WIS, WWA | Annnnd I grilled!
What I Spent
I spent:
- $24 at Lidl
- $62 at Aldi
- $19 on a Hungry Harvest box
So, $105 for me.
What We Ate
Saturday
Some leftover pulled pork in buns. I mixed my pork with some salsa verde and added some sliced avocado on top, and that made a very good sandwich!
Sunday
I made baked ziti and ooh, I was so excited that the sun was still up when I finished cooking dinner!
Monday
I used some of my $0.99 clearance organic chicken from Safeway to make some chicken fingers. I was awfully low on produce that night so we just had bowls of strawberries with our chicken.
Tuesday
I made a pot of broccoli-noodle soup, which we ate with some sourdough bread from Aldi.
Wednesday
An eat-up-the-leftovers night. 🙂
Thursday
I made some burgers on the new-to-me grill that my dad brought over for me!
We had potato cubes and sauteed broccoli on the side.
Friday
The girls both have plans tonight, so I'm on my own. Hmm. I could make an egg and veggie skillet.
Orrrr I could treat myself to a solo meal out with a gift card. Decisions, decisions!
Definitely treat yourself!
WIS: 42.14 @ a local cafe to treat my college roommate to lunch and my husband spent 11.65 at some point on pizza which I think he just ate himself. No actual groceries this week, so a lower spend week at 53.79.
WWA:
Fri: salad (mixed greens, yellow tomatoes, feta cheese), focaccia with veggies, pepperoni and moz/Parm cheeses. Butter cookies for dessert.
Sat: At the girls' weekend, I had a giant salad (spinach, mixed greens, tomatoes, cucumber, blueberries, sweet peppers, feta cheese and almond-cashew-dark chocolate trail mix with balsamic vinaigrette) a fruit and cheese platter and grilled chicken thighs marinated in a mixture of Italian dressing, soy sauce, lime juice and garlic. My people at home tried a version of my childhood: whenever my mother would travel for work and my dad would have to feed us, he would make canned pork and beans and hotdogs. Every single night. But he gave it a different name each night: beanie weenies, hotodogos and beans, beans and franks, etc. By the time I was 12, I started cooking because I wanted more variety and one time my mom came back from a two week trip and asked why there were cans of beans in her underwear drawer. I had hid them there... Anyway, my people thought it would be funny to try this tradition but since my husband can actually cook, he fancied the hotodogos and beans up with bacon, onions, more beans, etc. He also fed them salad because he loves me and because they insisted.
Sun: I had chicken tortilla soup made by my friend as well as a bunch of snacky foods like trail mix, cheese sticks, grapes, Doritos and guacamole, Oreo cookies and other sundry treats that would not normally pass for dinner. My people at home had mixed green salads and an Aldi take and bake cheese pizza with a dollop of beanie weenies on each slice. I believe they also had leprecones for dessert.
Mon: salad (mixed greens, feta, sunflower seeds, dried blueberries, balsamic dressing), broiled sesame seed brioche buns with Swiss cheese, topped with leftover beans and franks. (I was home to taste them this time and my husband's version is far superior to my father's. I married well!) More leprecones were enjoyed by children.
Tue: mixed green salad with balsamic dressing, hard boiled eggs, clementines, sourdough French toast with maple syrup.
Wed: mixed green salad with balsamic dressing, purple carrot sticks with roasted red pepper hummus, mini quiche bites (from Aldi's freezer section) and orange juice.
Thu: cucumber slices, homemade chicken noodle soup (with extra veg: carrots, onions, garlic, celery, orange pepper, mushrooms and kale), bacon, egg and cheese stuffed pretzels (a gift from my mom bought at Amish market), orange juice.
Tonight: salad and focaccia, of course, of course!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
@Becca, that's such a fun food memory!
@Becca, I love your Beanie Weanie story. My middle son absolutely loves Beanie Weanies. My mother used to make them for him all the time in her “bean pot.” When she was breaking up her house, she made sure that my son was given the BW pot.
