WIS, WWA | Last one before school
What I Spent
The semester starts this coming week...sooo, by the time I do another one of these posts, I'll officially be in school, and it'll be September!
Let's see. I spent:
- $32 at Aldi
- $8 at Safeway
- $17.50 at Lidl
- $12 at Dominos
So, $69.50 for me this week.
What We Ate
Saturday
I'd eaten a late lunch and wasn't hungry. Zoe got off of work at 8:30 so she just got a fast food chicken sandwich.
Sunday
I remember that Zoe ate a frozen French bread pizza. But I cannot for the life of me remember what I ate. Usually I snap a photo of what I eat, but I've got nothin!
To back up: Zoe wasn't feeling well, so I offered to bake a frozen pizza for her. But I burnt that thing so badly.
It was decidedly inedible. So that's when I switched to the French bread pizza for Zoe.
My brain still cannot remember what I ate, though.
Monday
Zoe still wasn't feeling well and just wanted some mac and cheese so I made that for her.
And for myself, I did a very random skillet meal.
I had a tiny packet of pearl couscous left from a Dinnerly meal that I never made, so I boiled that.
In a separate pan, sauteed a sliced green pepper, added some chopped kale, and threw in the last half of a tomato I had (chopped first).
Then I stirred in the cooked couscous along with some red pesto from Aldi, and topped it with the last of a bag of mozzarella from the freezer.
For being so random, this was pretty tasty, and I felt happy about using up some veggies plus the random bag of couscous.
Tuesday
I sauteed some ham from the freezer, then sauteed some chopped kale, then added in leftover mac and cheese plus some milk and cream.
I would say this was a little on the salty side, between the ham and the boxed mac and cheese. But I did use up some of that ham annnnnnd that's the last of the kale from my Hungry Harvest box.
Yay me!!
Also: the weather was cool enough to allow for eating outside on the front bench, which was awesome.
Wednesday
I had a nursing orientation event that went into the evening, so I didn't cook dinner.
What I have learned about nursing school so far is that...there are a LOT of orientations. I think I've been to three so far, and I have another one on Monday.
I will so SO well-oriented by the time I start class. 😉
Anyway, I got Domino's for us afterward.
Thursday
I grilled some chipotle chicken kebabs, which we ate as a salad, using the sauce as a dressing.
I used chicken thighs instead of chicken breasts again this time, and it worked great.
Friday
We have some leftover chicken, so maybe I'll do something with that for dinner.
Good luck in school next week! This is the end of our second week, so I feel like my students (kindergarten) are starting to get into the swing of things.
Sunday: Cheesy chicken and spinach stuffed shells using leftover grilled chicken from the previous week.
Monday: Leftovers, so we could get out of the house quickly and get to the library for Lego night.
Tuesday: Preschooler's choice, she's been on a corn dog kick lately.
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Hamburgers on the grill
Friday/Saturday: Leftovers, or something easy from the pantry.
Have a great weekend everyone!
What does Lego night at the library entail?
@Kristen, they have an event room, and in their event room they put out a bunch of Legos along with tables (some flat, some tilted to make a ramp). The kids spend an hour playing and building, and if they want they can choose to have their creations displayed for a couple of days. It's a simple event, but my daughter loves it every month and it's free, so we make sure to go 🙂
Oh, I bet the kids love seeing their creations displayed!
@Natalie J,
My library does Lego night, too! it's nice to have an activity that's low stress and all ages are welcome. Mostly kids, but our has some teens and adults along. I enjoy a little Lego creation myself. My group also has a bunch of Duplos so even younger kids can have fun.
I love libraries.
@Natalie J, As the mom of a new kindergartener who just started last week, I’m so impressed with kindergarten teachers, getting a group of 20+ five-year-olds organized and on schedule so quickly, amazing!
@LB,
Mom of a kindergartener here who just started this week and I can't agree more with you. Thank you to all of our teachers. 🙂
@LB, thanks so much for your kind words!
