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What I Spent
It's December, guys!
As you may imagine, it was not a week of prize-winning kitchen endeavors.
I spent:
- $4 at Safeway
- $83 at Sam's Club
So, $87 for me.
What We Ate
As I mentioned, I've been in a bit of a fog! Let's see if I can remember what we ate.
Saturday
Mannn, I don't know.
Hmm. This isn't starting out well. I skipped Saturday, filled in all the other days, came back here, and still can't remember what we ate.
Oh well. We are just gonna have to proceed.
Sunday
Zoe was at work and I had a random plate of baked sweet potatoes, avocadoes, and a fried egg.
Monday
I got some chili out of the freezer and we ate that with some applesauce, also from the freezer.
Tuesday
I was out all day for legal happenings, and I ate some food my lawyer brought. Zoe had ramen at home.
Wednesday
I had to meet my small group to film our video for our class at 6:00 pm, so I ate an early meal that was a repeat of Sunday (sweet potato, avocado, and egg) and Zoe had ramen again while I was gone.
Thursday
Not of much note: French toast.
Of note: I spread cinnamon butter on mine, and that was so good!
10/10, would recommend.
Friday
I got a rotisserie chicken at Sam's Club yesterday so I'll probably do something with that for dinner. 🙂
Maybe not exciting, but you didn't do takeout (unless that's what you had on Saturday) and most meals included produce, so I say you can call it a winning week.
WIS: 269.11 @Aldi. This trip included a few splurge items such as a cheese Advent calendar. Do we need it? Definitely not. Will it be fun? Most certainly. Should it cost 16.99? Heavens, no. Will we get at least 17 dollars worth of enjoyment out of it? All I can say is we'd better. 😉
WWA:
Fri: Thanksgiving leftovers, including some salad and crudites.
Sat: Thanksgiving leftovers minus the salad. I was tired after grocery shopping, so we just had the cooked veggies. Half our plates were still vegetables, but none of them had that delightful raw veggie crunch. Who even am I?
Sun: focaccia on a Sunday because Thanksgiving throws everything out of whack...we did have salad though (just mixed greens and Asian trail mix) and "cat cookies" for dessert-just sugar cookie dough that we used a cat cookie cutter on. Then we decorated them with icing, marshmallows, mini chocolate chips and homemade eye candies. Much like my can-shaped cranberry sauce last year, this was an idea I had that didn't quite turn out as planned...no artificial dyes meant that my eyes were sort of cream-colored with brown pupils. Why, yes, they did look more like another part of the body that comes in pairs, and yes, my family did make fun of them, but they turned out to be excellent decor for cat cookies because they were perfect for getting that tortoiseshell look...
Mon: salad (mixed greens, cucumbers, feta, raspberries and balsamic dressing), stir fried chicken, red cabbage and red peppers over jasmine rice. More cat cookies for dessert.
Tue: bok Choi pancake, leftover focaccia air fried, sourdough discard crackers.
Wed: salad (tatsoi, carrots, avocado, radishes, turnips, peppers, and feta cheese sprayed with olive oil spray and balsamic vinegar spray and sprinkled with tajin), pigs in a blanket wreath (using hotdogs and biscuit dough) with siracha mayo dipping sauce, snowman ice cream bars from Aldi for dessert.
Thu: salad (red cabbage, celery, carrots, yellow peppers, white turnips, raisins and the olive oil/balsamic spray with tajin combo), stir fried tofu and napa cabbage with yellow peppers and onions mixed with jarred Tikka masala sauce over jasmine rice, Christmas tree ice cream bars from Aldi for dessert.
Tonight: we are going to try a Struggle Meals inspired New York style pizza recipe. My husband is annoyed because Frankie never has recipes, only videos of him making something while being schticky and he doesn't want to watch them six times to figure out quantities, but I enjoy the videos, so that's my task tonight. We will definitely also have a salad (probably cabbage based since I still have about four heads in the fridge) and we will have advent chocolate and cheese for dessert.
