WIS, WWA | I cooked!
This week felt a bit like a new kind of normal; we are settling in here at our new house and I've been doing a little more cooking.
And this coming week should be even better since I'm done with school!
What I Spent
Here's how my spending went this week:
- $114 at Aldi
- $23 at Lidl
- $18 at the mall food court
So, $155 for me this week.
I still think this is probably higher than what I'll eventually settle in at; the problem right now is that my pantry is still pretty bare, so whenever I want to make something, I have to buy all of the ingredients.
Time will tell!
What We Ate
Saturday
Zoe and I went to the mall (to return that extra prom dress), to Target (for another return), and to Staples (for some desk chair mats to protect the floors here), so we ate dinner at the mall food court.
Incidentally, I can tell my brain is still thinking about stuff I learned in biology last spring, because when I looked at these food court stools, I thought, "Those look like thylakoids!"
(thylakoids are membrane-bound compartments inside chloroplasts, and they are often found in stacks, called grana.)
Sunday
I made myself a salad while Zoe was at youth group, and I do not remember what she ate when she got home!
Monday
I made some sausage meatballs, boiled some cheese tortellini, and dumped a jar of Aldi marinara sauce on top of it all. Fruit on the side.
Tuesday
Zoe ate leftover tortellini before her class, while I ate avocado toast.
Sonia came over after class and I made her some scrambled eggs. Also, since it was the girls' last night of the semester, I made some Rice Krispy treats, which they love.
Wednesday
Zoe was with some friends, so I was on my own at dinner. I cut up some Hungry Harvest tomatoes that needed to be used:
And I heated up some jalapeno bratwurst.
My first attempt at the toasted bun went slightly awry (and it set off the smoke detectors.)
I texted a photo of it to Zoe and I said, "I think this bun is carcinogenic."
Also: IMAGINE HOW CRUNCHY IT WOULD BE.
I threw it into the fire pit. 😉
Thursday
I made chicken tikka masala and we ate that with naan, grapes, and sliced cucumbers.
Friday
Zoe's having a sleepover with a friend, so I'll be feeding just me. I might make a naan pizza. Or maybe I will finish up the package of bratwurst (and try not to set off the smoke alarms this time!)
Very uninspired this week. Three after school meetings and MAY TIRED.
S- burgers on the grill with all the fixings homemade baked beans
M-leftover burgers chips n salsa
T- ham and cheese wraps cucumber salad
W- red sauce in slow cooker with browned sausage from freezer over polenta leftover cucumber salad
Th- frozen pizza strawberries cabbage slaw
F- out for Mexican for hubby’s bday
3 weeks of school left.
All my herbs are now planted. Yay.
@Stephanie, our school got out at noon Wednesday but MAY TIRED is so very how we all feel!
@Karen., thank goodness you are done. This year has been brutal.
@Stephanie,
We have one week left, and I've been doing all of our end of year kindergarten traditions (I'm a kindergarten teacher) while fighting a cold that took my voice away! MAY TIRED is my new favorite phrase haha
Sunday: my parents brought us a huge takeout lunch, so we just snacked for dinner
Monday: roasted chicken with rice and a salad
Tuesday: cabbage-based stir-fry with leftover chicken, on rice
Wednesday: my husband made pasta and tomato sauce, both from scratch.
Thursday: leftovers, plus my dad made us pizza.
Tonight: likely tilapia with roasted zucchini, asparagus, and rice
It's the last full week of school this week and to say we are busy is an understatement. So my menu refected that....
Saturday: made sloppy joes for kids, hubby and I did date night with chipotle
Sunday: cookout for nephew's First Communion (I took veggie tray)
Monday: salad (used up leftover veggies from tray) topped with microwaved chicken nuggets.
Tuesday: pulled already cooked pork loin out-of freezer, shells and cheese and green beans.
Wednesday: spaghetti with red sauce
Thursday: McDonald's
Tonight: maybe frozen pizza if I get to the store or takeout pizza (depends on work).
