WIS, WWA | the return of the pancakes
What I Spent
I spent:
- $24 at Safeway
- $13 at Aldi
- $21 at Panera
And that was it: $58 total.
What We Ate
Saturday
I had some leftover pasta, and I do not remember what Zoe ate!
Sunday
Wellll....in news that will surprise no one, I made some blueberry pancakes after work.
I think it had been a week or two with no pancakes, so I was starting to feel a little shaky. 😉
Monday
Fried rice with chicken, and sliced cucumbers on the side.
Tuesday
An easy after-work meal: grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup from a can, and sliced apples on the side.
Wednesday
We had BBQ chicken on buns, with broccoli on the side.
I have been toasting sandwich buns on the stove for quite a few years now and if you haven't tried it, you should! It seriously elevates a sandwich. Just a little butter, a short stay in a skillet, buttered side down, and oooh, the golden goodness. SO TASTY.
Thursday
Zoe and I got a sandwich and salad from Panera for no particular reason except that I did not feel like cooking, and I had some money left in my food budget. 🙂
Friday
I'm gonna do some fridge organizing and then decide on a dinner plan after that. I do know there's some kale in there that needs to be used, and also some broccoli.
Soooo, dinner is gonna need to be GREEN.
WIS: about 150 @Aldi
WWA:
Fri: focaccia and salad
Sat: egg rolls, rice and salad
Sun: salad and a bread boule with leftover chorizo egg roll stuffing and cheese baked in the middle
Mon: salad and laze-agna (lasagna-like ingredients thrown into the crockpot)
Tue: salad, leftover laze-agna and buttered toast
Wed: smoked salmon, rice noodles and salad
Thu: salad and tuna melts
Tonight: salad and focaccia
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Saturday: I found a lamb roast in the freezer labeled 2022, so it seemed prudent to use that. It was already marinated in the bag. I went on an adventure with my daughter in the afternoon to one of our far-off mission churches for their monthly Mass, so I prepped dinner before I left. I browned the roast in a skillet and par-roasted some potatoes. Then all my husband needed to do was put the skillet of lamb back in the oven around 4:30 p.m. and the pan of potatoes in fifteen minutes later. Everything was pretty much ready when we got home at 5:15. All I had to make was the salad.
Sunday: Another freezer discovery was the cow tongue I've been avoiding. I pressure-cooked that, then peeled it (tongues have a thick layer of skin, with the taste buds and all on it, that has to be removed), chopped it up, and used it to make tacos de lengua. I also made the corn tortillas for those, as well as refried beans. Chocolate peanut butter balls and cookies for Sunday dessert.
Monday: Potato soup I had made over the weekend for a sick child. I made a large pot, figuring to use up some of the many potatoes I have around and have some soup to freeze for future illness. I also browned diced andouille sausage and cooked some collard greens as additions to whoever wanted those in their bowls of soup. I had some leftover cornbread, too, enough for everyone to have one piece with their soup.
Tuesday: Pasta bake with loose Italian sausage. I'm at First Communion class with my daughter on Tuesdays until 5:45 p.m., so I'm trying to make casseroles that just have to be put in the oven before I get home. I like walking in the door to dinner ready to go. 🙂 This casserole had finely chopped collard greens in it, so I counted that as our vegetable.
Wednesday: Chicken-fried pork chops with milk gravy, mashed potatoes, frozen green peas
Thursday: I was at Walmart this day and they had the $4 frozen rotisserie chickens. It's hit or miss if those are there, but I'm always happy to see them. I got two and heated them up in the oven for dinner, using the rinsed-out juices in the bags to make gravy. I made some rice with lamb stock I needed to use up, and cucumber slices to eat with the last of the ranch dressing. I had also found at Walmart, on the clearance shelf, bags of Austrian dark chocolate wafer cookies for a dollar. Oh man. Those were SO GOOD. Glad I took a chance on something I had never had and bought four bags.
Tonight: We have enough leftover pasta for the three children who will be home. I have enough leftover chicken for my husband to have that with leftover mashed potatoes. And I can have a collard salad with leftover pork. That should clear out my refrigerator nicely. It's getting a little crowded.