@Becca, I will see your husband's fancy hotodogos and beans and raise you my mother's hot dog stew. Which she only served once. I think this must have happened the day before payday, but I was too young to know that. And I will challenge a woman who raised her children to INSIST on eating salads to recreate one of those infamous Jello salad molds using canned "fruit cocktail". Ah, Midwestern childhoods in Midcentury America. What a culinary and nutritional delight!
@JDinNM, I always wonder how my kids will look at our meals/foods as adults. What foods are we eating now that that bring cringe to them down the road? Will their beloved kraft mac n cheese be disgusting? Will buttered noodles and parmesan seem weird? Will they be baffled at our charcuterie board/snacky dinners (which, I still argue, are some of the healthiest/well rounded meals we eat)?
@CrunchyCake, Maybe they'll be eating the potatoes they grow on Mars, like Matt Damon.
@CrunchyCake,
I wonder about this myself....my son is a super duper picky eater (no, he does not eat hamburgers, chicken nuggets/tenders, spaghetti, hummus/carrot sticks, carrot sticks/Ranch dressing, or mac and cheese. I would love it, after I recovered from fainting, if he insisted on a green salad). I wonder if, once he's an adult, he'll think "all I was ever offered for dinner was hot dogs, or grilled cheese sandwiches". He does drink milk, and I'm eternally grateful for that.
@Liz B.,
The salads! You guys...it's my one and only parenting win. I promise! Everything else...yowsers!
@Becca,
LOL! Take the win! All of us parents totally get it. I love love love salads, so I guess I make up for all of the salads my son doesn't eat. 🙂
Any meat cooked over a fire definitely tastes best. Yum.
Saturday: The rooster meat from the stock I had made a couple of days prior mixed with barbecue sauce and homemade buns for sandwiches. My family is very pleased that I've started making buns when I'm making bread anyway. Also a green salad, chocolate pudding made from some milk that was getting too close to not drinkable, and then fresh bread and the cream cheese I made. Just because if there's fresh bread and homemade cream cheese, is anyone going to be able to resist that? No.
Sunday: Brisket, mashed potatoes, green salad, rice pudding. And a couple of apples that were not good for eating but were perfect for baked apples. One of my kids doesn't like rice pudding--good thing, as he's typically my biggest dessert eater and we already finish off a triple recipe of rice pudding with five of us--so he had the apples with cream for dessert.
Monday: Leftover chicken patties from the school lunch, diced and re-heated in a skillet with butter, leftover mashed potatoes and cheese, raw cabbage. Just plain raw cabbage. It's how my kids like it. Well, they like coleslaw, too, but it's way easier to just cut off a chunk of cabbage and plunk it on their plates.
Tuesday: Grillades (pronounced gray-odds, much like Swiss steak), rice made with rooster stock, more raw cabbage.
Wednesday: A bunch of leftovers, and still-frozen peas.
Thursday: Meatloaf, roasted potatoes, pureed calabaza, sauerkraut (not a typical accompaniment to meatloaf, but I still have five pints of sauerkraut to use from last year), Mexican wedding cookies. I have a LOT of nuts on hand from excess commodities, and Mexican wedding cookies use almost as many nuts as flour.
Tonight: Not sure. I'm taking my younger two kids to a birthday party and probably won't be back until around 6 p.m. My husband is supposed to be at a bus drivers training an hour and a half away most of the day. The older two boys will be home. There's a possibility my husband's training will be canceled because of snow, so if he's home, he'll probably make omelets. I also have a bag of shrimp in the freezer that I can take out for the oldest boy to saute and the ones at home can eat that with the leftover rice. We'll see. Everyone will be fed somehow, anyway.
