WIS, WWA | The Original Cat
What I Spent
First, how about a gratuitous picture of The Original Cat?
After seeing Chiquita photos, some of you have been asking, "Where is your other cat??"
Well, Chiquita would like to be friends, but so far Shelly has not shown an interest. Ehhhh....quite the opposite.
Since Chiquita is always hanging out with me, Shelly has not been hanging out with me so much. And that's why there are fewer pictures of her than there were before!
You have to hang around the camera-happy person if you want photos. 😉
I spent:
- $37 at Sam's Club
- $30 on a Hungry Harvest box
- $26.04 at Giant
- $26.05 at Aldi
So, $119.06 for me.
I don't normally include cents in these reports, but I think it's funny that I bought groceries within one cent at two different stores!
What We Ate
Saturday
French toast: an Easy Button dinner.
Sunday
Sauteed chicken, roasted potatoes, and asparagus.
Monday
I made a pot of clam chowder, which we ate with sauteed broccoli and some cheese bagels from the freezer.
Tuesday
Zoe was out with a friend, so I put my PJ pants on, watched a bunch of assigned lab videos, and ate leftover soup for dinner.
Chiquita was interested in my soup.
Wednesday
I had lab from 5:30-9:30, so it was Zoe's turn to eat leftover soup!
I ate a peanut butter sandwich before I left.
And I ate a Clif bar on a break at lab.
Thursday
I made some meatball subs with a green salad on the side.
Friday
Zoe's working tonight, so maybe we will eat some Swedish pancakes together after she gets home.
WIS: 238.69 @Aldi. It was a little higher than usual because I bought a few more treat type things and some gifts for coworkers.
WWA: All the salads were prewashed from a box, but we topped them with Asian trail mix and ranch dressing.
Fri: salad, tomato, mozzarella and parmesan cheese focaccia.
Sat: salad, frozen cheese pizza, pumpkin cake roll from Aldi.
Sun: salad, turkey chili with cheddar cheese and sour cream
Mon: salad, turkey chili with cheddar cheese and sour cream
Tue: salad, burritos (filling was rice and pinto beans/onion/red pepper mixture with shredded cheddar cheese)
Wed: salad, chicken and waffles
Thu: salad, random leftovers (waffles, chicken, rice, burrito filling, chili), yogurt with blueberries and corn flakes.
Tonight: salad and focaccia, of course!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
WIS - £77.54 Ocado home delivery
£8.32 - Tesco - strawberries, cream & sugar paper flower decorations for mom's birthday cake
Saturday - Roast Chicken breasts, green salad & homemade potato salad
Sunday - Baked salmon fillets, carrots, peas, mashed potato & homemade hollandaise sauce
Monday - Brinner (breakfast for dinner), strawberries & cream
Tuesday - Chinese takeaway @ mom and dad's to celebrate her 82nd birthday, I made her a cake and decorated it with sugar paper flowers & icing - it was delicious
Wednesday - worked late, grabbed a Big Mac
Thursday - Chicken Kyiv, sweetcorn, peas & carrots, baby potatoes
Friday- out with a friend tonight to the pub so no idea what I will choose to eat, they do a lovely grilled seabass and asparagus dish which I do rather like so I may go for that.
Still adjusting to cooking for two now the 2 sons are off at Uni... we are missing them but know they are having an amazing time so that makes it all ok
Monday: We phoned it in with turkey sandwiches made from the clearance bird ($7 for 14 lbs!) my husband roasted so magnificently on Sunday. Thanks to his commute, he only has time to cook on the weekends, but it’s always worth the wait! I look forward to this weekend’s soup(s).
Tuesday: Homemade cream of mushroom soup in the crockpot, with naan for dipping and sautéed beet greens. This incorporated stock made from Sunday’s roast turkey.
