, so my boss took us out for lunch (yay for free enchiladas). I ate some In n Out fries in Reno at 11pm after a transport.
Wednesday- Back home!! I had breakfast at an airport cafe after a call and then came home (after a 4 hr drive) and made vegetable flatbreads.
Thursday- My sister in law came over with my nephew. Her dad just passed away so we treated her to some babysitting and sushi.
Friday- I am craving shrimp diavolo and I have shrimp in the freezer, tomato sauce from last years canning and local pasta.
Saturday- We are going to the funeral for my SIL's dad, so I am not sure what time we will be getting home. Either I will make something quick and easy or we are going to my parents
@Heather,
Thank you for what you do. My house has at least three hospitals within a 25-40 mile radius, so I frequently see medical helicopters coming and going. I also work in a hospital, and have had patients who required air transport to come to the hospital, and have had a few who required medical transport to the Cleveland Clinic (I live in SW Ohio, about as far away from Cleveland as is possible while staying in the same state). What you do truly matters.
have a great time. enjoy. might we perhaps see photos of said trip on your return? all the best.
Welcome to Texas. Be prepared to endure very hot weather but this too will pass. It may be September before weather turns a little better. Just part of living in Texas. Don’t mind the heat can’t stand the cold weather LOL
Enjoy you trip and have quality time with your friend ! Me , myself and I eat Lunch at a Senior Cafe for free , games and socializing with seniors, Only cook or eat something simple on the weekends !! Sandwich, Pizza, Noodle soup or Ravoli, easy peasy ! So long. Be safe.
Kristen, enjoy your getaway visiting with your dear friend!
It was a rainy Friday night and I had just worked the night before and was still tired so we had a freezer junk food and movie night. We had mozzarella sticks, totinos pizza rolls, pierogis, and jalapeño poppers. With apple slices.
Burgers on the grill with sautéed mushrooms, roasted cauliflower, green beans, and cole slaw
Hamburger helper with leftover chicken taco meat and some tomato, onion, and corn.
Mahi mahi tacos with peach salsa, Cole slaw, and queso fresco
Rice bowls with mahi mahi, peach salsa, guacamole, cole slaw, and queso fresco
Pork tenderloin with gravy, green beans, and salad.
Picked up subs from a local place between swimming with friends and kids tball.
I hope your time in Texas with your friend has been fun and refreshing. I can't wait to see pictures and read all about your visit!