Happy weekend, everyone!
@Becca, my sister sent me a photo of that Aldi cheese advent calendar and I wanted it so badly (I don’t have an Aldi anywhere near me) She offered to ship it to me with dry ice but I figured it probably wasn’t worth that much additional cost! Please report back on the cheese quality though as I’m curious.
@LB,
We got one last year (later in December when it was on clearance for like .99 cents, of course) and it was delicious. I'm not sure if it's dry ice delicious, but it's maybe dry an extra twenty minutes out of the way delicious.
@Becca,
Drive, not dry
@Becca, is it a 3 hour drive delicious? Because that’s my closest Aldi!
@Becca, I didn't think it was that fabulous last year -- I'd recommend going to your local expensive store deli counter and buying very small pieces of a couple of cheeses. Same price and probably better.
@LB,
Definitely not worth a three hour drive, but I like Jean's idea of making your own.
That’s not bad for such a stressful week!
What I made:
Monday: shrimp, rice, bean bowls it tacos depending on preferences
Tuesday: chicken salad using last of a rotisserie chicken from the weekend and charcuterie type offerings (cheese, olives, cut produce). My preschooler loves being able to grab stuff off the cutting board on the table so I’ve gotten her to eat peppers and all kinds of fresh produce this way. I was most proud of this dinner because we had evening plans to see lights at a botanical garden and it would have been easy to just grab takeout out of convenience
Wednesday: sheet pan sausage, carrots, Brussels sprouts and rolls
Thursday: ground pork, ramen noodles, stir fry
Friday: we have a kid birthday party and will eat pizza there
What I spent: $146 at giant
@AFVirginia, grabbing food off of a cutting board on the table is our preschooler's favorite thing too!
@Natalie J, my preschoolers too! We call it “big snack plate” and it’s just a platter with cut fruits, veggies, cheese and they both devour it.
What is that on your sweet potatoes? I kind of looks like melted cheese.
Family Fare $4.19
Meijer $47.45
Dollar General $55.20
CVS $0.79
What we ate---
● finished off pumpkin pie for breakfast(s)/snack(s)
●teen ate quite a few pizza(s) after school snack
● Shake & Bake pork chops, mashed potatoes (teen garliced added)
● chicken strips with shells & cheese
●Ham sliders
● leftovers
● Beef & Noodles
●Apple cinnamon pancakes
●Steak with garlic mashed potatoes, garlic toast & greens
Cutting up apples & making granola to make apple crisp(s) to put into freezer
@Regina, my guess is chipotle mayo, but I'm curious too!
@Natalie J, me too. I need to know what the sweet potato sauce is.
WIS: $63 at Price Chopper,* $26.50 at Trader Joe's, and -58 cents at Wegmans.**
*I should note that $50 of the Price Chopper tab was for a Panera gift card for my next-door neighbor (NDN) and her other close friend (CF) for Christmas, since CF takes NDN to lunch at our local Panera most Fridays. (And considering all the free Panera goodies I've been getting from my JASNA Panera friend lately, I decided that a modest payback was in order for that reason, too.)
**I should also note that I cashed in $8.50 worth of NY State deposit containers at Wegmans and only spent $7.92 on groceries there; hence the negative number. (Hey, it was nice to have Danny Wegman paying me for once.)
WIA: Nothing terribly exciting, except that I did make a skillet of pork chops, potatoes, and onions one day the way DH's mother used to--and ended up lightly scorching the pork chops. However, lightly scorched was the way DH liked them best, so I figured he might have taken a hand in this from the Great Beyond.
@A. Marie,
Great memory of those chops!
You know, I was going to write "no winners in my house" but that's not true. We didn't get takeout, everyone got fed. That's a win in my books!
Monday: Mr. B made pasta with sausage. And chicken broth. Our toddler loves soup.
Tuesday: leftovers, plus scrambled eggs and some broccoli.