Wednesday: I try to have a “food prep power almost hour” once a week, usually while I’m making our dinner. BBQ Mac and Cheese is my go-to for this, as it takes heat for almost 30 minutes on the nosey, rests for 10-15, and mostly requires the occasional stir. This Wednesday, while BBQ Mac and Cheese bubbled away, I used that 45 minutes to:
—Cut up beets that I’d roasted earlier in the crockpot, making our favorite beet salad for Thursday. (It’s best if it gets to sit overnight.)
—Realizing I had too many beets and not enough time, I set the extra aside to make beet hummus in the morning.
—Made peanut lime dressing for Asian noodles for Thursday and Friday’s lunches. (Ditto sitting overnight.)
—Made pesto using leaves from our seemingly immortal basil plant. (Still more ditto!)
—Made my husband’s work lunch for the following day using the last of our leftover turkey for a sandwich.
—Did dishes and wiped down counters.
Thursday: Some of the pesto topped crockpot salmon, with which I served the beet salad. I froze the leftover pesto for our winter stash.
Tonight/Friday: We’re having leftover beet salad, leftover peanut noodles, naan with za’atar, and beet hummus.
@N, what do you do for your beet salad and beet hummus?
@Natalie J, Beet hummus:
https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-smoky-beet-hummus-251924
The beet salad recipe is from the New York Times, I think? At any rate, it was a recipe site that threw up a paywall after the first few clicks, but I was able to copy and save the beet salad recipe first. 😉
6 to 8 medium beets, roasted and sliced.
Juice of 1 lemon.
2 cloves garlic, minced.
1 teaspoon cumin, or to taste.
Salt and black pepper.
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil.
½ cup diced fresh parsley (I don’t like parsley, so I skip this)
Mix it all together and throw it in the fridge for the next day, stirring occasionally whenever you’re in the fridge for something else. Serve cool.
@N, I never thought to pair cumin and beets. Thanks for the recipes!
@N, thanks!
Looks delicious as always!
Sunday: Lentil stew, one of our favorites. This one was served with homemade croutons made from freezer hot dog buns.
Monday: Snack dinner, we spent the evening at the park. It's the perfect level of fall right now, so we're soaking up all the outside time we can!
Tuesday: Preschooler's choice, she went with spaghetti this time. Sauce was partially made from our garden!
Wednesday: BBQ chicken salad, with shredded frozen chicken from the freezer.
Thursday: Quick Little Caesars on our way to Lego night at the library.
Friday/Saturday: Leftovers
WIS: $14 for the last American Legion chicken BBQ dinner of the season, $36 at Wegmans, and $15 at Price Chopper.
WIA: I used the chicken breast and the potatoes from the BBQ dinner in a chicken and vegetable soup with a turkey broth base (I shared this with the next-door neighbor). I also made a pork stir-fry with Wegmans RFQS pork, and a sort of fish pilaf with frozen tilapia, rice, an ear of corn, some of the last cherry tomatoes, and the first of my fall cilantro.
@A. Marie, I might have to make Cornell chicken with some of the chicken breasts in my freezer before it's too cold and windy for grilling. I love Cornell chicken and upstate chicken barbecues.
@kristin @ going country, I love the BBQs too (as you can tell!). And the Cornell seasoning on the chicken breast lent an interesting flavor to the soup.
I'm trying to get us eating more vegetables and I think we did well this week! I love fall.
Sunday: We had leftover roast beef.
Monday: Well, it was Yom Kippur so Mr. B made a frozen pizza for our toddler, and we had the remainders to break the fast later in the evening.
Tuesday: Scrambled eggs, roasted squash, and cucumber salad.
Wednesday: Pasta and meat sauce from the freezer, with sauteed broccoli.
Thursday: Roasted chicken breasts, zucchini, and brown rice.
Friday: I asked Mr. B to pick up some fish at the market on his lunch break. Not sure what else we'll have!
@Meira @ meirathebear,
Oh, and I should add. I'm not great pre-prepping whole meals, but by coincidence we had half a butternut cut up in the fridge, and then it was so easy to throw in the oven, and such a great day when I found the meat sauce in the freezer. A good inspiration to myself to try and create situations where dinner is easy!
