WIS, WWA | It has been a busy week
What I Spent
We started out with an exam (first one for pediatrics) on Monday. Then we had clinical on Tuesday until 8:30 pm, followed by two days of lectures, and to round things out, I'm working 12-hour shifts at the hospital today and tomorrow.
I think I am going to take it easy on Sunday. 🙂
On the upside, I knew the week was going to be crazy, so in between exam prep sessions last weekend, I prepped blog posts and also made a careful menu plan.
I spent:
- $15 at Safeway
- $33 at Trader Joe's
- $13 at Giant
- $61 at Aldi
So, $122.
Oh, and before we get to what I cooked this week, I wanted to tell you that on yesterday's post, I added in the process photos of the painting that Jana did for JD, of the last big tomato her husband grew.
Thank you to Jana and JD for sharing. I love that this project came together because of you guys connecting here!
What We Ate
Saturday
I made some waffles, which we topped with fruit and whipped cream. 🙂
Sunday
Zoe was out with a friend, so I made some mashed potatoes, topped with shrimp, sauteed tomatoes, and a little pan sauce.
Monday
I made this glazed tilapia recipe, which I haven't done in years! We had some French bread and a green salad on the side.
Tuesday
I had clinical until 8:30 pm so I ate my packed dinner there and Zoe fended for herself.
Wednesday
I made some orange chipotle chicken tacos.
Thursday
We had leftover chicken from Wednesday, so I used it to make taco salads for us, topped with crispy tortilla strips and some cilantro/lime dressing (I eyeballed sour cream, mayo, jalapeno pepper, garlic, salt, pepper, and cilantro and blended it all up).
And I packed a lunch for my Friday shift with the leftovers, except I added some roasted sweet potatoes from the fridge.
Friday
I work 7 am to 7:30 pm today (and tomorrow) so tonight I will probably just throw back a peanut butter sandwich, shower, and go to sleep.
Let's see what I can come up with:
Eldest had afternoon shift, so we always adjust our plans. However I cannot for the life of me remember the majority of our meals. I was just so emotionally worn out.
Mashed potatoes with runner beans and meat balls, leftover dessert from the weekend.
Cheese fondue with carrots and sour apples
Soup from a bag (bought).
During the week I also had pumpkin soup for lunch a number of times, to add some vitamin and finish pumpkins we had been gifted. I love squash of any kind, husband not a fan.
Tonight my husband and I will go for a quick not-too-fancy meal to round off this week and kick off the weekend. And there will be more pumpkin soup, because we were gifted another one! This time I will remember to put some of the seeds out for the birds.
That's an impressive effort in the kitchen for a busy week.
Saturday: I baked a whole ham and made a 9"x13" pan of scalloped potatoes, to ensure some leftovers for the skinny kid who tends to eat right before bed and loves both these things. Pickled carrots for a vegetable.
Sunday: Baking bread, so I took some dough to make pizza. One was a half-sheet-pan pizza with pepperoni, the other was in a 14" cast iron skillet and it was just cheese. I also made ranch dip, because my children like that with pizza. I am not back to making a Sunday dessert. Still too much candy in the house.
Monday: I used leftover ham and leftover rice to make a skillet of food by adding frozen green peas and cheese. Good for after work cooking.
Tuesday: Lamb ribs, baked potatoes, pickled carrots.
Wednesday: I had baked some buns on Sunday, and I had ground beef in the refrigerator, so I made sloppy joes. I also diced and fried the one leftover baked potato and heated up the last of the scalloped potatoes to bulk everything out. And we had the very last fresh cucumber of the year, with the last of the ranch dip.
Thursday: I had just enough ground beef to make four small hamburger patties, and then there were leftover lamb ribs, and I made cornbread and baked beans, too. Pickles again for a vegetable, this time pickled cucumbers. I am surrendering to the ease of opening a jar to serve a vegetable. Also, everyone in my family will eat any vegetable pickled. The same cannot be said of non-pickled vegetables.
Tonight: I'm planning on making a bull enchilada casserole, and I think this might actually for real finish ALL of the bull meat that's been in our freezer for just over four years. Although I would not be surprised to unearth another package that's been lurking at the bottom of one of the chest freezers.
@kristin @ going country, when you and your family finish that bull meat, you'll have to have a "No Bull" celebration!
