WIS, WWA | In a hurry
As I begin to type this, it's 9:15 pm, and I am really supposed to be in bed at 9:30 pm because I have another shift tomorrow. And I still haven't showered.
(I am not about to put my sweaty hospital self into my clean bed!)
But I did eat dinner, wash my lunch dishes, pack lunch for tomorrow, and make coffee for tomorrow morning.
I got stuck at work an hour over my shift today, so my time is a little tight this evening (I didn't get home until 8:30 pm!)
I have made peace with the fact that I'm not gonna be in bed at 9:30, but I am gonna try to speed run the process of writing this blog post.
What I Spent
I spent:
- $23 at Safeway
- $8 at Aldi
And that includes my eating at Jim Thorpe because I cooked all my meals!
What We Ate
Saturday
I don't remember where Zoe was, but I had scrambled eggs in corn tortillas with salsa.
Sunday
We had pulled chicken sandwiches plus watermelon.
Monday
I was at Jim Thorpe, and I had shrimp, asparagus, and mashed potatoes. 🙂
My rental had a kitchen so I took advantage of it!
Tuesday
I had more mashed potatoes, plus a sauteed pepper and some tilapia.
Wednesday
I got home from my trip Wednesday evening; Zoe had eaten a frozen pizza, and I ate some rotisserie chicken, which I had picked up mainly to help me with work lunches the next two days.
Thursday
Like I said earlier, I got stuck late at work, so we just ate ham sandwiches for dinner.
Friday
I don't know, and I don't have time right now to think about it because I gotta GO TO BED.
But first, a shower. 😉 And it's 9:30 pm right now, which means I got this done in 15 minutes. Short and sweet. 😉
Good Morning. It's surgery day. It was supposed to be yesterday, but I got bumped. In any case, I am so ready.
The house is clean, the laundry is caught up and I have cooked meals to cover several days. It was good to inventory the refrigerator and make sure that anything perishable got worked into a meal. I may not feel like eating a lot, but it's already to go when I do.
@Sandra,
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
@Sandra, I don't know what surgery you're having, but regardless, I wish you the mental space to recover quickly and hope your body follows along swiftly, too! <3
@Sandra, Sounds like you're all prepared for a good recovery. Praying for a good procedure and speedy healing!
@Sandra,
You sound well prepared. Go you! Wishing you good pain control, and as quick a recovery as is possible. 🙂
@Sandra, wishing you an easy and speedy recovery!
@Sandra, Thinking of you at this time and wishing you all the good things including a quick recovery.
Your dinners on your trip look delicious!
This week we had:
Saturday - My middle kiddo turned 8 this weekend and he requested pizza for his birthday party. We got the pizza from Little Caesar's, then got frozen breadsticks that I baked at home (they were delicious and are motivating us to try to make a copycat version sometime), strawberries, and ice cream cake. At this stage of life, I love when my kids pick ice cream cake. It's so easy to make! I've decorated a lot of very elaborate cakes in the past and they were fun, but I feel very done with that for now. At least I have 7 months until the next birthday!
Sunday - We had family over to celebrate and had a taco bar, fruit salad, and pumpkin pie.
Monday - Enchiladas (a dinner plan pivot because it was cool enough to turn on the oven!)
Tuesday - Quesadillas and cherries
Wednesday - Grilled brat chunks and veggies (like a sheet pan dinner, but on the grill) and cantaloupe
Thursday - Burgers, air fryer homemade fries, zucchini, baked beans, and fruit. Then we made funnel cakes for dessert. We're going to the fair tonight and want to do it for as low-cost as we can, so we made funnel cakes at home to give us the fair feel without spending a bunch of money.
Friday - A crock-pot penne dish and green beans before we go to the fair. They have really cheap and really delicious ice cream and milkshakes there (made with milk from the cows that are there all week) and we will have that for dessert.
@Ruth T, I've always done very elaborate cakes for my kids--I liked the challenge and always told the kids they could ask for just about anything. I've done numerous hobbit hole cakes, a Doors of Moria cake, penguin cakes, polar bear cakes, Spiderman, Batman, and a Stargate cake. Then one of my kids heard about ice cream cakes and we switched to those. Now they are pretty done with fancy cakes, which is a little sad but like you, I'm okay with it!