I need to reclaim my grill that is stored up on my property...for now I use a hibachi type thing. Burgers on the grill sound so good!! Groceries this week were $87. We ate:
Monday - Dr. Martin's Mix (made this with kale and carrots and it was fantastic), garlic toast. (had the leftovers topped with an egg the next morning - YUM)
Tuesday - Lemon Garlic Tilapia, mac and cheese, some broccoli I was afraid would go bad, steamed with lemon pepper and butter
Wednesday - Chicken thighs with the rest of some cabbage I found in the crisper, carrots, more garlic toast
Thursday - Pizza! With zero side dish. Taking leftovers for a lunch.
Friday - Crockpot Irish Stew {we had a cold front blow in so this is perfect!} Picking up groceries tonight.
Saturday - TBD {kitchen closed, going to visit my mother in Brenham so I will likely just pick up something on the way home}
Sunday - Glazed Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans {going to Burnet for the day}
Happy Weekend! https://cannaryfamily.blogspot.com/
What a lovely backyard you have for grilling! We don't really grill, not sure why. I have cooked outside on a hot plate, though.
We spent: $380 this week. Not too bad. All meals, including lunches, are eaten at home.
We do tend to eat the same meals every week, I'd like to change that, but my family is composed of creatures of habit.
Saturday and Sunday: homemade pizzas.
Monday: Grocery store fried/baked chicken, chips and raw veggies. This was the day after getting one of the kids to the airport for a 6 am Sunday flight (oof). So we hit the easy button.
Tuesday: lasagna. Only two pans this time, because we're down to five people. We still had leftovers!
Wednesday: burgers, tater tots, and we ate up the leftover lasagna for lunch and dinner.
Thursday: taco bar night.
Friday (tonight): Ham and bean soup, corn dog muffins.
@Karen A., I keep meaning to ask if you cook the hot dogs before they go in the muffin batter, or if they cook in the muffin batter? Inquiring minds want to know.
@JDinNM, I do not! Most hot dogs are pre-cooked, really, and just need heating up. I usually use Oscar Meyer or whatever my husband gets at the store. For 12 muffins, I cut two hot dogs into six pieces each. Stick them in vertically after putting about 1/4 cup of batter in each muffin tin (I put 1/2 a pat of butter in each cup, heat it in the oven until the butter melts and then carefully put the batter in). I personally have a little trouble with the hot dogs sinking, though, and so they poke through the bottoms...but nobody seems to mind that. I have read others chop the hot dogs into a dice, and mix it in the batter, which I suppose would be a better distribution!
*Chanting* "Gift card! Gift card!"
I love eating out and supporting restaurants, so I'm not a good influence in that way haha
Sunday: Oil poached fish for the fish people, leftover butter chicken for the not fish people. Apples on the side.
Monday: Beef stroganoff, my husband wanted to try a new recipe. It was fine, we probably won't make it again. Oranges on the side.
Tuesday: Leftovers
Wednesday: Preschooler's choice, which meant mac and cheese with apples again, for I don't know how many weeks in a row. Good thing mac and cheese is delicious.
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: For St Patrick's day we're having the super traditional lettuce wraps (lettuce is green!), and mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Saturday: Leftovers
@Natalie J, Ha. I like your traditional St. Patrick's Day lettuce wraps. We always have pasta with pesto--also green--but this year will probably have it for lunch since I'll be gone at dinnertime.
@kristin @ going country, ooh, also a good choice!
@Natalie J, "It was fine, we probably won't make it again." That is THE most polite culinary critique imaginable. Nicely done! You never want to discourage other family members from taking a turn in the kitchen.
DH’s week to cook
Sunday-baked chicken nachos
Monday-green chili chicken bowl, oranges
Tuesday-homemade ramen bowls
Wednesday-an Asian-flavored ground pork, black bean, and broccoli dish served over rice
Thursday-squash ravioli, sautéed zucchini, oranges
Friday-??
WIS: $5 at Wegmans. I'm working hard on eating down my perishables before my NYC trip, as well as the pantry and freezer contents. Boring but thrifty.
