WIS, WWA | Well, I ordered more flour
What does it say about me that I have stockpiled more flour than toilet paper?
Hmm.
What I Spent
I had planned on going grocery shopping this week, but as it turns out, I was able to make another week of meal plans with what I had in the house.
Yay for an unintentional week of staying out of the stores!
I did, however, order another 50 pound bag of King Arthur flour. I'm not anywhere near finished with my first 50 pound bag, but that one was bread flour, and this one is all-purpose flour.
I'd tried to buy all purpose a while back from WebstaurantStore, but they've been out of stock forever.
However, the other night I checked back and woohoo! The Sir Galahad was back in stock.
So, my grocery spending this week was $39 for the flour.
What We Ate
Saturday
Mr. FG and I had our takeout date night, which we ate outside by the fire pit.
Sunday
I made a shrimp remoulade recipe from Cook's Country magazine and we ate that on buttered and toasted croissants.
For Zoe, I made a chicken croissant sandwich.
And we had kiwi, watermelon, and mini sweet peppers on the side.
Monday
Since it was Memorial Day, it seemed like we should grill, despite it being a weird Memorial Day. So, I grilled some chicken sausages, which we ate on buns. And we had watermelon. 🙂
Tuesday
I made chicken katsu with rice (recipe from Dinner Illustrated.)
I can't for the life of me remember what produce we had with that.
Wednesday
I made a Cobb-ish salad with shrimp (chicken for Zoe), romaine, hard boiled eggs, avocado, bell peppers, and snap peas.
And Zoe had asked me to teach her how to make garlic pull-apart bread, so we did that Wednesday.
Thursday
I tried the recipe for teriyaki chicken from the latest Cook's Country magazine. We ate rice on the side, as the recipe directed, and I cooked some broccoli as well.
Friday
I was going to make regular pizza, but the forecast high is in the upper 80s.
Upper 80s do not make me feel like turning my oven on to 500°.
So, yesterday I made a batch of dough for grilled pizza.
That way the heat can stay outside, where it belongs.
Saturday: A combination of breakfast sausage and leftover pasta, frozen peas, and grated cheese.
Sunday: Roasted chicken, baked potatoes, green salad with ranch dressing. It's much more likely that my kids will eat all their salad if it has ranch dressing as opposed to the vinaigrette I prefer. It takes like two minutes longer to make the ranch, so I've been trying to do that more.
Monday: A bunch of random leftovers all combined in a skillet. Can I call this a smorgasbord skillet? Yes, I can.
Tuesday: Eggs, bacon, pinto beans, personalized garlic breads, green salad with, yes, ranch dressing
Wednesday: Pizza--one cheese, one with ground beef, garlic scape pesto, and onions--and frozen peas
Thursday: Spaghetti and meatballs, steamed broccoli, roasted green beans
Tonight: We unexpectedly find ourselves in possession of several pounds of antelope, so we're going to have that tonight. I haven't tasted it yet, but the antelope we were given last year by a friend was very good, so I have high hopes. I'm going to marinate it and then fry it on my grill pan, I think. And I just bought another fifty-pound bag of potatoes, so I'd better finish up the few left in the last bag. The vegetable . . . most likely frozen peas or green beans. Because I still have like ten pounds of each in my freezers.
How do you store your flour? Does it stay in the original big bag? Put into mason jars or other storage container? I would love details! I too am stocking up more than usual and am doing all kinds of storage problem solving.
This is my question too! I've got Cambro tubs for my 5lb bags of flour, but I don't know how to store 50lbs of flour. Just opening the bag, I'd imagine I'd spill a ton of flour on the floor.
Kristen, what's your method?
I froze mine for 4 days to kill any bug eggs (gross, I know!), and then dumped it into a big grain storage bucket. I scoop it out from there into a smaller plastic flour bin to keep in my kitchen, and I refill that container from my big bucket.
My husband came back from the grocery store triumphant, with King Arthur bread flour and all purpose flour! He said they were well stocked. So happy to see it! It's been out of stock for weeks!
Monday we had the last of the ham from the freezer with asparagus and sweet potatoes.
Tuesday I made a batch of fishcakes. We had them with a big salad--two kinds of sprouts! Sprouts are almost as good as lots of sauce.
Wednesday we finished the fishcakes with spinach and hash browns.
Thursday was out usual pizza night which we had with small salads--yay for more sprouts!
It's very hot and humid so I'm planning on pushing the easy button and having ramen bowls.
I‘m happy that the stores here have everything on stock again. I don‘t have enough place to store so much flour - and would never be able to consume it. Our bakeries have so many delicious baked goods that I don‘t bake much.