@kristin @ going country, I will celebrate with you for the end of that bull meat! I remember you posting about it way back when!
@kristin @ going country,
The Bull That Kept On Giving might finally be done? Wahooooo!!
@kristin @ going country,
It seems.like the bull is endless!
I do like your menus, I want pickled veg now!
It looks like a delish week at your house, as always. I've been aiming for eating dinner by 6:30p so I can be in bed by 9:30p on mornings I have to get up for work at 5:45a. Once you find that groove, it seems to fall into place! Here's the week at my house:
Monday - kitchen closed. Its Rad Tech Week! So we got fed Taco Cabana for lunch, then for dinner I swung through Chik-Fil-A on my way home through a huge thunderstorm!
Tuesday - (freezer) Chicken Fajita Salad
Wednesday - BBQ Shrimp, a bit of jasmine rice, zucchini
Thursday - Bowtie Pasta with Meaty Marinara (made an extra couple servings for the freezer)
Tonight - trying my hand at the Firehouse Subs Thanksgiving Sub - I might go get some chips to go with
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed, but I have l plenty of good things in there to pack
Happy Weekend!
@Gina from The Cannary Family, You have such a great balance of dinners, from yummy-sounding homemade to takeout sprinkled in.
What I really like is naming two days "kitchen closed." Because actually naming them, and keeping them consistent, builds in a nice break that you can look forward to each week. I may adopt this idea.
Sunday I tossed a pork shoulder into the Dutch oven with carrots and potatoes. Served that with a loaf of homemade beer bread( trying to use up gross beer still in the fridge).
Monday( my oldest doesn't work this day of the week so this is his night to learn/practice)- he made meatloaf, boxed mashed potatoes and frozen corn.. eaten with the remainder of the beer bread. (its never quite as good the 2nd night)
Tuesday I toasted up a box of frozen garlic bread and served it with leftover lasagna I pulled from the freezer.
Weds- husband decided to make supper- used a bottle of sweet and sour sauce from the pantry and made a pot of rice. Sauted some chicken and shrimp and veggies to go with.
Thursday- used a gift card to go out for Mexican!
Friday- I am thinking I will pull out some ground beef and make a cheeseburger pie ( from the back of the bisquick box)-easy peasy!
Sat- smoking ribs and making sides.. I am sure we will have a houseful from the college kids and their dates.. free food for them!
We had:
- Riz gras (West African chicken and rice). Unfortunately either due to the kind of rice, the pot or something the rice didn't cook up well.
- Pasta and chicken bake with bread and salad
- Potato soup and bread
- Bean and rice bowls
-chicken quesadillas
-pasta salad
The tomato is just wonderful. WWA:
Saturday- grilled hamburgers
Sunday - pork roast with applesauce, roasted potatoes, air fryer Brussels sprouts
Monday - Hungarian mushroom soup, baguette
Tuesday - leftovers
Wednesday- air fryer drumsticks, oven fries
Thursday - leftovers
Friday - planning on beef and broccoli garlic noodles
Wishing everyone a good weekend
@kj, don't you just wonder what the tomato tasted like?
@Central Calif. Artist Jana,
I like to think it had that meaty, slightly-sweet/slightly-tangy deliciousness that only summer garden tomatoes have. I so look forward to them every year. the painting is just awesome.
@Liz B., thank you. I love to paint with tight realism, and when someone loves the results, it's even more satisfying.
That is such a beautiful tomato!
@Tarynkay,
I agree. It is a wonderful Tom-ato, Jana and JD.
@Bee, @Tarynkay, I commend JD for wanting to memorialize that awesome tomato, and feel very honored to have been selected for the job.
@Central Calif. Artist Jana,
Creating something beautiful that has meaning for the recipient, must be one of the best commissions!
@JNL, exac-a-tacally!
JD, the tomato looks like some type of heirloom (Brandywine or suchlike); do you remember the variety? And, again, it's great that you and Jana were able to get together on this.
Now, WIS: $37 at Wegmans (after almost $12 in NY State container returns) and $27 at Price Chopper.
