WIS, WWA | back to school week
What I Spent
As you know, nursing school started up again this week. And my goodness, what a week it has been. I will not bore you with a rundown of how many assignments, quizzes, and tests we've had this week, but GEEZ it was a lot.
Third semester comes at you hard.
I have a long weekend, though (thanks, Labor Day!), so even though I work all day at the hospital tomorrow, I should have some time to get a bunch of schoolwork and studying done before classes start again on Tuesday.
I spent:
- $27 at Trader Joe's
- $10 at Safeway
- $30 on a Hungry Harvest box
And that's it...$67!
What We Ate
Saturday
I worked at the hospital, and I ate a peanut butter sandwich when I got home. Zoe had some frozen pizza when she got home from work (long after I'd gone to bed!)
Sunday
Zoe was at work, and I had been spending my whole day doing school prep. So, I just made a smoothie for dinner for myself.
Monday
A random chicken and veggie skillet; I browned peppers, sliced grape tomatoes, and chopped jalapeños, added the last of a rotisserie chicken, deglazed the pan with some chicken broth and a splash of half and half, and sprinkled some Parmesan on top.
Tuesday
This was my math testing day (followed by a two-hour lecture and a three-hour lecture), and I had assignments due, plus I needed to practice for competency the next day.
Sooo, Zoe picked up some Panera for us after she got done with college classes at 5:30, and I paid using a gift card that I'd gotten from my credit card reward points.
Wednesday
This was my competency testing day so by the time I got home, I pressed the easy button and just made some Trader Joe's orange chicken and rice, with some sliced cucumbers on the side.
Thursday
I made a little pan of something resembling baked ziti, which used up a few links of sausage, the last of a box of penne, and some mozzarella from my freezer.
Salad and cantaloupe on the side.
Friday
Zoe and I are actually both off at the same time! So, I think we might have a takeout + movie night because my mental health textbook suggested a list of movies about schizophrenia (psychotic disorders were a topic in lecture this week).
Maybe we'll do A Beautiful Mind, since neither Zoe nor I have seen that one.
Good for you doing all that cooking this week! It's so hard to do anything besides ear a bowl of cereal when you get home from such a long day!
WIS: like 165 @Aldi and then about 40 bucks on wine.
WWA:
Fri: watermelon, mixed greens with tomatoes and feta and homemade dressing, bacon and Parmesan focaccia.
Sat: my youngest turned ten, so we packed a bunch of snacky foods and went to the Renaissance festival. We ate leftover focaccia when we got home and had really delicious (and not even messy! I'm on a roll with my never repeated cakes lately!) brownie chocolate cheesecake for breakfast.
Sun: layered salad (romaine lettuce, thinly sliced carrot rounds, diced poblano pepper, peanuts, raisins and dressing), pasta carbonara with peas.
Mon: leftover salad, rice and beans in tortillas with shredded Mexican cheese and chipotle Cholula sauce. You might think that original Cholula sauce is better, but you would be wrong. 😉 We also had ice cream shop flavored chocolates from Aldi for a first day of school treat.
Tue: mixed greens with peach vinaigrette dressing, garden pizza bagels on homemade bagels.
Wed: mixed greens with peach vinaigrette dressing, "Jersey" hotdogs, which in our case just meant that my husband sauteed some onions and peppers to put on top of grilled hotdogs in brioche buns. The recipe also suggested deep frying the hotdogs, but my husband mercifully decided we did not need to be that authentically Jersey about it. The onions and peppers were really good as toppings-no other condiments needed.
Thu: chicken salad sandwiches on homemade sourdough rolls. The chicken salad used canned chicken and had black beans and chopped pickles mixed in with the standard mayo. We also put some mixed greens and some avocado on our sandwiches and called that our salad.
Tonight: focaccia and maybe a salad if I'm not too tired when I get home.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Deep frying hot dogs sounds like unnecessary headache to me!