Wednedsay: frozen mac and cheese.
Thursday: two frozen pizzas and
sliced cucumbers.
Friday: Mr. B and I will go out before his work party.
My week was similarly un-prize-worthy, but everyone ate. Always the goal.
Saturday: Elk burgers, oven fries, green salad with vinaigrette, and snow with maple syrup, because, well, it snowed, my children collected the clean stuff, and then put syrup over it. Can you tell we've been reading "Little House in the Big Woods" at bedtime? 🙂
Sunday: Bull and elk chili, crackers because I didn't have any yogurt to my my usual cornbread, and peanut butter-almond cookies
Monday: I had some containers of turkey+turkey broth in the refrigerator that I never got around to transferring to the big freezers. So I used some of that, plus ride, salsa, and grated cheddar, to make a skillet mixture after work. Carrot sticks for a vegetable.
Tuesday: Unexpected work day subbing. I grabbed a bag of elk chorizo out of the freezer to thaw while I was at work, then fried that when I got home, added scrambled eggs and cheese, and went for my run before it got dark. When I got back, everyone was eating the chorizo and eggs in flour tortillas. There were some grapes, too, that the commodities lady dropped off for us.
Wednesday: I got home at 5:30 with one son from his First Communion class to find eldest son had made dinner for the three at home with the leftover turkey and rice skillet. He added some onion, carrots, and tomatoes to it, and I think sour cream, and served it with corn tortillas on top, kind of like a casserole. My husband rounded his out with some commodities canned beef stew--pretty sure he's the only one who will eat that--and I bulked the rest of the rice mixture with the last bit of chorizo and eggs in a flour tortilla for the basketball player when he got home. For myself, I used the last of the turkey+broth with some random leftover vegetables to make soup.
Thursday: The younger two kids and I had snacks and finger foods at a school event. My husband made bean and cheese tacos for the ones at home.
Tonight: I'm going to be at physical therapy with my eldest son in the afternoon and won't be home until after 5 p.m. I made a ram and elk stew yesterday just for this. It's still in the pot in the refrigerator, so my husband can take it out and heat it up for dinner and I won't have to do anything when I get home with a bunch of groceries to put away.
@kristin @ going country, bull and elk chili? Ram and elk stew? This may be "un-prize-worthy" for you, but it continues to be mind-boggling for us city slickers. Keep 'em coming!
@kristin @ going country, I've thought of you a few times over the last week. My dad is our venison source and he's going to start processing his own meat. I have a couple of friends here in Michigan that do this (and they even have small children - it amazes me!) but I was thinking of all of the meat processing that you do. Maybe one day I'll join him for the project. I'm sure it would be an interesting experience! The closest I've ever gotten was in college when we caught, gutted (gutting was my part of the job), butchered, and cooked a couple of chickens.
@kristin @ going country,
I haven’t read Little House in the Big Woods in 30 years, but I remember Laura and Mary enjoying snow with maple syrup. As a Florida girl, this was only something that I could dream of having.
@Ruth T, Chickens are WAY grosser to butcher than any red meat animal, so I think you'd do just fine with a deer. Make sure your dad hangs his meat for at least a week! It helps a lot with the flavor and tenderness.
@A. Marie, I started reading her blog just because the dishes are so wild, no pun intended. It's a great way to spend my Friday am!
WWS: Too high to share IMO, as I asked DH to pick out a ham for St Nicholas Day next week, and he chose a really huge one and the price made me feel a bit like a Victorian lady with the vapors, but he and the boys love ham, and it will get eaten, so off we go.
Saturday/Sunday: always homemade pizza. They're so good.
Monday: baked chicken, roasted broccoli, rice.
Tuesday: burgers and salad bar.
Wednesday: hamburger stew, mac and cheese for the Selective Eater.
Thursday: Chick Fil A after the cat shelter. The cats are really bonding with us, and it's so fun.