WIA: See WIS. For everyone's amusement, I should probably mention that the banana bread I made on Monday fell apart on me as I was getting it out of the loaf pan. I was experimenting with using some leftover mead for sweetening instead of sugar. (Won't do that again.) But the fragments tasted fine, so I just chucked them into a covered dish and ate them for the next three days anyway.
@A. Marie, Fragmented baked goods do not have calories. This is known. I tried my hand at some cassava flour Irish Soda bread, and it smelled absolutely wonderful, but was gummy inside. I cut off the crusty bits and ate them with butter, by myself, before anybody was out of bed, so they wouldn't know my shame. 😉
@A. Marie, Don't ask what I did wrong with the oatmeal cookies I baked Saturday morning. Not even edible fragments. Couldn't even pick out the raisins. Made them countless times and have absolutely no idea what happened this time.
@A. Marie,
Nothing wrong with that banana bread that a little chocolate sauce wouldn't fix!
@JD, good idea, but too late. The fragments are now history.
@A. Marie,
I think what you mean is that you made banana bread crumble...a dish you invented that will now take the world by storm. 😉
I had another expensive week $167. $120 at Trader Joe’s and $47 at the organic market. The Trader Joe’s stop did include flowers. This was because of a meeting of a club chapter at my house and guests for St Patrick’s Day dinner.
Saturday - hamburgers, baked potatoes roasted veggies
Sunday - Pork Roast, rice and salad
Monday - Leftover rice, roasted veggies and pork roast bowl.
Tuesday - Snack foods served at the meeting. Brie with toasted almonds and honey with fruit selection, a charcuterie board, desserts and wine
Wednesday - Bar-b-que pork sandwich to finish up the pork roast and leftover grapes.
Thursday - Trader Joe’s GF cheese ravioli. This is one of my favorite things. It is very good.
Friday - My husband’s back home and we will have guests for our traditional St Patrick’s Day Dinner. Corned Beef Brisket, steamed cabbage as well as roasted potato, carrots and onions. We will have vanilla ice cream with creme de menthe.
Wishing everyone a lovely weekend!
Saturday - we’d gone to a mid-afternoon birthday party that had served lunch so not too hungry at dinner. I think my kids ate a lot of cheese and apples, I had some toast.
Sunday - Yet another terrible cold started this day and would last the rest of the week. Was feeling bummed to be sick again (although with 2 young kids in daycare it’s not unexpected) so we got takeout sushi
Monday - penne alla vodka with pancetta (from cooks illustrated, a favorite recipe here)
Tuesday - waffles and turkey sausage
Wednesday - Parmesan chicken, pearl cous cous, steamed broccoli and carrots, corn muffins
Thursday - this cold seemed to get worse midweek rather than better so I was pretty run down at this point. Chicken Pattie’s from the freezer with marinara and cheese on top, microwaved leftover Mac n cheese, steamed baby corn and broccoli
Friday - despite still not feeling well, I am determined to make our usual St Patrick’s dinner of corned beef, potatoes and carrots (no one eats cabbage but me so didn’t get it) Irish soda bread
@LB, I love Cooks Illustrated.
Monday: I don't remember! I think Mr. B was working late, so toddler and I had scrambled eggs. I made a big barley and chickpea salad, which Mr. B ate later.
Tuesday: I was working overnight so used a gift-card for takeout. Toddler had chicken nuggets and frozen blueberries.
Wednesday: I made chickpea curry and rice, and because I was exhausted I scorched the curry and overcooked the rice. Broccoli on the side. Edible but not delicious! Oh well, everyone ate.
Thursday: Mr. B made salmon, with pasta and tomato sauce.
Friday: Mr. B is making chicken with unknown side dishes.
Mmmm, grilled burgers!
WIS was about $155 last week, for two weeks, so not too bad. I may spend some more this weekend on a farm order - I'm still trying to decide on whether to order this week or not.
