WIS, WWA | getting into a groove
Nursing school has such a weird schedule, you can't exactly get into a routine. Every week is different!
But I would say I'm getting into a better groove of figuring out how to work meals around our college classes and Zoe's work schedule.
What I Spent
I went to Sam's Club this week, which is good (I'm now all stocked up on some things!) and bad (I spent more money than usual!)
I spent:
- $147 at Sam's Club
- $15 at Safeway
- $31 on a Hungry Harvest box
Sooo, $193 for me this week. But of course, it's not like I need to go to Sam's Club every week. Next week's groceries will be cheaper.
What We Ate
Saturday
I ate dinner with a friend, and Zoe had leftover pizza when she got back from work.
Sunday
This was the day my foot was the worst, so we had an easy dinner of Aldi cheese tortellini, Aldi tomato sauce, and basil from my plant.
Monday
I picked up a rotisserie chicken from Safeway.
We ate that with sautéed broccoli.
And a bag of Trader Joe's sweet potato fries.
Tuesday
Leftover chicken in a sandwich form for me, ramen for Zoe after her work shift.
Wednesday
Zoe had an evening work shift and I had lab until 8:00, so when we both got home, I made whole wheat blueberry pancakes for the two of us.
Thursday
I knew I had a little bit more rotisserie chicken left in the fridge, so I threw together a chicken noodle soup, using broth from my freezer.
Serendipitously, I had carrots and celery in the fridge and a partial bag of noodles in my pantry, so it all worked out quite swimmingly.
I didn't really measure anything; I used two carrots, an onion, two stalks of celery, a healthy shake of thyme, some salt and pepper, and then of course the chicken broth and the leftover chicken.
But if you want a more organized recipe with measurements and all, click here for a chicken noodle soup recipe.
I added a splash of heavy cream to my bowl and oooh, that was so good. 10/10, would recommend.
Lisey loves soup, so this dinner made me feel a bit wistful. But then Lisey called after dinner and we chatted while I did my dishes, and that made my heart feel happier.
Thank goodness that costly long-distance phone calls are a thing of the past! Being able to talk to Lisey all the time makes Hawaii feel not SO far away.
Friday
We have some leftover soup, plus some leftover tortellini from earlier in the week, so we'll probably eat those two things up.
I wanted to say that I have the ATK cooking for two book. And the chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe worked well for us. It made a nice amount but not so much that we overdid it. I can’t remember what else I made, cookies are my favorite treat.
WIS: 76.55 on wine, and 48.56 @Aldi for a total of 125.11 this week.
WWA:
Another exhausting teaching week, so all salads were just the prewashed box kind.
Fri: salad, cheese and tomato focaccia.
Sat: spinach salad, leftover focaccia, leftover rice, leftover tofu, leftover dahlternative.
Sun: spinach, tomato and shake Parm salad, spaghetti with eggs and Parm.
Mon: salad, yakitori chicken and broiled red peppers and onions over rice.
Tue: salad, corn flake baked chicken, waffles and maple syrup.
Wed: salad and frozen cheese pizza.
Thu: Salas, beans and rice with mozzarella cheese.
Tonight: salad and focaccia (maybe with pepperoni)
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
Hang in there! My teaching job had never felt WORSE.
@Becca, I, too, have had weeks when the wine expenditure exceeded the food expenditure.
@JDinNM,
Listen. I teach Prek and it's September. I make no apologies.
@Becca, Nor do I.
Our "getting into a groove" involves being just two of us again this semester, which is always a bit of a shift. The first part involves dealing with all the bits of food left over after our son leaves for school, most of which only I can eat, so my lunches get a little weird for a while. Now we're in week three and I'm feeling more settled. I shop on the weekend with a meal plan in hand for Sat-Wed, Thursday is leftovers, and Friday is pizza. Last week's dinners included taco bowls, reuben baked potatoes, and baked potatoes with broccoli, bacon, & cheese sauce. The plan for most meals is to last two nights or have some element that extends to another completely different meal - ie, leftover rice goes into salmon patties, leftover potatoes into a Spanish omelette, etc. Sometimes its a fun puzzle, sometimes its more creativity than my brain really desires, but it sure is satisfying to head into Friday night with a mostly cleaned out fridge. 🙂
Cream (or sour cream) makes pretty much any soup better.