@Noel, thank you!
Can we please fix that slide from your orientation so that the K in “kind” is capitalized?!
Seriously, it sounds like you won’t have any problem meeting those expectations!
Haha, I did notice that as I was sitting there. I think it's much easier to spot errors in powerpoint slides when you're sitting in a presentation; when you're the one making them, it's easy to miss stuff!
And yes, I'm pretty good to go in the soft skills department (a benefit of being an older student). I mainly need nursing school to learn technical skills.
@Jan G,
Ha! Same here. It goes to show that consistency is Kinder on the brain.
How exciting! Wishing you every success. Orientation is funny, isn't it? We do a bunch of them every year and I think this year I was only at my placement three times in the first two weeks, because I had so many orientations. Yet one is still totally confused...
Sunday: We went to my parents' to see my aunt and uncle once more before they go home. My dad made a big meat-centered spread, which was delicious.
Monday: I made scrambled eggs and...something. I know we had a vegetable, but I don't remember what! Kale, maybe?
Tuesday: Mr. B made nachos and cucumber salad.
Wednesday: Mr. B made stir-fry and pasta.
Thursday: We were out running errands and went to a cafe. Verdict: overstimulating, way too expensive, quality has gone down, toddler hardly ate. Not worth it.
Friday: Mr. B and I are taking a weekend trip and will go to a local pizzeria once we arrive. We are leaving our toddler with my parents and everyone is fine with it (except for me, I am a MESS (my baby!!) but I'm sure it will be fine.)
@Meira Bear, good luck! Meals without toddlers can be wonderful 🙂 Especially at a tasty pizzaria!
@Meira Bear, The first time I took a business trip without my daughter, she (and her brother) stayed with my parents. She was about eighteen months old. She pulled on Nana's sleeve and said, "See Mommy, pease?" My mom didn't tell me till I got home, but if I go away my girl will sometimes text me SEE MOMMY PEASE.
@Rose,
I love that! 🙂
Not travel-related, but when I get home from work, I change into my "comfies" (shirts and a t shirt in summer, leggings and a t shirt in winter). My son, when he was a toddler, pronounced it "cummpys". Even though he's now a teenager, we still say it "his" way. 🙂
@Liz B., so cute! My daughter calls a toasted bagel "goggle toast."
@Rose, so sweet!
@Natalie J, I'm sure it will be!
@Meira @ meirathebear,
Goggle toast! I love this so much. Thanks for the laugh.
I'm laughing because that pizza isn't burnt to me, that's how I like it!
I do like things browned, but man, this thing just tasted burnt! I did try a piece before throwing it out and it was too far gone for me.
@Denise,
Same. We call it being Loretta-ed after my mother Loretta who burned everything. Most of us like pizza, toast and french fries this way.
@Noel, funny!!
@Denise, I agree
WIS: $20.35 at the Regional Market, $26 at Price Chopper, and $34 at Wegmans. (JASNA BFF gets a little like a kid in a candy store in the Wegmans bakery department, and I was happy to indulge her.)
WIA: Most economical meal: A ratatouille that cost $1 for the eggplant, 35 cents for the zucchini, and about $1.50 for the tomatoes. (I had fresh basil and frozen chopped bell peppers on hand.)
Most disappointing meal: The dinner to which the Bestest Neighbors generously treated BFF and me Wednesday night at a formerly excellent local restaurant. The service was terrible, and the food showed a sharp drop in quality from its pre-pandemic level. The BNs and I agreed we won't be back.
Much better meal out: The lunch to which BFF treated me yesterday at a local Middle Eastern restaurant. BFF had grilled shrimp with rice, I had a chicken gyro, we split an order of sweet potato fries, and we had attentive and friendly service from members of the family that owns the restaurant.
I'm so happy for you that your friend was with you this week!
@A. Marie, I adore Middle Eastern restaurants. We found one near the cat shelter where I volunteer and it's a treat to go--last night I made the "mistake" of ordering a veggie doner when I meant falafel doner, so I was a little sad to miss out on my falafel, but it was still a really good meal!