@Becca,
Congrats! Was there any bow and arrow shooting for the birthday boy? Our kids would always love an opportunity to try this-
@Becca, What? No deep fried Jersey hot dogs? I'm in Jersey born and bred. My mom worked at Stewart's Hot Dog stand while pregnant with me making french fries in the oil. I've got oil in my blood! Which Kristen will say is a bad thing.
@auntiali,
Maybe you should change your name to auntioily? 😉
@JNL,
No, but he did climb the castle wall and he went down a giant slide.
Your week sounds exciting and very full! Kudos on that $67 grocery bill, which is impressive considering the meals both look and sound great! This week I ate:
Monday - I had a PB no J at work, with fruit and cottage cheese
Tuesday - Taco Salad (romaine, taco meat, avocado, cheese, orange bell pepper)
Wednesday - Butternut Ravioli, a bit of link sausage, zucchini
Thursday - Burger Parry with O&P, BBQ beans
Tonight - Chicken Tacos (chicken breast strips, cheese, lettuce, tomato)
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed, but I am packing food as per usual!
My grocery bills haven't seen a drastic drop from just me feeding myself, but the quality of the foods I'm buying has improved!
Saturday - Domino's for the oldest's Birthday
Sunday - cheesy chicken tortilla soup
Monday - tacos
Tuesday - pinto beans and cornbread
Wednesday - French bread pizza
Thursday - leftover French bread pizza, fried potatoes and peppers, blueberries
Friday - probably let everyone make sandwiches or cereal
You should absolutely watch a Beautiful Mind for school! I did too away back in the day. Disturbing but also enlightening, overdramatized of course but still - I actually saw some patients in ER that reminded me of the movie.
Kudos for cooking the first week of third year, strong work!!
We are ham steak, frozen grilled chicken & frozen meatloaf with whatever garden veggies were available
@Jennifer, I second your recommendation for A Beautiful Mind. 8 Oscar nominations, 4 wins.
@JDinNM, Yes, A Beautiful Mind is a fantastic movie! Highly recommend.
WIS: $20 at the Regional Market, $10 at the grocery outlet, $2 at Tops, $26.50 at Wegmans, and $22.50 at Trader Joe's. (So I spent more for myself than Kristen did for herself and Zoe this week!)
WIA: Blueberry pancakes twice, since local blueberry season will be over all too soon. Linguine topped with cherry tomatoes, olive oil, and my own basil one night. And the Bestest Neighbors took me to the newest local Indian restaurant for my birthday last night. (Leftover tandoori chicken for supper tonight!)
WIS:
Aldi- $199.95
Trader Joe’s- $9.95 (all on plants- basil, rosemary, and thyme) I figure if I can keep these alive for even a few weeks, it’s cheaper than buying those stupid little packets of herbs.
WWA:
Italian chopped sandwiches
Greek chicken meatballs, hummus, flatbread with cucumber and bell peppers. Aldi had ground chicken for $4/lb, boneless skinless thighs for $3/lb and none in skin on thighs for $1.89/lb. So I bought the bone in skin on, dismantled them, ground them in the food processor, and used the bones for stock. I also added some leftover grilled zucchini to the meatballs and they were delicious
Braised chicken with puréed cauliflower and green beans
Hamburgers with asparagus and potatoes
Tonight will probably be pasta and cauliflower, idk for the weekend. I’m reminded of John Leguizamo’s father: “I’m not gonna keep buying food if you kids keep eating it!”
@Tarynkay, I think we are also having pasta and cauliflower tonight! It's the veggie that lasts the longest from the ones we buy the previous weekend ;D
I'm going to start with last Friday this time, because . . .