Saturday: Tuna salad sandwiches and raw cabbage wedges for the three children who were eating. My husband was gone, and one kid was sick, so there seemed little point in preparing an elaborate meal. I had some eggs.
Sunday: Shredded pork, American potato salad, steamed carrots and broccoli, chocolate ice cream. We've been having ice cream a lot more since we discovered the gallon tubs at Walmart, which is actually real ice cream, not that weird "dairy dessert" that other bulk ice creams always seem to be. It's a good way to calorie-load my always slender children.
Monday: Leftover pork, leftover potato salad OR fried potatoes OR baked potato OR macaroni and cheese (I had a lot of a little bit of different things and so apportioned it all out based on preference), raw cabbage, peaches and cream. My husband got the peaches from a roadside stand on his way back to Albuquerque. We've stopped at this one a couple of times before. It's just off an exit in the Glorieta Pass, and I always have to smile at the fact that the truck is parked right next to a "No Vending" sign.
Tuesday: I made a Spanish tortilla in the afternoon for a good make-ahead meal, because Tuesdays have gotten a little nuts.
Wednesday: I had made chili the day before with ground bull meat and beans, so I could just re-heat it when I got home from work. Much appreciated.
Thursday: I made pork stir-fry and rice and left them on the stove for my husband and two sons, who came home on the bus and then went to judo. I wasn't at home because I was at the high school volleyball game with my daughter, who is now a member of our elementary cheer squad. She doesn't much care for stir-fry, but I had a little bit of leftover tuna salad, so I made her a tuna melt when we got home.
Tonight: No idea. I'm driving my eldest son to meet my parents so they can take him to the Air Force Academy football game tonight in Colorado. Since I'll be halfway to a small city anyway, I'm going to continue on and have a very rare opportunity to go grocery shopping by myself. Now that we live so far from stores, my husband almost always does it with the list I give him, in conjunction with other errands like getting hay, which I do not want to do. I do want to go to the grocery store, since I'm the one cooking all the food, but it just is too much of a pain to bring the whole family and drive 200 miles round-trip. The rare times I go to a store, I always have children with me because we're going to the dentist or something. I only get to a grocery store myself about three or four times a year, and the last time I went by myself was . . . probably a year and a half ago. So I'm actually looking forward to this more than seems reasonable. As you can tell from the essay I just wrote. 🙂 Anyway, I will peruse some meat options at the store for dinner tonight. Perhaps I'll get something like ham steaks or sausage. Those are not common dinner items for us and would probably be well-received.
@kristin @ going country,
raw cabbage wedges? Never heard of this....
@kristin @ going country, even though we have always lived close to grocery store, I used to say that going to the Kroger store was my weekly thrill. It was the only time I didn’t feel guilty about spending money because food was/is a necessity.
@kristin @ going country,
Ooooooh! I'm so excited for you to get to go shopping by yourself!! I live in town and don't get to do it too often. 😉 I know it's a treat! Enjoy!
@Lea, Just my kids being odd. They like most vegetables raw, so I just chop off a chunk of cabbage for them and put it on their plates just like that.
I feel like that's a very healthy oddity!
@kristin @ going country,
oha!
Thanks for answering my question. This is amazing your kids eat raw cabbage! Very easy, very healthy and very frugal indeed.
This has been a doozy of a week and I think I spent right around $100 for the three of us. We are getting mom moved to a nursing home today and we helped her dog cross over the "rainbow bridge" yesterday. I keep telling myself, this is all going to pass.
Monday - (crockpot)Chipotle Roasted Chicken Drums, mashed potatoes, Brown Sugar Bacon Green Beans {went to sister's house to see mom and hospice lady on a two hour break from work in the morning}
Tuesday - Beef Tacos, Roast Corn with peppers, refrieds, rice, Pumpkin Dump Cake {Happy Birthday to The Girl!}
Wednesday - Shrimp on a bed of Parma Rosa pasta with spinach {on call in the evening}
Thursday - Skillet Pork Chops, BBQ beans, zucchini
Friday - Bacon Wrapped Chicken Thighs, Garlic Parm White Beans salad, cantaloupe
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed
I am looking forward to being at work this weekend, believe it or not...