@Ruth T,
My family and I went to our county fair last week, and I discovered - gasp! - that my husband *doesn't like funnel cakes*, and neither does my son. What the whaaaaa??? I am devastated.
Also, I would love it if our county fair had cheap ice cream and milkshakes available....sadly, it's not a thing. Expensive ice cream and milkshakes, yes. Maybe it's a thing at our state fair?.
How is it possible to not like a funnel cake???
@Liz B., Fairs are no longer frugal. It costs about $20 for adult admissions at our local county fair plus $15 parking, just to get in. The food booths are expensive, and they inspect bags so you can't even bring in an EMPTY water cup or bottle to fill at the water fountains or share a drink. Since my kids are grown, I don't see any fun in walking around on a hot day and spending a lot of money for fluids and junk food (I was never much of a fair food aficionado).
There were things I used to enjoy, like the hall of flowers (always a themed exciting display) the arts and crafts buildings, and the vendors hawking their wares, BUT those buildings have no AC and it's too hot these days when they are crowded with people. We don't do the carnival and rides without kids, but it's $50 per person for unlimited rides!
@Karen A., Ooh! I am fascinated by your Lord of the Rings cakes!! Very cool!
@Liz B., I prefer elephant ears (which are a regional thing, it turns out... kind of a cousin to a funnel cake), but I have to tell you... I might be done with funnel cakes now. My stomach was furious with me last night after I ate it. It would have preferred a salad. Ha! It was definitely one of those, "I'm getting older" moments.
@Jan, Oh bummer! Our fair lets kids in for free and parking is free. My kids are at the age where lots of their friends have 4-H animals or exhibits, so it's definitely worth going. We're in a very rural county in the Midwest.
A hall of flowers sounds really neat!
@Jan,
Yikes, that's a lot of money just to get into your fair! I agree, not frugal at all! We do try and go every year, and were pleasantly surprised that *this* year, it cost us $16 for all three of us to get in....and admission *included* the cost of rides. Parking is free. Of course, Dear Son, who at the tender age of 14, finally rode a roller coaster for the first time earlier this summer (at the big amusement park in our area) and is now a roller coaster expert (ha ha, sarcasm + eyeball roll) proclaimed the fair rides "lame". DH is not a ride enthusiast, so we skipped it. Sigh. the food is crazy expensive, but it's only once a year, so not a huge deal. We really enjoy looking at all of the 4-H animals and the award winning jams, jellies, pies, etc.
@Ruth T,
I've had elephant ears before, and I like them, too! and I know what you mean about those "getting older" moments.....for me, it happens most often with spicy foods, which, of course, I love.
Impressive speed-typing. 🙂
Saturday: It cooled down enough that I could simmer chili for a few hours in the morning, so that's what I made. We also had cornbread, popsicles made from leftover smoothies, carrot sticks, and chocolate chip cookie bars.
Sunday: Still kinda cool, so the oven could be on to make meatloaf, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, cucumber and tomato salad with feta, and brownie sundaes
Monday: Still cool enough for baking! Pizzas--one cheese, one pepperoni--and the last kolhrabi from the garden.
Tuesday: The two children at home had leftover pizza. My husband had leftover chili in a Frito pie, and I just had the chili.
Wednesday: We had guests over, so I made a big dinner of lamb roast, potatoes, homemade hummus, yogurt/garlic sauce, cucumber and tomato salad with feta, and vanilla ice cream with a choice of either maple syrup, chocolate syrup, or apricot puree.
Thursday: Enough leftover potatoes and lamb for dinner again, so I just fried them together in a skillet. Frozen peas for a vegetable.
Tonight: My husband is leaving with my youngest three children to fly to New York, so it'll just be me and my eldest. I might be going to a barbecue. I found some fish chowder in the freezer that's been in there since March, but luckily, eldest son is our biggest fish lover, so he can have that if he doesn't want to come to the barbecue with me.