WIA: The best thing I made this week, as I noted on Tuesday in my FFT, was the chili I assembled from a pound of Reduced for Quick Sale ground turkey, two cans of pinto beans, a can of diced tomatoes, and most of a jar of mild salsa that was too mild even for me. (Plus the usual onion, garlic, and spices.) The trouble with these "evening at the improv" chilis and soups, though, is that I can never be sure they'll come out the same way twice--as I had to tell the Bestest Neighbors when they asked for the recipe!
@A. Marie,
It is heirloom, but I can't for the life of me remember which one. He didn't grow too many Brandywines, usually growing the Pink one, but he grew Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Stupice, Arkansas Traveler, Black from Tula, Rutgers, Black Sea Man, Rosso Sicilian, Homestead, Paul Robison, Riesentraube, Chocolate Cherry, White Current, Farmer Herman's Little Yellow, Purple Russian... and a bunch more I forget. He liked to try 6-10 new varieties each year along with some favorites from previous years. Yeah, I had to look up the spellings on a lot of those. Cherokee Purple was his first heirloom attempt and remained a favorite.
@JD, wow, what a list! That's more tomato varieties--let alone heirloom varieties--than I ever tried to grow. (And now that I'm restricted to growing tomatoes in pots where the deer can't get at them, I'm sticking mainly with Sungold, Supersweet 100, and Sweetheart of the Patio.)
@A. Marie,
He couldn't wait for a chance to try a new variety, or rather, varieties. We ate and gave away so many tomatoes...
@A. Marie, when JD sent me the photo, I asked if the dark brown-ish red was correct or if that was a screen/tech distortion. She told me it was correct because it was an heirloom variety.
@JD, impressive list!! Any recollection of how the Last Mater tasted?
@A. Marie, "Sweetheart of the Patio" is such a funny and descriptive name, sounding as if developed for container gardening.
@JD,
Wow, what an incredible list! So fun trying so many varieties. I've grown and like Cherokee Purple and Black Krim, myself. My standby is Early Girl, but I also like to try all the different kinds.
@JD,
I just love the names of tomato varieties! A long time ago, I sent away for free seeds from a website called wintersown.org. I don't think they send out free seeds anymore, but at the time you could send a SASE and they would send you seeds that were easy to wintersow in milk cartons-apparently tomatoes are exceptionally easy to winter sow. Anyway, I had a blast picking out the most interesting-sounding tomato varieties. I remember Arkansas Traveler, but also Tom Thumb and Mortgage Lifter.
WWS: I don't want to think about it. Ha. But DH did all the math, and considering we have 6 people eating at home, for every meal, it breaks down to $4 per person per meal, which is pretty darn good.
Saturday/Sunday: homemade pizzas--we got home Sunday afternoon from a weekend trip to DC, and it was so good to have food at home.
Monday: DH made tuna burgers and corn on the cob.
Tuesday: hamburger stew, courtesy of DS#2, and mac and cheese for Selective Eater.
Wednesday: chicken drumsticks and wings, broccoli, rice, salad. I tried cooking some of the $5 thin sliced chicken breast for myself, but weirdly it tasted like soap after I cooked it. Ew. I just don't care for most dark meat, so I thought I'd try this, but I'll pass in the future. Maybe make myself some tofu. I find I don't like a lot of meat much anymore.
Thursday: Ham and bean soup, and leftovers.
Tonight is taco night.
@Karen A., hamburger soup is quite tasty too but I suspect the stew is more filling.
@Selena, I guess technically it is soup? Just cooked burgers, chopped up, 2 boxes of unsalted beef broth, lots of potatoes, and mixed vegetables plus seasonings like soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce. We just always call it stew. I used to make beef stew, and we loved it, but this is more economical.
WIS: $189.91, mainly at Aldi and Food Lion, but there was a trip to Dollar Tree and Walgreen's in there too.
This was a spendy week because DH was sick and wanted canned soup, ginger ale and expensive gluten-free crackers. I also bought Christmas food items (frozen duck, chocolates for stockings, special ingredients), a chuck beef roast to divide in half and freeze, and $30 worth of frozen items to stock the freezer and take advantage of a 20% off $30 store coupon. And a gluten-free cheesecake sampler from Aldi to take to the family Thanksgiving gathering. Whew!
WWA: Gee, almost nothing due to him being sick. I had potato-white bean soup and pasta-hamburger casserole from the freezer, veggie burgers on English muffins with sweet potato fries, salads, and a lot of election fallout emotional support chocolate. Can highly reccomend the large Tony's chocolate bars from Walgreen's. Get 'em on sale when they go below $5.
