WIS, WWA | breakfast at dinner
What I Spent
Completely unimportant, but please note my Snoopy badge holder AND my Snoopy puffer coat badge pin.
I spent:
- $13 at Safeway
- $11 on subs
So, a mere $24.
What We Ate
Saturday
I came home from work, made a bowl of oatmeal, showered, and went to bed.
Sunday
This was the night we got our Firehouse subs (with one being free!)
Monday
I made some mashed potatoes, sauteed fish, and a green salad.
Tuesday
I made some chipotle marinated chicken with the plan to pack it for lunch, but first we used it for a green salad at dinner.
Wednesday
I thawed some of the stuffed shells and had Zoe throw them in the oven before I got home from work.
Thursday
At work, I had a late but solid lunch of leftover stuffed shells + other stuff:
And when I came home, I was not terribly hungry.
Soo...I ate a big bowl of (Aldi) raisin bran and went to bed.
Friday
I need to figure this out; I'm gonna try to maybe hit up a grocery store today because as you can see, I did not shop this week! But I have heard many shelves are cleared in anticipation of the coming snowstorm, so who knows what I will find?
Luckily, I DO have a chest freezer and pantry, which means we are never on the verge of starving. Our meals could get weird, but we will not go hungry. 😉
Spent $70. Fortunately, the stores here seem to be well stocked even with the way over buying of items. I spent $25 on water/cans of drinks, fruit, and peanut butter because of the storm…just in case we are all without power for a few days. It will be 5 adults. We can grill outside or use the blackstone, but our well/pump would be down, so I got 2 packs of bottled water (had 2 packs here already) since all the water I will store beforehand may be needed for dishes/washing/flushing toilets etc. I’ve decided to have a hardwire plug put into the box for the generator to power our well in future power outages. This is our first time living with a well, and I don’t like the idea of losing power to it. We would be fine with no power, but I would like water.
Sorry, none of that was about WIS:WIA, but it’s on my mind.
We ate:
Saturday: roast/mashed potatoes/green beans
Sunday: the kids all came and we made pizza sandwiches with the pizza crust folded over in half, cheese in the middle, then everyone built their sub sandwich on their pizza bread. I made chicken cutlets with it so some made a chicken parmesan sub, some did chicken caesar salad subs, etc. Everybody really enjoyed these.
Monday: we had leftover chicken cutlets with leftover salad.
Tuesday: ham and white bean soup
Wednesday: easy night of tuna melts and veggies with hummus
Thursday: bbq pulled pork over a baked potato with a salad
Friday: I think we are going to go out before all the bad weather starts. My gallbladder is being removed next week so if we don’t get out of the house tonight, we may not get a chance for a week or so with weather and doctors stuff.
We have a well too and yes, that's the challenge with no power. We have solar now but before that we worked with the aquatainers at each sink.
Had my gallbladder out in October, hope all goes well!
We aren't winning awards for nutrition this week, but you know what? Everyone ate.
Monday: Mr. B made pancakes, hard-boiled eggs, and thawed some frozen fruit.
Tuesday: Mr. B was working late. I made macaroni and cheese, and peas.
Wednesday: Mr. B made nachos. Our little girl wasn't interested so we gave her a little plate of nuts, veggies, and fruit for her snack.
Thursday: Takeout pizza.
Friday: Likely tilapia, salad, and challah.
Oh, also Kristin, I HIGHLY support your square of Ghiradelli dark chocolate mint. So good.
Saturday: My husband bought some pigs' feet, which he loves. I do not love them and will not cook them, so he made them this night. He made simmered them to cook them and then used them and the resulting broth for ramen. Most of my children will eat the feet. The one who won't ate the ramen. I had a salad. I had also made butterscotch pudding to use some milk my children said was getting undrinkable. It came out oddly thin, but was eaten anyway.
Sunday: Spiral ham, baked potatoes, green salad with vinaigrette, apple crisp with whipped cream
Monday: Husband and one child had the leftover pigs' feet and ramen. Everyone else had chickpea stew with leftover ham added to it.
Tuesday: A ham, potato, and cheese casserole I made before I took my daughter to First Communion class, and that eldest son put in the oven for me to heat up before I got home. Raw bell peppers or cucumbers, and then yogurt with strawberry jam.