Sounds like easy Summer meals! Monday we had pulled pork BBQ on buns/slaw/potato salad. Tuesday was quicky rigatoni with meat sauce/salad. Wednesday was pork tenderloin/rice/broccoli. And last night (Thursday) Hubby and I went out alone for Mexican food as our daughter was catching up on end of year homework before school lets out (we split an order of fajitas and 1/2 pitcher of Margaritas!). Tonight I'm making some French bread pizzas from the freezer we need to cook, with salad on the side. I'd like to try that bratwurst you made, and I LOVE Indian food but have never attempted making it!
I was slightly sick this week so meals were repeated a few times. I had baked sweet potatoes with eggs and vegetable stir-fry a couple of times. I also made veggie chilli and burritos and think I will make stewed aubergine with tomato and pasta tonight.
I benefited from cooking-once, eating-twice this week. And more eat-at-home than usual, because I'm working to empty the fridge and freezer ahead of a five week trip overseas to see our DD and family. (GD's time ahead, yeah! 🙂 )
Sun- Rotisserie chicken (the dark meat), baked sweet potato, sauteed green beans
Mon- Chile verde chicken enchiladas (from white meat of above chicken), sauteed yellow squash
Tue- Ham and fresh spring pea & leek soup (to use up last of Easter ham, which I'd stuck in freezer), garlic toast
Wed- Leftover enchiladas
Thur- Leftover soup
Fri- Turkey burgers on brioche buns (so yum those buns!), green salad
Sat- Teriyaki grilled salmon, rice, sauteed spinach
The bun might have been a tad overcooked :).
WIA:
Soup leftovers from the freezer.
The day my daughter took me out for lunch I had a whole grilled fish all to myself, so that night was a light meal that I don't remember... maybe a sandwich on gluten-free "bread?"
Pork chops, okra and mashed sweet potato.
Meatloaf, broccoli with cheese on top, cooked carrots.
Rest of the chops, okra and applesauce.
Meatloaf, carrots, and more okra. I cooked a huge pan of okra this week.
I was late getting home last night and just cooked a little bacon and eggs.
For several nights I had a new recipe for dessert of "brownies" made from sweet potato, a little cassava flour, carob, and coconut. They satisfied a craving for dessert, but weren't really much like brownies to me.
I ordered organic beef, pork, poultry and dairy this week from 3 farms, so my bill is up there. So far it's at about $170, and I still have some more stuff to get, but I'll be stocked for a while at least.
I was really jet lagged from a work trip this weekend (when I normally do meal prep & cooking), plus had a very full work week & the first week of finals (teens) & soccer tryouts. The meals reflect the wild times.
Friday - husband heated a frozen lasagna
Saturday - grilled burgers
Sunday - tacos
Monday - leftover lasagna
Tuesday - leftover burgers
Wednesday - tacos
Thursday - I tapped out on meal prep, after a crazy work day & we celebrated the first final (Spanish 3) being complete. We picked up Greek food.
Friday - we have tennis practice tonight, so I think we'll wrap up any leftovers, & I'll finish the leftover takeout.
Next week needs to be a bit more creative, but I'm having a virtual APAC week (was originally supposed to travel to Japan, but COVID made that difficult). I have late nights most of the week, so I need to prep & cook on the weekend, & stick to reheating on the weekdays.
I think you could just say you had a roll au flambe... 😉
WIS: 492.98 at Aldi. This included some major stocking up.
WWA:
Sat: salad, sweet potato chips in the air fryer, scrambled eggs and rolls.
Sun: salad, watermelon, sweet potato chips, and shrimp and chorizo paella with cauliflower and green peas.
Mon: salad, watermelon and assorted leftovers
Tue: salad and more leftovers
Wed: salad, scrambled eggs, sourdough pancakes, bread with camembert cheese baked in the middle, and strawberries from the farm share.
Thu: salad, rice, bean and chorizo chili with peppers, tomatoes and zucchini (made a huge amount, so we ate 1/4, put another 1/4 in the fridge for later this week and put the other half into two containers in the freezer for later)
Tonight: salad, leftover rice, and salmon (too hot for focaccia)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Let's see...