Saturday: Beef stroganoff, except without onions or garlic because my mom was visiting and can't eat those. It takes a lot of thought for me to cook without those things that are so ubiquitous in my kitchen. I actually fried them separately so everyone else could put it in their beef if they wanted. We also had mashed potatoes, a green salad with vinaigrette, and a chocolate cake my mother had won at a silent auction bake sale the night before. And some chocolate ice cream we already had.
Sunday: Sheep loaf made with, well, ground sheep, roasted potatoes, frozen green peas, peanut butter and almond cookies (this week's snack cookies)
Monday: Many and varied leftovers supplemented with bread and butter and raw cabbage chunks. Because Monday is a workday.
Tuesday: I poached three giant chicken breasts and used some of the meat to make a chicken curry with onion, carrots, celery, and potatoes. The rest of the poaching liquid went in the rice. A good make-ahead meal for our rushed Tuesdays.
Wednesday: I had made bull/sheep/bean chili the day before when I was already in the kitchen, so I heated that up for dinner. We had it with some rolls I had made a few days previously when I was making bread. And there was cantaloupe from excess commodities.
Thursday: I had some plain chicken I had pulled off those poached breasts, so I used that with the leftover rice to make fried rice.
Tonight: I just now thought of this, so the plan might change, but I'm baking bread today and it's going to be pretty hot. So I might punk out a bit with tuna salad on fresh bread. We have a few small bags of chips my mom left that I can divvy up among children too, which would be exciting for them. We also have a watermelon from excess commodities that looks like a seeded one and is already cold in the refrigerator. Sounds like a meal to me. 🙂
Had a good week. WWA:
Saturday - leftovers
Sunday - beef vindaloo, rice, cucumber salad, naan, papadams, ice cream bars
Monday - a big salad with chicken on top (out of town for work, so restaurant meal)
Tuesday - crispy chicken ramen (still out of town, restaurant meal)
Wednesday- arrived home late, DH ordered pizza
Thursday- creamy tomato pesto pasta with chicken
Friday - planning on loaded potato soup & baguette
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend
$320.36 at Kroger. Not too bad for a family of four adults and a teenager and preteen. It would have been a little less if I had remembered to clip all possible laundry detergent e-coupons, and I missed a coupon for the potatoes we got. Oh well.
Saturday/Sunday: homemade pizzas
Monday: baked boneless skinless chicken thighs, roasted broccoli, rice. This was declared a winner of a dinner, much better than our usual chicken and rice casserole. Those who are watching carbs had meat and veg, those who love rice bowls made a custom rice bowl, and some, like the youngest, just grabbed three chicken thighs and chowed down. It was an impressive sight. Doing this dinner again for sure. I also made chocolate pudding with some milk that was juust about to go south.
Tuesday: Burgers and salad bar, one of my favorite meals.
Wednesday: Hamburger stew (mac and cheese for the non-stew eater)
Thursday: Leftovers/dinner out for those volunteering
Friday (tonight): taco night
WIS: $242 @ Publix
WWA:
Saturday: BBQ chicken thighs in the crockpot, green beans, & broccoli wild rice casserole
Sunday: I found Ribeye steaks on a great sale and cooked them on the stove & finished them in the oven. We had broccoli wild rice casserole and green beans on the side.
Monday: Great Northern beans and pork tenderloin cooked in the crockpot, jasmine rice and sauteed spinach on the side
Tuesday: Takeout as we went out to run errands in the evening
Wednesday: an absolutely horrible day on the home front resulted in the hubby bringing pizza home
Thursday: just when I thought it couldn't be worse...it got worse; I reheated chicken drumsticks in some bbq sauce and served them to my crew with some leftover jasmine rice. There were no veggies and I am giving myself grace because it is a miracle I survived yesterday.