Saturday: vegetarian curry
Sunday: We has too much cake in the afternoon, so we only snacked in the evening.
Monday: We catched up on our plan for Sunday: entrecote cooked „backward“ with potatoes and green asparagus
Tuesday: sweet potatoes with crema mexicana
Wednesday: bread and cheese with cucumbers, tomatoes and radish
Thursday: I defrosted chili con carne and we ate it with Mexican red rice
Friday: we will order ramen
I did no grocery shopping this week but I’m sure the boys hit the store for snacks before their trip, even though most of their supplies came from the pantry. I am headed to the feed store today for gardening and chicken supplies.
Saturday: my daughter invited us over for dinner and my SIL grilled chicken and we had a game night
Sunday: pulled a couple of steaks out of the freezer and grilled, with some fresh asparagus from a friend
Monday: Chicken in North African Spices of the ATK website with rice and mixed veg from the freezer. A little cumin heavy for me.
Tuesday: repeat of Monday
Wednesday: the boys took off on a road trip to Idaho so I started eating all the leftovers in the fridge. Started with the last of a jar of pasta sauce on noodles.
Thursday: another “dribs and drabs ” night as my mom would say. Finished off 2 jars of salsa and a bag of tortilla chips, an overripe pear, and some summer sausage. Whew! That’s a lot of carbs. Tossed a bag of cookies that were just bad tasting.
Friday: not sure yet.
I’ve got a bag of oranges that I’m going to try turning into marmalade this weekend.
Saturday- since the governor allowed gathering of 25 people outside or 10 indoors, we went to my moms for dinner, BIL/sister made bil mothers fried chicken, I did Cole slaw and Cucumbers in oil/vinegar, sister did yellow rice, also I made brownies, and pound cake with strawberries and cool whip. (funny thing is my mom also make cucumbers O/V, and angel food cake with strawberries, cool whip) how funny!
sunday- back over to moms, cook out. Hamburgers/ hot dogs, and sausage on the grill. leftover slaw, cucumbers, sister did potatoes salad, mom did corn, left over deserts from yesterday.
Monday- since we didn't do our normal take out on Saturday, we did this today. But two places we called closed for the holiday. So we ended up at Chick fil la, went threw the drive threw, an ate in the parking lot, then stopped for ice cream.
Tuesday- BBQ chicken, buttered noodles, veggie
Wednesday- Hot dogs on the grill, Mac and Cheese, and some Brussels sprouts for me.
Thursday- DH/DS had tacos, DD had a baked potato, I had a piece of left over chicken., made some potato salad, and veggie.
Friday- Not sure might be breakfast for dinner.
Saturday - lasagna & beer bread with salad
Sunday - deep dish pizza ordered from local eatery
Monday - steak & lobster, salad, grilled asparagus - all prepared by my niece
Tuesday - shrimp Alfredo with leftover salad & asparagus - all prepared by my niece
Wednesday - leftovers from Monday & Tuesday
Thursday - grilled ham & cheese sandwiches with French fries
Friday - probably homemade pizza or chicken salad or whatever strikes my fancy
I've been off-menu so much lately. But managing to stay out of the grocery store for two or more weeks at a stretch so its all good! We ate:
Monday - 5 Minute Italian Chicken , corn on cob
Tuesday - (freezer) Pulled Pork Sammies, chopped salad, chips
Wednesday - Leftovers from Sunday
Thursday - Queso Chicken and rice, fresh green beans
Friday - Porcupine Meatballs (never made these last time), broccoli, baked potatoes
Saturday - Take out {on call all weekend}
Sunday - Chicken Sausage Skillet with peppers and onions, brussel sprouts
Dessert this week was a peach hand pie with ice cream
Sunday Hamburgers and potato pancakes
Monday Sausage, and some vegetable dish my daughter made
Tuesday Salmon, cauliflower rice, and zucchini
Wednesday I missed dinner but a plate was in 'frig for me--saved for Thursday night
Thursday Loaded salad--mixed greens from the CSA, steak from the night before, feta, cherry tomatoes.
This weekend I may try your hamburger rolls. We bought 6 burger patties from a local meat farm to try their product and my other daughter my come over with my grandson. I also want to try a Boston Cream (Pie) poke cake recipe that I saw. My husband likes Boston Cream pie (which is not a pie but a cake and I think really mainly a regional dessert). I seem to go through at least 5 lbs of flour a week and probably could do more if I focused on the bread. We do enjoy the homemade English muffins.