Sunday we had grilled chicken, roasted cauliflower and potatoes and a salad
Monday night we had pizza and a salad
Tuesday night we had leftover lemon shrimp pasta from Saturday.
Wednesday we had chicken sandwiches with grilled chicken, bbq sauce, etc., a salad and roasted potatoes
Thursday night we had burritos with ground turkey and the rest of a bag of peppers and onions from the freezer, rice and beans
Tonight we're having a mix of leftovers: pizza, burrito stuff and a new salad.
Nothing super inspiring this week but we did work on cleaning out the freezer a bit by eating the shrimp, pizza crust, chicken, ground turkey and the frozen veggies!
It does take a while to fill an empty pantry. Spices are especially expensive to buy. I sent a box of spices to my son when he moved into his new home in a different state last year.
This week I spent approximately $135 for 2 people. All meals were eaten at home. As usual, we ate leftovers from the previous evening for lunch. This is what we ate:
Saturday - Burrito Bowls with a raw spinach base. I guess technically this is a salad.
Sunday - Chicken Meat Loaf, roasted sweet potatoes and carrots.
Monday - Leftovers. I made a lot on Sunday and Monday.
Tuesday - Rice Noodles with peanut sauce (lots of veggies and chicken)
Wednesday - Rotisserie chicken, rice, salad. The local natural food grocer has organically raised chickens for $5 on Wednesdays Five Buck Clucks
Thursday - hamburgers, French fries, raw veggies (DH cooked. He has a narrow repertoire.)
Friday - Mediterranean Fish
Have a great weekend everyone!!!!!
Saturday - took my son to an evening mass with family at my grandmother’s church and then we had dinner at her house after. It was lasagna and spaghetti, garlic bread, and I contributed a spinach salad. It would have been disastrous trying to bring my daughter to a mass so she stayed home with dad and ate leftovers.
Sunday - inspired by my takeout for 1 the previous week (ordering Indian food that only I ate) I made chicken salad, which is another food that I love but no one else in my family cares for. I had that for dinner, the kids had leftover spaghetti from the night before, my husband had leftover pizza from a birthday party we’d attended earlier that day. And then I had delicious chicken salad leftover for lunch every day this week!
Monday - the new oven has an air fryer setting so I tested that out with air fryer chicken drumsticks. Had those with twice baked potatoes and steamed broccoli
Tuesday - oven fajitas and corn
Wednesday - salad night (we have an oak leaf lettuce plant that sprung up on it own and is massive in size, we’ve been slowly chipping away at it by trying to eat a lot of salad) big salad with chicken for the adults, kids had an assortment of chicken, cheese and veggies. Served with canned biscuits
Thursday - Swedish meatballs served over egg noodles
Friday - it was supposed to be easy chicken Parmesan (frozen chicken patty with jarred sauce and mozzarella on top) but I somehow forgot to buy mozzarella and my son mentioned yesterday how we haven’t had Taco Bell in a looooong time and he wished we could go there (and it’s not just kid exaggeration, we haven’t been there in several months) so I may do that for dinner instead (it’s still very cheap too since the kids split the value menu bean and rice burrito)
In my very penniless early adult years, I remember going to Taco Bell and buying a bean burrito. I think it was something like $0.89 back then!
@Kristen, Yes, I really enjoyed those bean burritos in my single adult days! They are now $1.49 (at least here in California they are) but that’s still not much at all.
Well, it was 25 years ago that I was buying them (!), so I think that's a reasonable level of inflation.
That first bun was beyond even the trick of using the grater to sand off the char. 😀
WIS: Around $154. Approximately $100 at Food Lion, and $54 with VitaCost.
WWA: Lunch is our big meal: we don't really eat supper unless we're eating out. So I made a quinoa-chickpea-feta salad for myself for Saturday-Wednesday and ate it with carrot sticks and tangerines. Thursday's lunch was veggies and turkey sausage. Friday (today) is half a turkey wrap, some Sun chips and a pickle slice leftover from eating out Thursday night. For my husband, I made cubed steak in the crockpot with carrots, onions and potatoes. He had a corned beef sandwich Thursday night.