@kristin @ going country, when I was a kid we went to dinner at a church member's home (my dad was the pastor). My mom had told all us kids that no matter what, we had to at least eat a few bites of everything or it would be rude. The lady served cow tongue with the skin still on! I was about 6 and was traumatized haha. I'm pretty sure my mom just moved her stuff around on the plate also.
WHO thinks to serve tongue to guests????
@Marlena, Gross. Without the skin and trimmed, it's just meat. With the skin, it is definitely A Tongue.
@Marlena, Also, I just realized that in my original comment I didn't say that our priest and his brother were here for dinner the night we had the tongue tacos. That's so funny you and your pastor dad had tongue at a church member's house. Is there something about tongue that seems appropriate for a clergy-company dinner?
@Marlena, I have no experience with tongue in real life. But I still remember the scene in one of the Ramona Quimby books where her dad lost his job and they served tongue. It definitely had the taste buds still on. I had no idea you were supposed to remove them.
That is ALWAYS what I think of when I hear tongue being mentioned in a dish!!
@kristin @ going country, My only experience with cow tongue is it being used in a challenge for middle/high school youth group once. They're a good audience for it. 😉
@kristin @ going country, well, it might be appropriate for Pentecost. Tongues of fire, and all that. 🙂
@Marlena, My grandmother was from the "old country" Romania. They definitely ate "nose to tail". I remember her serving tongue (even as a kid it grossed me out), lungen (lung), sweetbreads, liver (I like liver), stuffed kishke (cow intestines--sounds gross but it's good), I think they ate cow brain but I don't remember trying that myself, and her chicken soup had chicken feet in it. I loved sucking on the little bones in the chicken feet when I was a child.
But we moved away to Okinawa (now part of Japan)--military assignment. I think the only thing of the above we could get at the commissary was frozen beef and chicken livers. I really missed chicken feet in my soup!
On our very last day on the island after 5 years, we were on our way to the airport, at the ONLY stoplight that then existed. There was a traffic jam because a truck overturned. Guess what the truck was filled with? Chicken feet! LOL.
We moved to California from there, and never saw chicken feet in the supermarket. So it wasn't until I was well into adulthood when I saw chicken feet for sale again at a farmer's market. I bought some and fired up the pressure cooker to make chicken soup. But I couldn't bring myself to eat the meat off the chicken feet (they look like hands!!!). As a child it didn't bother me at all!
We have a neighbor of Mexican American heritage. Lingua (tongue) is a delicacy in their household. It's not bad as long as the skin is removed. But I'm not going out of my way to make it.
@Jan, down here in Texas, chicken feet, with toenails still on, are labeled “chicken paws” in the grocery store. They are common in Hispanic cooking.
And when we lived even further south in our great state, in the Rio Grande Valley, I encountered whole cow heads wrapped in plastic in the frozen food section. With the eyes looking at me.
These were used for barbacoa.
@A. Marie, grind it into hamburger is what most who buy a side of beef do.
@Jan, there is a locally owned grocery store that has chicken feet, goat's head (with adequate notice), beef brains etc. As well as any fruit, vegetable, and/or nut you need to buy. Not a place to get a deal on "american" canned goods but they have an ample supply of canned goods from other countries. Haven't been there recently(the closest store to us has closed but the other isn't that much farther away).
Love that beautiful photo, by the way!
I am making big headway on eating down my freezer for lunches and dinners, then the Big Shop will happen next week as I get ready to host Thanksgiving. This week:
M - made a big salad with chicken breast from the freezer, romaine, pickles, purple onion, and I think I put the rest of some tiny tomatoes in it
T - Smash burger patty (no tortilla or bun) with some O&P, slice of cheese, and leftover shredded romaine, curly fries
W - Pulled pork on a sweet potato, side of buttered corn all heated in my little cast iron skillet (all items from freezer)
Th - Beef gyoza stir fry with broccoli (all items from freezer)
F - Tonight I am making the last tilapia filet, a serving of mashed potatoes, and some green beans - all from the freezer (:
S & S & M - I am making Italian sammies with salami, ham, turkey, pesto on ciabatta rolls for two days and will pack a salad with some turkey taco meat for another.
And next week is more freezer clean out, too!
So much for not cooking...
WIS: $36 at Wegmans and $18 at Aldi.