@A. Marie,
I'm sensing a theme in the comments this week about restaurants that are not nearly as good as they were pre-pandemic. My family and I have experienced some of that as well. We did find a wonderful Middle Eastern restaurant in Manitou Springs, Colorado, when on vacation last month.....so, so good!
Can't wait to hear how the first week of school goes!
I've been MIA for months...
Last night we had ground turkey tacos with a low-acid roasted vegetable salsa I made that turned out really good!
Wednesday night we had parmesan tilapia freezer fish, roasted potatoes and green beans
Tuesday night we had leftover chicken and rice one-pot skillet and a side salad
Monday we had dinner out
Sunday - Chicken and rice one-pot dish - similar to chicken and rice casserole.
Saturday - youngest and I were at a birthday party and ate the pizza and cake there for dinner, my husband and oldest went to a taqueria for burritos
Sunday - bratwurst, baked beans, corn on the cob
Monday - I ended up unexpectedly working late (luckily a very rare occurrence in my job), so my husband made rice a roni for himself and the kids. I had some tuna mixed with tzatziki on crackers when I got home.
Tuesday - since beach picnic night was such a hit last week, we did it again. I packed a garden salad with chicken and feta dressing for myself, pb&j for the kids and lots of sliced fruit and vegetables and cheese.
Wednesday - teriyaki chicken (budget bytes recipe, first time trying it and it was so easy and delicious!) and coconut rice pilaf
Thursday - ground turkey tacos, corn
Friday - leftover coconut rice pilaf, cooked in oil to make fried rice and Thai vegetable gyozo from Trader Joe’s
128 spent at Kroger pickup.
M. Grilled salmon burgers over greens. Raw red peppers and hummus.
T. Take out pizza and wings. Soooo hottttt
W. Yellow squash and vegetable soup.
Th. Turkey sandwiches on potato rolls and peppers and hummus.
F. We will have left over soup and Turkey wraps.
Many terrible storms this week in our area. Terrible! Whew
Kristen, your couscous dish sounded so good. When I first read that you sautéed a sliced green pepper, for some reason my dear mom came to mind. Growing up, my mom frequently would start meals by sautéing green pepper and onion. We’d ask,” What’s for dinner?” She’d respond,” I haven’t decided yet.” Her meals were always good no matter what she fixed and the green pepper and onion cooking made us hungry for whatever she decided to cook.
Monday-baked potatoes with onion, cheese, broccoli and bacon for toppings
Tuesday- enchiladas and salad
Wednesday- potato casserole made with leftovers from Monday supper
Thursday- beef and gravy, rice, peas
Friday- tonight will be a beef/ rice/ peas casserole from last night’s leftovers
This week I made a loaf of banana bread to use a few overripe bananas and also made apple crisp to use up some apples starting to get soft. So those made for good side additions ( and snacking) for meals this week.
@Martha, Us to our parents: "What's for dinner?"
Mom: "Poison."
Us: "Again?"
@Rose, I sometimes think that you and David Sedaris ought to get together for a chat about your families.
@A. Marie, I am a huge fan of his and am hoping my memoir will be a combo of his stuff, Shirley Jackson's family stuff, and Betty Macdonald of "The Egg and I." Thanks!
I hope Zoe is feeling better!
I had a weird week myself, including sick kids and intense heat …
Sun, Mon &Tues - My son was sick, feverish, sore throat, coughing. It was too hot outside to turn on the oven and I remember making him noodles and ground turkey because it was easy for him to eat. He ate that for multiple meals. The rest of us got Mexican food one night. The other nights were odd and ends.
Weds - Everyone was back to school, but it was so hot the heat index was over 100F. We just had cold sandwiches.