Our summer schedule is keeping us on our toes with soccer games other outdoor activities - I was gifted a meal prep cookbook for Mother's Day which I think is going to be heavily used.
Saturday - my husband and I decided last minute to make a decadent Mac and Cheese since it was just the two of us (cooking together is like date night)
Sunday - steaks, leftover mac and cheese, roasted cauliflower
Monday - Husband's company hosted a fundraiser so I joined for dinner after I got off work, my son decided to just eat snacks
Tuesday - Cheeseburger Soup (easy feed-yourself meal for a soccer night)
Wednesday - Cuban Pork Loin, brown rice, raw veggies
Thursday - weekly leftover night (another easy feed-yourself meal for a soccer night)
Friday - my son has an end of the year school celebration and we have been invited to a gathering. We may go, we may have buffalo chicken lettuce wraps, it all depends on where the day takes us.
I love seeing what everyone ate the week before! It helps me meal plan for next week.
Last night I had a Tex mex casserole, corn, and salad
Wednesday I had German pancakes and some fruit for dinner. I got home late and that sounded east and yummy.
Tuesday I had bbq chicken salads from Mel’s kitchen cafe and rolls on the side.
Monday I went to a church dinner where I built my own taco salad.
Sunday was a panini sandwich day. Sandwiches are significantly elevated in my opinion when you they are hot.
Yay cooking and feeling more settled! Those sorts of buns become chicken food at our house.
Saturday: I had cooked a pork shoulder the day before when it was cooler, and saved the juices and fat. I used those to make pork and gravy, and then we also had mashed potatoes, baked sauerkraut, and green peas
Sunday: There were six rooster drumsticks still in the freezer that had been separated from the larger carcasses, so I fried those for my children. I also made cornbread for them with the buttermilk pancake batter from our after-church breakfast. The yogurt I used made them too soft and custard-y, so I added a cup of cornmeal to the leftover batter and made it into cornbread. Flat, but tasty. My husband and I had leftover pork, etc., everyone had cucumbers, roasted sweet potatoes, and the kind of banana ice cream made only from frozen bananas and milk, except I always add cocoa powder.
Monday: Last of the pork shoulder diced, with two bags of frozen stir-fry vegetables, plus soy sauce, vinegar, ginger, garlic powder, and peanut butter made for a very quick after-work stir-fry. I also made rice, of course.
Tuesday: Sirloin steaks, garlic bread and some random rolls I made when I was baking bread that I thought I could use the next night but of course all got devoured after dinner, leftover mashed potatoes, sauteed and raw green beans according to preference
Wednesday: The school cook sent me home Monday with a bunch of leftover pulled pork, which we ate this night with leftover rice or bread and butter, frozen peas, and sauerkraut for those who wanted it.
Thursday: Last day of school! Celebratory spaghetti with pesto for the children, leftover steak, and raw tomatoes. I ate the last of the cafeteria pork and sauerkraut, which I didn't bother heating up because I was way too hot.
Tonight: The school cook sent home the leftovers of the last-day-of-school lunch, which was corn dogs, tater tots, and green beans. My kids are thrilled to get a second round of these very untypical for us foods. Enjoy it, kids. It's nothing but Mom's boring food for the rest of the summer . . .
I've been eating jalapeno bratwursts too! Actually, yesterday I was eating the last one, tripped and it was down my beagle's throat in a matter of seconds.
Well, that was a crushing blow! It's not like you could go heat up another one if he ate the last one.
I really love the mango jalapeno Aidell's chicken sausages, but that variety is tough to find. Do you have a favorite jalapeno bratwurst brand?
We sorted and inventoried the freezers last Friday evening (such a fun couple chore, haha). Intent now is to eat from the freezers so is going to require creativity. Grocery shopping was mainly dairy and produce but still spent $156 CDN. WWA:
Saturday-chicken schnitzel, spaetzle, ratatouille made from CSA veggies I froze last summer (surprisingly very good)
Sunday-eggplant parmesan, rice crispy squares (last minute dessert after someone ate the bananas needed for the banana cream pie)
Monday-cabbage roll skillet, mashed potatoes
Tuesday-leftovers
Wednesday-carrot soup (from frozen CSA veg), baguette
Thursday-shrimp burgers, oven fries
Friday-one of the several pre-made meals we found in the freezer
Wishing everyone a lovely weekend.