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Let's see,
I cannot recall Saturday, but I cooked
Fried rice and spicy porc
Vegetarian canelloni filled to the brim with vegetables, home cooked
Cheese fondue
Travel to the office - Fend for yourself for the guys- I ate french fries during my 90 minute train delay out of pure frustration - I had a bag of nuts and seeds in my bag
Spicy vegetarian millet dish
Today will be pasta di papa (quick easy and tasty but get your five a day elsewhere)
What will I do tomorrow? Slowcooker chicken? Bunless Burgers? I have a busy afternoon so it will be something I can make ahead or whip up quickly
First, seafood pate for Chiquita (and Shelly too, I suppose)? Lucky girls!
Now, WIA: About $20 at the Regional Market (again, I forgot to keep an exact tab), $5 at the bakery outlet, $18.45 at the grocery outlet, $43 at Price Chopper, and $37.35 at Wegmans. I needed to do some stocking up.
WIA: This week's culinary standout was the personal pizza I constructed from a round day-old Panera Asiago bread, as described in my FFT on Monday's NCA. The bread was free from my friend who works at a Panera, and I already had the pizza sauce, Parmesan, olives, onions, and mushrooms on hand.
Oh, and I'll be seeing this same friend tomorrow (we have a JASNA meeting)--and she says she has some frozen Panera souffles to share. Do I look crazy? I'll be taking a cooler with some frozen blue "bricks" along with me!
@A. Marie, A friend in deed, indeed!
$38.07 at BJs in two separate trips, $46.63 at Price Chopper, and $3.99 at Tops for impulsive popcorn. For a total of $88.69.
Almost all of this was stocking up on shrimp which was on sale, convenience items like rotisserie/fried chicken, and miscellaneous snacks like seltzer or pretzels. I can certainly spend less (and need to in order to finish off my September budget), but I am alarmingly easily persuaded by a "good deal", or things that sound good when I am hungry. Some of the meals were inspired by items that thawed during an ajar freezer door incident, but were salvageable. Luckily I caught the door issue early on, and only had to compost a moderate amount of stuff.
- Saturday - Spicy sausage, tomato sauce, and squash marinara over cauliflower gnocchi.
-Sunday - Hotdog and chips
- Monday - Snack food at a football game. Which I financially contributed to, but classified it from a different part of the budget... I'm fun like that.
- Tuesday- I must have eaten some of the fried chicken today. It was mostly used during lunches, but given I am blanking on this night I'm going to fit it in.
- Wednesday - Roasted ham and peppers over rice.
- Thursday - Chicken and kale wrap.
- Tonight - Dinner at my folks house.
140 dollars Kroger pickup
I made a huge pan of baked pasta on Sunday. We ate that on Sunday. Monday. And Wednesday. We had salad for the side one of the days and steamed veggies the other two days.
Tuesday: loaded air fryer baked potatoes with southern style cabbage slaw
Thursday: frozen pizza
Tonight: air fryer chicken strips into tacos with black beans and corn. Chips n salsa.
"swimmingly" is one of my mom's favorite words. I remember when I spent a summer in Florida with my grandparents, she wrote me a letter (which I still have) that started off, "Everything is going swimmingly here, except for the gas lines." She addressed to The Misses LastName, since my sister was there too.
What did we eat? Last night, takeout Chinese after visiting Mom. I was too tired to eat anything but some wonton soup, which was fairly terrible. The quality is going downhill at that place, which is just a couple blocks from our old house.
Wednesday, we tried the Hawaiian sliders Kristen made the week before. We'd never had them before. 10/10, would make again.
Tuesday, breakfast for dinner, biscuits and gravy.
Monday, delicious spaghetti with sauce made by Daughter.
Sunday, BBQ chicken with my mom's recipe for sauce.
Currently getting used to cooking for the two of us as both sons are now at university, 3rd year for eldest and 1st year for youngest.
I read an Instagram post saying that we are not empty nesters we are bird launchers which I like much better!
WIS £74.34 - 50% less than it has been!!
WWA
Sunday - picky bits n bobs as I’d no energy to cook after our long drive back home from Scotland where both boys have decided to study!! It’s a 315 mile drive which is probably nothing in the US but here in the U.K. it’s torture!
Monday - baked chicken, homemade potato salad, Green salad
Tuesday - genuinely have zero clue 🙂
Wednesday - teriyaki chicken stir fry, mixed veggies and noodles
Thursday - chicken Kyiv, carrots, broccoli and mashed potato
Tonight will be something with salmon and veg but not sure yet along with strawberries for dessert
Have a frugal week everyone!