Thurs - It was intensely hot, with a heat index that got to 116F! Several schools had AC issues and the buses don’t have AC, so they canceled school. I did not feel like cooking. My husband and I had some Chinese takeout. The kids got some leftover grilled chicken from the freezer, the last bit of fresh cherries, and leftover muffins, also from the freezer. My daughter almost fell asleep at the table and couldn’t finish her dinner.
Fri - My daughter is now home sick. My son’s school was canceled again due to a broken AC. We are still under an excessive heat warning, so dinner will likely be a combination of leftover Chinese food, sandwiches, and maybe noodles for the sick one.
Fingers crossed for an easy time with more good meals next week 🙂
Friday – Dinner on my own: Roasted cauliflower, brown rice, halal cart white sauce, homemade naan
Saturday – Date Night In: Pasta Arrabiata with shrimp, husband made his amazing garlic bread
Sunday – Crunchy Thai Chicken Salad
Monday – First night of fall sports: Baked Potato Soup, Buffalo Chicken Melts
Tuesday – Air fryer salmon, Farro Tabbouleh
Wednesday – Jambalaya
Thursday – Fridge clean out night: veggie and shrimp stir fry
That couscous dish looks delicious! So does the chicken.
This week was a little strange because we thought one of the kids would be getting his wisdom teeth out, so I planned meals for that...and then after the consult they said not till October. Okey doke!
Saturday and Sunday: homemade pizzas.
Monday: Burgers, salad bar (tooth consult was on Tuesday, so I thought the patient would like to enjoy a crunchier meal before the potential op)
Tuesday: Lentil crockpot soup, which turned out really well, and leftover burgers. I also made some chocolate pudding using milk I'd frozen just before its expiration date. It worked out really well!
Wednesday: Was planning baked mac and cheese, but since a) we didn't need a soft main meal, and b) it was disgustingly hot by the afternoon, I pivoted and we had sub sandwiches (deli meats, cheeses, chicken and egg salad, fixings), watermelon and popcorn. Very well received, since two people had to leave close to dinner for an appointment. Easy to grab and go.
Thursday: Tacos at home for two kids, the rest of us went to volunteer at the cat shelter and had dinner at our favorite gyro place.
Friday: probably tuna burgers.
WIS: $233 @ Kroger and $152 @ Costco
WWA:
Saturday: I was out all day attending a vintage market so those left at home had takeout fried chicken and I ate a peanut butter sandwich when I got home
Sunday: I hit the easy button and pulled 2 quarts of homemade spaghetti sauce from the fridge, boiled some noodles and made a quick homemade focaccia
Monday: Ranch chicken in the crockpot with steamed broccoli and brown rice
Tuesday: I cooked 4 lbs of lean ground beef and added taco seasoning and cilantro from the freezer. I warmed a quart of black beans & a quart of frozen corn from the freezer. I mixed all of these together and made burritos for us for dinner along with a large batch of burritos for the freezer and 2 additional quarts of taco meat for later easy meals.
Wednesday: I used a rotisserie chicken to make up a pot of white chicken chili using some dried great northern beans from the pantry. I added lots of other goodies from our pantry and this was gobbled up by the family.
Thursday: some leftover taco meat made nachos for some and others had the last of the white chicken chili
Friday: I truly have no idea what we will eat tonight. Perhaps we will clean out the fridge or have breakfast for dinner. We shall see.
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
@Angie, I'm impressed that your "easy button" meal includes homemade focaccia! You have a lucky family 🙂
That pizza was a wee bit overdone.
What I Spent: Nuttin'. I shop for two weeks again today.
It's still too hot to want to cook much. What I ate:
The last of the turkey I had cooked, split up and frozen earlier. I had it along with collards and my favorite, cranberry sauce. I had the turkey and cranberry sauce again with squash n' okra another night.
Chicken gizzards with roasted (outside in the toaster oven) okra and something else I've forgotten to write down.
I planned a (cassava) mac and cheese casserole, which was insane, because I was not about to use my oven and the dish was too big for the toaster oven. I ended up making a sort of stovetop meal out of it, adding assorted veggies to macaroni in cheese sauce and skipping meat. I ate that for two nights, with fruit on the side.