WIA: Chicken. A lot of it. First there was the "chicken cycle" I described in this week's FFT--and then I found a package of chicken thighs at Aldi for 50% off on Wednesday and decided to hit the easy button. I used Lidey Heuck's NYT recipe for baked chicken thighs for these, and they were very good indeed. All the same, I'm about ready to eat something that didn't originally have feathers!
I can't recall all days, but Sunday was Salad Sunday. The rest of the week was seceral stews, some with meat (smoked sausage had been marked down.as soon to expire - I used some and froze.some) and some without (enter cream cheeae with herbs).
Today I will make creamy orzo with oven baked cauliflower and we have a dinner invitation for the weekend.
Mobile phone equals typos. Apologies
I'm glad to see you got your pancakes. You must be feeling very centered now! 😉 Pancakes...greens...it's all about balance.
This week is a bit of a blur.
Weekend: homemade pizzas, only thanks to the fact that I have Fridays off of classes, so I can bake up the crusts and make the toppings before the weekend. Saturday is a day of rest around here, so we don't cook.
Monday: DH cooked ahead, since this was the day he had to drive over to Indiana (2+ hours) to drive his mom to eye surgery (1 hour away from her house!), and I was in nurse aide training class all day. On Sunday he made oven-fried potato wedges and salmon burgers, and we heated those up on Monday for dinner.
Tuesday: Veterans Day; I didn't have to go in for lecture, but I had a pile of homework that was assigned on Monday and due on Wednesday. DH made spaghetti, we went for jarred sauce and I forgot the Parmesan cheese at the store, but it all worked out.
Wednesday: DS#3 made enchiladas, and they were delicious.
Thursday: The government reopens! DH has to go back to work! DS#2 roasted chicken drumsticks and we had mashed potatoes and veggies with it.
Tonight: DS#1 has the day off and is making beef stew, DS#4 will of course make mac and cheese. And yes, I'm baking pizza crusts 😉
$95.55 between Aldi, Lidl, and Food Lion ($8 of that was for 4 lbs of butter at Lidl…$2 a pound!)
We ate:
Sat: we were gone most of the day and just at a sandwich
Sun: pulled bbq, roasted potatoes, broccoli
Mon: it was very cold here that day. I made a pot of chili
Tues: pinto beans with cornbread. DH had some of the leftover pulled bbq on his.
Wed: grilled chicken on a bun, mashed potatoes, salad
Thur: Swedish meatballs, leftover mashed potatoes, fried okra
Fri: I don’t know. We may go out somewhere. Or maybe we will do pancakes.
I have been travelling a lot so my husband went to the grocery store the last two weekends. This translates to not much fresh food because he only buys the bare minimum. At first I was annoyed because I thought, why doesn't he get the XYZ he knows I like? But then I saw this post and resolved to eat down our current freezer/fridge/pantry stash.
https://www.thekitchn.com/go-low-grocery-shopping-method-23693902
Sunday - I was travelling and ate Chinese takeout.
Monday - Salmon, rice, bok choy, chili crisp.
Tuesday - Pasta and meatballs -- a true fridge/pantry/freezer cleanout. I made a sauce with wrinkled bell peppers, canned tomatoes, anchovies, and kalamata olives. I found a small bag of meatballs in the freezer. Even the kids liked it.
Wednesday - Eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, apples.
Thursday - Leftovers! sandwiches, pasta, smoothies.
Lunches and breakfast included: leftovers, the frozen waffle brand I don't prefer, more apples, a bag of forgotten edamame.
Happy Friday, everyone! We spent $76 ($26 at Aldi and $50 at Target).
- Veggie hoagie
- Salad x2
- No dinner as I was full from afternoon tea treats
- French onion soup
- Melting cabbage x2
Saturday: I was catering and ate there. But I made shepherd's pie for my family at home. This might have been the first time they ever had it, but they all liked it! I'll make it again!
Sunday: My daughter offered to make quesadillas for us after church, so I said yes. 🙂
Monday: Chicken broccoli alfredo (with leftover alfredo sauce from catering)
Tuesday: Vegetable beef soup and rolls (with leftover veggies from catering)
Wednesday: Burgers (leftover from catering), chips, and asparagus
Thursday: FG enchiladas and mango
Friday: I have some chicken that needs used up, so it'll be something with that. Like Kristen, I'm doing a fridge cleanout today!