Friday (Tonight): tacos for the kids, made by one of the kids. DH and I are fasting for First Saturday. Not traveling this week, which will make it a little trickier, as I'll be home by all the food.
@Karen A., I had to laugh about your ham. My husband also always chooses the largest available chunk of meat, comically so sometimes.
@Karen A.,
My husband loves ham. Since we only buy it once a year, my husband always gets one that is just too big. A.Marie, you have a funny quote about too much ham, but I can’t remember it exactly. What is it?
@kristin @ going country, This thing weighs 17 pounds. And is bone in. Lots of fat on the outside, though, so I'll trim it. Once he got a ham so big that when I wanted to use the bone for soup, he had to take a saw and cut it in half so I could fit it in the crockpot! I ended up with two soup bones, so it was the Ham That Kept On Giving. I suspect this will be another one.
@Bee, perhaps Dorothy Parker's "eternity is a ham and two people" :-)
@Bee, Ham is a perennial favorite around here. Even our beloved Selective Eater likes it. It's so salty I can't eat a lot of it, but I do enjoy it when I do!
@Carla G,
Yes!!!! It is so true…,
@Bee, I think I originally got this from The Joy of Cooking, but I've seen it other places. It's the definition of a ham as "two people and eternity."
@Bee, I somewhat mangled the quote in my haste--and Carla G seems to have both the quote and the original source correct above (although I'm sure I did first see it in The Joy).
I don't take the time to find my plan and see if I stuck to it, but I had cinnamon butter, too! It had honey in it and it was yummy. But the adults all thought it didn't quite match the sourdough bread I served it with. The kids were happy to have something on the sweet side, I think. I will be making it again for potluck on Sunday.
Sunday: Tacos! Shrimp for some, beef for others.
Monday: Build your own hummus bowls.
Tuesday: It was national French toast day, so we had French toast for dinner.
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Spicy roasted veg mac and cheese.
Friday: We're going to a Christmas celebration at my grandparents church and we'll eat dinner there.
Saturday: Preschooler is campaigning for homemade pizza, but that depends on the leftover situation.
In no particular order, dinners this week included:
1. Cheesy shrimp and broccoli over pasta (or potatoes)
2. Turky pot pie
3. Vegan meatball subs with salad & brussel sprouts
4. Butternut squash soup and salad
5. Taco salad (or loaded nachos if the lettuce was on top instead of the base)
6. We hit Sam's Club on Thursday for rotisserie chicken + a couple bags of salad kits + some rolls-such a great, inexpensive option for a family of 5!
7. Not sure yet...maybe some beyond beef burgers with a veggie side?
This week: turkey tetrazzini (oh yum)
Roquefort, crackers, blackberries
penne with vodka sauce, salad
red chili
tonight, frozen pizzas.
The best thing I ate all week was halved strawberries macerated in a little sugar and a glug of Cointreau, with a dollop of sour cream on top. My daughter made it.
@Rose, Ooh! Turkey tetrazzini! I should add that into my rotation for the week after I make a turkey. Writing it down now...
@Rose, anything's better with Cointreau. It even picked some otherwise blah Regency-style "rout cakes" up off the mat for me once.
Gosh some weeks are like that and personally I think the sweet potato/avocado/egg plate sounds so good! I've been fairly frugal with meals lately, too. This week at my house:
Monday - I ate something, but I can't remember what it was. I'm back to not cooking on Mondays. Might have been ramen?
Tuesday - Buffalo Chicken Salads (romaine, Buffalo Chicken from the freezer, tomato, cheese, bleu cheese dressing)
Wednesday - Gnocci with Eggplant and Marinara, garlic toast. This turned out better than expected.
Thursday - Crockpot Chicken Drums, chopped salad, homemade mashed potatoes with a little gravy that I made from the crockpot liquid plus a half a packet of gravy mix I found in the spice cabinet.