@kristin@going country, Turning leftover smoothies into popsicles sounds like a great idea! We have only had leftover smoothie once, I think, but my kids could get behind the idea of making some just to make popsicles. 🙂
@Ruth T, They were more icy than the dessert popsicles I usually make with heavy cream, and not as sweet, but still nice on a hot day. And I didn't waste the smoothie. 🙂
WIS: $21 at Wegmans, $60 at Price Chopper, $20 to my next-door neighbor's close friend (who has a Panera card and pays for our lunches there; I owed her for a couple), and $406 for my annual 1/4 steer.
WIA: To celebrate the arrival of the beef, I had a hamburger last night and will have another one tonight. And at some point, I'm going to have a shrimp and arugula salad, since I'm now harvesting the arugula I planted in my Easy Washer tub. One of my Sunday morning walking buddies made one of these salads that looked so good in the photo, I need to try it.
@A. Marie, I've thought of you a number of times this past week because I'm rereading Pride and Prejudice! Jane Austen always makes me think of you now and it makes me smile.
Also, that sounds like a really good price for your 1/4 steer! Enjoy!
@Ruth T, Jane Austen and I thank you. And, yes, it was an excellent price for the beef. The friends with whom I share it and I are all grateful to the friends who raise the steer for keeping the price so reasonable--especially considering that there's no comparison between this beef and supermarket beef.
I'm pretty sure everyone would understand if, every once in a while, you impersonated the White Rabbit ("I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date (with my shower)!") and just posted "Have at it, Frugal Ones! I'll catch up later!" ;-} Heaven knows this group never runs out of comments, on topic or otherwise....
@JDinNM, Hey, I resemble that remark! 🙂
@Chrissy, me too. In addition to our frugality, a trait a lot of us seem to share is the gift of gab. ;-D
#hospitallife, right? For my 12 hour work days I pack 12 meals on Friday (B,L,and D) so that all I have to do when I get home is read and go to bed.
This week I am continuing to enjoy not cooking as much and the "boys" fending for themselves. The downside is that I am eating out more. The upside is that I am logging my food in a fitness app so I am still holding myself accountable to make healthy choices.
Monday - Taco Rice (two meals of taco meat, brown rice with riced cauliflower, corn, black beans, purple onion, cheese - froze one)
Tuesday - I ate a Chicken Slammer meal, sans the soda, saved the apple pie for another meal, and sat at a local park
Wednesday - Salmon, sweet potato, spinach
Thursday - Made a chicken and rice thingy bob for one, had a peach for dessert
Friday - Takeout, and save half for a weekend meal. Haven't chosen from where - we will see how I feel about it at 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed, but I am meal prepping and will have two meals in containers, plenty of stuff for a big salad with some tuna, and will make sammies for dinner times three. Breakfast will be oatmeal, egg and sausage tacos, and high protein waffles.
Happy weekend!
It is hard to slog through with homemade meals when you are working a lot. Thanks for sharing yours!
Goodness...those long days are packed! I don't know that I could keep up with making meals in all that. I would be living on sandwiches (and probably too many chips!).
I spent nothing this week after stocking up last week.
We ate:
Saturday: kids all came over and we smoked ribs and baked beans...had mac&cheese/salad/rolls. Homemade oatmeal cream pies for dessert while we watched a movie
Sunday:hotdogs with the leftover beans/mac&cheese
Monday: we just had a salad and sandwiches after what felt like days of eating
Tuesday: brisket/roasted red potatoes/slaw
Wednesday: pork chop nuggets/potato salad/air fried okra
Thursday: chicken and rice with broccoli
Friday: We may grill out pizza tonight
My menu is still sort of by the seat of the pants, but I did at least mentally plan a good part of it. No shopping last week, so WIS was $0.
WIA, more or less...
An old standby, tuna salad with a side of cut up cucumbers and ranch dressing, twice.
Farm made pork sausage with cinnamon sweet potatoes and more cucumbers.
Sheet pan meal of pork chops, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and onion. I forgot to add the mushrooms somehow.