I didn't shop last week, so what I spent is $0 except, I bought a Firehouse sandwich combo... just because. They have gluten-free bread, so that's an easy go-to for me.
WIA:
The very last of the skillet dish from last week: ground goat, cabbage, mushrooms, onions, carrots, parsnips, seasonings
Fish fillet, with broccoli and cheese, roasted sweet potato
I cooked a short leg of lamb from the freezer, sliced it up and vacuum-sealed 2/3 of the sliced meat. I used a new to me recipe from a site I think is called Damn Delicious (pardon the language) using garlic, dijon mustard and spices in a rub, that turned out very nice. So twice, I had lamb in the evening with delicata squash and broccoli one time, and zucchini sautéed with mushrooms, onions and Italian seasoning the second time. I also had a couple of lunches out of it. I had plain yogurt with honey and fresh mandarin orange slices for dessert both times.
I cooked raw chicken backs from the freezer and made a pot of broth with a little meat so I could make my Mamaw's chicken and dumplings. With that I had greens from the garden. It was the second day of the cold snap, so they were sweeter than usual.
Last night I hit the easy button and made grilled cheese on homemade low-gluten sourdough bread, some leftover broccoli to get my veggies in, and fresh pears.
Tonight will be leftovers, once I get home from work and grocery shopping.
WIS: elk camp prep edition: $97 @ Costco, $39 @ restaurant supply, $20 @ scratch and dent
Sun - leftover car it as from tailgates on Saturday. They tasted like defeat. Fajitas, big batch of refried beans, Mexican rice, salsa. Apple pie.
Mon - leftover fajitas turned into soup, green salad w/Kristen is cilantro lime dressing
Tues - shopping day leftover soup & salad
Wed - rotisserie chicken, salad and cowboy cookies
Thur - chicken, roasted root veg, salad
Fri - meatloaf, Green beans, scallop potatoes, green salad
Saturday - funeral w/potluck, I'll take my layered taco salad, cookie plate and gallons of hot cider.
Elk camp: Chicken fried steak, butternut squash, chanterelles, roasted broccoli.
Friday: Team dinner at a noodle restaurant at our Las Vegas hotel. I had Kung Pao Chicken over rice with a delicious sake.
Saturday: Our AV company reps took our team out to one of Bobby Flay’s many restaurants. We shared an assortment of yummy apps. For dinner I ordered French Onion Soup and a Caesar Salad that I paired with a dirty martini (yes, girl diner!).
Sunday: I made it home in time for dinner! My husband made something similar to Marry me Chicken over rice with a loaf of sourdough bread.
Monday: Crockpot Sausage, Potatoes, and Sauerkraut with sourdough bread.
Tuesday: Pickle Brined Chicken Tenders, roasted broccoli and cauliflower, tater tots.
Wednesday: Tacos, yellow rice, refried beans.
Thursday: Ragu Bianco. I stumbled across this recipe this week and knew I had to try it. I was good and I’m happy to have a new white sauce to add to my recipe collection. I was laughing all through dinner because my husband kept saying how good it would be with tomatoes – the point of the sauce is to be tomato free!
I usually don't comment on the WIS WIA posts, but this week I had two really good dinners -- actually hot lunches, since I work at night.
A few months back, I bought a pizza grill from Aldi's. It's much like a George Foreman Grill or a waffle maker except it is big enough for a pizza and it has no ridges or squares. I bought a pizza from our health food section: Milton's Roasted Vegetable Cauliflower Crust Pizza. It was big enough for 2 or 3 meals for me and cost $10.39. It had roasted zucchini, bell peppers, onions and cheeses on it. I baked it on the pizza grill this Tuesday. I didn't think I'd like it all that much due to the absence of tomatoes/tomato sauce. But I was wrong! It was amazing! It had a thin, crispy crust and I couldn't tell it was cauliflower instead of a crisp, cracker-y dough. They advertised it as being Gluten-Free, and it was delicious. And colorful -- they used red, yellow and green bell peppers so this made it look rather festive. I didn't miss not having any tomatoes, meat, sausage or pepperoni on it, although you could easily add ingredients.