One night I stayed longer visiting DH and got home so late. I had a Lebanon bologna sandwich on GF bread, cut up cucumber with ranch, and an apple.
Tonight, I'm not sure. As usual for my Friday shopping days, it's "we'll see."
@JD, Ooooooh, Lebanon bologna!
@Chrissy,
From an Amish farm!
@JD, Lebanon bologna! Yum! My grandma used to bring that to us when she flew out to visit us.
If there is anything I have learned in my 10 years as a nurse, we love us some orientations and protocols. So happy that nursing school is starting for you. And just remember what an older nurse told me; "Nursing school is like labor, it is bad while you you are in it but it fades fast enough that you wouldn't mind doing it again."
Sunday: Defrosted bolognese. I wanted to eat out the freezer in case Hurricane Hilary knocked out power
Monday: Chicken enchilada stuffed sweet potatoes
Tuesday: I made 2 types of kimchi and we had rice bowls.
Wednesday: I had a repeat of Tuesday bc I am still obsessed with the kimchi
Thursday: I was running errands all day, so Greek takeout (which usually lasts us a few meals)
Friday: I was FINALLY cleared to walk in athletic shoes for short distances, so I think we might get pizza to celebrate
Saturday: One of my best friends just bought her first house, so we are doing a small housewarming party. Not sure what I will bring for dinner though.
Good luck both for your first week of advanced education!
I hope the kitties will not miss the two of you too much-
We were fed.
@JNL, I was just wondering what Chiquita in particular will do when both Human Mom and Human Sister are gone for much of the day. I see an "I'll be up to no good" expression on that deceptively sweet calico face.
WIS: $132 -- $90 @ Food Lion, $32 @Aldi and $10 @ Ollie's Outlet (spices, crackers, canned tomatoes).
WEA: Despite the heat wave, I took a day and batch cooked. The big entree was a bacon-wrapped glazed meatloaf, recipe from a long ago edition of Cook's Illustrated, that used up ground beef, Italian sausage and bread crumbs that were languishing in the freezer, along with some long-frozen niblet corn on the cob, baked potatoes and sliced homegrown tomatoes. Some applesauce and olives from the fridge also wound up on the table. The family ate like starving wolves.
Cooking day also turned out homemade Italian herb bread bread, a big pan of baked mixed berry oatmeal that used up some icy berries from the freezer, and a big batch of coconut-raisin-cinnamon granola for which I rehydrated the remains of a canister of raisins that were way too dry.
Around these items we have had the usual ham sandwiches, protein shakes, fresh fruit and veg, nuts, cheese, crackers, dates, and peanut butter on toast.
I didn't add it up, but I spent a crazy amount this week...hopefully that means I stay out of the grocery next week!
Sunday: Enchiladas, refried beans, and salad.
Monday: Grilled butter chicken kabobs (we do these with a sauce to drizzle on a pita rather than heavy butter chicken in the summer)
Tuesday: Burgers (cooked these on the grill when I made the kabobs) and cole slaw. Seems like maybe we had corn on the cob too...
Wednesday: Didn't cook. Husband was out of town so I just had a sandwich
Thursday: Made a philly sub for my husband and the rest of the cole slaw. I at the same meat, but on a quesadilla.
Friday: We are having a rare night of eating out at a nice place tonight.
The journey begins! So exciting.
WIS: $13 @ Grocery Outlet - they had $.24/lb bananas - stocked up for the freezer & fresh, $77 Costco - mostly pet food and dairy items.
Sunday - Waffles w/fried apples, sausage & cantaloupe
Monday - BLT sammies, cucumber salad & plums
Tuesday - big day moving cattle, leftovers (I had fajita bowl w/pico de gallo)
Wednesday - Steak, new potatoes, broccoli and sliced tomatoes
Thursday - Asian Cabbage Salad, plums for dessert
Friday - Stir fry w/Chicken, special fried rice, fruit salad
Saturday - hosting 4 families for hamburgers, salads & slab apple pie. Hand pies for guests to take home. We will be pressing our first cider apples. Inviting new neighbors so they can meet families more intimately, rather than a large overwhelming gathering.
