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What I Spent
I have sat here for a few minutes trying to decide on a title, and I'm coming up empty. So there you go. 😉
I spent:
- $86.86 (no lie!) at Aldi
- $16 at Safeway
So, $102.86.
I usually don't include the cents in my grocery reports, but $86.86 was too good to round up to $87. 🙂
What We Ate
Saturday
Waffles with berries and whipped cream, because sometimes you just need a very easy dinner. 🙂
(How I make my sweetened whipped cream.)
Sunday
Falafel gyros, as shared in this week's recipe post!
Monday
After work, I grilled some marinated chicken, which we used to make chicken gyros with the tzatziki sauce from Sunday.
Tuesday
Butternut squash soup, plus a cheese quesadilla.
I know, I know, it's lacking in green veggies, but rest assured, I ate a big green salad for my lunch at work. I have my veggies covered! 🙂
Wednesday
My clinical educator sent out an email letting us know the area Chick-fil-A's were giving free chicken sandwiches to healthcare workers, so I popped in and got one on my way home.
And I did add some fruit when I got home.
(Again: I had a big grilled chicken salad for lunch at work.)
Thursday
I grilled some burgers in an effort to keep boosting my iron levels.
Friday
Today I'm gonna go visit my away-at-college girl, and we are going to make Swedish meatballs together (her request). We're gonna make extras for her to freeze for future easy meals. 🙂
We spent around 250. This includes the Costco run for flour and avacado oil.
Saturday, we we out for the day. 30.00 at Tim Hortons for wraps and drinks.
Sunday - turkey dinner with stuffing, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, gravy and no bake Bischoff cheese cake
Monday - turkey casserole ( layered mashed potatoes, cut up turkey mixed with gravy and leftover veggies topped with stuffing and baked)
Tuesday - leftovers with roasted broccoli and cauliflower. ( We had spaetzel leftover from Friday night, mixed it with the mushroom sauce, turkey, butter a some gravy).
Wednesday - we went out for Indian. It was so good! Everyone had enough leftovers for lunch on Thursday.
Thursday - club sandwiches on naan bread. They were amazing and we used up the last of the turkey!
Tonight we are having nachos.... I found some leftover beef patties and chicken ( cooked), While recognizing the freezer upstairs. I'll just need to grab some veggies later.
I'll add that we made 40 bottles of salsa, 5 -Litres of tomatoes, Quarts of bones broth(6). I'll be making more apple sauce this week end. I also did over a dozen bags of onions, celery and carrots for the freezer as a quick start for soups, stews, etc.
Happy Friday all!
@It's me, Sam,
My mouth is watering and my brain is filing some of these ideas away!
@It's me, Sam, being a no good results with freezing onions person. I hope you will let me know your successful method. THANKS.
@It's me, Sam,
Do you cook your mirepoix before freezing it? You've been BUSY!
@Liz B., nope, I just choo up 1 cor 2 carrots, 1 onion and 2 stalks of celery and toss them in a bag and freezer.
I was the helper for the salsa and tomatoes. My husband/partner did the cooking for both. I just helped get it ready.
@Brendalynne,
I don't do anything special, just chop, add all three to one bag and freeze.
@Alica,
I love getting inspiration from others here! Enjoy!
We're supposed to have our first real frost this weekend, so this week has been about rescuing whatever is ready from the garden. I've made an obscene amount of pesto and roasted five pie pumpkins (in two batches) in the crockpot for puree. I saved the pumpkin water left after roasting for when my husband makes bread this weekend. The YouTube channel Townsend's had an episode where they used pumpkin water to flavor no-knead bread, and I'm curious to try it.
@N, The using pumpkin water for baking is genius. I am really curious. Please share results. Wish you could post samples too. lol
@N,
In the same vein, I used the yogurt whey drained from my homemade yogurt cooking my oatmeal in the Instapot. I had frozen it in 2 cup mason jars wanting to get the extra protein in my diet somehow. I couldn't stand the taste in my chicken bone broth bullion but it is good especially when I add pumpkin spice and dried strawberries. When I add 2 T. of brown rice protein mixed in milk ( after cooking) I get a 25 grams of protein breakfast for about .50 cents if you don't include the dried strawberries. (Mmmmm I love them, though.) With the dried strawberries, $1.34 total. Thank you, CHAT GPT.
Kristen, hope you have a fun & sweet time visiting your college gal!