Friday: I made the Chiles Rellenos! And they were good! I've never actually even eaten them before, but my husband and son, who have, gave them a thumbs up. Chiles Rellenos involve stuffing whole roasted green chiles with cheese, then battering and deep-far frying them. They are not something I will be making frequently, but it was a fun experiment, and successful. I also served pinto beans, because I was pretty sure the Chiles, while not the hottest I could have gotten, would be too spicy for me and my daughter. They were. I haven't yet encountered a New Mexico chile that isn't.
Saturday: Chunks of sauteed pork loin, leftover rice, sauerkraut, popsicles made with the leftovers from lunch smoothies with the addition of more apricot jam and some heavy cream
Sunday: Meatballs, homemade pasta, fried garlic bread, frozen peas, calabacitas (just the zucchinni-like vegetable sauteed with garlic, not the New Mexican dish made with the vegetable and chiles and corn), strawberry/rhubarb cobbler with whipped cream or ice cream. We had a guest with us for dinner, which is why this ended up being such a large meal. I wanted to be sure we had enough food. We did. 🙂
Monday: So many leftovers from all the three previous meals. That worked out, since I was sick with the family cold this day and did not want to cook.
Tuesday: Pork loin steaks with milk gravy, rice, cucumbers with ranch, ice cream
Wednesday: Chicken soup I had made the day before, bean and cheese quesadillas, more ice cream
Thursday: The last few pork steaks made into fried rice with the leftover rice. And yes, everyone ate more ice cream. Everyone's been taking it in turns having the sore throat that goes along with this cold. The ice cream is good for sore throats and also for morale now that we're well into school.
Tonight: My husband is taking all four kids to Tucson this weekend to celebrate his dad's 95th birthday. They're leaving in a couple of hours. I'm staying here to take care of animals. I have no idea what I will eat for dinner. At the moment, I'm focused on feeding all of them breakfast and making sure they have all the food they'll need for today in the car and tonight at the motel. I know they're having barbecue meatballs and boiled potatoes for dinner. I'll see what I come up with for me.
@kristin@going country,
I watched A Beautiful Mind in a psych class, definitely recommend!
Lol I'm in word mode already, I almost signed this comment "All my best, Andrea"
Woohoo, first week done! We're just finishing week 3 here, but this week was a little rough. Don't know why, but the sentiment was shared by other teachers yesterday haha
Sunday: Family potluck, we brought "fancy" baked beans and Brazilian cheese bread.
Monday: Butter chicken, peaches and peppers on the side.
Tuesday: Kindergartner's choice, she went with spaghetti and meatballs. More peaches and peppers on the side.
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Was supposed to be chicken salad, but we made the call for another night of leftovers.
Friday: I'm going to a friend's, husband and daughter will figure something out. Probably more leftovers haha
Saturday: Salmon with honey chili crunch and a smashed cucumber salad. My husband doesn't love seafood, but I do so sometimes we make it anyways and he eats leftovers or fills up on a side dish.
Have a great weekend everyone!
@Natalie J,
I'm curious about the smashed cucumber salad. Do you beat the cuke with a mallet before mixing with other ingredients? 🙂
@Liz B., we use a frying pan! Cut off each end first. It breaks it into quarters-ish, and then you cut it into about inch long pieces. You sprinkle salt and sugar on it, and let it sit at least ten minutes. Drain, and then mix with the sauce and serve with crushed cashews. If you'd like, I can post the sauce ingredients too.
I love "Bennie and Joon" for Aidan Quinn's performance as the older brother caring for his mentally ill sister. It's done absolutely right.
We ate a lot of salads this week, along with a kind of plate-by-plate charcuterie of Italian salami, cheese, grapes, plums, nuts, and various rice crackers. Also had some protein shakes and fresh fruit. Ice cream for desserts. The temperature has been just under 100 degrees with zero rain for days on end, so it is too hot to cook.
Check out the documentary Six schizophrenic Brothers. Half the boys in this family were affected.
@Lisa, The book is even better.
@Rose, I will have to check it out. Thanks
@Lisa, Hidden Valley Road, it's called.
@Rose, Thank you!