Friday: I have no idea my friends but it will likely be some kind of chicken soup as my husband has strep throat, I am exhausted. Goodbye September...you have been a ROUGH month.
@Angie, I hope October is a better month for you! September was tough here as well, hoping *real* fall (not these seesawing days between cool mornings and 80 degree afternoons!) brings peace and contentment your way.
I once had a cat that hated a cat that just showed up at our house, but eventually, they could be in the same room for long stretches, ignoring each other. Hopefully, you can at least reach that point with your cats.
WIS: I spent $214 last weekend for two weeks. I obviously did some catching up on my groceries, plus had two farm orders, one of which was bigger than normal, since it was time to buy fresh, not frozen, chickens.
WIA: One night I cooked the last of a pack of sale bacon (on sale is the only way to afford bacon anymore) then used some of the fat to sauté a package of collard greens. I ate bacon and greens, period.
I cooked a small strip steak from one of the farms. For the sides I cooked the very last of my summer squash and okra, because I pulled the plants up the next day, sadly. It's time to plant for fall.
I cooked a combination spatchcocked chicken/sheet pan meal. I brined the chicken and browned the skin in my 12" cast iron skillet ($1 at a yard sale), took it out, put a load of cut up celery, carrots, garlic and mushrooms in the skillet, put the chicken on top of the veggies and roasted it all in the oven. It was a five pound chicken - I have eaten this for several lunches and dinners. I will probably have to put some in the freezer.
I pressure cooked a boneless pork butt roast to make pulled pork with a molasses-based sauce. I also made vegan cole slaw and had store-bought applesauce to go with it. This was a four pound roast, so I'm eating it a lot, too. The remaining roast and sauce is going in the freezer.
Tonight - TBD.
@JD, I hear you about the price of bacon. I was looking yesterday at a NY Times recipe for beef bourguignon and thinking that the bacon the recipe calls for will cost me more than the beef (from my 1/4 steer) did.
I've never made clam chowder before, but now I want to give it a try!
This will be the first month in a while that I'm coming in under budget. Whoo hoo!
Saturday: We had our neighbors over for dinner and cooked over the fire in our backyard. We used our Pie Irons and had soft tortillas with black beans, refried beans, taco meat, cheese, and salsa. One of our neighbors is vegetarian (although it sounded that night like she might actually be vegan) so it worked great to accommodate different diets. We finished the night with s'mores.
Sunday: Pork fajitas to use up some leftover pork
Monday: Ratatouille-type pasta sauce over spaghetti noodles with a side of peas
Tuesday: My aunt and uncle from Massachusetts were here and we went to my parents' house to eat dinner with them. I'm so thankful for that time together!
Wednesday: Tortellini carbonara with broccoli
Thursday: Ribs (I got a big rack of them from Flashfood for less than $6 and they were SO GOOD! Since I was really excited about it, my husband seemed to be prepping the kids for "don't even think about complaining about dinner because mom put a lot of effort in." Ha! Made me happy.) We had sweet potatoes and zucchini/summer squash on the side.
Friday: Chicken patty sandwiches... and I'll find something else to go with it.
Mmmm....this week:
Last night leftover pizza.
Wednesday: buffalo chicken pizza.
Tuesday: Jamaican mac and cheese.
Monday: creamy tortellini soup
Sunday: grilled stuff.
Chicken stir fry tonight, I think.
Unrelated: I sent you an email bc I have a question about NYC/JFK transit. I sent it to the email you have listed here…lmk if I should use another one!
@Kristen, Ah, I didn't see it but I replied. JFK transport is pretty easy, actually. She can take the AirTrain to Manhattan, and then I guess Amtrak to you.
https://www.jfkairport.com/to-from-airport/public-transportation
Thank you!
@Rose,
What is Jamaican mac and cheese?
@Jaime, Spicy! Look last week--I think on Friday?--I posted the recipe.