Let's see if I can remember. I made pasta sauce and added lentils instead of meat. That's what I had last night, on gluten-free pasta. Earlier in the week I had leftover tortilla soup and some ham and potato soup from the freezer with homemade biscuits. I think that's all.
Jana, JD - that's lovely, both in idea and execution. Such a lovely rememberance.
@WilliamB, thank you! (I had to correct the typo in your name because I am a typo-psycho).
WIS - About $140 to cover two weeks. This includes some stocking up for the holidays getting chocolate chips and corn syrup (required for divinity) and some other stuff I don't remember right now. I bought zero meat because I have enough for a while.
WIA - it was almost all about the leftovers.
I cooked a package of pork chops and a large pan of mixed vegetables, which I ate two or three times. I added fruits as sides.
I cooked the small chuck roast in the crock pot with a pile of vegetables: white-colored sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, mushrooms and lots of seasoning. I had this two or three times.
I had a grilled cheese sandwich and sliced cucumbers one night.
Last night the Azure Standard Delivery truck got delayed and we didn't pick up until 7 pm, and I still had to drive an hour to get home after that. I was pondering if I could stand to wait to eat until I got home or would break down and buy something, when I remembered our boss left an unopened pack of hot dogs in the refrigerator, from his grill-out a little while back. I checked, and they were still within the "best-by" date, plus the buns were still fine (it's a little scary how long commercially made bread will last) so I made myself a hot dog in the microwave and had a bag of chips from the free snacks always offered in our break room. The boss had asked someone to take the hot dogs home before they went bad, so I did that last night, too.
Kristen, I find it amazing that you always make such beautiful meals for yourself. I barely cooked at all this week. I’m not sure how I managed that, but I did. It was a busy week and the time change left me reeling.
I did my monthly trip to Costco where I spent $140 on food items. I believe that we spent about $50 at Publix and $55 on other prepared food. There was leftover chocolate most days.
Saturday - We had hamburgers with sautéed mushrooms and steamed broccoli. My burger was bunless.
Sunday - This was the day of my Costco trip. I picked up a rotisserie chicken. We ate this with rice and salad.
Monday - I had a chicken sandwich with leftover breast meat - GF bread, spinach, pickled red onion with a side of my favorite moon drop grapes. DH had something similar.
Tuesday - The first Tuesday of the month is always crazy busy. I have a meeting/luncheon that I always attend on that day and another evening meeting. It is also Food Truck Tuesday in our community park, and of course, it was Election Day. Cooking was not on the schedule. I had a very large lunch and had a snack-y dinner at my meeting. DH had a lobster roll dinner at the food trucks and ate with neighbors.
Wednesday and Thursday - Neither DH or I were particularly hungry and we didn’t want to cook. DH ate soup and grilled cheese. I ate a scoop of tuna salad on greens.
Friday - My intention is to make pork carnitas.
Have a great week and Bon appetit.
@Bee, I love that tonight's dinner is an intention. For whatever reason, that cracked me up & sounds like how I plan meals. It's more of an intention that a plan. 😉
@Bee, what in the world is "leftover chocolate"? I've never heard of such an odd thing . . . always very dark, of course.
Oh, I bet you mean from Halloween. Got it. Those milk chocolate things don't tempt me, but will do in a pinch.
Saturday - takeout dumplings
Sunday - made our own kfc bowls with mashed potatoes, breaded chicken pieces, corn, cheese and gravy. I had made a bean and sweet potato chili in the instapot earlier to have for lunches this week and I ended up having it for dinner since I’m still trying to eat mostly plant based.
Monday - Swedish meatballs (subbed in veggie meatballs for myself), steamed broccoli
Tuesday - cheesy chicken vegetable and rice casserole (made with brown rice instead of white, less chicken and added kale, still devoured with these changes!)
Wednesday - vegetable alphabet noodle soup from the freezer
Thursday - brineraded chicken, pearl cous cous, steamed carrots and broccoli, acorn squash soup for me
Friday - salad night, with leftover brineraded chicken on my husbands, chopped black bean burger on mine, kids will have chicken nuggets with cut veggies
Let's see, we had:
-Ravioli (me) + leftover fajita chicken (DH). DS17 is rarely home
-I made dijon chicken, which was fantastic. We had that 2x.