A Beautiful Mind in such a great movie, I hope you will both enjoy it!
I can heartily recommended A Beautiful Mind. Schizophrenia is now also called distorted perception syndrom, because one of its main symptoms is that the mind cannot process what it sees/hears/feels. For one thing, facial expressions cannot be interpreted well, which is one of the causes of paranoia.
Our meals in reverse order, in a warm week:
Today still to be decided, it is just husband and I for dinner
Tortellini with mascarpone sauce, wild spinach and salad
Loaded nachos's with guacamole and tomato salsa
Chicken shoarma (made with thinly cut leftover brineraded chicken) with homemade garlic sauce and relish, and salad
Trout and vegetables oven dish
Beans, bacon and apple sauce - husband's choice 😉
Brineraded chicken with potatoes and spinach
@JNL, my goodness this sounds like a delish week at your house!
@Gina from The Cannary Family,
Thanks Gina! We have uninspired dinner weeks, but this one turned out well.
Back to school is such a hectic time! I was home sick this week and I am glad that the week is over.
Sunday: We were at my parents' house and had chicken/vermicelli salad and meatballs.
Monday: We had leftovers from Sunday dinner.
Tuesday: My mom was over to help, so I made roasted chicken breasts, freezer-section French fries, and my toddler helped me sprinkle some salt on sliced cucumbers (for her specialty, "salty cucumbers")
Wednesday: Freezer-section pizza, peas, and some soup.
Thursday: I made very simple roasted chicken breasts and plain broccoli.
Friday: Mr. B will prepare salmon, vegetables, and challah.
I consider it a triumph that I cooked real food despite feeling like utter garbage. In the future, I intend to stock our freezer with more easy options for when I'm sick, because all I wanted to do was make tortellini with jarred sauce, but we didn't have any.
@Meira @meirathebear, I smiled at your daughter's special cucumbers. Toddlers are so fun sometimes.
WIS: $13.89 on groceries at Walmart, $25.17 on 3 large bags of Nature’s Path granola at Target, and $0 on dinner out with friends because I paid for someone’s lunch last week and she returned the favor. That’s what friends are for! So … $39.06.
WIA: Greek yogurt with wild blueberries and granola; Japanese stir fried ZUCCHINI! on ramen noodles; beef tacos with cherry tomatoes, refried beans and Spanish rice; spinach omelet with feta cheese and mushrooms; and “Southwest Salad” with romaine lettuce, roasted tomatoes, corn, cotija cheese, crispy tortilla strips and chicken with an avocado vinaigrette at dinner out. And a lot of organic strawberries for desserts – it’s been a good year for strawberries.
WWS-
We spent approximately $30 at Publix this week and $100 eating out. It was a crazy week. We attended an out-of-town wedding last weekend. Most of the main meals were provided.
Friday & Saturday - Wedding Food
Sunday - stopped for breakfast on the road.
Made chicken, rice and broccoli for dinner when we returned home.
Monday &Tuesday - DH had to commute out of state, so just me. I ate leftovers and raw veggies.
Wednesday - I took my SIL to lunch for her birthday. We ate late and I was still full at dinner. I think I ate some cottage cheese.
Thursday - DH returned home. We had hamburgers, baked potatoes and cucumber salad. My burger was without the bun.
Tonight - I have no idea. We have to leave again tomorrow morning and will be gone again until Monday. So something simple.
The Fisher King is one of my favorite movies!
WWS: $518.84 at Kroger, plus maybe 20 at CVS on a bike ride stop to get chips for the guys at home. (Of course I ate some of the chips. I'd just biked over 12 miles that Sunday!)
Saturday/Sunday: homemade pizzas. This week I tried making my own no-salt pizza sauce (we generally use low sodium pasta sauce, Silver Palate brand, but it's SO expensive). I used a can of no-salt added crushed tomatoes, added sauteed onion, some garlic, lots of seasonings, and it got a thumbs up and made a big jar. The Silver Palate sauce, which is delicious, I'll admit, costs anywhere from $6.29 to 2.99 a jar (sometimes it's super on sale, but you never know). The can of crushed tomatoes costs 2.29.