Wednesday: Pork chops with a kind of stir-fry sauce on them, rice cooked in some of the liquid from straining the pigs' feet broth, green salad with vinaigrette.
Thursday: Leftover pork chops and rice, or pasta I made using leftover sauce from baking meatballs and grated asadero cheese. That was for the home crew. I drove 100 miles to a basketball game and ate a salad I brought with me. The basketball player got two chimichangas from the gas station before we started our drive home, and then had some pasta and milk when we got home
Tonight: Basketball player appears to have caught the flu that has laid out half the school we play basketball with. Boo. I took out a rooster to make stock. The sick child hates all soups except tomato soup, so I'll probably make that for him with the rooster stock, and then pull off the meat from the rather small rooster to make some kind of chicken stew or soup for everyone else. Maybe I will also make rice pudding for the sick child, as that is his favorite food and an excellent option for illness.
And now we wait to see who else will get sick. Dun dun DUN.
Kristin, I pray the rest of you stay well and your sick kiddo is up and on the mend quickly. The flu bug this year has been ugly.
I kept seeing reports from people in different parts of the country that it's been a really bad year for illness. We've had just the opposite, but it has also been an unusually warm winter for us, which I am convinced is the difference. However, our weather has changed, it is now wintery, and now the flu has shown up. Illness spreads fast during basketball season, for obvious reasons, so I was waiting for it.
It is VERY unlikely but only one of my daughter’s 4 kids got the ‘flu earlier this month. May you be as lucky!
I have had similar situations where miraculously only one of my children gets sick, but not often. We shall see. Prepare for the worst, as they say. Which would be every one of us getting sick at the same time, including me. Heaven forfend Mom be sick and unable to provide full care to the other sick ones. That is definitely the worst.
I love the Snoopy pins and your Snoopy lunch bag! It's too bad Chiquita and Shelly can't be put on dinner duty 😉
Once again I seemed to have a rather pasta heavy week! I'm going to try and be a bit more creative next time!
Saturday: Spinach and cream cheese with mushrooms, onion and garlic over pasta
Sunday: Mixed veg burritos with chickpeas and rice (I thought I had black beans but did not so had to improvise!)
Monday: Aubergine curry with leftover chickpeas and rice. I had garlic naan on the side
Tuesday: Spinach and ricotta pasta parcels and garlic naan
Wednesday: Chilli mac and cheese
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Probably a mushroom omelette with a baked sweet potato 🙂
I wish when people panic shopped they would try to be reasonable about how much they might need and leave some for others!
Also, Marlena, yes get that done for your well. I’m a long time well user and it makes a world of difference to have running water in a power outage.
WIS: I didn’t shop.
WIA: I roasted a whole chicken along with white potatoes and broccoli. I had roast chicken again a few times with various sides of sweet potatoes, sliced cucumbers, more broccoli and cranberry sauce.
I also had a chicken and pickled onion sandwich on homemade sourdough bread with slaw as a side.
I finished the chicken curry soup. I ate a lot of chicken this week!
But I did have shrimp and a salad one night. And tonight… maybe something other than chicken?
Happy Friday, everyone! We spent $18 at Sprouts. We also went out to eat once but I count that in a different expense category.
- Popcorn and fruit
- Baguette, brie, and figgy jam
- Feta and caramelized onion tartlets
- Yogurt, blueberries and granola
- Mushroom risotto
- Spaghetti squash with marinara sauce
- Salad
WIS: $26.79 for me, but $30.29 for the dog. Who insists that makes perfect sense.
WIA: More pan-seared mahi mahi with roasted asparagus, because I really enjoyed that last week when I tested the recipe, and I’m trying to eat more fish. And the mahi mahi cost $9.87, while the dog’s treats cost $30.29. Which the dog insists makes perfect sense. And an apple (or two) a day because I really overbought apples last week. And I don’t have to fight the dog for an apple.
WIS: $168, divided between two grocery stores and Dollar Tree. This is my big shopping trip for the month. Also spent $51 on pet food and bought toilet paper.
WWA: Chili with corn muffins. Meatloaf with baked potatoes and corn on the cob on the side. Ham sandwiches with corn chips and fruit. I am not a big meat eater and had French toast last night, with homemade soup and spicy yellow rice and beans on other nights.
Today I am thawing some chicken to roast.