Roasted garden okra and garden summer squash seasoned with garlic and olive oil, and farm made beef summer sausage. And of course, cucumbers.
Frozen boom-boom shrimp (gluten-free) and cut up carrots, celery and cucumbers, with de-seeded loquats from my tree that I canned this winter.
I'm still eating carrots from this spring. It seems it really does work to put them in the crisper drawer in a zip-top bag with the air squished out after cleaning off the dirt.
Saturday- a former coworker who I haven’t seen in several years invited me and the kids to attend her son’s birthday party. She lives a bit far away so we ended up staying most of the day there and she fed us lunch and dinner, it was so nice getting to see her after so long and the kids had a lot of fun.
Sunday - it was a very cold, drizzly day so we got takeout ramen for dinner. I tried an all veggie ramen and it was delicious, I didn’t miss the meat or pork broth at all.
Monday - chicken sausage for husband and kids, lentils for me, microwaved and pan fried potato cubes, pierogis for some (there weren’t many left in the freezer and I wanted to use them up) and lemon garlic broccolini (I usually only do plain steamed veggies as that’s the way my kids are most likely to eat them, this was sort of a success though, one kid liked it the other didn’t)
Tuesday - our usual beach picnic, pb&j and turkey and cheese sandwiches, fruits and veggies for the kids, I had half a chickpea sandwich and a salad with beets and avocado.
Wednesday - I had assembled a half size lasagna (in a 9x9 pan) on Tuesday so on Wednesday when we got home later than usual due to my sons camp field trip, I just put it in the oven. Always nice when I help my future self out!
Thursday - salad night, I had a black bean burger on mine, husband had chicken on his, one kid had veggies and hummus as his “salad” along with cheese, and breadstick and the other had a turkey sandwich with avocado on the side (my 4 year old is obsessed with turkey sandwiches right now, to the point she requests them for breakfast too)
Friday - my daughter has a movie night at her preschool and they serve her dinner there (also, it’s not five frugal things but today is her last day of preschool, so I have finally made my last substantial payment for childcare, both kids will be in public school next month, hooray!) We are going to take our 6 year old out to dinner, he’s been asking to go to a fancy restaurant, our youngest isn’t capable of that yet so we are going to take him while she’s at her event. He chose a Peruvian restaurant we drive past a lot (they have string lights and heaters outside so that’s how he defines fancy)
@LB, I love your son's idea of a fancy restaurant. Kids are so great.
It's always hard to remember.
-Starting with the easy one, last night I ordered takeout for myself, DS18 & his GF. That is a super rare treat, but we were all very invested in a show we were watching & I decided that it would be fun. It was great, and we have enough for lunch leftovers today.
-DH grilled burgers, and we had those one night
-I made chicken alfredo, and we had that 2x
-I made a chicken & buttered onion rice dish that was delicious, & we had that 2x.
For tonight, we'll be at the airport, so eating there. I'll probably have a salad with protein.
This was a stock up week for us and goodness prices are insane.
I spent $175 @ Aldi, $345 @ Costco and I still have 8-10 items to pick up from Publix to finish off my list.
Saturday:
Sunday: Chili, cornbread, macaroni and cheese, green salad
Monday: Leftovers
Tuesday: Chicken Tacos with corn tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream & salsa
Wednesday: Errands so two had Jersey Mike's and two had Wendy's
Thursday: 3 of us had hotdogs from Costco and one had a ham sandwich at home
Friday: Honey Mustard Chicken drumsticks, baked sweet potatoes, & crowder peas
I'll be batch cooking this weekend to include a dense bean salad that I keep wanting to try from Instagram, a whole chicken to be shredded for salads, breakfast burritos since my lovely neighbor gave us a ton of fresh eggs, blueberry muffins, and banana bread.
I will also be making a batch of all purpose meatballs for the freezer and turkey meatloaf as well. School starts August 1st here and easy weeknight meals will be the key to stress free dinner times.
Happy Friday!
Friday: My husband requested last minute “patio time” so we went out for Arepas and drinks.
Saturday: We went out for sushi with friends for a double date night!