WIA
I cooked a pack of pork chops for two dinners and two lunches, served with roasted honey beets, sautéed zucchini, green peas and carrots.
I slow-cooked a chicken, carrot, onion, prune and coconut milk recipe from A Squirrel in the Kitchen and had that for lunches and a dinner.
Cooked some of the boom-boom shrimp in the freezer and had it with a tossed salad.
I made the chickweed omelet I already mentioned, that included marjoram and chives from my herb bed, a carrot from my raised bed on the side and grapefruit for dessert.
I slow-cooked a local goat haunch with lots of garlic and had that with the honey beets and green peas.
I used to always cook corned beef and cabbage dinners for St. Patrick's day for the family, but it makes a LOT of corned beef for one person to eat. Even freezing some of it, I got tired of it, so tonight will be something else. I have plenty of leftovers. I'll toast my great-grandmother's Irish immigrant family when I eat whatever it is I have tonight.
@JD, some of that goat haunch would make an excellent St. Patrick's Day meal. (I've never had goat anywhere except in the Caribbean and at Indian restaurants, so I'm frankly envious.)
And I too had a great-grandmother who came over from Ireland with her family. But in her case, they were Ulster Presbyterians who had been doing modestly well in County Antrim but wanted to do better here. They went first to "County Michigan" (as they called it), and then to Florida--hence my Florida roots.
@A. Marie,
I have little information on my great-grandmother's family, except that her family sure had Irish accents, per my grandmother. At least some of them settled in the upper south, which is where my great-grandmother met and married my orphaned Native great-grandfather, an interesting combination that worked, since it produced my sweet grandmother.
One of these days, I'm going to delve more into the genealogy.
One of our local farmers raises cattle and goats for both milk and meat, so now and then he butchers some bucks and I get some nice goat meat from him. My husband would never touch goat, but I like it.
I have to wonder how anyone settled in Florida before air conditioning! I don't think I could have done it.
Hi Kristen, I've read your posts esp about creating this new life with such relish - thanks so much for sharing. My spouse is in FT graduate school + FT job and he comes home at 10p usually and it's been hard to motivate myself to cook but we do it!!
Monday - arugula salad w carrots, goat cheese, dates, walnuts, and chicken. seaweed snack on the side.
Tuesday - bibimbap at home - I live close to a H-mart and easy to pick up things I need
Wednesday - indomie ramen with bok choy - snacked on a lot of trader joes pate, brie, olives and crackers as I waited for spouse to come home from school
Wednesday - leftover chicken from MOnday salad went into a makeshift curry and rice. I also made crispy okra and potatoes. Enjoyed it indian pickle and papad (you can buy and microwave and not have to deep fry).
Thursday - went to a Greek restaurant with colleagues and shared a grilled branzino, squid, lemony potatoes and a massive feta-y salad.
Friday - unsure! maybe pork bulgogi and rice and sauteed taiwanese spinach.
We had:
Chicken fajitas x2
Meatloaf & mashed potatoes x2
The adults had a date night one night, and I made the kids mac & cheese
We had a leftover smorgasbord one night
And, tonight we're doing takeout pizza, for my baby's 16th birthday. And, ice cream cake.
We had a soup heavy week but winter is still holding on strong. Comfort meals are still very much needed while the snow is still on the ground.
Friday – Clean out the fridge chili. I usually follow tried and true recipes but I had enough odds and ends that happened to be chili ingredients.
Saturday – Chicken Cordon Bleu Meatballs, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus
Sunday – Chicken Pot Pie
Monday – Cheeseburger Soup
Tuesday – Ramen Stir Fry (new family favorite AND it uses so many veggies!)
Wednesday – Tilapia, brown rice, Greek salad
Thursday – Chicken Noodle Soup (my son came home from school with an upset tummy so this was a last minute change from our planned enchilada dinner)
@Geneva, those meatballs sound really good!
