WIS, WWA | with a little Wednesday Addams
What I Spent
I spent:
- $30 on a Hungry Harvest box
- $90 at Aldi
- $9 at Giant
- $7 at Safeway
So, $136 for me.
What We Ate
Saturday
I had leftover sopa seca de fideos, and the girls had mac and cheese.
Sunday
I got some free fried chicken, and I made these buttermilk waffles so that we could have a chicken and waffles meal.
I think....we might not have had any produce at all with this meal.
Good thing I regularly eat lettuce at breakfast:
Monday
I had some sweet potatoes that needed to be used up, so I made this chicken and sweet potato red curry over rice.
Tuesday
You guys know that I got all those marked-down eggs, right?
It seemed like some Swedish pancakes/lazy crepes were in order, so that's what we had for dinner!
Wednesday
I made bourbon chicken and broccoli, with the intention of taking pictures of the recipe so I could share it with all of you.
But then the afternoon really did not go according to plan, and one of Lisey's friends ended up staying for dinner and we ate all of the chicken and so now my picture-taking opportunity is gone.
Whoops.
Sooo, I will either post the recipe with sub-optimal photos OR I will just make some bourbon chicken for lunch one day and photograph it then.
Thursday
I got a rotisserie chicken on sale, using the Safeway app, and we used that to make chicken sandwiches with pesto mayo (I just mixed jarred pesto from Sam's Club with some mayo), lettuce, and Swiss cheese.
And buns, of course. 😉
I also pan-sauteed some broccoli for our side.
Friday
Lisey has plans, so it'll just be Zoe and me. She and I started watching the Wednesday Addams show on Netflix, so maybe we will do that tonight. And I have a free Domino's pizza in my account, perhaps we will do pizza and a show.
You may remember that Zoe dressed up as Wednesday Addams many years ago! Behold:
Oh, my goodness! She made the perfect little Wednesday! Definitely super cute!
WIS: 194.55 @Aldi and 20.42 on a box of wine, so 214.97 this week. Decent.
WWA:
Fri: salad (didn't take a picture, but I suspect it was handfuls of mixed greens) and focaccia (pepperoni, mozzarella, parm and some leftover pizza sauce from little Cesar's)
Sat: salad (mixed greens, carrots, celery, avocado, blueberries, balsamic vinaigrette dressing), homemade tomato soup (made by pureeing canned tomatoes) and ham and swiss cheese braid (made using crescent dough).
Sun: salad (leftover from Saturday), french toast with maple syrup, fried eggs.
Mon: salad (mixed greens, blueberries, cotton candy moo tube drizzle) assorted leftovers: tomato soup, Korean tofu and rice, french toast, scrambled eggs made with extra french toast egg mixture)
Tue: salad (lettuce, cucumber slices, tomato slices, feta cheese, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper and tajin), fish curry (made with tilapia) served with garlic naan from Aldi.
Wed: salad (leftover from Tuesday), hotdogs on brioche buns, sourdough brie bread wreath.
Thu: salad (just handfuls of mixed greens, and I had ranch dressing on mine), pulled chicken with pink beans, onions and apricots made in the crock pot and served over saffron rice.
Tonight: salad and focaccia, of course!
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
@Becca, just had to say that every week, your meals sound so good to me!
@Becca,
I sometimes see shoppers at my local Aldi with *very full* shopping carts....no judgement from me, I figure they're feeding large families, shopping for other people as well as themselves, shopping every two weeks, whatever. Anyway, I imagine them going home and making yummy-sounding meals like yours!
@Liz B., @LB,
Aww, you guys! I have to give all the yummy meal credit to my husband, but yes, I DO always have a very full cart at Aldi. When they put in those self checkouts, I was briefly worried, but the Aldi air traffic controller always directs me right to the one lane with a human. They told me they don't actually want the people with full carts to do self checkout, so fine by me. 🙂
Zoe looks just like Wednesday! Our middle daughter was Wednesday on year for Halloween at about the same age, and was told at almost every house she was a very cute Pilgrim! Only one house recognized she was Wednesday.
I rarely watch a Netflix series (like once every 3 years), but absolutely loved Wednesday Adams! Hope you enjoy it too!