@Joanne in the U.K., I've driven from York to Edinburgh which is about 185 miles and takes foreeeever. I don't know why it feels that way.
@Joanne in the U.K., Bird launchers! Where did the fledglings land? Glasgow? Edinburgh? Aberdeen?
@Joanne in the U.K., Bird launchers! I love it!
@JDinNM,
Eldest is in Stirling
Youngest is in Edinburgh
They are an hour apart which is lovely for them 🙂
@Rose,
The roads just don’t seem to ever end!! 🙂
WWA:
Saturday: pressed the easy button and had burgers and fries from the freezer
Sunday: French bread stuff with ground beef, vegetables and cheese with chips
Monday: leftover chicken noodle soup
Tuesday: baked chicken breast, rice and sliced peaches
Wednesday: potato dill cheese soup with fruit and bread
Thursday: leftover potato soup
Friday: likely more leftover soup
Sunday: We were invited to a friend's house for dinner, so we provided some cut up Crenshaw melon. It looks different on the outside, but inside it looks and tastes similar to cantaloupe, so it was accepted by the gaggle of preschoolers.
Monday: Sickness hit our house, so it was a fend for yourself situation. I think my 4 year old ate melon, peanuts, and crackers for dinner which I considered pretty balanced, all things considered.
Tuesday: Preschooler's choice, the current favorite is mini corn dogs. Melon on the side.
Wednesday: BBQ chicken salads. The way we got the chicken makes me laugh.
Husband: "Look in the fridge."
Me: "What is it?"
"Marinated chicken"
"What's it marinated in?
"I don't know. It's from the work picnic. I know you like free food."
He's not wrong. After we cooked it, it smelled like BBQ, so we did BBQ themed salads. They were delicious though.
Thursday: Leftover salads
Friday: I'm going to a local Italian place for dinner with a friend. There's construction nearby and their business is suffering, so they sent out an SOS. We love this restaurant and don't want it to close.
Saturday: Leftovers.
@Natalie J, Your marinated chicken story made me laugh
miscellany - if you mix the two leftovers the combination would be awesome! I find that if I have 2 soups - one broth based and one heavy - mixing them often provides the best combination, not too heavy but not too brothy/light. I learned this from an old nurse when I was working the night shift 🙂 If you added the tortellini to your chicken soup it would be fabulous
DH’s week to cook.
Chicken/broccoli/rice casserole with apple slices
Hamburgers, steak fries, salad greens, peaches
Roasted rosemary chicken, potatoes, beets, peaches
Leftovers
Dragon noodles with apple slices
Saturday - takeout ramen
Sunday - we’d gone to a kids event at a farm so picked up Taco Bell on the way home
Monday - chicken and sausage orzo
Tuesday - easy chicken Parmesan (frozen chicken patty, jarred sauce, mozzarella cheese), butter noodles, steamed broccoli and carrots
Wednesday - we finally got to go out for our anniversary dinner (only 3 weeks late) so we had a delicious 5 course meal, kids had Trader Joe’s orange chicken and steamed baby corn with grandma
Thursday - bratwurst, baked beans, steamed broccoli
Friday - I have book club so I just eat all the snacks there for dinner (best kind of dinner), probably Mac n cheese for everyone here
I meal planned this week, which is a solid step back to normal, but I borrowed Beverly's easy button for most of it:
I had hot dogs, hamburgers and brats with sides of cucumbers, chips, fruit, sweet potato salad, and green salad. The exception is that I cooked pork cutlets and had that with the garden squash n' okra plus sweet potato a couple of times.
We are still too hot, I'm still juggling too many things (Insurance! Plentiful but small yard debris that has to be raked or picked up by hand! Doctors! Prescriptions! Catching up at work!) and I just feel too distracted to cook. I fed myself, though, and I am slowly dealing with the things demanding my attention. This weekend, I know I will cook; we are having a combined birthday gathering for our daughters, and one of the birthday girls requests, as she does every year, homemade chicken and dumplings. I learned to make chicken and dumplings from my grandmother by watching her make that every Thanksgiving, along with a huge turkey, two pans of dressing and assorted sides in her tiny galley-style kitchen with about 2 feet of usable countertop space. Even as a kid, I was amazed by her ability to pull that off every year.