WIS: $265 @ Publix and $87 @ Trader Joes
WWA:
Saturday: It was a lovely clear warm day here so I splurged on some skirt steak and meat for kabobs, lit up the firepit and we grilled it up over an open flame. I also grilled some kielbasa and some chicken so we had lots of leftovers on purpose. We ate this with grilled zucchini and had a small charcuterie board as an appetizer while the prep was underway.
Sunday: Leftovers for all.
Monday: Leftovers again 🙂
Tuesday: Turkey Chili
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: I made some ranch chicken in the crockpot added broccoli, orecchiette, & a bit of cheese for a simple one pot dinner.
Friday: I admit that I have not a single plan in mind but I am bound to make some type of warm, comforting meal since it is rainy outside today.
Happy weekend everyone!
I'm glad you are getting your daily dose of sunshine. Eating with the sun up is always going to be so foreign to me (years of getting home at 8pm and eating at 9....or as I say, European style).
Sunday- Ground transport to Reno (still no flying until the investigation is cleared), we got Chipotle before turning around to go home
Monday- I made lasagna for all the crews and EMT's that have come up to help us. And of course after spending all day cooking, the last thing I wanted to eat was lasagna so I heated up some leftover Italian wedding soup
Tuesday- An angel of an EMT at my crew house made shrimp scamp with linguine and salad for us
Wednesday- totally dead from my drive home so frozen mac with broccoli and cheese added for "health"
Thursday- my body was displeased after eating like a trash monster for a few days so I tried a reset with kimchi rice bowls with eggs and avocado
Friday- I am going to a friends birthday party/St Paddy's day party and I am bringing the cheese platter. So much for health
Saturday- Belated bday dinner for my dad. He wants to go to a fondue place. RIP my coronary arteries
@Heather,
this is hilarious! If it makes you feel any better, I just ate some brownie bites while reading this. 🙂
We've been having unexpectedly DELICIOUS strawberries the last few weeks. Hope yours were good too!
Does anyone have opinions on grill pans? I have an allclad grill pan that is big and heavy and hard anodized (supposedly non-stick). Every time I use it, I'm left with a wreck to clean up. This happened last night with grilled salmon. Even though I greased the whole thing with avocado oil, the fish fell apart and left a mess in the pan. It's still soaking now after a bunch of scrubbing last night. Is it just a lost cause? I've gotten the hang of using cast iron but this one has just been a pain.
@CrunchyCake,
You could try boiling some water in the dirty pan and then scraping while still hot.
@Becca, You know, I did put in hot water from the tap but you're right - boiling water would loosen everything up even further. Thanks for the tip!
WIS: $10.41 for a box of linguini, some parmesan cheese and 8 ounces of creme fraiche that accounted for 60% of the total. WIA: Salmon, salmon, and more salmon. I had at least a pound of a salmon roast left over from the week before, and I knew if I just reheated it I would have ... extremely dry salmon. Yuck. So I removed the remains of the goat cheese and spinach stuffing and saved that for future use (omelets, probably) and flaked the salmon into 2 roughly 8 ounce portions. I made shrimp scampi with that lovely garlic/butter/lemon/olive oil sauce and folded in half of the leftover salmon. And I found a pasta recipe by googling "what to do with leftover salmon" that had a sauce of creme fraiche/garlic/olive oil/lemon and fresh dill to which I added the rest of the leftover salmon, and stirred in the cooked linguini. WIHTETW (what I hope to eat this week): Not salmon.
@JDinNM, leftover salmon?? This sounds like my dream problem.
@A. Marie, But every day? Day after day? After day? I'm probably growing gills.
@JDinNM, Salmon chowder is my go-to for leftover salmon. That and tuna sandwiches but made with salmon instead. And salmon fettuccini alfredo.
@Lindsey, I have so much tuna salad I've had to eat that for lunch before eating the salmon for dinner. But I'm pretty sure you know your way around leftover salmon and, I have to say, salmon fettuccine alfredo? That got my attention!