My daughter is housesitting for a friend so she has been gone all week which just leaves my husband and I.
Sunday- Grilled a package of bacon wrapped sirloin, also had baked potatoes, salad, and bread
Monday- leftover steak became steak salad with garlic bread and I made a low carb cream cheese pound cake with berries
Tuesday- shrimp scampi, ravioli, salad, bread
Wednesday- homemade bean soup with bread
Thursday- leftover bean soup with bread
Friday- pizza night
I am once again learning that we don’t need very much food on hand or we waste it. Cooking for 2 people is way more challenging than 3. It was also eye opening how quickly we could cook, eat, and clean up when it was just the two of us. I decided I need to order more freezer containers and freeze part of what we make for a future dinner more often because eating leftovers doesn’t always work for us.
I'm having to figure that out too! For right now, it's just Zoe and me, and then for the summer, Lisey will be added to the mix.
Still, a far cry from the days when I fed six people every night, so it's an adjustment.
@Beth and @Kristen, I'm still working on going from cooking for two to one (almost a year later), so I hear you both on the adjustments. One consolation is that all those freezer containers of leftover soup from this past winter are going to come in handy when I start having major dental work at the end of June.
@Beth,
I had a difficult time adjusting to cooking appropriate quantities when my children left home. I did not realize how much my sons ate until they moved away. We ate a lot of leftovers, and I froze a lot of meals while making that adjustment.
Now when everyone comes home to visit, I feel like I no longer know how to cook.
@Bee,
This is me, too. Two sons left, we adjusted. Adjusted back on their visits from college/work. Back to cooking for two. Now, they’ve married and one had a kiddo—and I’m suddenly cooking for seven when they visit! And they both live in other states so visits are a week or two. . .yikes.
@Beth, Yes. Learning to shop and cook for one is tricky. If I make potato salad I have to eat it every meal so it won't go bad. A dozen eggs last longer than the expiration date. Right now I want a hot dog but I just want one, not one every day for a week or more. Same with salad, it's always too much. Everything ends up in the freezer where it gets tough and dry and old. If ya'll figure this out please write about it.
I'm considering getting a small chest freezer for my rental, just so that I can freeze things without being concerned about freezer burn.
When I'm cooking just for myself, I often make quick single-serving things, like a single bowl of salad, or a plate of eggs and veggies. But I have never had to feed just myself for a long period of time. I cooked for my family of six during my teenage years, and went straight into getting married, and then I had four kids in fairly short order.
@Tiana, @Kristen
The thing is, your quality and standard of eating is going to change. I've read your pizza recipe. You put a lot of effort into having it just so. You are never going to eat a whole fresh pizza, it will get reheated or frozen and reheated. Still tasty but not as good. Companies go to a lot of trouble and expense to create frozen meals that reheat well. There are very few things that I make and put in the freezer and like when I reheat it. So I guess I'm just fighting lowered expectations and trying not to give up and just open a can of beans and peaches every few days.
@Tiana,
May I humbly suggest the air fryer as an excellent reheating machine for leftovers. Things don't taste the same necessarily, but some things taste better. Think twice baked potatoes better.
And Kristen, I do think you should get a small chest freezer, even if you don't end up using it for leftovers, it will just increase your cooking options. You could, for example, make only a partial bag of frozen tortellini, and keep the rest for another night. Or keep a big bag of shredded cheese in there to use in small amounts as needed. I think they are invaluable for keeping ingredients, especially. I like to buy large portions of meat or fish and repackage them for the freezer. I imagine that might help you scale down your cooking too-you could still buy the cheaper "family packs," but separate everything into one portion sizes in ziplocks and then you just have to defrost between 1-4 chicken legs or whatever depending on who's eating with you.