Another day, I went to HEB and got one of their Meals in Minutes, which is chef prepared in the store's own kitchen. There's a whole section of mostly-prepared dinners, everything from meatloaf to seafood to steak and more. All you have to do is go home and plop it in the oven. I tried a salmon in garlic butter dish, and cooked it in my tabletop oven. It is a Chefman real oven/convection oven/air fryer and I'd bought it at Ollie's Outlet. Anyway, I baked the salmon, as directed, on the regular oven setting, drizzled it with the garlic butter that came with the product, and it tasted like something from a ritzy restaurant. It cost me $7 because I bought it on the "best if used by" date and it was marked down. (The regular price was $10.) I also got HEB's baked potato salad and heated up a cup of it in the microwave, and had that on my plate as well. Yum!
Last night, having worked the closing shift at the store, I had a little bit of the garlic butter left. So I toasted some slices of bread and used that as a spread to make garlic toast with tea. Not sure if you'd consider that supper or merely a late-night snack, but it was good either way.
Oh, and I forgot: I opened a can of jalapeno black-eyed peas, circa 2022, and heated that up yesterday. I'd bought some already-made cornbread at Walmart and had black eyed peas and cornbread for my main meal at 1 p.m. yesterday. (I don't start my shift until 3.) Simple, but satisfying!
Sunday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, carrots
Monday: shepherds pie from Sunday's leftovers plus peas added
Tuesday: Wedding soup, Italian bread and butter
Wednesday: chicken/mozzarella fresh tortellini with marinara sauce, garlic toast, dinner salad
Thursday: pork chops and sauerkraut, au gratin potatoes
Tonight will be either leftovers or french bread pizzas. As long as it's not takeout, I will be fine with whatever. We have plenty of food in the house.
Dinners have been good this week. No takeout yet, and that's a feat!
Big salads with sauteed shrimp
Spaghetti & Meatballs to use up all the small containers of red sauce taking up space in my freezer.
FG Chicken Enchiladas because I've been craving them.
Grilled Culotte Steak with Annie's mac and cheese and a kale salad. Culotte is my new favorite cut. It's perfect for 2 people, and flavorful and tender. I've never seen it anywhere by my current market. *shrug*
Frozen coconut shrimp & tots for easy meal tonight.
As the days shorten, my urge to visit with and feed family and friends has increased. WWA:
Saturday - Beef Bourguignon, mashed potatoes, buttered peas, green salad, pineapple sorbet with coconut cookies in honour of a dear friend’s visit
Monday - leftovers from Saturday
Tuesday - ham, leftover mashed potatoes, steamed kale
Wednesday - leftovers from Tuesday but with scalloped potatoes as the mashed ran out
Thursday - beef and veggie stirfry with steamed rice. DS2 and his SO joined us.
Friday - planning to get fish and chips takeaway
Wishing everyone a peaceful week ahead
WIS: Only $32.24 at Sprouts, thanks to some “buy one, get one half off” specials, and a thorough pre-shopping refrigerator/freezer/pantry clean out that convinced me I didn't need anything more.
WIA: Grilled corn and chicken quesadillas; chicken and kale salads; mushroom ravioli with Portobello mushroom sauce; shrimp scampi on ramen noodles.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. Bon appetit!
Costco: $82.71
Aldi: $130.84
Kroger: $65.34
$278.89 WHEW! This is average for our family of six. I remember when I started shopping at Aldi when our oldest two were still itty bitty, and I had to work hard to spend even $100/week on groceries. My how times and children have changed!
This week was a little all over the place. Mama stayed with us Sunday night. We had a friend over Wednesday night. I went with a friend to an event on Monday night. And I teach late into the evening on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So dinner is sometimes a mix of stuff I had cooked up earlier in the week. This week we had:
Sunday: I think we did a mix of leftovers from the week before plus some broccoli and roasted potatoes.
Monday: I roasted chicken in the crockpot and then used some of that chicken to make a white chicken chili. What everyone actually ate I couldn't tell you because I wasn't there.
Tuesday: My husband roasted a couple of Costco pork loins in the crockpot. Then he made rice and my oldest chopped broccoli for us. I think they had gravy too.
