WIS, WWA | three out of seven
Wellllll....3/7 of my dinner meals were breakfast this week (four if I stick with my plan for pancakes tonight!)
It's a good thing I shared some of my lunch meals with you this week, just so you don't think I subsist solely on eggs and cereal. Ha.
What I Spent
I spent:
- $102 at Aldi
And that was it!
What We Ate
Saturday
I had gone for a 7-mile hike earlier in the day, but oddly, I wasn't even that hungry when I got home.
So Zoe and I had scrambled egg burritos and some oranges for dinner.
Sunday
I had some broccoli to use, so I made some bourbon chicken (with broccoli, obviously!)
Monday
I made a fruit and yogurt smoothie plus waffles for Zoe and me.
Tuesday
I made a grilled chicken salad so I could pack leftovers for work the next day.
Wednesday
It was one of those shifts where you shower immediately upon arriving at home. Once showered, I ate a bowl of cereal, caught up with Zoe, and went to bed.
Thursday
Cheese ravioli plus a green salad plus the last of that marked-down cheese bread I bought and froze a while back.
Friday
I have a work shift today and tomorrow, so my timeline tonight is tight. I'm thinking pancakes sound good.
(Narrator: Kristen always thinks pancakes sound good.)
I've been visiting friends this week and rented a nearby AirBnB. Most of our days our out exploring with a big late lunch, so dinners have been small and required little cooking.
Saturday: Cheese, salami, prosciutto, bread, tomatoes, and oranges.
Sunday: repeat
Monday: Spaghetti
Tuesday: Greek yogurt and museli
Wednesday: Monday repeat, apples
Thursday: rotisserie chicken and a potato dish from the deli.
Tonight may be oatmeal or more snack plates.
Chiquita looks like she's thinking 'if I'm extra quiet maybe I can sneak a waffle'!
This week's eats:
Saturday: Burritos with mixed veg, black beans, brown rice and sauce
Sunday: I think I had pasta parcels with ricotta and spinach
Monday: Baked sweet potato and a mushroom omelette
Tuesday: Chilli mac and cheese
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Potato and spinach frittata
Tonight: No idea!
chiquita is so photogenic. thanks for the photo. today my son is 15.
How nice! Happy birthday to him 🙂
Thanks.
Happy birthday to your son! And I hope your Zozo continues to do well.
so kind of you. thank g-d she is really blossoming. still no college choice yet. she likes bmcc. hubby would like her to study something that will get her a job.
i just want her to b happy. silly me.
I'm always on board with breakfast for dinner! With moving next week, we are pushing the easy button more often and getting more help.
Friday: Breaded/baked tilapia, garlic green beans (from frozen beans,) frozen fries, and I rescued some sad-looking broccoli by just blanching it.
Saturday: Since our little one was staying with my parents overnight, Mr. B and I stayed up past midnight packing and spackle-ing the walls. We ordered in a late dinner of Thai food.
Sunday: We had a weird day, timing-wise, and wound up sharing some things from the mall food court.
Monday: Breaded fish (from a box this time,) shredded carrot salad using some limp and dried out herbs, bread, and fruit.
Tuesday: Pasta with tomato sauce, sliced cucumbers.
Wednesday: My daughter and I were at my brother and SIL's with my mom, and my mom treated us to sushi takeout.
Thursday: We all went to tour my daughter's new school, and then went over to my parents' for dinner. They gave us pierogies, soup, salad, and fruit.
Friday: Super simple roasted chicken breasts, frozen fries, some kind of a vegetable, challah.
Good luck with the move!
good luck with the move. hope ou will make many happy memories there.
Saturday: A lamb stew that used the shanks and a shoulder bone from one of the wethers we butchered; pureed calabaza, collard greens, and tomato paste from the freezer; and potatoes, carrots, and peas. I always thicken lamb stew with a mixture of yogurt and cornstarch. Then I fried some bread with butter and garlic and put cheese on the plate with that.
Sunday: I found halfway through prepping potatoes for a casserole that I didn't have another bag of potatoes that I thought I had. So I changed up the casserole to include bulkier things to take the place of the missing potatoes. It ended up being the potatoes I had, plus ground beef, pinto beans, corn, taco spices, and cheese. And then we had asparagus (from the garden, yay!) and chocolate pudding with cream.