Kristen- when I was anemic eons ago I took an iron supplement by Enzymatic Therapy called Ultimate Iron. A quick search shows the name may have changed but the liquid liver factions are still in there. In 6 weeks of taking 2 pills with every meal, my hemoglobin increased by 8 points. I continued to take it for a year to restore my blood health. After 6 months, I reduced it to 2 pills a day. It made a huge difference in my overall health.
@Theresa, I wonder if increasing one’s hemoglobin via iron affects the hemoglobin A1C. . . I am desperately ignorant of these things. . . when I was younger, a hemoglobin shot was supposed to boost immunity so you’d get fewer colds.
Think think think: “hema” means blood (girl blood? and boy blood is hemo?) What’s globin? Not to be confused with goblin. . .
Hopelessly ignorant.
As far as I understand it, in simplified terms (and writing as a not-expert in diabetes): The A1C test measures how much sugar is riding along on your hemoglobin; when your blood sugar is high, the sugar is more likely to hitch a ride on the hemoglobin. Once it's gone through the process of becoming glycated hemoglobin, the sugar is "stuck" on the hemoglobin for the life of the red blood cell.
Red blood cells get recycled about every 90 days, so measuring the A1c gives you a good idea of someone's blood sugar levels over the last 90 days. If the blood sugar has been high in that time period, you'll find more glycated hemoglobin.
Hemoglobin levels themselves are more a measure we use to figure out if someone is losing blood or has anemia. And hemoglobin is the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen (the "oxygen bus" I'd mentioned in a previous post). 🙂
Ooh, ok, thank you for the tip!
Saturday: My family was all over the place. Three were traveling--on two separate trips, however--and ate on the road. I was also traveling home at dinnertime and got Subway for the flag football player. I had made myself a cheese omelet before we left that I brought with me and ate during the game (omelets travel very well and are surprisingly good cold). The only son at home made himself spaghetti.
Sunday: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green salad with vinaigrette, apple crisp with vanilla ice ream
Monday: I had made chicken stock with the last bag of chicken carcasses, etc. that I wanted to get out of the freezer. I made rice with that stock and used the meat I picked off the bones to make fried rice. I had also made chocolate chip cookies this day, so of course everyone had some of those.
Tuesday: I made soup with some of the stock and some leftover meatloaf, and then most people also had fried rice. And ice cream afterwards. It was National Dessert Day. Thanks, Windows, for letting my daughter know that . . .
Wednesday: Marinated pork chops, rice cooked in chicken stock, frozen green peas
Thursday: Cheese sandwiches for the children coming with me to the volleyball game my daughter was cheering at because I needed something they could eat in the car. They also brought money for concessions food. I had a salad before we left. The three at home had sandwiches or leftover pork chops.
Tonight: I think an enchilada casserole with ground beef. I'll take the ground beef out to thaw, anyway. Sometimes I make a completely different plan as the day evolves--or devolves--so we'll see.
I wouldn't stress or justify the veggie thing - I think it all manages to even out! I actually wrote down what I ate this week AND what I spent. Miracles happen.
I shopped on Wednesday, and the total spent was $98 - a little more than I planned. But I found $26 worth of extras like ground beef that was marked down, creamer that was on sale, and other items on sale with digital coupons that I know I will use in the future.
M - Toasted Sesame Chicken in my mini crockpot, rice, peas
T - Big dinner salad with (freezer) chicken breast, black beans, orange bell pepper
W - Carolina BBQ Beans with ground beef, peppers, onions
T - I made a Hamburger Helper and green bean skillet that was delish and I am 0% ashamed to admit I like HH.
F - I think tonight I am doing leftovers because I am going to the symphony (:
Leftovers will also figure into my next three work days, which are 12 hour shifts!
Have a good visit with your girlie!
@Gina from The Cannary Family, hope you enjoyed your night out at the symphony!
Whole-heartedly agree that a big salad for lunch gives licence to include or omit veggies at dinner as one desires. WWA:
Saturday - grilled pork chops, Greek salad, with possibly something else as well
Sunday - thanksgiving dinner of turkey (finished on the grill - while it was snowing - after the power went down for nearly 2 hours), mashed potatoes with Boursin, dressing, gravy, buttered peas (all hastily cooked after the power came back on), cranberry sauce, sparkling white wine, butter tarts, and a big toblerone bar. DS2 and DD1 were over with their SO’s. We invited them to bring containers to take left-overs home with them, which pleased them and helped our empty nest with copious leftovers. Also had a great time during the power outage - we lit a fire in the living room fireplace and nibbled on Costco snack mix.
