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!
Melissa, I had never heard of aquatainers. Those are a great idea. Thank you.
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.
Yes! We all need a little treat after lunch. 🙂
I totally agree and am going to remind myself of that regarding all the pasta meals I've eaten lately! They stopped me from ordering takeout!
Yes! And what you make at home is usually not nutritionally inferior to takeout, and often is more nutritious.
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.
Yes, but at least you don't have babies; it is a little easier as they get older. Hang in there.
Been there, waiting for my husband to get home while throwing up into a bowl with toddlers hanging over me on the couch and a baby next to me. Do not miss.
When my kids were growing, better half caught everything they did. I never did. I remember a couple of times when all three were ill - I slept on the floor of the younger kiddo's bedroom. I could cover all three rooms from there.
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.
@Karen A - the blizzard of '78. We had extra people at our house due to an event. I spent the night at my friend's house. The grocery store in our town got *no* deliveries for a week. We did have a local egg supplier which was nice.
Dairy farmers were dumping milk twice a day. A massive snow bank covering 1 1/2 lanes on a highway - you stopped and honked. Somehow I doubt people today would be a courteous as we drivers were at that time. Off school for a week, back for two days and off three days cuz it snowed again. And it was cold.
The town dumped snow behind our school - it did not all melt until well into May.
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.
Oh, also, I made chocolate pudding with some almond milk that needed to be used up. Had that for dessert a few times.
Finally hit the local-ish grocery stores, we haven't been since 12-10. Spent $71 @ WinCo & $34 @ Grocery Outlet.
This included cat food @ $.50/can.
We are not having family dinners because of flu and head colds, but our door is always open and the kids love coming to stay @ the farm.
Sunday big batch of chicken carcass vegetable soup & crusty French bread.
Monday - leftovers with salad
Tuesday -mystery meat (unlabeled) turned out to be sirloin bits turned into bits in sauce, sweet potatoes roasted with broccoli.
Wednesday- community dinner
Thursday - leftover smoked pork butt, apple salad, kale salad.
Friday - bbq pork sammies on homemade pretzel buns, 3 bean salad and cookies.
Saturday - big funeral with potluck
My only grocery spending was $7 at Food4Less.
Saturday: Spaghetti soup
Sunday: Can't remember! It may have been the last serving of spaghetti soup.
Monday: Chicken Thai soup
Tuesday: Chicken Thai soup
Wednesday: Chicken nachos
Thursday: Mexican dip and tortilla chips
Friday: Will be having homemade chicken pot pie.
Saturday - Chick-fil-A!
Sunday - Pork BBQ sandwiches, California veggie blend, sweet potato fries
Monday - Chili and french bread
Tuesday - I catered a dinner and ate there. At home, they had more pork BBQ, crinkle fries, peas, California veggie blend, and potato chips with dip.
Wednesday - Baked spaghetti and leftover veggies from catering
Thursday - Tacos and pineapple
Friday - I think we're moving our Saturday pizza to tonight. My youngest two kids want to make pizza and my husband and I won't be home for dinner tomorrow night anyways. Our whole week has been thrown off (my kids have been in school one out of five days this week), so why not change up our pizza night, too!
Early summer has been mostly rainy and cool where we are in the southern hemisphere. WWA:
Saturday - fish and chips at a local pub
Sunday - roasted a butterflied chicken, pan gravy, mashed potatoes, green salad
Monday - leftovers
Tuesday - chili from the freezer
Wednesday - cheese rolls, raw carrots
Thursday - pasta primavera (used up some languishing produce)
Friday - sheet pan chicken fajitas
Wishing everyone a warm and safe week ahead
WWS - $86 @ Trader Joes and $17 @ Publix for a total of $103
WWA -
Saturday - steak, salad, and potatoes
Sunday - High protein tomato soup and grilled cheese
Monday - Hamburgers, sweet potato fries and broccoli
Tuesday and Wednesday - chicken pumpkin chili
Thursday - roasted chicken breast, lima beans and rice
Friday - Pumpkin pasta sauce with chicken italian sausage over GF pasta.
The rest of the weekend will be one filled with leftovers.
Bon appétit. Stay warm and safe.
we r at my mother in laws in westchester. but before we left i stood online for 45 min to get hamburger for the dog. we put that in his vet special order kibble. we will be home tom'w to visit zozo in the hospital. so nice to see you looking so happy.
Saturday - Burritos and Burrito bowls
Sunday - Picked up a pizza
Monday - taquitos for the kids & french onion lentils for me
Tuesday - Naan, Dal, rice, and potato curry
Wednesday - Pasta & Fruit
Thursday - In n Out & leftovers
Friday - Don't know yet but I'm going to figure it out!
What I was painfully reminded of this week was that getting takeout instead of cooking the food at home can be so much more time consuming than just throwing something together. I spent WAY too much time in the drive thru lane at In n Out and the pizza place we ordered from was slammed with orders (maybe due to playoff games?) and then got our order wrong so I had to wait even longer for them to correct it. I should have just made some pasta at home.