This week we had:
1. Lemon chicken and salad and rice
2. Turkey, cheese, egg and avocado sandwiches with berry smoothies
3. Salmon burgers and salad
4. Shrimp pasta (or rice) with salad
5. Dinner out for our 6th anniversary using one of our many GCs
6. Lettuce wraps
7. Dinner at my mother's tonight-crab cakes!
WIS: $35 at Price Chopper and $7 at Aldi.
WIA: My main culinary effort this week was a pork stew with sweet potatoes that I wasn't enthusiastic about. (It was a little too sweet; if I ever make this again, I'll leave out the brown sugar altogether, even though I used less than the recipe called for.) But (a) it fed me for several days, and (b) the next-door neighbor liked it.
@A. Marie,
Brown sugar in a pork/sweet potato stew sounds....odd. But what do I know. I agree, I'd have to leave it out.
Saturday: Barbecue pork ribs, rooster rice, coleslaw
Sunday: Bunless cheeseburgers, leftover rice, sauteed asparagus and mushrooms, leftover coleslaw, and the last of the ice cream
Monday: Plain old ground beef soft tacos in storebought corn tortillas.
Tuesday: Fried rice made with leftover rice, ground beef, peas, and spices.
Wednesday: Leftovers.
Thursday: Um. Well. I thought twice about telling all of you what we actually ate this night, but this is a safe place, right? However, if you are squeamish (or judgemental), stop reading now. I'll give you a line break to go about your merry way.
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Okay. So. My eldest son (13) shot a big bull snake in the chicken coop in the late afternoon (it was actually curled AROUND the eggs in the nest, but my son didn't even break any eggs! perfect shot) and as he was carrying it out, wondered aloud if it was edible.
Almost all snakes are actually edible, even venemous ones if you dispose of the venom sac with the head. Bull snakes aren't venemous, though, and as soon as I confirmed that yes, people can and do eat snakes, he was all for it.
I stayed inside while he skinned and gutted it. I stayed outside while he dipped it in egg whites and seasoned cornmeal and fried it in corn oil. He presented the main dish with a great uncovering flourish, and there was a fried snake on a plate.
There are a lot of bones in snakes, so it had to be chopped into smaller pieces with a cleaver. The meat is white, and, just like the old saw, actually does taste like chicken. It really had no discernable flavor at all, though it was very chewy and required some effort to get it off the bone. Not a lot of meat on it, either, even on a big (4.5 feet) snake, so I also provided leftover taco meat in tortillas with cheese, and I had made a baked custard. And some kids had yogurt with the rhubarb/strawberry jam I had made earlier in the day.
So! I guess I have another to cross off my bingo card of Unusual Foods I've consumed.
Tonight we are having . . . something. That is not a reptile. 🙂
@kristin @ going country, I say good for your son for taking the time to skin and gut that snake. When I was little, my grandfather would present all of us grandkids with some type of different food. We ate the animals we raised on the farm and/or shot in the woods, so this was a big deal. There was an old meat packing business that sold all kinds of things. He would give us $1 each for trying what he bought. All of us grandchildren would sit around the kitchen table and he would give us all a piece to eat. We had to have an empty plate, empty our pockets, and open our mouths for inspection to be given the $1 bill. I had pickled pigs feet, rattlesnake, alligator, and Rocky Mountain oysters. And I agree with you, the snake and alligator tasted like chicken.
AAAAaaaaaaaaaaah! It wasn't so much the idea of eating snake, but the "very chewy" part made my gorge rise. *whimper* I am a super picky eater when it comes to meat*. I wouldn't last a day in the Going Country house! You're a better woman than I am.
*textures, probably related to autism
@kristin @ going country, your family (especially your son) wins WWA this week, hands down!
@kristin @ going country, I didn't stop reading. I settled deeper into my chair with a smile on my face, ready for your dinner tale. 🙂
What a fun story!! No doubt that he will remember evening and I'm sure it was a great confidence boost for him!
@kristin @ going country,
Your son is a hero for doing all that! Your family gets gold stars for eating it! I've had turtle, alligator, beaver, elk, deer, goat, and rabbit, but never snake. I'm in awe.