@JDinNM, I forgot salmon schmear for bagels!
@Lindsey, And deep fried salmon sticks (like fish sticks...)
This week we ate burgers with spicy sauce and pork vindaloo.
The pork vindaloo recipe was from the foodess blog and it was amazing. The onions melt into the sauce and the coconut milk adds a hint of sweetness. My husband always says he doesn't like curry, but he loved this. https://foodess.com/pork-vinaloo-curry/
(Side note, I think there was once a curry he didn't like and now I have to sneak things in or describe the ingredients and hope it sounds tasty.)
WIS: $88 and some change at Food Lion. $1.25 at Dollar Tree on a big box of baking soda. So approximately $90.
WWA: Sunday was pancakes, bacon and eggs. The bacon was ridiculously salty and DS complained that the pancakes were too rich. We did not realize this complaint was the precusor to a minor stomach bug that he was coming down with and we all got.
Monday: Saltines and gingerale, peanut butter on toast. We did not feel well.
Tuesday: Everybody recovered and was hungry. I made spaghetti with sweet Italian sausage, marinara sauce, mushrooms and some sweet peppers from the freezer. Yum!
Wednesday: Leftovers from Tuesday. I also made a loaf of Italian herb bread in the bread machine and whipped up a batch of pumpkin bran muffins.
Thursday: The leftovers abide. I ate some chicken-black bean stew from the freezer with a slice of homemade bread and a tangerine.
Friday (today): The last day for the leftovers. I will probaby eat more stew from the freezer: it needs to be used up.
The weekend: Plans are to make a new recipe for pineapple chicken.
Ugh. I know this might be something ridiculous... but I was never taught how to grill. I'm terrified of sticking the propane tank on and...I dunno, having it leak? What if it blows up? How hot do I make the burners? Do I preheat the grills? Is there a trick to figuring out how long something cooks? Making it not stick? What tools can go on the grill? Any tips and tricks for success each time? Or stories for things I should avoid because you've made the mistake before?
Any chance for a "how to grill, and how I learned to grill, and the best features you love on a grill" post? 😉
@reese, This is how George Forman made an absolute fortune with his electric grills, indoor AND outdoor! Propane phobia. It's a real thing. Posting for a friend.
@JDinNM, And there are always charcoal grills.
If the propane leaks, it leaks into the open air, so relax.
Treat yourself! So glad you got a grill- almost everything tastes better when it’s grilled. My birthday was last week and I’m signed up for lots of freebies so I haven’t cooked as much as usual. Things we ate:
Homemade ham and bean soup
Takeout pizza
Dinner out
Leftover takeout pizza with salad
Pasta with meatballs, salad, garlic bread
Costco chicken, salad. French bread
Tonight will be takeout pizza and this weekend I plan to cook some beans and probably make pozole. I also signed up for a volunteer organization called “Community Cakes” that makes birthday cakes for elderly people in care facilities so my daughter and I will make a couple of “practice cakes”. I attend the online orientation next month and then we can sign up to make cakes- we are looking forward to working with this organization. We found out about them through another organization called “Allona’s Angels” that makes cards for people in care facilities. They mainly do activities for Valentine’s Day and Christmas and we found out about them just before Valentine’s Day so we only made a few cards. We are planning to start soon for Christmas and next Valentine’s Day so we can contribute more items. The organization sent thousands of cards to local seniors this past Valentine’s Day. We got together with a couple of my best friends and make cards and ate snacks and had such fun!
I am crazy wondering what is going on with your son?
Marinell, this is at least the third time you've asked this, and I know another reader linked you to this post when you previously asked.
But perhaps you have not seen it so I'm going to link it again. The end of the post has as much information as I can share, and I have no more current update than what I shared there: https://www.thefrugalgirl.com/qa-kids-marriage-and-money/
@Marinell Crippen, you seem to comment here lately only to bug Kristen with this question. Frankly, Kristen has been much more gracious and shared more than I would have. Why are you doing this??
