What I Spent
This week, I spent:
- $7.58 at Safeway
And my goodness, I guess that was it. An inadvertently low spending week for me!
What We Ate
Saturday
Green salad + corn + shrimp.
Sunday
I came home from work and made the executive decision to call this dinner.
Smoothie:
And goat cheese on little toasts (both items from Aldi):
Monday
Blueberry pancakes, because we know I will shrivel up and die if I don’t eat those at least every other week. 😉
I also had a bowl of cottage cheese on the side, to add some more protein.
Tuesday
I had some potatoes that needed to be used, so I made a little pot of mashed potatoes.
I sauteed some seasoned chicken tenderloins, then sauteed peppers and onions in the same pan, and used some broth and half and half to deglaze the pan for a sauce. And then I put it all on top of the potatoes.
And that’s just basically a variation on my typical no-recipe one-person meal. Simple, but it gets the job done!
Wednesday
Leftovers from Tuesday, which made for an easy night.
Thursday
I just made a ham sandwich, which honestly has a respectable amount of protein.
20 grams from the ham, 6 grams from the bread, and 5 grams from the slice of cheese = 31 grams. Not too shabby for a sandwich!
Friday
I’m working the last four hours of my friend’s shift because she has an event to go to….so I will make something for myself once I get home from work around 8:00 pm. Honestly, it might be another smoothie night!
This summer weather makes me just want to drink something cold through a straw.
Although, hmmm, I do have some kale to use up so maybe before work I will make some kale salad.
Blue Gate Farmgirl
Saturday 28th of June 2025
WIS : $28 @ Costco, $14 @ Winco, $9 @ scratch & dent Sunday family dinner was waffles with fresh cherries, gobs of whipped cream and a nutella-ish syrup with sides of bacon and eggs. M - pork noodles, Thai cucumbers and fermented Napa cabbage T - Chicken fried steak, green salad W - burritos, avocado, mango, cucumber, jalapeno salad T - personal pizzas in the wood fired pizza oven. Invited the closest neighbors. F - green salad w/boiled eggs, watermelon S - my last full time shifts this weekend
Lisa K
Sunday 29th of June 2025
@Blue Gate Farmgirl, Your waffles sound delicious!
Linda Phillips
Friday 27th of June 2025
Kristen, do you ever make twice baked potatoes? They are also a dish you can add just about anything to, I had them twice this week.
Karen A.
Sunday 29th of June 2025
@Kristen, Same here, we only had them once or twice at my aunt's house when we went there for Christmas--she also was a fan of roasting a whole head of cauliflower, intact--but the potatoes were so good. My mom never made them, but I have made them sometimes for our family around the holidays. Very good they are, too. I think I remember reading somewhere you can freeze them before baking them the second time.
Kristen
Sunday 29th of June 2025
You know, I rarely make those! Interestingly, I think of them as a "company food" because my mom mainly made them when guests were coming over. I think my brain has not categorized them as everyday fare.
kj
Friday 27th of June 2025
We needed our furnace at the beginning of the week (highs of 10 C) but today we are trying not to start the A/C. WWA:
Saturday - fancy reunion dinner with 40 classmates at an upscale restaurant with yummy lemon posset for dessert Sunday - homemade French onion soup from the freezer, baguette Monday - tacos Tuesday - rice bowl with candied salmon, seaweed salad, cucumbers, Japanese seasonings Wednesday - rotisserie chicken with baked potatoes Thursday - big green salad, leftover chicken Friday - will soon start a chicken curry to have with rice, papadams and likely some naan
wishing everyone a bit of respite over the week ahead
Joyce from Arkansas
Friday 27th of June 2025
I need to try a no spend week once in awhile. But it seems like we always run out of a milk before I do my weekly shopping. I drink milk occasionally but my husband drinks a lot of milk.
I spent $84 at Kroger. – Sunday – T-bone steaks, corn on the cob, leftover sauteed squash, dilled cucumber/onion salad . – Monday – leftover pork loin, sauce and rice from Friday, green beans. – Tuesday – too hot to cook fancy. We had BLTs with bacon cooked crisp in the microwave with lettuce and tomatoes from our garden, homemade coleslaw and chips. – Wednesday – I caved in and turned on the oven despite our 106 degree heat index. I only used it for about 40 minutes to make a chicken casserole dish with cubed chicken, chicken stock, fresh spinach, tomatoes, orzo pasta and garlic/herb soft cheese served with biscuits and leftover coleslaw. I tossed in a little chili crisp into the seasoned chicken which perked it up a bit. Dish was very good and made lots of leftovers. – Thursday – brats made with onions and peppers, an herby squash/tomato/cheese bake to use these veggies from our garden served with parmesan/garlic couscous. – Friday – we may just eat Wednesday and Thursday leftovers (if hubby doesn't eat that up for lunch), or have a shrimp stir fry with peapods, onions, broccoli, carrots over ramen noodles. – Saturday – we will probably have mushroom / spinach/mozzarella quesadillas and a salad of some kind or a doctored up frozen meat pizza and salad. Stay cool, ya'll!
Ruby
Friday 27th of June 2025
WIS: About $90, divided between Aldi and Food Lion, with one trip to Dollar Tree for shelf-stable milk, crackers, and frozen pizza.
WWA: Meatloaf, salads, frozen piazza, watermelon, cheese, crackers, fruit, nuts and protein shakes.