We are slowly recovering from Covid. Thank goodness we did not have to go to the hospital.
Sunday: Pasta with tomato sauce.
Monday: Miso soup, eggs, rice.
Tuesday: Cheese tortellini and sauce.
Wednesday: Mr. B roasted some chicken breasts and made a little salad.
Thursday: Pasta and meatballs.
Friday: Rosh Hashanah evening! We are having homemade challah, butternut squash soup, roasted chicken, roasted zucchini, and honey cake. Wishing a sweet year to all.
@Meira @ meirathebear, Shanah tovah!
@JDinNM, Thank you!
@Meira @ meirathebear, Aaand the oven just broke. Sigh. We shall decamp to my parents' house and bring our chicken to cook there!
NOOOO! I hope it's a cheap and quick fix.
@Meira @ meirathebear, my sympathies about the defunct oven. But Happy New Year and Shanah Tovah anyway.
WIS: $145 @ Publix
WWA:
Sat: pappardelle with spaghetti sauce pulled from the freezer
Sun: Turkey meatloaf, carrots with rosemary & ginger, green peas & mashed potatoes
Mon: Leftovers
Tues: Chipotle. Yes takeout twice in one week.
Wed: Red beans and rice with Amylu's chicken andouille. This was yummy but very spicy.
Thurs: This was a very long week and I am not ashamed to say that we got takeout pizza. Too exhausted to cook & cleanup anything.
Friday: clean out the fridge.
It’s been a long, productive week and am glad to see Friday. WWA:
Saturday- beef dinner sausage and pierogies (freezer cleanout)
Sunday - chicken cacciatore, orzo, cookies
Monday - leftovers
Tuesday - homemade broccoli cheddar soup, no-knead bread
Wednesday - freezer meal (beef stew), no-knead bread
Thursday- pan fried salmon, South-African yellow rice (rice with turmeric, cinnamon, raisins, salt, butter, touch of brown sugar)
Friday - planning on baked chicken drumsticks and oven fries
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend
Mon - Teriyaki Sausages with oriental slaw
Tue - BLT's (tomatoes are almost done for the season so eating these as much as I can)
Wed - Grilled salmon, rice and broccoli
Thurs - Meatball sliders (Simek premade meatballs)
Fri - Who knows???
I always love reading your meals! I've been trying to embrace more off-the-cuff cooking lately, as my kids are older and busier now.
Saturday - Flank steak quesadillas
Sunday - Burgers with cucumber tomato salad and some frozen fries
Monday - Chana masala with storebought garlic naan
Tuesday - Herbed meatballs with buttery egg noodles
Wednesday - Kimchi pork stew with cheese muffins
Thursday - Jamaican chicken pasta
Tonight - Black pepper tofu and eggplant with rice
@Cate Linden, Do you have a link for the recipe for the Jamaican chicken pasta you had? I'd love to try it!
@Cate Linden,
The cheese muffins sound delish!
WIS: $168, all at Food Lion. Can't recall how much was pet food, which is not part of the grocery budget. Still doing a bit of stocking up and we are back to buying some fresh meats.
WWA: Tuna salad with sesame crackers and nectarines, as the spendy white albacore tuna packets were discontinued and marked down to only 66 cents each.
Roasted chicken drumsticks (organic, but half-price to clear the shelf for the weekend) with green peas, cucumber, the last homegrown tomatoes, and cheddar-herb corn muffins.
Leftover chili. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Tomato and Swiss sandwiches. One fried egg sandwich to use up an excess egg.
Snacky hot weather meals of cheese, crackers, fresh fruit, crisp fresh veggies, homegrown cherry tomatoes, protein shakes, nuts, homemade coconut-raisin granola, homemade pumpkin muffjns, homemade bread. Popsicles and homemade brownies for desserts.
WIS: $71.80 at Sprouts. I was hoping to keep it closer to $50, but there were some discounts and 2 for 1 pricing on fruit and other stuff that were too tempting to pass up.
WIA: A lot of strawberries. All the stores have been awash in strawberries and are pushing them out the door as fast as they can. They’re the first thing you see when you walk in. So I ate them on their own, and in yogurt with a scoop of granola, and with a couple chocolate-covered blueberries for dessert.