Monday - leftovers (the remaining leftovers were made into a turkey ‘shepherd’s pie’ and frozen for another day)
Tuesday - meatball and mozzarella sandwiches
Wednesday- leftover meatballs on spaghettini
Thursday - air fryer chicken thighs and french fries, Greek salad
Friday - on-sale frozen pizza following this afternoon’s flu & COVID vaccines
Wishing a relaxing week ahead to all
@kj, in my book, there is no such thing as too much leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy (stuffing - box or not - is okay when covered with gravy lol). My dad and I don't mind dark meat, actually I prefer it. Hot turkey sandwiches, cold turkey sandwiches (with mayo of course). Now I'm wondering if I can talk the better half into a 20/20+ lb turkey this year.
Saturday - We had dinner at my in-laws so they could show us the house they're renting for winter while we finish construction on the addition for them. We had lasagna, salad, corn, and dessert was cake and ice cream. This is one of the few times in my 16 years of marriage that I've eaten at her house and remembered to save room for dessert. 😉
Sunday - We had some friends over (their first time seeing our new house) and we roasted hot dogs and sausages over a fire, then had chips, macaroni salad, potato salad, apple slices, and cookies.
Monday - My 11yo wanted to make dinner. She picked chicken tenders, fries, carrots, and corn.
Tuesday - Fajitas and pineapple
Wednesday - Ravioli, green beans, and garlic bread
Thursday - Leftover sandwiches from my catering job (only about 2/3 of the people showed up, so we had lots of leftovers and they know I'm anti-throw-away-food), chips, peas, and fruit
Friday - I may have to try your Swedish meatballs recipe. I have some heavy cream to use up and was going to look for something to do with it. We're heading to the zoo soon (no school today!) so we'll see what happens once we get home.
@Ruth T,
Interesting on leftover food from catering job. I, too, hate to waste food.
Here in Little Rock area, there is a food rescue group called Potluck which licks up leftover food from restaurants, catering jobs, grocery stores, etc and distributes it to feeding programs around the city. Helps reduce food waste and feeds others who might go hungry.
@Joyce from Arkansas, while I am not a religious person by any stretch of the imagination, wasting food is a sin. How so many claim to be a "Christian" but give nary a thought to hungry children is a not safe for Kristen's blog topic from me.
Kudos for your food rescue group.
WWS - I went to Trader Joe's twice. The first visit was $66 which included groceries for someone in need. The second trip was $28. I spent approximately $60 on food at Costco; however, I did buy other things while there. That makes a total of $154.
Saturday - We went to my son's house for dinner. He made Carbonara, Royal Reds (a type of prawn), sautéed veggies, and a caprese salad. It was a birthday, so we had homemade GF chocolate cake with butter cream frosting.
Sunday - We stopped at Costco on the way home from the zoo. Since I had not planned dinner, I bought a rotisserie chicken. We made a pot of rice and had raw veggies.
Monday - We helped ourselves to leftovers. I believe my husband had leftover chocolate cake for dinner, but he was happy.
Tuesday - DH made tuna salad with lots of veggies. I very healthy choice after the previous night's dinner.
Wednesday - I put the rotisserie chicken leftover from Sunday in the IP to make stock. I used some of this stock and some of the remaining chicken to make ramen. I froze some stock and gave excess chicken bits to Rescue Pup.
Thursday - I made tacos with black beans and roasted corn.
Friday - I think that we'll have leftovers again. I'll make taco salads tonight. We seem to be cooking every other day now alternating freshly cooked meals with leftover night. With just two of us in the house, it seems to work.
Bon appétit. Safe travels, Kristen.
Your initial photo is intriguing—is that a castle in the distance? a prison? an asylum? a college?
Dinners: same same same, always BBQ’d meat and a salad. THANK YOU to the retired husband. He will have surgery next week and then dinners will all be on me. Everything will be on me. (Tryna be brave here.)
Spent: 40 zillion dollars at Winco yesterday in an attempt to not have to grocery shop for a month or two. (Dream on, Toots)
Hahaha, no, it's a tall apartment building!
WIS: $0. Been cooking from the freezer this week.
WWA: Leftover meatloaf and salad. Chinese-style spicy pork and veggies with rice. Had the last of some soup from the freezer -- tuna-cheddar from the Tightwad Gazette bulked up with white beans -- and some spicy beans and rice.