This is often how I talk myself out of getting take-out. It is nearly always faster, as well as cheaper, to just throw something together.
WIS: Farmers Market-$103; Neighborhood-$34; The Star-$58; JP Licks-$10; Milk delivery-$21 Total-$226
WWA: Sat: Over the weekend, I said I would remember...I don't
Sun: Used up leftover stir-fry veg and chicken to make a soup w/ broth and noodles
Mon: Leftover soup
Tues: Pasta w/ sausage, fennel, and chickpeas
Wed: Salmon bowl w/ quinoa, arugula, cucumbers, and avocado cream sauce
Thurs: Broccolini, chickpea, sausage, pasta
Fri:
Oh and tonight was creamy chicken and asparagus over mashed potato
$46 -- I braved Aldi after work today and snagged the essential eggs, bananas, spinach, some frozen chicken breasts, sausages, and a pack of beef burger for the guys (who will be home tomorrow), and was happy to find a pack of brioche buns for their burgers, and a nice loaf of chewy bistro bread (and some more items that jumped into my bag). The black labels across the store at Aldi are higher quality with better ingredients for good prices. Then I stopped at Wawa for milk which Aldi was completely out of.
Otherwise, it's been a calm week of eating whatever I wanted because everyone else was gone, so lots of veggies, bean soup, butternut squash soup, oatmeal, eggs, and plain greek yogurt with a spoon of homemade 3 berry jam. I realized I had part of a bag of frozen berries left from the autumn so I made jam. I was WAY too optimistic and got out three jars to put it in, and then it nicely filled one of those jars, with a largish spoon for a yogurt dessert that evening. But it's tasty! So, of course, I had a toasted pb&j that I took to work with me this morning for breakfast. I have to wait to eat after my morning medicine, so don't eat until I'm at work and get the first morning rush out of the way.
Everyone stay safe with this storm!
I have to ask - where are you A. Marie? You are normally one of the early commentariat.
Cape Cod Pizza 4 frozen pizzas @ $6 each + a dessert for grandson $29.36
Market Basket $29.80
Crocettis Meat Market $17.98
Trucchi's $47.07
Sat: Burgers
Sun: I tried a new recipe of Salisbury steaks. Because of burgers the night before, I needed to get some more They were okay.
Monday: My daughter and her family came over with some stuff for our upcoming move and I had a fully packed car to deliver to the new place. I asked if they would like pizza. Our pizza place sells their own frozen, cost is anywhere from $2-$3 less in their freezer than the supermarket.
Tuesday: After work burgers. There was some ground beef left. I like the burgers with Market Basket ground beef best lately
Wednesday: I bought a container of chicken pie soup at the meat market. It was okay. It needed some seasoning. I am going to try my own hand at making it with barbecue chicken leftovers.
Thursday: Egg and sausage sandwiches
Friday: I worked all day, and we ran late for a Friday. I stopped at grocery store for a dinner I wanted and the new residence where I dropped things off and made sure everything was okay before the incoming weather. I wanted fish sandwiches. I did enjoy them.
We are anticipating some weather coming up. I did not rush to the grocery store. I have eggs. I have flour. I have maple syrup. And a lot of other stuff to get buy. I did make sure my car is filled with gas.
Stay safe and stay warm everyone.
Sunday: I made a big pot of Zupa Toscana. The potatoes were on the rewrapped produce rack, a bag of tiny yellow organic ones for $1. 🙂
Monday: leftover soup
Wednesday: baked a 1/2 dozen potatoes and baked chicken. Chicken was great on sandwiches for the rest of the week.
Wednesday: Double batch of what we call "the rice dish". A skillet dinner of rice, beans, onions, red peppers, corn (frozen from summer corn), garlic and jalapeno (frozen from summer crop), with chicken broth. dollop of sour cream on top. So easy to fix and feels healthy.
Thursday: leftover rice dish
Friday: So tempted to order pizza to celebrate it is Friday! But decided to save $ and eat down the fridge. Leftover baked potatoes cut into small wedges, roasted with olive oil and melted cheese, pepper flakes and bacon on top. Served with bits of leftovers.
Oooh, good use of the potatoes!
I was traveling for work & let's just say the meal options were...unimpressive.
Saturday: A few bites of the plane food, but it was pretty tragic, so I had a protein bar
Sunday: room service - a salad & burger patty
Monday: out with work team. I had a primavera risotto dish that was pretty good
Tuesday: late meeting, so room service meal of a salad + 1/2 a club sandwich
Wednesday: work event, and the food was pizza & French fries ? I felt like it was a kids menu
Thursday: again work event, this time they were serving chicken sandwiches & fries
Friday: I stopped at the grocery store, desperate for more nutritional options & bought a chicken kebab salad + some fruit & a piece of chocolate
DH picked up Costco street tacos, but I'm much more likely to fall asleep before dinner, because I'm super jet lagged.
Hehe, I love that you used the word tragic. It's so Anne of Green Gables. 🙂
It very much applied to the food served! Sometimes you get lucky with airplane food, and other times you get the meal I got. 😉