It's basically regular mac and cheese with extra chili, scotch bonnet peppers (fresh) or habenero (fresh), a little honey, and baked with a cracker or Dorito crust. It's quite spicy and then when it's hot, you drizzle honey over your portion. Heaven.
Daughter is severely annoyed with mass transit today. oops.
https://ibb.co/zhCCyWp
Yikes! That's a lotta water!
Are there different times for labs? I’m an early bird and 5:30-9:30 am would be more suitable for me lol. How many hours a week are you in class? My junior year of college second semester I had no Friday classes which was nice because I had a boyfriend who lived closer to my home town so I could go home for the weekend and see him. Sorry, Mom and Dad. We married right after my graduation and were married 26 years before he died suddenly.
Yep, we are divided into lab groups and we all go in at different times each week. I got put in the night group which was NOT my first choice, but it is ok. I will survive. 🙂
I'm hoping for an earlier group next semester!
Also, my beagle hates Gus our cat and I don't know why. He was perfectly fine with our previous cat.
WIS: $14.58 at Sprouts for avocados, onions, “Lucky 7” multigrain sourdough bread and 3 delicata squash! So happy fall/winter squash suitable for roasting and stuffing has finally appeared. And $11.02 at Albertsons for 3.25 pounds of 85% lean ground chuck (about $3.13/pound which is a good price around here because none of my neighbors have livestock suitable for slaughter). So $25.60. (Not including a donation to Storehouse West, a food pantry that has just begun fundraising for the upcoming holiday season and partners with Albertsons for that worthy cause.)
WIA: Spinach quiche and salad; scrambled eggs with nutritional yeast!*; marinated steak with onions sauteed in the leftover marinade and roasted potatoes; Korean ground beef on rice; and roasted chicken with Brussel sprouts and cauliflower.
*Last week’s query: What can I do with nutritional yeast? The dog loves scrambled eggs so I researched whether you can feed dogs nutritional yeast and yes, yes you can and it’s very good (even nutritional!) for them. (Be sure to research appropriate amounts given a dog’s weight.) “High amounts of vitamin B complex supports healthy digestion and nutrient absorption”, “folic acid helps maintain a healthy liver”, “selenium supports healthy skin and coat”, and “B vitamins promote immune system health in dogs.” So we both had scrambled eggs with nutritional yeast this week.
Bon appetit!
@JDinNM, I just started shopping at Sprouts this week because their produce is so much better than Aldi. Lots more expensive but my husband the veggie hater is starting the Mediterranean diet so I’ll do whatever it takes to get vegetables I’m him. Anyway, I will look for the multigrain sour dough bread—the more fiber the better.
@Elaine N, The bread comes from Izzio Artisan Bakery in Colorado. I like it so much I ordered it directly from them when Sprouts had problems stocking it during the pandemic days of supply chain issues. The Lucky 7 Multigrain uses organic wheat flour and sourdough starter, and organic flax/sunflower/millet/poppy/pumpkin seeds, honey, oats and sea salt. Only 2 grams total sugar and very low sodium, 0mg cholesterol. And it tastes great!
Saturday - Normally we do takeout but I had snacked all afternoon and then wasn’t hungry at dinner and the kids were overtired (which usually means they need dinner immediately, or there could be a meltdown) so I quickly made them some boxed Mac n cheese.
Sunday - we were in my husbands hometown visiting his friend (about an hour away from where we live) so I asked if there was any takeout he wanted to pickup in the area. He picked a place that specializes in rolls as in egg rolls, spring rolls, shrimp rolls, etc It was delicious and fun to get takeout from outside our area, since we are used to going to the same places.
Monday - penna al vodka with pancetta (cooks illustrated recipe, a favorite here)
Tuesday - beach picnic night, I know our days are limited with these as it’s already getting darker earlier but I’ll keep doing them as long as there’s daylight when we get home. We had pb&j, sliced fruit and raw veggies, granola bites, dried seaweed (kids think it’s funny to eat this at the beach with seaweed around us) and a chopped salad kit for me.