@Ruby, Tuna Cheddar Soup!
@JDinNM, it's really good! White beans are my secret weapon for making soups creamier while adding protein and fiber.
Make sure you include iron-rich foods in those salads to help your iron, such as spinach, kale, broccoli, chard, almonds, cashews, pumpkin seeds and even lentils. Also, opt for dark poultry meat over light, and include beef now and then. I spent much of my life anemic, so I always look out for information on iron. 🙂
WIS: I don't have it yet and it isn't all food, but I paid right at $57 for an Azure order and $23 and change as a down payment for a farm order. The rest will be figured when the products are actually weighed. I will grocery shop this weekend instead of tonight.
WIA: I made a beef vegetable soup from a meaty soup bone, carrot, onion, garlic, celery, peas, corn, celeriac, mushrooms plus some komatsuna and chard leaves from the garden.
The last of the venison, potatoes and mushrooms.
Flounder fillet and a salad with homemade ranch dressing.
I had tuna salad made with shredded veggies, with grapes and a tangerine on the side.
I made pulled pork in the pressure cooker and had that more than once. Sides included garden greens as listed above, pickled onions, Seminole pumpkin, and salad with tomatoes, cucumber, olives and grapes.
I'm still planning tonight, because I will be keeping four of my grandkids (ages 5-11) while their parents attend my son-in-law's high school reunion, and they will need to be fed while at my house.
@JD,
I suggest making sloppy joes -- always a big hit with kids! I've been making my own from an All Recipes recipe using ketchup as a base with some onion and green pepper. It's better than a dry or canned sloppy Joe sauce.
Have such an amazing time with your away at college girl! It always feels so special to visit with them.
What did I eat this week? It was a crazy week:
Friday - ate with my sister & BFF in Portland. It was a low carb zuppa toscana soup in the crockpot, along with salad & bread. Quite good.
Saturday - we ate some pasta & had hummus & veggies + some sort of lovely cheese dip with crackers
Sunday - a chill night still with my sister + BFF, & we had leftover soup & salad
Monday - DH was going to grill burgers, but it was super stormy outside. I made an easy spaghetti & meatball dinner, with olive oil, chopped tomatoes, parmesan, salt & pepper over the pasta (no sauce).
Tuesday - DH grilled burgers
Wednesday - leftover spaghetti & meatballs
Thursday - I was out with friends & had a delicious salmon BLT. Not sure what DH & DS19 had.
Friday - oh my, that's a tricky question. It will probably be something easy from the freezer. Gyozas & wings? (Plus salad)
WIS: about two hundred on a rare restaurant outing and then about 150 @ Whole Foods mostly on sushi for my birthday dinner, 61 @Aldi for a fill-in trip.
WWA:
Fri: focaccia and salad
Sat: my childhood amusement park is closing this fall, so we spent the day there and ate food I packed like cucumbers, rice cake sandwiches and yogurt covered pretzels on the way home. When we got home, the kids also had some leftover focaccia.
Sun: we went out to our favorite restaurant to celebrate our anniversary. In addition to a giant pretzel, we each ordered a different salad and rotated our plates so we all got to try them. We now have a new favorite salad to try to replicate: arugula with peaches and candied pecans. For entrees we ordered salmon and fish and chips. Yum!
Mon: pan fried chicken breasts, butternut squash and cherry tomato pasta sauce over rice noodles, the arugula-peach salad.
Tue: it was my birthday, so we got sushi and fruit tarts from Whole Foods. We also had a shredded broccoli salad kit that I got on markdown.
Wed: we got back very late from a pumpkin farm trip and had a quick dinner of scrambled eggs with black beans and turkey chorizo on corn tortillas with lettuce and pepper jack cheese.
Thu: arugula and peach salad again but this time with just mixed greens, tuna melts on brioche buns and sourdough bread brie ring.
Tonight: salad and focaccia!
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
@Becca, Belated Happy Anniversary! Belated Happy Birthday! Premature Happy Halloween!
@Becca,
Happy Birthday Blessings!
@Becca, happy anniversary and happy birthday to you!
@Becca,
Happy Birthday!
Happy Friday, everyone! We spent $76 ($23 at Aldi and $53 at the natural foods co-op).