Sunday: Taco Squash Boats over brown rice.
Monday: Peanut Sesame Chicken Salad, Chicken Fried Rice. My husband was supposed to fly out on Monday and he’s not a fan of peanut sauce so I planned the salad. Once his trip was cancelled I added the Chicken Fried Rice so he would have something to eat that he enjoys too.
Tuesday: Air Fryer Trout, Pasta and Zucchini with Ricotta Sauce.
Wednesday: I pulled together a casserole-y type thing using up veggies bits in the fridge, the leftover pasta from Tuesday, and some ground beef.
Thursday: Pulled pork sammies, homemade buns, corn on the cob, salad.
WIS: $0
WWA: Rotisserie Chicken & Watermelon for the week, given by a friend
S: work - ate salad topped with boiled egg, ham and fresh blueberries
M: work - Chicken salad over lettuce, avocado, fresh peas, watermelon
T: chicken fajitas, watermelon
W: Chicken stirfry w/veg from garden & throw carcass into the freezer
Th: Homemade pizza w/fresh mozz & basil, green salad & watermelon
F: BLT salads, fresh baked bread from solar oven
Sat: work - taking tuna & salad, fresh plums for dessert
Wow. You are fast!
WIS: 129 and change at Aldi
WWA:
Fri: tacos (both hard shell and tortillas to make crunch wraps) with seasoned ground turkey, shredded cheese, guacamole, salsa and sour cream plus Mexican street corn, salad and diced tomatoes. We also had a few leftover frozen veggies too.
Sat: It was the last night of our vacation, and I was feeling terrible with a migraine, so my family decided to have "everything tacos" which were just the leftover tacos stuffed with whatever random leftovers we had in the fridge, including such bizarre ingredients as brussel sprouts, Mac and cheese, spinach artichoke dip, and baked ziti.
Sun: more leftover tacos, but this time we called them breakfast tacos because we stuffed them with only the breakfasty type leftovers: scrambled eggs, tater tots, Mexican street corn and peas, ground turkey and salsa, tomatoes, guacamole and sour cream. We also only used hard tacos and saved the leftover tortillas for lunch.
Mon: breakfast for dinner: waffle faces with fried egg eyes, watermelon noses, cucumber slice cheeks and grape smiles.
Tue: watermelon and cherries, rice and beans in tortillas with shredded cheddar cheese and avocado.
Wed: salad, leftover watermelon, sliced heirloom tomatoes, spaghetti and meatballs.
Thu: salad, leftover watermelon, hotdogs with tikka masala from a microwave pouch on top. We are calling them Tikka dogs. Mango mochi for dessert.
Tonight: focaccia's back, baby!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
@Becca, For a "strawberry poppyseed salad dressing update"... I have been keeping my eyes peeled in the Aldi Finds section with no luck, but I did find some in the refrigerated section at Meijer this week! It's $5 a bottle, though, so I'm passing for now. Maybe in a few months when I need a taste of summer I will splurge for it, but for now I'll just keep hoping that Aldi brings it back.
@Ruth T,
Maybe try another Aldi? Mine still had it last time I looked, so I thought of you and bought another bottle for later.
12 hour shifts are tough (not always the shift itself, but the limited time outside of work to get it all done before you go back sucks). I had 2 tiny kids and an hour commute one way, so absolutely nothing got done on the 3-4 days I worked. I had read the suggestion on a blog (possibly yours?) to "fill the grill" when cooking, and then use the extra proteins for lunches and quick dinners during the week.
So my "Sunday" before going back to work I would cook a huge meal that had lots of leftovers that reheated well, and prep veggies so I could put together filling salads to compliment the grilled meats. I'd also bake a pasta type casserole that was good warmed up (lasagna, pasta bake, chicken spaghetti, etc) that could be portioned out for lunches and dinners during the week. Husband and I both packed breakfast and lunch daily for work because we'd rather be able to rest on our breaks than try to find food (my work had a gym so I'd usually work out on my lunchbreak so I could shower then and have one less thing to do at night while getting kids to bed).
Hope you find what works best for you and your schedule!