-On Tuesday, I know I had Halloween candy & wine, which I don't recommend as a healthy option.
-I made budget bytes garlic beef broccoli noodles, which were easy & fantastic
-I made a fail of a baked potato soup in the crockpot. I added *way* too many veggies, which meant nothing cooked properly, not enough liquids.... I was able to salvage it, with quite a lot of additional work & rescuing. I had that for a dinner while DH had salmon.
WIS: $52 & $104 @ Publix
WWA:
Saturday: I made spaghetti with meat sauce & salad
Sunday: everyone had leftovers as I was taking care of my nieces little girl - I made a broccoli & chicken casserole for us to enjoy
Monday: I roasted pork tenderloin, sauteed Asian veggies, jasmine rice and some mini chicken wontons
Tuesday: Leftovers
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: creamy green chilie chicken which I made into tacos with lettuce, tomatoes, pinto beans and rice
Friday: Leftovers - the kitchen is closed cause this Mama is exhausted
Thank God for the weekend ahead. Blessings to all!
Those flowers are so pretty! They look like a carnation and rose had a baby!
WIS: $24 @ Grocery Outlet, $38 @ Costco, $69 @ Restaurant Supply
Big Week, busy schedule
Sun Family Dinner: Fried Chicken Dinner using .99/lb drumsticks and thighs
Mon: Veggie Fried rice
Tue: Road trip - bought salami @ favorite meat shop and made a picnic of deviled eggs, apples, carrot/celery/cucumbers, cheese and meat.
Wed: Grilled burgers and homemade airfried onion rings
Th: Breakfast for dinner - hashbrowns, eggs
Fri: Butcher day - dinner salads, grilled steak
Sat: work - leftover dinner salad and grilled steak
Kristen, thank you for showing JD's tomato painting. The title (in case people didn't see it in yesterday's late comments) is "Tom-ato's Last Mater". 😎
If I lived near you, I'd be begging outside your kitchen door with an empty plate. Holy cow, your dinners look appetizing!
My husband smoked some bone-in chicken, ribs, and boneless chicken (that we had gotten on discount and put in our chest freezer) on Sunday. We ate this all week with baked sweet potatoes, roasted carrots from our garden, and macaroni and cheese.
For lunches I baked potatoes and added eggs on top. Easy, frugal, and healthy!
Saturday: Went to my SIL's house and had pizza
Sunday: Daughter wanted to have pizza again so I did it and saved some to pack in her lunch on Monday
Monday - Taquitos and Guac
Tuesday - Potstickers and Mapo Tofu and rice
Wednesday - In n' Out
Thursday - Eggplant Parmesan and Fettuccine Alfredo
Friday - Probably grain bowls with tofu, carrots, brussel sprouts, edamame, etc.
Friday: Chili and Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits
Saturday: Gochujang Chicken, brown rice, roasted veggies
Sunday: Pork tenderloin with roasted potatoes and sauerkraut
Monday: Spaghetti Squash Taco Bake
Tuesday: Sriracha Salmon Bowls
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Ground Beef and Potato Skillet
Because of you I cook better for myself now. Thank you very much!
Saturday: Taylor Swift concert with the bestie was that evening, so we got Thai takeout before and had a second dinner of Wendy’s after (concerts work a lot of calories LOL)
Sunday: leftover takeout
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: husband was gone, so I had prepped a bunch of baked chicken and ate it alongside salad and veggies each night.
Thursday: we went to Trader Joe’s for date night now that we’re so much closer to the city and got their frozen Indian entrees to try. pretty good!
Friday: off to my parents, not sure what they’re planning!
Whelp, it's been a week that culminated in me waking up with a terrific migraine. Luckily the meds I took kicked in so that I could make it into work, but I was not up in time to post this morning. For anyone still reading though, here's my weekly summation:
WIS: a little under 200 on a shipment of 200 lbs of flour, about 32 on take out and 33 @Aldi. Both the takeout and Aldi were my husband because I rarely spend on takeout, but I also rarely spend less than a hundred at Aldi, so I guess it all evens out.
WWA:
Fri: focaccia using cherry tomatoes and some mozzarella and Gouda cheese sticks to look like "mummy" pizza. It was good because Gouda is always good. I was too tired to make a salad, so I cut a cucumber into four long spears and added it to a small amount of leftover romaine salad and called it good enough.