Friday - Tonight I am throwing together taco rice using dibs and dabs of taco meat from the freezer, plain rice, the rest of a nub of cheese, the rest of a jar of salsa, and some corn I defrosted. But I am likely to treat myself to lunch out as I have chores to do at home and don't want to isolate alllll day.
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed
Happy December!
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I too was uninspired. DARK AT 430 pm. WAH. 123. was spent at Kroger pick up. My young adult son factored in a bit in grocery costs at the moment.
Sunday: big pot of sooner soup in slow cooker. First time making it. Very yummy.
Monday: big salad with cup of leftover soup
Tuesday: cheese quesadillas with leftover soup
Wed: salad. Cheese and crackers. Sweet potato fries. There was enough soup leftover for one person.
Thurs: pizza and apple crisp with 7 wrinkly too far gone to eat raw apples.
Tonight: pasta with homemade sun dried tomatoes ( canned from summer) and naan with steamer bag green beans.
Sooner soup
Mix and cook on low in slow cooker for 4 hours
1 pound BROWNED ground beef with 1 diced onion drained
2 cans Rotel or diced tomatoes
2 cans ranch style beans
1 can hominy drained. Can use corn.
1 can minestrone soup. I use progresso brand.
1 soup can of water.
1/4 tsp pepper.
Good!
Praying healing for your heart and that God gives you peace & strength in the difficult process of legal happenings.
Blessings for you - even in this temporary valley.
What is the sauce/spread on the sweet potatoes? It looked like yum yum sauce at first glance. 🙂 We always just do butter and brown sugar.
It was some sriracha mayo!
WWS:$33 at Trader Joe’s
WWA:
Saturday: We had Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday evening. Earlier in the week, my husband and I had a minor case of covid, and my son’s family all had a tummy virus. So we postponed the festivities until everyone could face food again.
Sunday -Wednesday: We had some variation of leftovers including turkey sandwiches and potato soup.
Thursday - I doctored a frozen pizza with spinach, veggies and Italian sausage (leftover from making my sausage/apple dressing).
Friday - I think that I’ll make a meat loaf and a pan of roasted veggies. I have an abundance of carrots, potatoes and onions on hand. I had bought these in bulk for Thanksgiving dinner.
I love that your lawyer brought food for you on Tuesday. Praying for smoother days ahead for you.
I have no idea what I spent this week. I have a massive pile of receipts to sort through (groceries, Christmas gifts, etc.) this morning. Was my spending within budget for November? I guess I'll find out today. Hopefully this month I can keep better track as I go along. This week we ate....
Saturday: Subs, potato salad, sliced peppers
Sunday: Pizza and breadsticks. I'm happy that I have found our sweet spot with pizza - one pizza is pepperoni and the other is half cheese pizza and half breadsticks. Everybody's happy and it's the right amount.
Monday: Spaghetti with meatballs with a side of broccoli
Tuesday: Quesadillas (which used up the last of the turkey my mom sent home with us) with raspberries
Wednesday: I tried a new recipe that was a freezer meal: a cheesy chicken/broccoli/potato bake with a side of pineapple. It was good, but I had split the recipe into two pans like it recommended and I should have put it all in one. Now I know that when I make the other one I'll need to put it with substantial sides.
Thursday: Ribs, peas, and air fryer baby potatoes
Friday: Tacos
@Ruth T, "Half breadsticks" pizza is a thing?
@Rose, It is at my house. 🙂 I roll out a full circle of dough, but put sauce and cheese on one half to make my cheese pizza lover happy, then put butter, seasoning, and parmesan cheese on the other half to make breadsticks.
I didn't grocery shop last week so nothing there. I bought a bottle of wine for my hostess while out of town, but I don't count wine as groceries.
WIA:
Pork cutlets, with honey-carrots and applesauce, then again with English peas and applesauce.
A very small chuck roast cooked with onions, mushrooms and white-fleshed sweet potato. I had it again but added a bit of frozen okra as a side since I didn't have a lot of veggies left from the night before.