I'm lucky that we were really well stocked up on yeast, flour and other baking supplies and I have a local restaurant supply that will keep me supplied (Webstaurant is great but their shipping kills many of the deals.)
If you do place another order, I highly suggest getting a jar of the butter flavored coconut oil. It will elevate your popcorn game like 10X over. I don't even use butter any more now that I use that and the popcorn salt. Also a lot of their hand tools and such are a great deal.
We got hit with a pretty strong heat wave here so cooking and heating up the whole house was not really on the menu.
Sunday: Grilled some chicken and had barbecue sauce on it. It actually came out really good.
Monday: Memorial Day with family. We had hot dogs, hamburgers etc.
Tuesday: My wife got some fried chicken from the deli when she did grocery shopping.
Wednesday: Leftovers and a "You're on your own" for the adults. My daughter had a sandwich and some vegetables. It was just too hot to really cook.
Thursday: Had some more of that chicken from the other night.
Friday: Probably have breakfast for dinner tonight I suspect. Either that or we'll just do sandwiches again. It's cooled down considerably at least.
Once in a while I do a pantry restock and that was this week. The $300ish it takes to do that really fills in the gaps from all the $75ish in-between weeks. I don't track this stuff; I'm not a budgeter; I just toe the frugal line all the time. Budgets make me anxious, and that sounds funny, but it's really not a comfortable spot for me.
This week our food has been a little sketchy/crazy because my work has been a bit ponderous. Sandwiches, hamburgers, crack chip dip, black bean potato stew, tuna casserole, popcorn, ice cream. No one will starve to death and with fruit to fill in the gaps I don't feel too badly about it. 🙂
Lol same as Karen below my store just got King Arthur bread flour back in so I bought it even though I have a full bag of another brand.
We were at my son's house and he has a hibachi grill and man can he cook on it...
omelets with veggies and bacon, fried bread
Shrimp, steak, chicken with fried rice all made on the grill
burgers with bacon & buns toasted on it.
1. Sunday - Pork chops, plantains, and butter basil green beans
2. Monday - Chicken Picatta , white rice and butter basil green beans
3. Tuesday - Beef Broccoli and white rice
4. Wednesday- Tuesday’s leftovers
5. Thursday- Orange Chicken, broccoli and white rice
6. Friday- Thursday’s leftovers
7. Saturday- Flatbread Pizza and Salad
Monday - my husband smoked some beef short ribs and we had baked beans and homemade Mac&Chz and watermelon. Side note, we have tried so many failed recipes for the beef short ribs we get with our quarter cow and all have been unsuccessful. BUT smoking them is hands down the way to go!
Tuesday - beef and bean taco salad
Wednesday - Baked ziti
Thursday - Buttermilk waffles
Friday - homemade pizza...not sure what kind yet. Last week we did taco pizza so maybe a cheeseburger pizza
Thank you! I made a mess of beef short ribs this week. again. We get them with our side of beef and I've failed so many times at cooking them that they end up kicking around in the bottom of my freezer until I have no other choice. I'm going to blame the ribs from now and not my cooking abilities. 🙂
The best way I've found to make these is to braise them first in a sauce on low heat, then de-fat the sauce and crisp the ribs in the oven or on the grill before putting the sauce back on. Doing the braise one day and the rest of it the next day works pretty well. Otherwise, they're a wet, fatty mess. In my opinion, anyway.
We've had a heat wave over on this side of the country as well. Dinner every night has been some form of salad, or something we can make with components that were in the freezer, such as tacos and all the lovely derivatives thereof, for the win.
If you happen to need any katsu sauce during this pandemic, I actually just ordered a couple of bottles for my (Japanese) family. You can buy it right on Amazon in the regular part of Amazon, not in Amazon Fresh. The brand is called Bull-Dog & do a search on Tonkatsu sauce (Ton meaning pork since katsu is traditionally pork but you do see it in chicken also).I love Amazon!
I wouldn't heat up my oven that hot, either. We've been hot for a while here.
1. Memorial Day was the day for ribs, corn on the cob, homemade "baked" beans that weren't oven baked, and for desert, a pie made using a Key Lime Pie recipe, only I made a cassava rolled crust instead of a graham cracker crust, used lemon juice instead of lime juice, a whole egg instead of two egg yolks, and home-whipped cream on top instead of meringue. So, you know, basically the same!
2. I cooked a roast in the pressure cooker along with mushrooms, carrots, onion, garlic and radishes. We ate on that twice and I've used it for lunch three times. I don't like raw radishes but cooking them gets rid of that black pepper flavor that I dislike.