Sat: leftover focaccia and leftover Halloween shaped pasta with pumpkin chipotle sauce. I made a proper salad using sliced red Chinese cabbage and apple cider vinegar plus some spices.
Sun: I made grilled cheese sandwiches with green apple slices, sauteed onions and cheddar cheese on sourdough bread. They were amazing. I also roasted some pumpkin seeds, and we had leftover red cabbage salad which started to taste sort of pickley from sitting overnight in the fridge in the apple cider vinegar. Mmm, tasty.
Mon: I was working from home, so I turned three farm share cabbages into cabbage steaks which I normally love, but I had accidentally over salted them, so we all ended up eating only one. We also had sort of a snacky dinner with crackers, spreadable cheese and an olive cut to look like a spider on top, plus some of the lightly pickled red cabbage and some sliced tomatoes and fresh basil.
Tue: I was home still, so I turned the too salty cabbage steaks into a cabbage soup that also used up about 3 lbs of potatoes, a couple questionable onions, some very small garlic bulbs and a lb of ground turkey. I browned the ground turkey in a pan with the onions and garlic, but then I put everything into the crock pot with four cups of chicken bouillon broth. Yeah...it was super full...like I may have needed to ladle some broth out of this later on...twice...I saved the broth though, and then moved it all into a giant bowl to serve it. It made a LOT of soup with some pretty inexpensive ingredients. We garnished it with fresh parsley, the last of the pickled red cabbage and some oyster crackers and it was quite tasty. We also had some roasted pumpkin seeds.
Weds: leftover cabbage soup with spicy crackers crushed on top.
Thu: the last of the cabbage soup with Halloween shaped pretzels on top, roasted pumpkin seeds and sliced heirloom tomatoes.
Tonight: I finally made another salad: tatsoi with Asian trail mix sprinkled on top, and my husband made focaccia with mozzarella and Parmesan from Aldi and a jar of chipotle pumpkin pasta sauce from the pantry.
Tomorrow: not sure since we are rather unusually out of lefties. Maybe something with tofu?
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
@Becca,
Oh, and on Wednesday we had pumpkin-shaped ice cream bars for dessert.
@Becca,
A frugal story I'm sure that will be appreciated here: These pumpkin ice cream bars were free because I had bought a box at Aldi before Halloween and when I opened them up that night, we discovered that they must have been taken out of the freezer at the store because they were essentially refrozen soup. There was a twice as nice guarantee on the box, but I was at a loss about how to return them before or after work without creating more soup until it dawned on me to just take pictures. I then was able to turn the soupy bars into overnight oats so there was less landfill waste and the Aldi cashier cheerfully honored the twice as nice guarantee with just my receipt and photos. It ended up being a thrice is nice, I guess! Also, I love Aldi. Fin.
Saturday - not sure
Sunday - take out Mexican
Monday - beef stew - the butcher shop sells really good beef stew that is cut in consistent size pieces
Tuesday - leftover pasta after we got home from working the polls and taking ballots et al to the county office
Wednesday - pulled out a leftover grilled burger for me and better half made a pizza to eat
Thursday - leftover beef stew (working at my desk), not sure what better half ate.
Friday - grilled chix and "cut" cheesy potatoes. Straight up, the potatoes are rich. Better half grated a couple of potatoes and mixed in with part of the cheesy potatoes.
Sunday- chili and baked potatoes
Tuesday- chicken tostadas, homemade crockpot refried beans, bell peppers, garden tomatoes, and lettuce
Wednesday- oatmeal blender pancakes topped with plain yogurt and blueberries
Thursday- butternut tortellini (butternut squash and sage was from my little garden!) and broccoli
Friday- frozen chicken nuggets and a pear
Tonight will probably be leftovers!
You are the “sauce” queen! That cilantro lime! Love. your posts.You keep me smiling even during the weeks that are a bit more challenging! I love that your commenters are also so uplifting and kind.
I made Jay some fresh tomato soup from tomatoes he ripened in the garage. I was jealous of his soup (I can’t eat tomatoes). So, I made some broccoli soup. We had hamburgers on Monday and Thursday and soup the other days. Tonight he smoked a ribeye!