Wednesday - enchilada pie
Thursday - emeril’s alphabet soup and pilsbury biscuits. I didn’t have an onion so pulled out a bunch of green onions I’d planted and used those and then used some mishapen carrots my MIL had brought us from her garden. This soup was a huge hit with the kids, they aren’t picky but don’t usually eat a lot at dinner, they both finished their bowls and my daughter even asked for seconds.
Friday - chicken patty sandwiches, baby corn, sliced cucumbers
@LB, Our Friday nights ended up being almost identical! Chicken patty sandwiches, skillet corn, sliced cucumbers, and pear slices. 🙂 We must feed a similar crowd. I'll have to look up that alphabet soup recipe!
$9.17 mixed between stores. Orange Juice, clearance ice cream, clearance pita bites, and clearance yogurt. It was a weird week of eating, but in looking at the run down, not complete nutritionally void meals I was somewhat expecting to write about.
Saturday- Leftover pizza at partner's house.
Sunday - Massaged kale salad, rice, stir fried beef, and carrots.
Monday - Shrimp wrap- Leftover air fried shrimp, kale, and ranch.
Tuesday - Ice Cream for dinner- a treat! Followed by some popcorn. Soul satisfying.
Wednesday - Pork Vindaloo with peas, and the end of a bag of mixed vegetables from the freezer over rice.
Thursday - Chicken, a target Lara Bar, and some pickled Okra. Another somewhat weird meal for a weird week.
Tonight- Probably leftovers in some form of comfort food or odds and ends.
I like your Tuesday meal!
@Kristen, Ice cream has calcium! Popcorn has fiber, antioxidants, a low glycemic index, and all kinds of nutrients like folate, niacin, thiamin and pantothenic acid, as well as A, B, E and K vitamins. Sounds like a healthy meal plan to me. ;-}
@JDinNM and Kristen, Popcorn is a whole grain—my endocrinologist clued me in to this happy fact. And, it’s tastiest with nutritional yeast sprinkled on top so even more nutritious.
@Erika JS, Yes! Popcorn is a lot healthier than chips. I have started serving home-popped (air popped with some butter and salt) popcorn instead of chips with burgers, for example. Everyone enjoys it and it's cheaper, too.
The freezer clean out is still going strong. With the help of our CSA box I was able to keep our grocery bill under $50 this week.
Friday – Brats, tater tots, fresh fruit and veggies
Saturday – Dinner at a friend’s house.
Sunday – Halal Cart Chicken, homemade naan, roasted cauliflower
Monday – Pork tenderloin, roasted potatoes, braised purple cabbage
Tuesday – Chunky Brisket and Cabbage Soup
Wednesday – Arroz con Pollo
Thursday – leftover night
It's finally soup season! We had a creamy butternut soup with french toast, lasagna with a green salad, pumpkin pasta with a mushroom tomato sauce (which made it into the lasagna), chicken and roasted potato halves with broccoli, a potato hash from the leftover roasted potatoes with chickpeas and brussel sprouts, topped with an egg, lemon chicken over cauliflower and pasta, and finally, takeout noodles.
WIS: $34 at Aldi. $64 at Food Lion. $4.50 at Ollie's Outlet (coffee). Total: $102.50.
WWA: Pizza, chili, ham sandwiches. Cheese, crzckers, fruit, fresh veggies. Muffins and protein shakes. For such a skimpy menu, I spent a lot but was restocking the freezer and pantry.
Last weekend, we ate salads soups and stir fried veg topped with eggs because we wanted to clear the fridge before our short break.
When we were away we did not eat our every day, as my husband initially proposed. Instead, we alternated eating out with eating at the cottage - but made it is easy by buying artisan bread, cheese, olives, and big salads.
I noticed we made healthy choices throughout, and combined with the lovely weather and the walks we feel quite refreshed!