@Blue Gate Farmgirl,
Bad me, I have to ask this - was the steak on Wednesday because a cow moved too slowly on Tuesday?
@JD,
@JD, LOL!
I've been wondering when you start school! I'm in my third semester of nursing school and we started at the beginning of August - so jealous of your late start haha! I'm so curious to hear your perspective on it all. We are definitely very different students (I'm a terrible procrastinator!) so it'll be helpful to see how I can improve from your strategies. And it's always interesting to read about how someone else approaches something you've experienced yourself. I know you'll do great!!
I don't comment much here but I do on Instagram sometimes. This is my first time posting for WWA so let's see what I remember. I know I could not tell you what I had last weekend! Haha
Monday - I grabbed Taco Bell after a late lab - practicing injections again before we start clinicals in a few weeks!
Tuesday - I believe I just had some frozen Trader Joe's potstickers?
Wednesday - I made my first Dinnerly meal, bought with your code!, just a quick pasta meal.
Thursday - My sister whom I live with grabbed something on the way home from school.
Friday - Probably another Dinnerly meal?
@Sydney, I love frozen potstickers for a quick dinner! If you live by an Asian market, it can be a fun adventure to try some of the varieties there 🙂 We do that sometimes, and Trader Joe's sometimes.
Continuing eating out of the freezer so only bought milk and produce at the grocery store and a focaccia for lunch.
Sunday: Honemade pizza rolls. Pizza dough, spicy sausage, pizza sauce, grated cheese, corn and blue cheese from the freezer. Only onion from the fridge.
Monday: Leftover sausage grilled in the oven with potatoes, red pepper, red onion and leek. Topped with a fried egg and served with dinner rolls.
Tuesday: Home alone. Ate just a sandwich since I had a big lunch with a friend.
Wednesday: Home alone and feeling under the weather so just a sandwich.
Thursday: Home alone so fried up a one minute steak and ate it with ovenbaked potatoes, red pepper, red onion and leek again. Everything from the freezer.
Friday: My partner is home but out fishing so no ideas for dinner, or when/if it will happen 🙂
Best of wishes for next week Kirsten!
I love your random skillet dinners- always give me great ideas!
Things we ate this week:
I made a triple batch of pesto because my basil went crazy so I froze some, gifted some, and we ate some.
Sunday- Italian chicken sausage with penne and pesto, baguettes with bruschetta topping and berry crisp with vanilla ice cream
Monday- husband worked late and daughter staying at a dog sitting job this week so a Marie Callendar chicken pot pie and a piece of German chocolate cake from the store (meh on the cake)
Tuesday- dinner out with daughter because she is dying of loneliness at the dog sitting job- I had a giftcard from a local restaurant
Wednesday- grilled chicken thighs, caprese salad, garlic bread
Thursday- ground beef enchiladas, instant pot pinto beans, corn
Friday- leftovers from last night because there are so many enchiladas left
Saturday- pizza using pesto, Italian sausage, red onion and mushrooms
I’m trying really hard to use up what we have and spend less on groceries since we have some upcoming vacation planned. We are going to a beach house in September for a week and then the following week, my husband and daughter will fly to California and meet me (I have a work trip planned)- we will do Disney for 3 days for her birthday weekend. It will be fun but expensive so I’m trying to reduce my grocery budget now to help cover that. We will cook all of our meals at the beach (except we will get take and bake pizza once) because we are taking our German Shepherds with us and can’t leave them alone in the beach house. My goal for that trip is to come home with as little as possible leftover groceries. I’ll plan our meals and keep them simple- in the past we have always overbought big time.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
I don't do WIS, WIA because I have no pattern to meals and mealtime or shopping. As a nurse nearing the end of my work journey compared to when I began (1989/90) and starting then in my late thirties, I want to pray God's blessings on your school years. The profession needs you. A cousin, who had been a military nurse bluntly told me as I embarked on my nursing career in geriatrics, "If you are expecting rewards in this lifetime, forget it!" Well, she was wrong. There have been extreme sorrows and challenges. But there have been some joys and some side-splitting funny ones. And some that make you shake your head, but I wouldn't trade this time for anything.