- Delectable dinner at friends' home (grilled veggies in mojo chili marinade in tortilla wrap, tiramisu pudding cups)
- Popcorn and fruit
- Butternut squash soup
- Charcuterie board
- Graham crackers dipped in milk (yup)
- Shepherd's pie (x2)
Kristen- that’s a fantastic answer to Jana’s question! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
Jana - your boy/girl blood & globin/goblin cracked me up! Thanks for tickling my language gene! I may never look at my hemoglobin levels in quite the same way!?
@Theresa, happy to be of service. 🙂
And I will have to read and reread Kristen’s helpful explanation multiple times. I seem to have a serious blockage in my brain’s biology comprehension box.
Spent $67
We ate:
Sunday: homemade calzones
Monday: meatball subs/roasted potatoes/cucumber & onion salad
Tuesday: greek chicken pitas/salad
Wednesday: we ate at the mall. It was the first time we had been to a mall in over a year. We needed something fast and was next door to the mall so we went to the food court. We walked in at 6:30 and about the time we got our food they announced that the mall closed at 7. Is this normal for malls? I had no idea!
Thursday: chicken casserole with salad
Friday: I don't know about tonight. We may just have leftovers of all the stuff in the fridge with a salad.
WIS (at home): $27 at Aldi and $57 at Price Chopper. I'm taking the Fifth Amendment on what I spent while at the JASNA Annual General Meeting in Baltimore, particularly the one seafood dinner out that I allowed myself with friends (can't go to Balmer and not have seafood!). However, JASNA BFF and I did eat all breakfasts not covered by the conference in our rooms (with food we either brought in or bought at the nearby Whole Foods), and we made as much use of dining-out leftovers as our pathetic mini-fridge in the room allowed.
WIA: First, see above re: seafood dinner. I did pick what looked like the least extravagant item on the menu (angel hair pasta topped with blue crab meat)--and, wow, it proved to be the real sleeper among our selections. Giant dollops of crab meat! Color me happy! (And there were no leftovers on this one!)
Second, for any food historians out there, BFF and I took part in the post-AGM dinner at a restaurant in the historic and colorful Fells Point area. The best thing about this was the 100% authentic "white soup" mentioned in Pride and Prejudice by Mr. Bingley, discussing plans for the Netherfield Ball: "as soon as Nicholls [his housekeeper] has made white soup enough I shall send round my cards." It's a thick, creamy soup with shreds of chicken (a few old recipes call for "knuckle of veal"), subtly flavored with almond. I scarfed down every drop of mine plus that of a vegetarian next to me who objected to the chicken. 🙂
@A. Marie,
I assumed "white soup" was a cream soup, but did not realize it had meat in it. I cannot imagine making enough for a ball. Thank you for the history of food lesson. I'm so glad you had a wonderful time.
Friday: Frozen Pizza – my husband was going to cook dinner but was kept late at work. He offered to bring something home but this is the exact reason I keep frozen pizza on hand.
Saturday: Steak, perogies, bagged salad
Sunday: Homemade Ramen – my husband worked on the broth all day. We topped the soup off with pork belly, mushrooms, and the boys had eggs.
Monday: Zucchini Pizza Casserole
Tuesday: Mississippi Pot Roast, mac and cheese, bagged salad. I used my homemade pickled banana peppers in place of pepperoncini and it was great. I managed to order an extra bagged salad with my grocery order but I was happy because we needed something green!
Wednesday: Crockpot Chicken Gnocchi Soup, biscuits, fresh carrots with ranch dip
Thursday: Leftover MS Pot Roast, braised potatoes, braised red cabbage (which I managed to scorch so we threw it out).
Swedish meatballs for the win! I hope I will get time to make a batch this week.
WIS: $0
Sun - the cousins shared dinner sausages from their sausage making party. I made Sauer kraut, waldorf salad, homemade rolls and opened a jar of sweet hot pickles. Raspberry cheesecake and apple pie.
Mon - pork bits slow cooked on traeger. Green salad, grapes
Tue - salad, pork bits, squash.
Wed - grilled salmon, kale salad and grapes
Thursday - pulled a 2 serving tetrazzini out of the freezer, green salad and squash. Big day on the farm, neighbor's tree fell into our back field. Had to cut it up and fix the fence. My helper was away!
Friday - another big day. Green salad is made, got out moose steaks to grill.
Saturday - volunteering at the community health booth at harvest festival. Will eat at one of the food trucks.