This week has been so crazy and hectic. Returning from vacation, HVAC issues, gutters to be replaced, doctor's appointments, a sick doggie and the last days of Kindergarten. The menu definitely reflects a Mama flying by the seat of her pants but everyone was fed!
I spent $154 @ Publix this week.
Saturday - we ate Chipoltle as this was our travel days back from the beach.
Sunday - I made a huge pot of spaghetti with meat sauce, a green salad & garlic bread.
Monday - Leftovers
Tuesday - Leftovers for some and chicken noodle soup for some.
Wednesday - Leftovers for some and chicken noodle soup for some.
Thursday - second HVAC repair of the week & I gave in and ordered take out BBQ for dinner.
Friday - I have thawed a pork roast and I will roast it with homemade apricot jam and whole grain mustard. Mashed potatoes and green beans. Here's hoping that this meal will get me back into my family's good graces 🙂
Cheers to the weekend!
Busy time on the farm right now.
I like to cook simple and then leftovers morph into a new meal.
Sunday - grilled hamburgers + green salad
Monday - freezer soup + green salad
Tuesday - stir fry with rice
Wednesday - Asian Cabbage Salad
Thursday - Stir fry with leftover Asian Cabbage Salad and freezer veggies
Friday - refrigerator soup made with rotisserie chicken stock and whatever veg and protein leftover in the fridge.
Saturday will be big batch of slow cooker marinara to freeze + green salad
The overtoasted bun reminds me of something my mother used to say every time something came out a little, eh, overdone (which was often; we loved her dearly, but not for her cooking): "They say charcoal is good for the stomach."
I don't remember the exact WIS, but it was probably a bit higher this week than usual, as I was stocking up on chicken: Price Chopper had family packs of drums and thighs on sale for 99 cents/lb., for what I'm guessing may be the last time (what with inflation, supply chain issues, and avian flu). Dinners this week, accordingly, were mostly chicken. Veggies included the first local asparagus from the Regional Market (pricey but totally worth it), green beans from Wegmans, and sweet potatoes.
I have a hard time believing that bun would have settled anyone's stomach. Heh.
@A. Marie,
We got first of the season asparagus too and $$$. It will be the only asparagus of the season if it remains at $7.50.
For that price, I wasn't just roasting it. It was going into something special, so we made Alison Roman's Ricotta Dumplings with Asparagus and Peas. So good!
my chemo week is every other week and pretty much takes me out of proper meal prep for at least 3 or 4 days. i try to cook ahead the weekend before but it was unseasonably hot here and i just couldn't do it. so we had some make do dinners but in looking back over them, they really could have been a whole lot worse. oh, and i apologize for no capital letters, still haven't had by keyboard fixed.
saturday - premade frozen hamburgers and a green salad.
sunday - roast chicken, sweet potato mash, green beans.
monday - spicy chicken and tomato penne in the instant pot - used up the last of our frozen garden tomatoes from last year.
tuesday - frozen chicken cordon bleu, broccoli, leftover sweet potato mash.
wednesday - spicy italian sausage, president's choice mac and cheese, green salad.
thursday - frozen pan fried chinese dumplings and a packaged dill pickle salad.
note - tuesday, wednesday, thursday i'm hooked up to chemo and if i haven't cooked the weekend before like this week, we rely on frozen premade stuff that i try to buy on sale and keep on hand. i do try to buy high quality frozen food so that nutritional needs are still met.
friday - planning to cook porkchops, asparagus, baby potatoes but if i lose my energy it might be an order pizza night.
looking forward to next week as eldest dd is home and she's become a very good cook.
Oh, I'm so glad you will have some cooking help next week.
I have obviously not been in your shoes, but I know when I was pregnant and nauseous, cooking was nigh onto impossible. So, I can imagine how difficult it is to get dinner on the table for you. I think you are doing an amazing job.
@Leann, I simply can't imagine cooking for a family while having chemo. All possible praise to you. And I too relied on frozen convenience foods bought at reasonable prices in the last few months my DH was living at home. You gotta do what you gotta do.
@Leann, I think your dinner lineup would be considered a win under the best of circumstances. I continue to hold you and your family close to my heart.