Wednesday: I made a chicken/cheese/orzo casserole and we had a green salad on the side. I was going to make a chocolate pie for dessert but someone's children ate the pie ingredients before I could make them into a pie! LOL
Thursday: The other half of the packet of pork loins from Costco. Plus a frozen mac and cheese. More salad. I cannot eat meat in the quantities that my boys prefer. Instead, when I got home from teaching, my husband made me a breakfast burrito with bacon, eggs, and cheese. My six-year-old insisted on eating ten oranges for dinner. My parenting style has always been "I do not negotiate with terrorists," and ten oranges for dinner is maniacal behavior if I have ever seen it, so we let him be.
Friday: I've got a turkey breast I am roasting in the crock pot this afternoon. I think I'll do some kind of simple pasta on the side with salad and whatever other green veggies need eating up. Maybe I'll make gravy and deviled eggs too just to delight my oldest.
Saturday: I am planning to make potato soup for lunch. The Richmond marathon goes right past our house tomorrow. We usually dress warmly and sit out and cheer on the runners. I was thinking this year the only thing we need to improve the experience is bowls of potato soup. We're going to my mom's for dinner, so I will only have to make a couple of side dishes, so TBD.
totally not what we ate but on the subject of telehealth. I do enjoy telehealth visits. I don't have to take hours off work to go to the office as I can do the visits on my break. BUT now that we have Medicare, telehealth visits are not covered. This is such a bad idea for older Medicare recipients who have mobility issues or any other issues. That's just my two cents. I hope you get your paper finished with lots of hours for weekend frivolity.
Yes, and transportation can also be a challenge for older patients!
It is interesting Medicare doesn't cover virtual visits; overall, they tend to offer cost savings.
@Kristen, the new big beautiful bill killed it. It used to be covered.
@Kristen, televisits have been covered by Medicare in my area - perhaps Medicare Advantage plans. The "rules" for 2026 are a bit of hoop jumping, I will say that. As the time for my father's next visit to his one doctor, we'll see if telehealth is covered or if sibling or I will drive him to the visit.
WIS: $21 @ Walmart Market but used a gift card from our insurance company, so technically $0.
WWA: Leftover chicken. Chili with GF corn muffins. Italian meatloaf (made entirely with discounted meats), with baked potatoes and corn on the cob. Made a GF blackberry cobbler with frozen berries. And French toast with an apple on the side last night for me, as I am not much of a meat eater.
I did a lot of meal prepping over the weekend, which worked out great.
Friday - we had a rather sad but serviceable chicken orzo dish, made from rotisserie chicken & chicken broth I was trying to get out of the freezer. Not nearly enough flavor.
Saturday - Dijon chicken + salad
Sunday - Korean beef + rice
Monday - leftover disappointing chicken orzo dish
Tuesday - DH had the day off, so he made a homemade marinade for chicken & grilled that + made Persian rice
Wednesday - leftover Dijon chicken, this time over rice to soak up a bit of the flavor
Thursday - leftover Korean beef + rice
Friday - today has gone pretty far off track from my expectations, so we will likely have our default easy Friday night dinner, which involves having a glass of wine while the two of us tag team to make wings & pot stickers. (Always with salad in a nod to health).
Pancakes= perfect dinner
Things we ate this week:
Sunday -Panera takeout because it was one of those days after I spent hours deep cleaning and then went to my elderly mother’s house to make sure she ate and showered
Monday- Pork chops, baked potato, wedge salad, fried apples
Tuesday-skillet chicken with an amazing sauce, mashed potatoes, peas
Wednesday-homemade beef & barley soup with French bread
Thursday-leftover beef & barley soup with French bread
Friday-daughter in town for weekend so probably takeout pizza and salad
Saturday-daughter’s choice
Sunday-I think maybe red beans & rice, sausage with cornbread and a salad
I get a couple of quarterly food subscriptions-Burlap & Barrel (spices mostly) and Rancho Gordo (beans mostly) so I need to go through my backlog of fun ingredients and incorporate for the next few weeks. I have a lot of heavy stuff going on and I know using creative ingredients will help me to be more positive so I don’t wallow in the worry and sadness. I also cleaned my jetted tub and put fun bath salts and bath bombs I already have around it with candles-kind of taking a page out of Kristen’s advice I’ve read over the years-I will take some baths and read-that will help my mood as well. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!