Monday: Marinated lamb steaks, rice, raw radishes
Tuesday: Half the family was sick. For the two besides me who were eating, I just heated up the rest of the casserole from Sunday. I had a salad with diced lamb in it.
Wednesday: Hamburger patties (no buns) or leftover lamb, rice cooked in chicken stock, green salad with ranch dressing.
Thursday: I started feeling sick in the afternoon, although very thankfully, just with a cold, not the stomach issues my kids had. I had already planned on mostly leftovers, which were a hamburger patty for one son as a sandwich, lamb and rice for my husband, and Snow's clam chowder for the two children who were still recovering and wanted soft food. I had two fried eggs with rice.
Tonight: Not feeling super, even if it is just a cold. (To re-iterate: SO HAPPY I am not throwing up.) Eggs are easiest. If my husband has to go somewhere today and won't be here to cook, I'll just make fried rice with the leftover rice. If he is here, he can make omelets.
I can't remember the order in which we had these dinners, but will still post them....
* chicken alfredo tortellini soup with homemade bread
* steak, baked potatoes, garlicky green beans, vanilla pudding pie
* pizza
* kraut/noodle/ sausage dish with cheesy breadsticks
* BLT sandwiches with chips
Happy Friday, everyone! We spent $90 ($38 at Target and $52 at Aldi).
- Salad (spinach, radishes, homemade croutons, black beans, walnuts, Kristen's cilantro lime sauce)
- Shredded zucchini casserole
- Veggie garden casserole (twice)
- Cutie (still full from restaurant lunch)
- Fried rice and toast
- Forgot to document one dinner and my short-term memory is no help (I keep a draft email going to keep track of all things frugal - then I copy/paste my comments)
I spent $10 at Sam's this week, on rotisserie chicken and raspberries. I spent $4 at Jewel on chow mein noodles.
This week's meals:
Saturday: chicken legs/thighs, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans
Sunday: chicken salad sandwich, raspberries
Monday: chicken salad sandwich, pear
Tuesday: chicken wings, green beans, apple
Wednesday: Reuben sandwich, fries, cole slaw
Thursday: BLT made with bacon bits, carrots and celery
Tonight: Probably a grilled cheese sandwich and fruit or veggies. But I may go out, as company is in town -- not at my house, but nearby.
WIS: $90 at Food Lion.
WWA: For DH, leftover chuck pot roast with ginger carrots and green beans, ham sandwiches with fresh fruit and sweet peppers on the side, and spicy Asian pork and veggies. I had protein smoothies with toast. For DS, who usually handles his own meals, I made mac and cheese with sides of black olives and applesauce, which sounds weird but is comfort food for him.
I don't comment here on Fridays much because I rarely remember or take the time to look back at my original plan and figure it out, but I have to post today's frugal breakfast. It was a "kitchen sink" sort of creation, and my youngest daughter remarked that it looked like what's in the strainer basket in the drain after dishes. And it did!
This creation was inspired by bread pudding and baked oatmeal. And I dumped into it the leftovers that nobody wanted to eat-- most notably the leftover cornmeal mush (because folks will eat leftover rice if I make fried rice). Also some homemade bread heels which were rather stale. Also, we had made apple-flavored brandy, and there were a couple tablespoons of leftover spiked apples--they went in because there weren't many and I figured the alcohol would cook off in the oven. Other ingredients--milk, butter, eggs, old-fashioned oats, cinnamon, sugar, applesauce, vanilla, ?
The result? Airplane boy was not impressed by the apples. The boy who must complain in order to tease me didn't like the texture (and that COULD be improved). The girls all thought it was fine. My father, the real picky one in the house, said it wasn't amazing, but it was eatable. And I consider that high praise because he is very picky.
And the cornmeal mush is gone and not to the chickens. Victory.
Your description of your frugal breakfast (and, specifically, your youngest daughter's description of it) reminds me irresistibly of one of my favorite lines from TV's All in the Family. In this episode, Edith is sick, and Edith's cousin Maude (played by Bea Arthur, who was promptly spun off into her own sitcom) comes to help keep house. She presents Archie with a breakfast that looks like yours sounds. Archie takes one glance at it and says, "It looks like something I et and lost." DH used to wheel out that line for some of my more dubious creations--which, nevertheless, like your family, he ate. 🙂
I love breakfast for dinner. I bet I could do that most days of the week.
Here's what we had this week:
I spent $113 at Sam's; $28 at Walmart; $32 at Aldi, so $173.