WIS: $20 at Price Chopper, $58 at Ollie's, and $65 at Wegmans. Along with others, I've been doing some stocking up ahead of the predicted weekend storm and the ensuing deep freeze. (Fortunately, all we're likely to get in Central NY is snow, and we're used to that. My sympathies to everyone in the probable ice storm range.)
WIA: Best effort of the week was a sausage and white bean soup, for which I used a Melissa Clark NYT recipe as a jumping-off point. My main departure from the recipe was that I used breakfast sausage from the freezer instead of Italian--but @kristin @ going country will be glad to hear that it was "Gianelli in your belly" all the same.
I didn't even know Gianelli makes breakfast sausage. I guess I never looked for it, as I'm not a big breakfast sausage eater.
Sat - No Peek Chicken, a recipe from TikTok which is essentially, oven baked chicken and rice
Sun - We grilled Burgers, homemade fries and birthday cake for my daughter
Mon - Chicken, Bacon, Ranch Pasta
Tues - Leftover Pasta
Wed - Tacos
Thursday - Tuna Noodle Casserole
Friday (tonight) - I've got some leftover noodles, a little bit of spaghetti sauce, a little mozzarella cheese and a few chicken tenders left in a bag in the freezer, so I'll just mix it all together, microwave it and call it easy.
I did a quick run to the grocery store this week to stock up on some fresh fruits and veggies because it will be too cold to go shopping this weekend. How cold is cold? My dogs were very offended when they had to go outside and it was 22 below zero (before factoring in the wind chill).
Friday: My husband and I had a sushi date night planned but my son stayed home instead of going to his dad’s since there was a planned protest near his dad’s place the next morning. We decided to go to a favorite local restaurant and enjoyed burgers and a lively atmosphere. My son would have enjoyed sushi, but at 15 he can eat his weight in sushi and still be hungry!
Saturday: My husband tried a high-protein alfredo sauce recipe that turned out to be awful, so we made a quick noodle dish with a couple packs of ramen, precooked chicken, sauteed mushrooms, and green onions.
Sunday: Pizza Stuffed Chicken Rollups and risotto
Monday: Orange Chicken over rice, grapes
Tuesday: TJ’s Tamales, Spanish rice
Wednesday: Mississippi Pot Roast, baked potatoes, raw fruit or veggies
Thursday: Chicken Taco Chili and biscuits from the freezer
Sunday was a Build Your Own Baked Potato Bar!
Monday was the oldests night to cook so he chose to purchase a pizza from a local place running a special-lol
Tuesday was a snow day so I was off school so I made homemade lasagna and 2 loaves of rosemary bread.
Wednesday was leftovers- finished potatoes and lasagna!
Thursday- sauted chicken, chicken flavored rice and steamed broccoli!
No idea about tonight or this weekend!
Sunday: we got takeout pizza at our daughter's house
Monday: sloppy joes on garlic toast and melted mozzarella cheese on top, coleslaw, grapes
Tuesday: Garlic parmesan sausage, pierogies, green beans
Wednesday: Fish, coleslaw, french fries
Thursday: sliced ham, peas, parsley potatoes
Friday: TBD
I am not thinking about WWS because yesterday I hit the grocery store in anticipation of the snowstorm and left with two carts full. (I did save $50 on each of my trips this week, though!) This ain't my first rodeo; I'm old enough to remember the Blizzard of '78 and my dad hiking down the street to get milk and bread at the neighborhood store that was only open because the owners lived next door.
Monday: First day back from Florida. Celebratory meal. Pasta with homemade Alfredo and peas, baked salmon.
Tuesday: Homemade tomato soup and burgers, plus leftover pasta.
Wednesday: Leftovers, IIRC. Two kids down with a virus.
Thursday: Tacos, made by DS#2, and they were delicious. Kids rallying.
Friday: Tonight is turkey stew, made by DS#1.
I spent $21 at Dollar General. Also, my mom offered to pick up a few things for me when she went shopping yesterday ahead of the storm.
Saturday - I had canned beef stew and made biscuits to go with it.
Sunday - leftovers
Monday - smoked sausage and pasta with tomato sauce
Tuesday - mashed potatoes and smoked sausage
Wednesday - canned chili with pasta
Thursday - leftover chili with Fritos
Friday - I thawed some frozen black beans and pasta sauce, so will have those on either pasta or polenta. I haven't decided yet.