Monday: DH cooked burgers outside, and made enough for hamburger stew the next day. It was a brutally hot day, so he gets all the points for doing that!
Tuesday: hamburger stew. DS#2 put it together while I did a long bike ride to the library and back.
Wednesday: Chicken shawarma, salad, rice and canteloupe. I thought I'd forgotten to get pita bread, and had no intention of going back to the store and was going to tell everyone to just use some of the many tortillas we have on hand. Then I found a bag of pita they'd forgotten about. I was so happy.
Thursday: taco night, or rather Mexican night, since i opted for nachos!
Tonight: salmon filets, which I baked this morning rather than have the oven on in the heat of the afternoon, crockpot garlic potatoes, watermelon/canteloupe.
Thursday:
A Beautiful Mind is one of my most favorite movies. So well done.
I spent $155. $85 of that was on 2 briskets and we ate so much brisket this week (brisket/brisket hoagies/brisket quesadillas) that my body is screaming for chicken and a veggie haha. So, I froze the rest of the brisket and will lay off the red meat this coming week.
@Marlena, The good news is that you probably met your protein requirement!
Saturday - I went out to dinner at an Indian restaurant with friends as a belated birthday celebration. Husband and kids went out to Taco Bell
Sunday - summer sweet corn salad (this salad used uncooked corn off the cob, my son in particular loved how sweet the uncooked corn was), bbq chicken for husband and kids, baked sweet potato with hummus on top for me
Monday - salad with chicken for husband and with black bean burger for me, chicken nuggets and cut up veggies for the kids, corn muffins and biscuits from the freezer
Tuesday - finally got a chance to have another beach picnic, have to fit these on while there is still daylight after work. I had a nut butter sandwich, kids had turkey or pb&j sandwiches, and cut up fruits and veggies
Wednesday - broccolini, chicken sausage and orzo skillet (used a sliced veggie dog in mine)
Thursday - easy oven fajitas, chicken, bell peppers and onion for the family, and tempeh, bell pepper and onion for me. Served with corn and Spanish rice I had frozen previously.
Friday - husband and I are going out to a Peruvian restaurant for our anniversary!
@LB, Happy Anniversary!
@LB,
Happy anniversary! I've never had Peruvian food - how fun!
Friday: Creamy Pastina Soup, grilled cheese. This recipe has riced cauliflower mixed in with the pasta for a little extra goodness
Saturday: Spinach Falafel – my home-alone meal of choice
Sunday: Hot dogs, sweet corn, roasted potatoes, mac and cheese
Monday: Turkey Unstuffed Pepper Bowls
Tuesday: Pot Roast, veggies, sweet corn
Wednesday: Husband and I met friends for dinner, my son had leftovers once he got home from practice
Thursday: Calzone-y thing. I chopped up and mixed the tail end of lunch meats and cheese slices, half a bag of spinach, the end of some blue cheese dressing, and a few limp green onions. I wrapped everything in a pizza crust and baked. My son asked if I could make this again!
A Beautiful Mind was really good. The book is good as well.
The movie “A Beautiful Mind” was an excellent! Moving and human, and factual and very eye opening. Hope you enjoy it!!
"I don't much like people and they don't much like me." I feel ya, John Nash. And thanks for game theory.
Donnie Darko is a more fun movie though.
No chiles rellenos since Intascart brought me jalapenos instead of poblanos. Great except I have several plants providing me with a ton of jalapenos as well. Tomorrow I'll make and can raspberry jalapeno jelly and freeze the rest. Or pickle them.
Last night we had the KFC bowls. I made a double batch of chicken nuggets so we could eat the remainder for kung pao tonight. I added baking soda to the batter to make them extra crispy.