@Chrissy, I'm a nursing student who is very interested in geriatrics and I'm so glad to hear it was such a rewarding path for you! I know it is not thought of as the most exciting choice but I think there is so much value in taking care of our elders. I have thoroughly enjoyed my geriatric patients in clinicals and it definitely made me reconsider what I want my path in nursing to look like - I was previously interested in pediatrics and L&D! Now I seek out dementia and Alzheimer's patients and am looking forward to a hospice rotation. It's so wonderful how different things appeal to us when we get the opportunity to try them with an open mind! Thank you for sharing your perspective!
I figure I will just go into clinicals with an open mind; right now I think I want peds or L&D, but like you, I might change my mind!
@Sydney,
Bless you and Chrissy! Geriatric nurses are NEEDED and good ones are worth more than than can be measured.
@Sydney, bless you, my child. Geriatric care needs all the angels like you it can get.
WIS: $0. Because WIA was the St. James Tearoom’s Afternoon Tea with Mr. Darcy (from Pride and Prejudice, of course) that was my sister’s treat for the family on the occasion of one of her daughters’ birthday. Mr. Collins’ Crustless Quiche (excellent), A Pemberley Stuffed Date with Bacon (yummy), Jane’s Traditional Cucumber Tea Sandwich (refreshing!), and the Tearoom’s own Traditional Cream Scones with White Peach Curd and Clotted Cream (among many, many other offerings).
In addition to its tea services, the Tearoom has a pretty enormous gift shop. I have yet to bring myself to spend $45.95 for a single cup and saucer, no matter how lovely, but I was taken by a tooled leather billfold they were featuring, with “Pride and Prejudice” etched on the front and, on the back, the following quote which put me in mind of what we all think of A. Marie:
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Wish you could have joined us, A. Marie, and supplied us with your witty observations about not just the dishes but the characters they were named for. I hope you enjoyed your week with your JASNA BFF.
Good luck in nursing schoole!
First time commenter! I cook just for my husband D and myself. We like to eat and spend more than we probably should, but we are thrify with just about everything else so I don't mind. I also loving cooking meals with miscellaneous ingredients just to stretch my skills and brain! 🙂
We both have colds this week, so our dinners were pretty minimal because we weren't that hungry.
$62 Sendik's
$22 Farmers Market
M - Lowcountry boil (Local potatoes, saug., shrimp, local corn)
T - Local corn on the cob with a salad
W - Bagels with cream cheese and local tomatoes
T - Tortilla crusted tillapia from the freezer and the last of the local corn
F - Going out to baseball game for work with free dinner!
Yay! So glad you joined us. 🙂
I have never heard of Sendik's!
@Henna, I have a similar viewpoint on food spending. I'm thrifty elsewhere so I can try all the tasty things haha
@Henna,
We lived in SE Wisconsin and Sendik's is one of my favorite grocery stores.
There aren't many grocery store choices in the U.P. of MI where we live now.
@Kristen, Sendik's is a local higher-end grocery store in SE Wisconsin. Their meat, seafood and produce sections are great.
@Natalie J, Yes! I like to eat and cook so I probaby spend more than I should on food, but I don't care!
@Laurae, I have heard that of the UP. I have a brother and sister-in-law that live in Ishpeming and moved from down here. She said the options are limited.
Cheers to starting your classes!
