What I Spent
Really simple this week: I spent $107 at Aldi!
Something that has nothing to do with food: you know how Chiquita is always sitting on my desk or worse, on my keyboard?
I moved her new cat tree into my office, and so far, it is working beautifully to keep her off my desk!
I hope this continues…she has a comfier place to sleep, and I can type without a cat in the way. 😉
What We Ate
Saturday
We had a late lunch, so Zoe and I both just had smoothies for dinner.
(Girl dinner?)
Sunday
We just had a frozen pizza.
Monday
Zoe was at work, and I made some mashed potatoes topped with roasted red peppers and some shrimp.
The picture looks very unappetizing but I promise it was delicious.
There’s never good lighting for pictures by the time I eat dinner in the winter!
Tuesday
I thawed some roasted winter squash and made an eyeballed batch of soup by blending it and then adding a bit of butter, some salt, pepper, and half and half.
I also seasoned some chicken with a bit of leftover taco seasoning, cooked that on the stovetop, and added the rest of the roasted sweet peppers I’d made, with some half and half to deglaze the pan.
Wednesday
My breakfast for dinner meal of the week: whole wheat blueberry pancakes. Can’t stop, won’t stop. 🙂
Thursday
I made this mandarin chicken salad (a copycat of an old Wendy’s salad, which is not even faintly authentically Asian. But it is delicious.)
Friday
I’m working a 7:00 am-7:30 pm tech shift at my hospital, so…probably just a ham sandwich when I come home.
I made a recipe of the Aldi copycat chickpea salad, though, which I packed for my lunch with some leftover chicken from last night. I also packed some cottage cheese and peaches. So my lunch is gonna be a nicer meal than my dinner. 😉
I do still have my lunch voucher from when I donated blood, but I think I’ll use that when I’m at the hospital for clinical.
I also haven’t used the free Ledo’s voucher!
At clinical, we usually all gather in the cafeteria for our lunch break, so it’ll be handy to use it then.
Selena
Saturday 11th of January 2025
I separated the receipts but too late for me to "do the math".
Mushroom/Swiss stuffed chicken breast wrapped in bacon, jackets, carrots/red peppers/onions cooked with chicken Dine out Mexican Leftover Mexican/pizza Fried bologna, chips/salad for me, who knows what he ate Cheeseburger, chips/salad form me, omelet with cheese, ham, and peppers Cheeseburger, peanut butter noodles (a bit much PB but a good first try)/leftover chili Steak, salmon, pseudo jackets, corn
Selena
Saturday 11th of January 2025
Ugh cats on desk, keyboard or wherever. Not in my house - it really does not take much form them to get the message. I should rephrase that - when ALL in a household are on the same page (note - surprised my father's cats don't hate me - I do NOT put up with them on the desk as I am typing. My mother has been spinning in her grave for 2+ years now.
Madeline
Saturday 11th of January 2025
Been eating down my freezer. Made some chicken shawerma with a package of meat form trader joe, made home made tzatziki out of cucumbers fresh dill and yougurt I had in fridge. A Greek salad on the side.YUM!
Batch of hamburger cabbage soup with tons of other veggies served with rye bread I had purchased on sale.
Spaghetti and homemade sliced mushroom sauce with a link of sausage cut up in it too..I don’t like us to eat too much sausage so 1 link feeds 2 of us.Salad on side.
Dragon Lime Shrimp: A tasty asian recipe using up frozen shrimp from freezer with an easy to make sauce with ingredients I always have on hand. Over rice made in my rice cooker.
Made a batch of applesauce out of the dollar apples from the “almost done” bin at grocery store.
Cooking at home is fun,for the most part. I love my own recipes.. and I like to play music and set a nice table most evenings even for 2 of us… it’s a highlight of my day..(I’m retired!) But I like breaks now and then so today we are trying out the burgers at a new Farm Diner that a friend’s son and DIL have opened nearby..help them out, have a “date” and also a break from cooking. WIN WIN WIN.
Lorraine
Friday 10th of January 2025
What I spent: $0 -- partly due to wanting to eat up what i have in the freezer and partly due to laziness. I just never made it to the store this week even though I had no tomatoes-- a staple in my house even when it's the middle of winter and tomatoes are mediocre at best.
Saturday-Senate bean soup from the freezer. Sunday - Kevin's brand chicken in garlic sauce, pan-friend potatoes and steamed cauliflower. Monday - filled up on snacks, so no dinner. Tuesday - Chicken taco with no tomatoes. :-( Wednesday - leftover chicken in garlic sauce, potatoes, and cauliflower Thursday - half of a turkey and bacon melt sandwich leftover from a restaurant lunch with coworkers Friday - tomato-less chicken tacos again.
Looking forward to getting tomatoes, among other things, tomorrow!
JDinNM
Friday 10th of January 2025
WIS: $0 on groceries, and $14.84 (tax and tip included) on a belated birthday lunch with two friends whose late December birthdays are the day after mine, so we all pay for our own lunch! And exchange presents and have a very good time.
So far in 2025, $9.96 on groceries and $14.84 on restaurants.
WIA: Nothing to see here! Just eating down never-ending leftovers of marinated London Broil with roasted smashed potatoes and sauteed asparagus, and roasted Delicata squash stuffed with wild rice and sausage; but “new” macaroni and cheese with corn muffins to break up the monotony.
JDinNM
Friday 10th of January 2025
@Bee, Thank you, Bee! These birthdays that fall in the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve get overlooked/forgotten, so we band together to celebrate! I remember back in grade school I missed out on having the birthday parties other kids had because no one was around/school was closed. So my Mom sprang for a 4th of July birthday party at an amusement park one summer to make up for it.
Bee
Friday 10th of January 2025
@JDinNM, I hope you had a happy belated birthday. Lunch with friends is a great way to celebrate.