Sat – Taco salad, charro beans.
Sun – grilled strip steak, baked sweet potatoes, steamed asparagus
M – jalapeno/cheese sandwiches with sliced ham, 3 bean salad, chips
T – beef and veggie stir fry with egg rolls and ramen noodles.
W – potato fritatta with ham, cheese, onion, green salad.
Th– crockpot corned beef, (I bought a few extra around St. P's day when they were on sale), cabbage, potatoes, onions and carrots.
F – probably pot pies and leftover veggies from yesterday's corned beef meal. We wiped out the corned beef.
In no particular order, I've had
- a vaguely Asian flavoured cabbage and pork stir fried dish
- pork chops in a mustard cream sauce (yummy!)
- bay scallops and noodles in sauce
- rotisserie chicken (several times) with various sides--stovetop stuffing, broccoli, gnocchi, etc.
- turkey noodle soup
I'll probably have more of the pork chop dish tonight. I always feel rich when I have multiple leftovers to choose from for supper!
WIS: $58.29, which is higher than “normal” for a week, but I was buying a lot of protein: two (2) herb roasted rotisserie chickens, some sliced roast beef for sandwiches, and a grass fed 1½ pound London Broil. Also some heirloom tomatoes, Dutch red potatoes, and a couple of corn elote bowls.
WIA: Meat! Meat! And more meat! Like Little Shop of Horrors, with Audrey screaming ‘Feed me! Feed Me! BRING ON THE CHOW!”
All the chatter about iron deficiencies in this week’s blog posts had me craving and scrambling for RED MEAT!!!
I’m not quite back on track for meal planning after our vacation the previous week but here goes!
Saturday - Normally we have takeout on Saturdays but we had just arrived home from vacation where we’d been eating a lot of takeout so I wasn’t feeling it. I made spaghetti and meatballs for the kids and hummus toast with veggies for myself.
Sunday - I made mushroom and edamame risotto (I think I got the idea from someone here) One kid liked it, one kid didn’t so somewhat successful. The kid who didn’t like it did pick out and eat all the mushrooms at least.
Monday - refried bean burritos for the kids, homemade black bean dip spread on baked corn tortillas for me, chicken burrito for husband, Spanish rice and corn for all.
Tuesday - My mom picks up the kids this day and she wanted to do something to celebrate my son’s birthday which was the next day. He requested Taco Bell so she bought that for all of us, and had made mini cupcakes so we sang happy birthday to him and had those.
Wednesday - my son’s actual birthday, he wanted to go bowling after school so we did that and ordered food there: French fries and mini corn dogs. He then had a friend coming over to play on the evening, so I just made a big tray of snacks and then we had cupcakes and cookies and sang happy birthday. I did not partake in the French fries and mini corn dogs, I had some African peanut stew from the freezer along with a piece of whole wheat pita bread to dip into it.
Thursday - I had to go to the PTO meeting so made a quick dinner. Steamed some shrimp dumplings from Costco and veggie dumplings from Trader Joe’s along with some broccoli and then cooked some white rice in the instant pot. That was for the kids, for myself I made hummus toast with cooked kale, sliced tomatoes and balsamic glaze on top.
Friday - there is a fundraiser for the kids school at a local restaurant tonight, we will order takeout from there tonight instead of our usual Saturday takeout.
Lisa, re the risotto - that was me! I'm glad at least one of your kids liked it.
WIS: $148 at Price Chopper (which included some supplies for NDN1 and some supplements for me) and $12 at Aldi.
WIA: Best effort this week has been three of the six enormous pork chops I picked up Reduced for Quick Sale at Price Chopper this morning, braised with sliced potatoes and onions in a style my MIL taught me. These should feed me for three meals.
Like the Chiquita photos so much! Makes me laugh.
a double tulip - Great.
you share wonderful photos, thanks
Today - homemade pizza
Thursday - refrigerator cleanout (Tuesday & Wednesday's leftovers + apples & PB)
Wednesday - Pasta, green papaya salad, Fried rice, edamame
Tuesday - Palak paneer, roti, rice and dal
Monday - Taquitos, guac and fruit, blueberries
Sunday - Udon with tofu, bok choy, green onions, etc.
Saturday - homemade Mac n cheese & melon
We didn't go out for dinner this week- that's pretty good for us! My husband and kiddo did go out for lunch a few times though.