WWA:
Saturday - low to no energy day meant I made boxed mac and cheese
Sunday - roast chicken, mashed potatoes, blistered shishito peppers, raw carrots, grape tomatoes, s’mores
Monday - leftovers
Tuesday - the planned stuffed peppers turned into unstuffed pepper skillet
Wednesday - chicken tortilla soup & cornbread muffins from the freezer
Thursday - banana pancakes (still trying to use up frozen overripe bananas) & bacon
Friday - chicken & cheddar smokies and maybe something else (or not)
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend
Here’s wishing you a great start to nursing school this week! Looking forward to the stories. From past stories, you have tons of compassion so I think you will be the kind of nurse that patients rave about to their families.
Catching up a bit due to a spate of medical appointments: Happy Half Birthday to Zoe whose cakes are too cute. Good luck to her in her further schooling, too.
That photo of Lisey beside the enormous airplane is such fun!
It must be a very small feeling to work on these big planes!
So excited for you. You are about to have a lot more stories for all of us. You are going to kill it!
We had:
- Stirfy
- Peanut sauce over rice
- Bean and rice burrito bowls multiple times.
- Soupe sauce over rice (local dish)
I have a feeling we might see more pizza on your menus in the coming months. 😉
WIS: only 31.35 @Aldi this week because it was a very busy week and I didn't have time for a proper grocery shop. All salads this week were just the prewashed clam shell variety topped with store-bought dressing.
WWA:
Fri: salad, focaccia with pepperoni, tomatoes and mozzarella/parmesan cheese.
Sat: smash burger tacos using ground pork, toppings were lettuce, diced tomatoes, diced pickles, diced avocado, diced red onion, mustard/mayo sauce, ice cream sandwiches.
Sun: salad, Sunday gravy (tomato sauce with meatballs, sausages and pork ribs) over buccatini pasta, ice cream sandwiches.
Mon: salad, leftover Sunday gravy (just meatballs left) on brioche hotdog buns.
Tue: salad, beans and rice with red pepper and cheddar cheese, ice cream sandwiches.
Wed: salad, mutter paneer from a can, garlic naan from Aldi.
Thu: My youngest turned nine! We had salad, lasagna (husband tried an overnight in the fridge instead of boiling the noodles method-worked great), brownie cake topped with strawberries and plastic sharks.
Tonight: we had a lot of leftovers in the fridge, so we skipped focaccia and had an easy night. We had leftover bucatinni with leftover Sunday gravy (basically just the tomato sauce now), leftover rice and beans and leftover pear oven pancake from birthday boy's birthday lunch. We had (gasp!) no salad. I was too tired from setting up my classroom.
Happy weekend, everyone!
@Becca,
I spelled bucatini two different ways in this comment and they were both wrong! Just thought I'd correct it in case anyone wants to look for it. It's in the special finds aisle of Aldi right now.
Good luck with school!
I’m so excited for you and wish you a beautiful semester that less hard than August did.
I am so ready for September. Come on, fall! And your couscous dinner looks very good, BTW. This week at my house:
Monday - BBQ Beans/Sausage/Bell Pepper/Onion Skillet, cornbread
Tuesday - Pork Fried Rice, honeydew melon
Wednesday - Buffalo Chicken Salads (romaine, grilled buffalo style chicken, tomato, purple onion, avocado, celery, shredded cheese)
Thursday - Shrimp Tacos (flour tortillas, shrimp, angel hair cabbage, monterrey jack cheese, crema)
Friday - Crockpot Lasagna, broccoli
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed, but I'm sure I will enjoy a bowl of cereal
Happy weekend!
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I loved the part of college when I was actually studying the work I would be doing (in my case OT) instead of general ed and pre-requisites. Enjoy nursing school! You are going to be a great nurse!
That pizza looks just perfect to me - I like browned cheese.
My poor kids...they are big now, but when I overcooked a frozen pizza I would market it as Pizza Toast..And they ate it. 😉
I am 55 years old and going back to school next week for a Pilates Teacher Certificate. Right there with you, Girl! Let's go.