Very happy to hear that The Original Cat was neither what you spent nor what you ate.
lol! No cats on the menu here. 🙂
We had:
- Fish and rice bowls
-Lentils and rice
- Sandwiches (once with canned meat, once with leftover Lentils)
- Stir-fry
- And I think bean bowls...
@Katy in Africa, also I was just looking over your bread recipes, making me want to bake some bread... Nothing like fresh homemade bread!
Monday- salad and hot bread with dipping oil
Tuesday- beef stew and hot bread with butter
Wednesday- beef stew and biscuits
Thursday- chicken soup and biscuits
Friday- pork chops, baked apples, squash
Saturday- finish the chicken soup
Sunday- most likely chili with cornbread
What I spent--
Sam's Club $164.04
Meijer $38.85
*This included dog food order*
What we ate----
• Rotisserie chicken with shells & cheese
• Bacon, egg & cheese wraps
• Chicken strips & Arby's curly fries (sold in freezer section)
• pancakes & bacon
• Rigatoni & breadsticks
• Pumpkin pie with whipped cream (Yeah Sam's Club just got in yesterday!! $6.98 huge pie 8 big slices)
• chicken with garlic mashed potatoes
• leftovers
• Steak with garlic mashed potatoes & garlic toast
• popcorn
• cereal
•made dark chocolate with chocolate chunks brownies (dessert 4 days)
We enjoyed:
- Veggie/tofu stir fry
- Acorn squash, brown rice, and salad
- Apples, nuts, cheese and crackers
- Burrata panzanella salad (restaurant)
- Cream of spinach soup and baguette
- Spaghetti squash with marinara sauce
- Popcorn and fruit
I don't have a WIS-WWA post, but wanted to comment that at our house, we call our PJ pants our happy pants thanks to a previous pastor's wife. She said she called them happy pants because every time she put them on they made her happy. So happy pants they are :).
The picture of you in your scrubs makes me so very happy for you.
This week, I made zuppa Toscana in the slow cooker, fish, BBQ ribs, pineapple teriyaki chicken, sausage sheet pan meal, and pizza. I'm not sure what else we ate, probably some leftovers. Also, fruit and veg on the side.
Ooo, can you make the moves to hang out with Shelly sometimes? That might give her the confidence she needs to make friends with Chiquita.
Sun - Refrigerator soup, muffins
Mon - Hamburgers, home fries
Tues - IP stew, garden salad
Wed - Leftover stew, fruit salad
Thurs - cabbage roll casserole & green salad
Fri - Halibut, coleslaw and green beans
Sat - fish tacos, salsa verde and pico de gallo
Happy Pumpkin Spice Everything!
What's refrigerator soup?
It was a crazy week last week, but I almost always play along, so here is what we ate:
Monday - Buffalo Chicken Salads with Frank's Red Hot Dressing
Tuesday - Crockpot Ribs, ranch beans, watermelon
Wednesday - Broccoli Cheese Soup, garlic toast
Thursday - Trader Joe's Autumnal Pasta Sauce on ziti with Italian Sausage, zucchini
Friday - We had quesadillas with some fajita meat I found in the freezer
Saturday - I made taco bowls
and Sunday - we're going to each pick out a container from the freezer!
This week looks fairly crazy, too. But I have a menu plan and I did buy groceries.
My mother died. So. I guess I will need to blog about that...
Oh Gina, I am so sorry to hear about your mom!
Just a tidbit we learned about cats: We've always had two cats at a time because we thought they would love a companion. Then we watched a documentary about cats. They said dogs love companions (other dogs or even a cat) but cats don't want a companion. They want to be the only pet to their owners. They're very jealous of each other. Some get along well, but mostly they just tolerate each other.
Hello. Your clam chowder has been my go-to since you posted your recipe years ago. It is the best! I might need to bring out my soup pot this weekend. Thanks for the reminder.
How is Lisey doing with her new job? Is she loving life on an island?
She's doing well! She loves Hawaii life and she's been working through the long training process for new hires.
French toast! Yum! I love it so . . .