Monday- chicken soup
Tuesday- chicken soup
Wednesday- grilled chicken on Caesar salad
Thursday- chicken salad made with leftover grilled chicken
Friday- tonight will be taco salad; there should be enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow
Saturday- going out for pizza with family
Navigating meals with new food allergies=fun times.
Saturday/Sunday: homemade pizzas, and I was pleased to find that Siete cassava flour tortillas are not only nut, soy and wheat and corn free, but make good pizza crusts, if you layer two together with a bit of mozzarella between, and put your toppings on top. 10/10, will do again.
Monday: Salmon, baked potatoes, roasted carrots, coleslaw. Annoyed that our mayonnaise had soy in it, I angrily made a Greek-yogurt dressing that was..okay. It was greatly improved after I added some Primal Kitchen mayonnaise that DS#2 brought home from the store. I accidentally bought salmon filets with the skin on, which I've never done before, but everybody loved them. Good to know.
Tuesday: DS#2 made veggie chili, and very good it was too.
Wednesday: DH was determined to make fettuccini alfredo with chicken and peas, but he wanted non-wheat pasta and to make a soy-free, lower sodium sauce. He found Jovial brand egg tagliatele, the closest to fettuccini he could find, and a recipe that called for *gulp* heavy cream and 3 CUPS of Parmesan. He cut down the amount of salty cheese, figuring that those who wanted more could add it at the table, thickened it with a bit of gluten free all-purpose flour, and it was splendid. Those who normally eat wheat pasta declared they wouldn't have known it was rice pasta, and agreed they should have it again.
Thursday: DS#3 made tacos, and branched out of his comfort zone by adding garlic and onion to the plain beef he normally makes. (We haven't used taco seasoning in a while, since we have spice-averse palates around here. Those who want heat and spice add salsa and such at the table.)
Tonight: DS#1 is making turkey stew, and DS#4, as always, is volunteering to make a pot of mac and cheese, as he dislikes most stews and soups.
I spent $114 at Kroger. I was not inspired in cooking as I was tired from my trip.
– Sunday – we just grazed as I got back from trip to California in the afternoon, had no plans and wasn't really hungry. I ate a bagel and hubby might have had a frozen dinner.
– Monday – frozen baked shrimp, homemade coleslaw, steamed broccoli.
– Tuesday – baked chicken, cornbread stuffing from a box, steamed carrots.
– Wednesday – baked salmon, brown rice, dilled cucumber salad.
– Thursday – pan fried pork chops, sauteed canned white beans with Rotel, onions and garlic, green mixed salad.
Friday – out to eat for an early dinner since I have a ghost hunting event ? with a friend starting in the early evening.
I spent $325 this week for my family of 3, but I hadn’t been to the store for three weeks and we were out of pretty much everything! That also included household stuff like otc meds, tp, etc. so altogether it wasn’t too bad.
Saturday —roasted root veggies, air fryer drumsticks, biscuits
Sunday—hot dogs, baked beans, California medley veggies
Monday—tacos
Tuesday—YOYO night, I had a chicken and cheese quesadilla and leftover veggies
Wednesday—YOYO night again, a chicken and cheese quesadilla (again!), raspberries (what a twist!)
Thursday—YOYO night again, a spinach salad with chicken, blueberries and pecans
Tonight—takeout night!
One of my 2025 goals was to break my takeout habit. One of my strategies that has really helped is planning a takeout night every other Friday. That seems to scratch that takeout itch sufficiently and since it’s planned and in the budget I don’t feel guilty.
Saturday : scrambled eggs and pancakes
Sunday : sandwiches and veggies and chips at my brothers wedding reception
Monday : burger bowls at family night
Tuesday : chicken enchiladas
Wednesday : crockpot chicken fettuccine Alfredo with roasted broccoli
Thursday : zuppa with fresh homemade sourdough and salad
Friday : cheeseburger soup and sandwiches at my mom n dad’s.
I don’t normally post on these but they are my favorite posts to read so I’m gonna start trying! This week we did better that usual, some weeks we barely cook, but avoiding takeout when we have food at home is something I’m trying to get better at:)
@Hollyh, love the menu for your brother's wedding reception!
We had:
- Turkey tortilla soup (turkey was cheaper than chicken)
- Beans, noodles & bread, how we used to buy off the street in West Africa. The Walmart bread wasn't good as the fresh baguettes we got there, but it worked.
- Pizza at my in laws
- African peanut sauce over rice
- Stir fry rice and frozen spring rolls
I am so curious how the food shopping here varies from West Africa!