Yes! 100% the challenge is the limited time outside of work.
Thanks for posting. Even a short post is great. Eating everything we can before vacation. Small park tenderloin with roasted red potatoes and salad. Rice and pan sautéed chicken with roasted broccoli. Hot dogs with chips and fruit(kids thrilled). Fajitas and refried beans. Spaghetti and meatballs more broccoli. A neighbor brought over dinner and we got 2 meals out of it. Hope you get lots of rest this weekend.
What we spent:
$26- Harris Teeter
$121.05- Aldi
$65.90- Local grocery
What we ate:
Grilled hamburgers, summer squash, potatoes, and green tomatoes
Pasta with jarred sauce, frozen meatballs, and frozen cauliflower
Chicken cacciatore with pasta
Stir fry made from last week’s leftover cabbage salad plus chicken thighs with ramen noodles and frozen potstickers
Homemade pizza- kids had Hawaiian and pepperoni, adults had kale and ricotta with frozen broccoli
Leftover pasta with frozen broccoli. DH fried a couple of eggs and put them on his pasta bc he was particularly hungry
Tonight we are having something with ground beef and kale bc I need to use those things up. This will probably some kind of a skillet pie with a biscuit crust bc we have already had pasta 3 times this week
For lunches this week, I used my friend’s method to make lunch meat out of chicken breasts. My friend lives in Tokyo where apparently lunch meat is hard to come by. I thought folks here might be interested:
Place boneless skinless chicken breasts in a single layer in baking dish (they will release some liquid so make sure it’s not too shallow)
Splash each breast with apple cider vinegar, then drizzle with olive oil to coat. Sprinkle generously with salt and then any seasoning of choice. Bake at 400 degrees for 35-40 minutes until cooked through (this depends on the size of your breasts, obviously. Don’t overcook them.
Most importantly, let them sit at least 15 minutes out of the oven before cutting or the juices will all run out and they’ll be dry. I slice these as thinly as possible with a serrated knife and then store them in a container with the cooking juices.
Tonight, I'm thinking Cobb salad. Yummm....
Last night, biscuits and gravy along with fruit salad.
Wednesday, baked stuffed shells with salad.
Monday & Tuesday, Swedish meatballs, noodles, cranberry sauce, dill cuke salad. Or salat as we 1/8 Swedes say, heh.
Can't remember before that.
Me to children: "Hey, Cobb salad! Yum!"
Son: "I'll just have fries with my steak."
Daughter: "Roquefort tastes like mold and hardboiled eggs taste and smell like farts."
I LOVE COOKING FOR MY FAMILY!
They can make their own dinners.
@Rose, If they're adults or close to it, I agree. That's pretty rude on their part.
Good thing they're not your kids, then.
Good to know other people can be rude about my kids but I'm not allowed to reply. The tutting this week has been dialed up to 11.
Ok, so, here's the issue as I see it: you vented about your frustration with your kids (which is fine). Karen came to offer empathy and validation over your frustration. Then you came back with what I read as a snarky reply in response.
If you wanted to say something like, "I know you meant well, but I'm actually a little hurt that you said that, because____, and I really needed X instead.", that also would be fine. Be honest, direct, and kind rather than sarcastic, and it's all good.
I know you'd run a blog differently, but this is not a place where I want us to be leaving little sarcastic one-liners for each other. As I often say, there are a million places on the internet where you can do that. I would like my little home on the internet to be a respite from that.
I do not ever want someone to be nervous about leaving a comment here due to worries about dealing with a response that lacks gentleness and kindness. I want this to be a warm and welcoming place.
If you'd like to term that "tutting", I don't mind at all. But this is my little domain, and I do get to make the rules here. 🙂
@Rose,
LOL! Yes, dear children, fend for yourselves. 🙂
Good for you showing us real life and all. I am in the middle of preparing for a fre day. My definition of a free day is kind of like the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas. My house is clean, we have leftovers, and a lot of time on our hands to do whatever we want. So I am doing all of my daily cleaning, the weekend cleaning and the 2 monthly tasks. Then I am straigthing up my canning storage. My hubby is mowing and cleaning both cars. My sona nd daughter have their usual tasks plus haircuts and son has to work . Wish me luck.