Wednesday, Swedish meatballs, gravy and noodles and cranberry sauce.
Tuesday: stuffed pepper soup with cheese.
Monday: BBQ takeout as a reward for various chores. I had the south of the border salad which i just adore. The kids think I'm crazy for liking salad that much.
Re people not liking me and the feeling's mutual, Kristen and I are arguing in the comments of yesterday's post.
@Rose,
I really did not like Donnie Darko. I thought the ending was extremely sad and left me without hope. When Darko made a choice to end his young life before it even started, I was gutted.
I have known someone with Schizophrenia who struggled, but found meaning in her life in the face of this debilitating mental illness. I know that her life was sometimes painful, but it was also joyful. She was a gifted artist and brought joy to others too.
@Rose,
I missed that in yesterday's comments!
And I love salads beyond reason. Can eat a very large bowl of salad with all kinds of mix ins and oil/white balsamic vinegar or vinaigrette dressing. I had a scrumptious salad with a lemon vinaigrette dressing for dinner one night when we were in Boston in June. Yummmm.
I normally meal prep on weekends, but was out of town this weekend, so it was a much more "grab bag" sort of week than usual.
Sunday - got back from the airport & DH made burgers. DS17 called to say he was bringing over friends, so luckily, DH had planned to make a dozen burgers. We went through them all! I had a Costco watermelon & cut up 1/2 of that, which we also ran out of. 😉
Monday - defrosted some chicken marsala
Tuesday - tacos (freezer)
Wednesday - chicken patty sandwiches, because DS18 forgot to pick something up from the store that we needed for dinner
Thursday - I made "zucchini fries" out of a huge garden zucchini, and served that with grilled chicken (from the freezer)
As for tonight, we're going camping. Unbelievably, we've never taken our teens camping, and DS18 leaves for college in a couple of weeks. This is actually just a one nighter, so DS17 can try out his camping gear. We will likely eat out, because hauling all of the stuff needed to make a meal for one night seems unappealing.
WIS: $0
Sun - Chicken and Waffle Bar, Fruit salad, coleslaw
M - Leftover Chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans
T - Asian Cabbage Salad
W - Pork cutlets, ranch potatoes, stir fry veg
T - Pork soba noodle bowls, watermelon
F - Hot, hot, hot - Dinner salads - sour dough bread baked in solar oven, watermelon
S - Another hottie - bbq ribs & fixins, family dinner - work Sun/Monday
I started up a co-op between family and friends who are Celiac. This week I purchased 50 lb Tapioca flour/starch, 100 lbs cup for cup flour blend, 25 lbs quinoa/rice/sorghum penne pasta, 25 lbs quinoa/rice/sorghum rotini, 50 lbs quick oats, 50 lbs rolled oats.
The members provide storage containers, I provide labels and weigh out and distribute. This is saving us hundreds of $$ collectively. I get my supplies thru a friend who owns 3 restaurants.
Food this last week has been all over the place and since my mom and I don’t eat the same stuff anymore, I failed to keep tract. Though I did eat more salad this week( been trying to do this).
Out of that list of movies my favorite is Benny and Joon. I would strongly recommend it, if neither of you have seen it. Two other movies I would recommend would be One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Girl, Interrupted.
Oooh A Beautiful Mind is an amazing film!
We liked A Beautiful Mind.
The picture of your smoothie looked, at first, like something bloody so I had a hard time making myself look at it. I would NOT make a good nurse.
Oh, I promise you that I will never post a picture of blood! I know that there are lots of people who are not ok with that. 🙂
I always try to only share what the most squeamish among us can tolerate!
A Beautiful Mind … good choice!
I recommend A Beautiful Mind. Very well done movie and Russel Crowe is fabulous in it. One of his best roles IMHO. I also recommend popcorn for dinner. 😉 You definitely deserve to chill for an evening!
My vote would be for A Beautiful Mind as well.