Brats, sauteed cabbage and yes, more applesauce.
While out of town we had rotisserie chicken from Publix with broccoli and something else I've forgotton on the side, then chicken salad with sweet potato chips on the side. Leftover pumpkin pie for dessert while we watched "Klaus." This relative lives in a small, older home (early 1940's, I believe) but the previous owner had added a mini-theater room with black walls, sloped floor and 2 rows of 2 theater seats when he did some updates, so we watched the movie in style!
Tonight, I'm not sure yet, but tomorrow night we are celebrating a birthday girl at a place of her choice, a Japanese restaurant. I have to avoid soy, so I always have to eat carefully there, but I'll do my best. Our birthday girl loves sushi.
All lunches were leftovers except for one day when I opened a home-canned beef soup, because it's getting to be time to use those jars up and can some fresh.
@JD, glad you've been enjoying a mini-vacation!
@A. Marie,
Thanks, it was much needed!
I am not a commenter, but have been reading your blog for many years (14?). I just wanted you to know that I am praying for you. Many blessings to you.
Aww, thank you! <3
Saturday - takeout sushi, udon noodles for the kids
Sunday - turkey pot pie with stuffing crust
Monday - turkey corn chowder (and this used up the last of the thanksgiving turkey)
Tuesday - a mini pan of lasagna to use up a bit of ground sausage and cottage cheese we had (I use cottage cheese instead of ricotta because there’s a lot of ricotta texture haters in this family)
Wednesday - I was volunteering at the school book fair this evening so just picked up some food from a nearby taqueria when I was done.
Thursday - Trader Joe’s orange chicken and steamed broccoli
Friday - I’m hosting my book club, so lots of snacks for me and Mac n cheese for the kids!
WIS: A bunch of money due to being too addled with a sinus issues to put together a cohesive grocery list. Did get to Aldi for bread, cheese, and chocolate.
WWA: Fresh fruit, fresh veggies, rye and whole wheat crackers, cheese, almonds, turkey-black bean chili from the freezer, scrambled eggs and toast, a few Healthy Choice power bowls because the cook is sick, popcorn, protein shakes, popsicles, various sandwiches. No takeout, remarkably.
Bonus: Spent enough at the drugstore buying meds to get a bag of white cheddar popcorn and two pack of citrus punch mix nearly free with reward points.
I’d call it a win!
We stuck to our meal except for one night so I can contribute this week. I can never remember what we eat unless I have it written down.
Sa take out pizza, unplanned, after some heavy diy
Su Cauliflower/cheese casserole
Mo Potatoes, braised red cabbage and applesauce, with chicken wings
Tue stirfried sprouts and a chickory salad with potatoes and gravy
We fries Rice and stirfried veg with an egg
Th pea soup
Tonight will be sausage and farmer salad because eldest complained of not getting enough meat. One of the side effects of early morning shifts I guess, because he normally approves of my meals a lot.
I did grumble that he was welcome to prepare meals for the next 30 years.
@JNL, I like the "tough love" approach in your last sentence. I think Rose takes a similar approach to her young folks from time to time.
@JNL, What is farmer salad?
I think I can actually remember everything we ate this week....
WWS: $59
WWA:
Friday - Thanksgiving leftovers
Saturday: late lunch, and we went to a gun raffle where we snacked on chips & salsa & a meat, cheese & cracker tray
Sunday: chili with oyster crackers
Monday: "crazy good casserole"
Tuesday: leftover casserole for me & hubby had cheeseburgers at work as they worked a double shift
Wednesday: tacos
Thursday: pizza & cheese filled breadsticks
No shopping. Haven't left the farm since Nov. 14th. We finished butchering the elk, I ground all of the fat for the winter birds, the rest of the scraps get fine ground and froze for weekly treats for barn cats and crazy pup. We invited the neighbors and their pups up for play dates and they all received roasted bones to take home.