Tomato and kale pizza. And a lot of BLTs because I had an ENORMOUS heirloom tomato (weighing in at 1.19 pounds) that was the gift that kept on giving, and I had some bread and bacon in the freezer and some lettuce in the refrigerator crisper that really needed to be used up. Juicy perfectly ripe heirloom tomato + bacon + lettuce on toasted Sara Lee sandwich white bread with mayonnaise = a match made in culinary heaven and a delicious and fitting goodbye to summer… The overnight temperatures have dropped like a stone well into the 50s, so Fall is certainly here.
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Bon appetit!
WIS - $48 at Trader Joes
Friday: Slow Cooker Stroganoff and salad
Saturday: Halal Cart Chicken, naan, roasted cauliflower
Sunday: Chicken Posole
Monday: Sauteed Cabbage with Chicken over Mashed Potatoes
Tuesday: My son was at a soccer game with his dad and my husband was supposed to be late so a planned a leftover/pantry raid night. As I was in the middle of making myself a sandwich my husband came home early. He didn’t want a sandwich or any of our leftovers so he made himself an omelet.
Wednesday: Birthday dinner out at my favorite Italian restaurant!
Thursday: Kielbasa, Potatoes, and Green Beans in the slow cooker (new recipe, very easy, very yummy)
WIS: Costco $119, Grocery Outlet: $16
Sunday: Stir fry, steamed rice
Monday: Leftover stir fry, special fried rice, garlic beans
Tuesday: Bolognese in the Instant Pot, green salad
Wednesday: Bolognese over GF Ravioli, green salad
Thursday: Steak and country fried potatoes, spinach w/hot bacon dressing
Friday: hot day, Grilled burgers and potato salad
Saturday: hot day - probably will have asian cabbage salad w/pork
Think of the crazy schedule as preparation for when you graduate. I used to joke with my husband when I work bedside at the hospital that lunch time was whenever I actually ate it.
Because we were going to be gone 4 days with the wedding, I purposely did not go shopping last week so we had an empty fridge. However, it means I have gone to Trader Joe's almost every. single. day. Thank God it is a five minute drive from my house.
Sunday: Pho. It took us 6 hrs to drive back from the wedding and we were already exhausted to start with. Pho is my reset button meal.
Monday: Sesame rice bowls with a fried egg, avocado and homemade kimchi
Tuesday: Turkey chili over a sweet potato
Wednesday: Tikka masala salmon with saffron rice, tandoori cauliflower and Trader Joe's naan
Thursday: We both ate a really late lunch so tea and toast
Friday: Butternut squash mac and cheese with roasted butternut squash and chicken meatballs. I am desperately trying to make it fall.
Saturday: My husband and I have a goal to try ever well-reviewed pizza place with a reasonable drive of our house. We will continue that journey tonight for a date night.
I've never thought of adding heavy cream to my chicken noodle soup before. I have some right now, so that might be in our meals for next week!
Saturday: My husband was at a men's BBQ with guys from church and I was tired, so I just made shells and cheese. My kids asked if we were having anything with it. Nope!
Sunday: Hot dogs, brats, watermelon, skillet corn
Monday: Turkey broccoli fettuccine alfredo
Tuesday: Grilled cheese and tomato soup
Wednesday: Tuna noodle casserole and corn
Thursday: FG enchiladas and watermelon (I just had a leftover enchilada for lunch - so good!)
Friday: Meatloaf, corn casserole (I planned to make this last Friday and ended up not having any corn in the house!), and asparagus. I'm thinking about making an apple pie or apple crisp to have for dessert, but that's probably a bit ambitious for today. I still have a *lot* of apples from when we picked apples 2 weeks ago.
I always think of adding heavy cream to things. lol
@Kristen, Me too. And my kids are always scheming ways to just drink it. 🙂
@kristin @ going country, I drink it too. And so did my beloved pal Agatha Christie!
https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/pop-culture/article/agatha-christie-s-favorite-food-was-cream
@Rose, Yup. I've always remembered that from her autobiography. Which was pretty memorable in general.
This week looks li(e heavy spending, but picked up extra items on sale hoping less spending soon.
Meijer $102
Sam's club $158
Target $109
gas $56
Our neighbors husband passed away few weeks ago & had viewing this week so getting extra food to take to neighbor during this week which was very grateful for.
Teen & I both still up & down on feeling better. Now not entirely sure if only allergies. So eating out of freezer & pantry, leftovers & some days nothing.