Kristen, just block her. Who needs this?
@Rose, …..agree. Block her. Life is too short to deal with this kind of stuff.
SO excited for you to have a grill once again! I just absolutely love grilled food most any time of year. Really happy to see some grilling recipes turn up on your page again. Anyway, enjoy it! Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
We have also been enjoying sourdough from Aldi in a pinch!
52 spent this week. Aldi
Monday: chicken sandwhiches. Air fryer potatoes. Cottage cheese.
Tuesday: bean and cheese quesadillas and Spanish rice
Wed: grilled smoked sausage and Mac n cheese with peas
Thurs: Ham n cheese sandwiches with spicy mustard hot peppers and tomato! Fresh pineapple and pretzels.
Fri: LENT tuna salad on wasa crisp bread sliced apples air fryer sweet potatoes
I plan to make hamburger veggie soup with cabbage tomorrow!
WIS: $115 (Imperfect box)
PandaPanda ($7 free shrimp): $40 (but we got four meals out of it, and free sizzling shrimp)
Thursday: Chinese food (delivered)
Wed: vegetable curry with brown rice
Tuesday: Pork with carrots and roasted potatoes
Monday: roasted chicken with potatoes
Sunday: garlic eggplant over brown rice
Saturday: homemade veggie pizza
Friday: chicken tortilla soup
WWS: My hubby spent $30 for the repair of a towel rack that was coming lose from the wall. He patched, retextured, and painted. It looks fabulous and has enough leftover material to tackle another lose rack!
WWA: Homemade split pea soup and corn bread.
Making corned venison roast with roasted potatoes, carrots, and cabbage. We will use leftovers for breakfast tomorrow!
WIS: $33 at the farm stand, $174 at Stop & Shop, and $389 at BJs makes $596. Because I had a birthday request that was best purchased at BJs and a two day Nor'Easter blow through, I did my biggest shop of the week there. And, I picked up a few things they were out of stock on two weeks ago when I did my regular, monthly trip.
WWE: Tacos; steaks, braised potatoes, and broccoli for the birthday dinner; squid ink pasta with shrimp; all over the place, including some free dinners out; & pork roast, biscuits, and carrots.
needed new sheets so we went to Sams club where I rarely shop, in fact gonna let our membership lapse next month.BUT while there I always pick up the 5 dollar chicken. We had chicken pieces and asparagus and homemade tabooli and roasted red potatoes for supper and I have enough left over to make a pot of chicken and noodles for two more meals , all out of one chicken!
Picked up a large bag of organic brussels sprouts while there, for just $4.00.
But over all Sams does not save me any money, so.. out it goes.
We also ate from the freezer all week.. it is soo full I need to make some space, so an easy week of meals and low grocery bill.
Monday-Chicken Patty Parm (had to use up a bag of chicken patties), fettucine noodles, garlic bread and green salad
Tuesday- Beef roast in the crock pot, peas, corn, mashed potato's and sesame rusted Italian bread
Wednesday-Grabbed a chicken taco kit in the premade foods at Sam's club and a rotisserie chicken -$20 for food for 2 nights! Help yourselves people!
Thursday-FFYS Leftover night for the house while Mama helped serve the staff at the high school during conference night! I ate a burger, coleslaw and dessert!
Friday-Husband and I delivered pizzas, strawberries and green salads to a friend dealing with a lot medical wise. We stopped at chipotle and used all the apology rewards from his last messed up order! only paid for my bowl and drink!
Saturday-used the leftover tomato sauce from Monday and 2 dough balls from Aldi. Used a baggie of sausage crumbles from the freezer, the last of a baggie of pepperoni, last of the provolone and a huge handful of mozz. Made 1 thin crust pizza and 1 braid for supper. Was enough for the 3 at home and leftovers were demolished when the 2 returned from work later!