Sunday: Steak, baked potato, green beans and green salad
M: Leftover steak, green salad and angel biscuits
T: wild boar birria taco bowls
W: Breakfast for dinner: GF waffles, eggs and bacon
Th: Birria ramen, fruit salad
F: Once a month lunch w/friends. We'll have leftovers.
S: Minestrone, green salad and angel biscuits w/honey*
The local honey guy stores his bee boxes in our orchard over winter, in return he gives me 3 gallons of honey. Plus I buy 1 pint of clover honey to help with my allergies.
You make eggs look so tasty!
Let's see what I can remember eating this week:
-Leftovers/bread and spreads
- Fried rice
- Chicken rice burrito bowls
- Bean burrito bowls
- Potato soup and your homemade french bread recipe. I quadrupled the recipe and made one 9x13 of rolls and then 2 loaves out of it
I’ve been through a brutal and expensive divorce, and the happiness on the other side is waiting for you. The only way out is through. When I have to give advice on this I tell women to do it as quickly as possible and get as much money as possible, as you will only have one chance at it. Rooting for you.
Thank you for your encouragement from the other side!
All the food, a whole week's worth, and you know what set my stomach to grumbling? French toast! Cinnamon butter! Yum!
In no particular order...
Grilled cheese with tomato soup Chipotle pulled pork enchiladas with corn on the side
Steak with boiled potatoes, lima beans, and peas for the lima haters
Homemade pizza
Turkey pot pie
Not gonna lie the avocado egg and sweet potato sounds great!
Well, Friday's chicken will give you a few meals. After Thanksgiving Saturday doldrums.
I had it too. I'm working hard to stay away from take out for the remainder of the year--there are so many expenses to be had.
WIS $49.00 local meat market; Aldi $69.00
WWA
Friday: Pizza with friends. It was a sewing/craft day with friends.
Saturday: It was a bad night. I finally said to "self"--I don't feel like doing it tonight and I didn't.
Sunday: Family Leftover Thanksgiving. My daughter made soup, I made a potatoe pancake. My other daughter brought a small dessert.
Monday: "Creative" baked ziti. I had a half container of ricotta, a bit of grated parmesan and mozzarella, a half jar of sauce and a half box of pasta.
Tuesday: Burgers. The local meat market has a pack of 4 burgers--1 a person is plenty.
Wednesday: French toast and sausage. My husband had taken out a loaf of challah from the freezer. So, French toast.
Thursday: Burgers (remaining 2) and air fry potatoes (1 remaining potato)
Friday: Aldi Pizza.
The meat market had a special on filet mignon, box of 6, which I bought to serve to my family as a special holiday dinner--probably sometime after Christmas or New Year's, when things may quiet down. This week I saw an interesting easy basked stuffed shrimp dish, and I have a bag of shrimp in the freezer.
$69.00 I stopped at Aldi on the way home from work today to pick up a pizza, bread and butter, and plastic bags for cookies for today's garden club holiday sale. As I was walking along, I saw things that would be good for holiday cookies, a Christmas present, and a couple of other staples.
I was disappointed--they have added self check out. I looked for an open register and seeing none, I went to the self check out. While doing my order, I then noticed a register kind of tucked in a corner and a clerk, who I had noticed on the floor, at that register and a long line developing. I had an item with a discount sticker on it--well, I found out it is a process to have someone do the discount. When you press the help button for the blinking light, you also have to press something else to get a bell to ring someplace else for a clerk to come from somewhere (because they work hard, always multitasking). With one or two open registers, the Aldi workers were good and quick. I don't really like self-check out.
I may start putting my order in at a store where I can just pick it up. It could save money.
Got free pizza flatbread so I made a variety of different toppings on them......three days worth. Had chili. Had pork $1.79 lb...slow cooker. Served with pork gravy and free bread. 59 cent lb chicken baked.
I need to know what sauce you have on those sweet potatoes. Looks yummy!!
It's a sriracha mayo!