•Pancakes (few days)
•Chicken strips with Checkers & Ralley fries
•pizza (teen)
•American fries with scrambled eggs
•meatball subs with bbq & shredded cheese
•tortellini with garlic toast
•grilled cheese sandwiches
•popcorn
Dogs eating leftovers that are from last week, so no food waste & happy spoiled dogs.
"Nursing school has such a weird schedule, you can’t exactly get into a routine. Every week is different!"
As they ask about software, "Is this a bug or a feature?" I'm wondering if the method to the madness of nursing school is to acclimate you to strange/disruptive/unpredictable schedules.
Haha, it definitely could be!
I think I can remember everything this week....
Sunday: pork roast with sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, peas, green beans, watermelon, and we had cinnamon muffin top cookies for dessert
Monday: chicken burrito bowls
Tuesday: homemade broccoli & cheddar soup, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches
Wednesday: we ate at the local baseball game (free tickets thanks to hubby's work)....I had a sausage sandwich, a bag of doritos and a box of popcorn
Thursday: chicken salads, cheesy breadsticks
Friday: tonight we will be eating at hubby's work family night....they're having food trucks there, so hopefully some yummy fare....
Kristen, the lasagna rolls from Wed. night may be of interest to you. Prepare, freeze and you have a quick meal when you are home alone. I believe it is in the ATK cooking for two. If not, I’ll email the recipe to you. Also, you might like this site or borrow her cookbook from your library: Dessert for Two - Dessert for Two
WIS Roche Bros $12; $4.50; Aldi $82.36; Crocetti’s (meat market) $35 meat stock up; apple farm $9
WWA
Friday—I watched the grandkids. Made pizza and chicken nuggets
Saturday—Meatloaf, vegetable
Sunday—Salad and eggplant “rollatini”—Well, eggplant failed at the roll. My slicing was poor. So it became more of a layered eggplant. The eggplant worked up nice and crispy and the filling was good and most important—the husband said it was good; and he doesn’t care for eggplant usually. Where he liked it, I’ll try it again to accomplish a proper rollatini.
Monday—I had been at a club tea in the afternoon, so I was not ready to eat at dinner. I gave my husband the remaining meatloaf and vegetables.
Tuesday—work day. My family is falling apart around me. My oldest brother’s wife was discharged from the hospital after a fall on Sunday. When I got home from work, I picked up my grandson from karate and brought him home. Then I picked up my SIL’s dog from my house and brought him home. I sat there and chatted with my SIL and her sister for a while. I do not know what my husband ate.
Wednesday—from ATK Manicotti rolls from Cooking for Two, tomatoes from the garden. There was leftover ricotta from the eggplant on Sunday, a bit of leftover tomato sauce and I had lasagna noodles in the pantry. The recipe I use makes 6 rolls, is from America’s test kitchen. There are two left for lunch tomorrow.
Thursday—Chicken marsala, fettucine alfredo, peas I had some noodles to use up, made my on alfredo sauce.
My husband & I went out for dinner on Friday, as a date ahead of a very crazy September, where we will not see much of each other. We shared a salad & a burger.
Saturday - I made an orzo chicken skillet that we all enjoyed.
Sunday = I flew to Japan for work, and ate dinner on the flight. Chicken curry + salad. I ordered room service when I made it to my hotel, 14 hours later (technically Monday). I had a "power bowl", which was chicken & quinoa on a large bowl of veggies. I hadn't eaten in so long that I was starving, and also ordered truffle fries, which were delicious. 😉
Tuesday - I wasn't very hungry after a large lunch (ramen, gyozas & rice), & had a banana back in my room.
Wednesday - I ordered a burger + salad & skipped the bun
Thursday - I had a chicken sandwich & salad + a banana I brought from the office
Friday - I'm back home & have a grand total of zero energy. I have some Bare breaded chicken in the oven, and I made a caprese salad out of a few things I found in the bridge.
No clue what everyone else ate when I was gone, but I saw leftover pizza in the fridge, so definitely that. 😉
I haven't added up my grocery totals, but we ate pineapple teriyaki chicken, coconut curried lentils, chicken in the instant pot, hamburger soup from the freezer, hamburgers, and blueberry pancakes with bacon on the side. We ate lots of tomatoes, because we had been given a very large bag of them. I also made some broccoli strawberry salad and coleslaw with raisins.