Saturday: Pizza
Sunday: Various leftovers and meat and cheese plate
Monday:
Tuesday: Grilled chicken and salad
Wednesday: Tacos
Thursday: Boiled dinner (Ham, green beans, and potatoes) with corn bread
Friday: Picnic at the beach (hamburgers and macoroni salad with various sides)
WIS: Approximately $73 at three different markets.
WWA: Sandwiches. Veggie-heavy casserole. Apples, watermelon, produce from the garden. Nuts and cheese. Veggie burgers on English muffins (that was just me). Homemade mixed berry and protein smoothies.
I took a few days off cooking because I get burned out and no one will actually starve. They will ignore all the healthy food in the fridge, though, and go on a carbohydrate fun-fest, though.
My rotisserie chicken gets so dry after half a day. Any tips on that?
I love being able to cook while on vacation. The price of restaurant food, oof.
WWA:
Monday: Subs, leftovers from the weekend.
Tuesday: Chicken shawarma with all the fixings, and I tried my hand at homemade hummus again. I had forgotten that fresh garlic is a little harsh in it, and canned beans can be hard to get smooth. Will try again. It all got eaten, though. I vaguely remember making a fruit salad with grapes and canteloupe; that might have been Monday.
Wednesday: DH cooked burgers and hot dogs outside, crockpot corn on the cob, watermelon and grapes.
Thursday: taco night. I had forgotten to get avocadoes but I don't think they were missed. I surely didn't miss finding a container in the fridge with browning guacamole in it!
Tonight: salmon filets, crockpot garlic potatoes.
@Karen A., try skipping raw garlic entirely and just using garlic salt. If using canned chickpeas, boil them until soft. Let them cool, and then emulsify equal parts cold water, lemon juice, tahini, and olive oil. Add chickpeas and blend. Salt to taste w/ garlic salt
Sat - dine out - family occasion - c. burger for me, some pan fried fish for better half which was edible but not good enough to order again
Sun - dine out - smaller family occasion - pizza and salad
Mon- c. burger w/chips - only me
Tue - turkey and swiss sandwich w/chips - only me again
Wed - c.burger for me and leftover pizza for better half, sauteed homegrown zuke, yellow squash, and potatoes
Thu - take out sushi
Fri - the usual steak for me, salmon for better half. Not sure what side dish planned
@Selena, well the cook fooled me. Skillet on the grill that cooked stuffed pork chops, home grown yellow squash/zuke/potatoes with onions. Local sweet corn started the meal.
Steak and salmon tomorrow night.
Roast beef garden veggie soup w egg noodles.
Sliced ham sandwiches.
Peanut butter sandwiches. Banana.
Hamburgers. Stir fry zucchini.
Pizza.
Shrimp and raw fries.
Lately, whenever I "run" to the grocery store, it is $40+. I can't remember the actual spending was but I did go to two stores since last Friday--Aldi and Market Basket. I should probably make a point of going the same day each week to see what happens.
And I don't remember exactly what we ate.
Friday: Pizza
Saturday: Salmon There was a little piece left that I took for work lunch on Tuesday.
Sunday: Chicken
Monday: Pasta, meatballs and sausage
Tuesday: I was late getting home and had a zoom meeting shortly after I walked in the door.
Wednesday: ??
Thursday: I had yogurt. It's my grandson day, so I took him to the beach. Then we headed to their new home to give a little assistance with the move in. When I left there to go home, the traffic was horrendous. I really did not feel like starting a meal by then.
Friday: My grandson came here to sleep. I made him his favorite dish--mac&cheese and one of his favorite fruits--watermelon. He had 3 servings for breakfast Saturday.
Saturday: After a long day with grandson in a.m. and then unpacking boxes at the new house all afternoon, again I did not cook. I went for the yogurt.
Boy, putting it down on "paper", it was a bad mealing planning week.
Some weeks, you just fly by the seat of your pants! It’s ok.