I cried often during my psych rotation. Schizophrenia and acute breaks are really hard to see.
That smoothie looks sooooo good and refreshing! (All the more so since it is a pretty hot day here in Denver that I'm reading your blog)
I think you will like "A Beautiful Mind". It treats the subject of schizophrenia with respect.
I did an internship in a very unique state hospital unit for persons with mental illness who were deaf, and even observed one man speaking to his voices in sign language. People who communicate in sign language direct their signs to the listener, and his signing was up toward his right shoulder, as if a person was walking beside him. In the film, John Nash is depicted as seeing the people whose voices he hears, too--visual hallucination is not as well-recognized as hearing voices in the diagnosis.
Very few people who are schizophrenic are able to have enough insight to recognize that the voices may not be real, and even when they are willing to consider that they may not be perceiving correctly, my observations is that they rarely believe that what they are hearing is not real. It's a challenging situation.
I'm curious what the nursing goals are, other than to observe for safety and also adverse effects of medications?
For sure the safety and the med effects are biggies with these patients. Also, we are learning therapeutic communication techniques. And they told us when we talk to patients like this, we can say things like, "I understand the voices are real to you, but I do not hear them." as a way of trying to ground patients in reality. Obviously, getting competent at taking care of schizophrenic patients is something that takes a lot of study and practice, though. We are barely scratching the surface.
That is so interesting about the sign language! I will tell Zoe because she is very into ASL.
I never realized there were so many movies about schizophrenia - and I've actually seen several on that list. I love Benny and Joon.
What I spent: just $6.50 for food at Walmart (I bought mostly non-food items this time.)
What I ate:
Friday: bean&cheese burrito
Saturday: rice bowl with chicken and green bell pepper
Sunday: focaccia with tomato sauce for dipping
Monday: polenta with chicken and tomato sauce
Tuesday: rice with tomato sauce and a fried egg on top
Wednesday: mashed potato bowl with diced green bell pepper, shredded chicken, and gravy
Thursday: sausage and mashed potatoes
I also made mini pizzas in the toaster oven for several lunches this week.
Oh, also chocolate ice cream for dessert.
Sat - tried a new place for chicken (broasted). It was excellent - a large breast and wing. We opted for fries (and a reasonable portion, not half your plate), also had mashed/potato wedges/sweet potato waffle fries (something new to me). Coleslaw and biscuit rounded out the meal. For $11 per meal, not a budget buster. Paid with cash as plastic incurs a fee.
Sun - dine out Mexican
Mon - brisket sandwiches with a bean/leftover rice combo
Tue - the *really* hot day - leftover brisket and pasta salad for better half, left over Mexican and the rest of the bean/rice combo
Wed - marinated chicken with fried homegrown potatoes
Thu - better half made himself a pizza and had salad, salad for me. Still getting tomatoes but purchased mushrooms and onions
Fri - baked cod (lightly breaded, potato flake & cheese), cooked apples, and mashed potatoes
$84 at the butcher shop. $130 at two grocery stores and likely another $20-$30 I suspect. We're not as stocked up as he thinks but it is a start.
We had a lot of back to school activities this week so not so much cooking. Plus, I'm only feeding seven now since one is off to college. I'm not listing his semester meal plan which I did pay this week.
Mon - Three of us were at the cross country parent meeting where we were fed pizza. Everyone else had breakfast eggs for dinner.
Tues - We all had chicken fajitas because I had all the necessary ingredients already.
Wednesday - We all had hamburger stroganoff with green and wax beans from the garden. We're coming to the end of bean season here, but you'll see them for a bit longer.
Thursday - We all had lasagna (college kid doesn't eat cheese so the others are looking forward to cheesy meals), garlic bread, and tossed salad.
Friday - The five kids ate hot dogs, hamburgers, and other stuff at the football family BBQ. The two adults went to dinner after because a big work project ended.
WWS: $422