We have been awash with eggs, both our own and several dozen given to us by a neighbor leaving town. So, another week with a lot of egg dishes, mostly crepes because we can wrap them around almost anything. That has included shrimp, mushrooms, sausage, and chicken, all of these with some sort of sauce each time. One day we had someone over and we made dessert crepes. We are now down to a more reasonable amount of eggs and will be having flatbread pizza tonight because we have some flatbread that needs using. Eating eggs and stuff form the freezer made for another cheap eats week, with only milk and cucumbers being purchased. Now, on to the back porch freezer this week; we need to clean it out before the garden starts producing and filling it up again.
Saturday - Pizza and breadsticks
Sunday - My daughter got to choose the menu since it was her special lunch celebration after being baptized in the morning. She chose cheeseburgers, strawberries, shells and cheese, carrots with dip, and Cheetos.
Monday - Pork chops, asparagus, broccoli, and cotton candy grapes
Tuesday - We invited friends to join us for dinner last minute, so I pulled some burgers out of the freezer and a bag of chips from the pantry to go with the brats, hot dogs, watermelon, and cauliflower with cheese that I already had planned.
Wednesday - Spaghetti and green beans
Thursday - Tacos
Friday - I don't know! I'm helping catering an event, so I assume I'll eat whatever leftovers there are. My husband is probably going to grab some burgers and veggies from the freezer... Which reminds me that I didn't make it to the store to get more buns. Whoops.
Kristen, I just wanted to say I’m over here cheering you on ☺️
Aww, thank you, Kim!
It's been very busy and it's nearly the end of school.
We ate sausage sheet pan meal, egg roll in a bowl, white beans with mushrooms and marinara (from budget bytes), grilled pork chops, and pizza. There was lots of fresh fruit and some kind of veggies, too.
I can remember having to buy a lot of food more than once. It is amazingly expensive.
This week has chugged by oh so slowly. I have tried to cook meals and everything has been wrong or rejected. The joys of cooking for the sick elderly. We have had sausages in buns with fruit, tacos which I ate for three days solid...Tonight was corned beef and vegetables, rejected and a new Gozman y Gomez opened near here so I bought a meal there. Mum's meal was rejected and mine had a chicken spine in it! So a week of spectacular fails.
Nest week has to be much better.
Curried vegetable stuffed buns, asparagus
Brats on the grill, potato salad, blueberries
Cream of asparagus soup, cheesy garlic bread
BBQ chicken wings, roasted carrots, fried potatoes, and side salads
Fish and vegetable curry with rice
Breakfast for dinner: egg, ham, and cheese bagel sandwiches with fresh fruit on the side
Our school did a fundraiser with a local restaurant so we got takeout fish fries for dinner Friday.
Oh, yum your Thursday dinner looked so good! I have been off since Thursday getting stuff done at my house, but I managed to get so much done! {this is no small thing as it has really started feeling like summer here and most of my projects have been outside} This week:
Monday - Shrimp Tacos instead of the shrimp salad I was planning, and they did not disappoint.
Tuesday - Chicken Breast cubes with Lemon Feta Rosemary Potatoes, peas
Wednesday - Tacos again - this time with ground beef instead of the Taco Mac I was planning because, tacos.
Thursday - I ordered from Chuy's and I am not sad about it.
Friday - Happy Hour at The Girl's apartment - she fixed us some meatballs with gluten free pasta and canned peas and I ate every bit of it because I was so hungry~!~!
Saturday - TBD but I pick up my groceries at 7:30 so I'm sure it will be takeout and most likely...tacos.
Sunday - Grilled Pork Chop, risotto, peppers
Monday - No idea... it would have been random as I was low on groceries
Tuesday - Boxed pizza - I was in town all day and not home for dinner
Wednesday - Burger and Beans on Bread (my husband's specialty)
Thursday - Rotini bake with chicken, mushrooms, parm & mozz and wild asparagus
Friday - Leftovers
Saturday - Lasagna made with l/o homemade spaghetti sauce & green salad
Sunday - hotdogs over the campfire and corn/chili cheese frito salad & s'mores