@Beth, I hope the heavy gets easier and lighter.
This week I spent:
$16.00 Roche
Today was the big spend:
$13.61 Ocean State restocked my Bob's Red Mill popcorn and oatmeal and a couple of other items I needed for the meals I am planning
$15.50 + $20 Crocetti's meat market I divided it up because they have the butcher shop and now a new surplus outlet. Ground turkey was $1.99/lb at the outlet.
Then I needed some produce and I was planning to avoid the crazy store and the traffic but I ended up going there anyway.
$7.00 Trucchi's for tonight's supper. 1/2 price clam chowder and a can of clams to add to it.
$12.25 Market basket. It's down the street from Trucchi's and the prices were much less for the produce I wanted. And I needed a piece of fresh ginger for my ginger cookies. The ginger at MB was much nicer than at Trucchi's.
I think I am pretty much ready for the week with the possibility of leftovers.
The upcoming few weeks will be very busy.
Friday: I don't remember
Saturday: Hot dogs, beans, salad
Sunday: Greek turkey burgers, salad
Monday: remaining spaghetti, meatballs, chicken breast
Tuesday: 2 remaining Greek turkey burgers, remaining beans, air fried potatoes
Wednesday: 2 remaining hot dogs and bakes potato--regular for him, sweet for me
Last night as it happens pancakes and remaining 4 pieces of bacon
The blueberry pancakes look absolutely wonderful.
We had some cool weather here in Florida so, I made pumpkin spice pancakes with butter toasted pecans earlier this week.
Food this week has revolved around a Cuban pork gross that I cooked in the crock pot last week and I've made tacos and refried being burritos with the pork and the sauce that I have been using was left over from when I made cowboy candy for friends, the remaining sauce I put in the fridge and that's what I've been using instead of taco sauce. I recommend trying a cowboy candy recipe if you like jalapenos or poblano peppers and the sauce that you end up with is really good on pretty much everything.
I also made black bean soup and I've been eating that as well. Lots of protein this week.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. We're going to be back up in the mid-eighties so a little warm but I think I can live with it. I've been in Florida for several decades and it is still hard to get into the holiday spirit when you have 80-90° weather outside. Unfortunately with a the climate change, that's just gonna get worse for everybody.
Blessings to all.
I love grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. That will probably be our dinner on Sunday. But this week, we had baked chicken, rice, peas and gravy Monday night, leftover chicken on salad Tuesday night. I can’t remember Wednesday night’s meal.
Yesterday I made a huge batch of sausage/ bean soup to take some to a small group meal last night and still have some for our dinner tonight. There should be enough for some bowls-full for our daughter and her boyfriend over the weekend.
My husband and I are joining friends for a Christmas concert tomorrow and we’ll eat a quick meal at a Mexican restaurant beforehand.
This has nothing to do with Frugal Girl's website, but has anyone had trouble with the Non-consumer Advocate site today? I tried calling it up, but instead of Katy's usual heading featuring the "Use it up....or do without" Mason jars, it had a drawing of a blond lady and blogs dating back to 2010 or before. Talk about a rude awakening! Kristen, if you can get in touch with Katy, pls. tell her that her website is amiss and a mess.
Oh trust me, she knows! She’s working on it!
@Kristen, thank goodness katy knows. I begin my morning with you and katy. World is off kilter without you both
@Ginger,
Ditto! Although Katy's blog usually doesn't come up until mid-morning or afternoon. But I really, really, miss it. I do Wordle, Frugal Girl and NCA in that order.
so glad you treated yourself. you deserve it.
I am going to start keeping better track, but here is a rough estimate of my dinners the last 7 days:
Dinty Moore beef stew, two days. It was a freebie, and also easy to fix on a day I was tired.
Jack's Supreme Thin-Crust pizza, two days. It was a flash deal -- there's another one waiting in the freezer.
Grilled cheese sandwich on whole wheat, cream of tomato soup.
Vanilla yogurt with almonds and dried cranberries.
Hot dog with relish and mustard -- this I bought at a sports event.
In other news, I'm glad to know Katy is working on her blog. It was very disconcerting to find it so discombobulated!