3. We had chicken tenders and salad, a favorite of my husband's.
4. We had whatever I could scrape up one night -- sandwich and chips for him, leftovers for me.
5. We had the last of some frozen shrimp with raw veggies one night.
I don't remember what else. I got excited this month, thinking that I had actually met my budget even without being able to bargain hunt or use hardly any sales. Then I realized I had left one store's receipt out of my calculations. Nope, I'm over budget again. I'll keep trying.
Just a heads up about flour. We were struggling to find flour and in Michigan they are allowing restaurants to sell grocery goods in addition to carryout. The great family owned pizza place by us started selling flour and yeast with their orders. So for you or others who may need it - check with a pizza place by you if you are in need!
I had no idea!! (Fellow Michigander here.) I just ordered yeast online because I was almost out, but I would have much rather bought from a local pizza place. Thanks for sharing this info! I'll have to pass it along to friends on the hunt.
I love the picture from your walk! What a peaceful view!
Do you make your own hot dog buns? I've enjoyed the recipe for the hamburger buns so much (wow - delicious!) that I wondered if you do the same thing for hot dog buns.
At our house...
Monday - We had lunch at my parents' house, then we had hot dogs, potato salad, and watermelon at home for dinner.
Tuesday - Fajitas and watermelon
Wednesday - This day was my daughter's virtual kindergarten graduation. Since she asked for McDonald's (and dinner plans weren't going well) we got McDonald's for dinner to feel a little celebratory.
Thursday - Grilled chicken, broccoli with cheese, potato chips with dip, and pineapple
Friday - Tacos and grapes
I have not usually made my own hot dog buns. Mine always turn out fatter than I want them to when I've tried! I have much better luck with burger buns.
I went grocery shopping today, and my Costco (Charlotte, NC area) is now selling 25 lb. bags of King Arthur all purpose! I was thrilled, so naturally I bought a bag. The price was wonderful, too ($0.51/lb.)! Hopefully that’s a helpful tip to other Southeast bakers.
How was the teriyaki chicken recipe?
It was good! I recommend it. It's a simple method, but really tasty.
Monday- tacos
Tuesday and Wednesday- chicken salads
Thursday and Friday- vegetarian Evil Jungle Prince
I had to google that last dish! I'd never heard of it before.
I want to come live in your neighborhood with those awesome views. Thanks for your amazing blog.
Your grilled pizza looks delicious!
Shopping: $12 at grocery store, $32 for fish delivery
Working backward:
Friday: Arepas with avocado, black beans, feta (instead of queso fresco 'cuz it was what was in the fridge!), green salad. https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/seedy-arepas-with-black-beans-and-avocado
Thursday: tortilla española, fried eggplant with honey and rosemary, Basque grilled cusk, green salad.
Wednesday: muffuletta sandwiches (super proud that I made the bread, too!), chips and apple crisp
Tuesday: Thai baked salmon, kohlrabi stir-fry, jasmine rice
Monday: Greek Buddha bowl (with sautèed shrimp)
Sunday: grilled tri-tip with Santa Maria rub, feta sauce, grilled "baked" potato, grilled broccoli, salad
Saturday: crepes with duck pastrami, sautèed kohlrabi greens and apple, a shallot, apple vinegar/juice and stock sauce with pomegranate molasses. Salad. Made dessert crepes with sugar and lemon for dessert
We had:
Grilled chicken, sauteed beans & salad
Hot dogs & beans
Burgers & corn
Grilled chicken caesar salads
Leftovers of all of the above
Naan pizza topped with leftover hot dogs, topped with parsley pesto. Surprisingly good.
Sunday - Spaghetti & Meatballs
Monday - Steak
Tuesday - Chicken Tenders
Wednesday - Sandwiches
Thursday - Beef Stroganoff
Friday - Pizza
Saturday - Baked Potato Soup
Just curious how much you paid in shipping ordering from the Webstaurant store website. I excitedly put flour in my cart and went to check out and it's $50 to ship to me (DFW metroplex, not timbuktu). How did you get around this?
Oh wow, it wasn't nearly that for me! I think the total for my flour plus shipping was $35. I don't know why it's costing so much to ship to you. That's frustrating!
Hi Kristen,
I bought the flour yesterday, I have a small place and I don't know how to store it, how do you store it? The reason I bought because there's no flour in the stores.
Thanks,
Kathy
Hello there! So, I froze mine in my chest freezer for a few days first, just to kill any possible bugs. After that, I stored it in plastic food containers (I have a big bucket, and I also used some smaller containers). You could also use those huge Ziploc bags.
I would love to know how you make grilled pizza!