@kristin @ going country, Once my grandpa, who wintered in Florida, brought back a can of rattlesnake meat, and offered to share it with us. Nope nope nope. He proceeded to eat it and declared it tasted "just like chicken," and kept offering us bites.
At least he told us what it was! I have learned to ask when offered meat, after a stint in France where I finally thought to ask what the delicious meat was that was on the table nearly every night, and my host family said cheerfully, "C'est la viande de cheval!" I'd been eating horsemeat for two weeks. It was this little roast, tied with string and looked like a cross between ham and roast beef. I remember it being very delicious. Come to think of it, that may be why I went vegetarian as a teenager. I just didn't trust meat.
I read your blog with the pictures of the snake, and I applaud your son's plating; there was no doubt that was snake! Nobody would be fooled, so good for him. 🙂
Haha, my first thought was that it was going to be a really bony eating experience.
But then again, I am from an area of the country where it is common to eat steamed crabs, so we really cannot be judgy when it comes to eating foods that require a lot of picking around bones/shells/guts, etc.
@kristin @ going country, love the snake story. An uncle used to defend my great aunts younger days saying they weren’t wild women because they wore a gun. You need a gun in the desert to shoot snakes.
I learned quickly when I had chickens and a barn to look in the nest before you reach in to grab the eggs.
@kristin @ going country, oh how I have missed the unusual food options in your weekly reports, so what a nice surprise. I would assume by now your bingo card is indeed full, but perhaps a lion, tiger or elephant will wander through NM (I'll keep my fingers crossed! 😉 )
@Rose, Hah! You reminded me of that old (1939) movie with Cary Grant: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
@kristin @ going country,
Wow, this was fun! Kudos to your son!! I sped right past your dotted line (chuckling) to get my weekly dose of your family's creative meals. You guys outdid yourself this time. Thanks for always giving us the full picture with riveting stories.
@JDinNM, That's the last line of the original Kipling poem.
@kristin @ going country, kind of gross, but it warms my heart to know there are still people who understand that food doesn't come just from grocery stores. The skill of providing meat for a family is greatly underrated.
@Rose, On which the movie was based.
@kristin @ going country, I was SOOO WORRIED that it was going to be another ELK!
@A. Marie, PS to preceding: The only one of my great-grandfathers who lived long enough for me to know him tried pineapple farming near present-day Melbourne, FL, in the early 1900s. He then moved to Orlando (a small town then) and opened a grocery store. But on the one occasion I visited his Orlando house, he had some rattlesnake skins hanging up in the kitchen--and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he'd tried eating rattlesnake.
@kristin @ going country, Great parenting, to indulge your son's desire and to keep using the bounty of your area! I know this sounds a bit woo-woo, but I think respecting the animals that come from the land by eating them if you want or have to kill them is a way of thanking the universe for providing food. And it is a wonderful thing for your kids to witness.
@kristin @ going country,
Kudos to you for skinning a snake. Kinda glad to live in a country with no snakes cos I wouldn’t be game to try ( sorry for dreadful mum pun).
I'm starting to be glad all my grandfathers lived in New York City (as did everyone else). I am not OK* after reading the description of eating the snek.
The only wildlife in New York at that time was rats and no one expected anyone to eat them, although my grandmother who grew up in Greenwich Village remembered locals betting on which dogs could catch the most rats in the local slaughterhouses. I come from quality society.
*Well, yeah, I am. Ish. As long as no one expects me to be in the same time zone.
@JC, I love the story about your grandpa!
@kristin @ going country, no vegetarian should read past the line, so why oh why did I do that?!! Did you just google snake recipes? Could have been a pizza topping or a crepe filling or protein for a blueberry smoothie, etc.? I’m grossed out and enthralled at the same time. It is just too nasty for words, LOL!!
There is a wonderful new product. Guacamole in a squeeze container! If you are traveling or camping as long as you have an ice chest you can have guacamole anytime without the mess. I love it.
@Tiana, This is a game changer for me!! Thanks for alerting me to this product.
@Tiana, Yes! And it doesn't go brown on top and lasts longer. Win win!
Zoe looks adorable as Wednesday! I grew up watching the Addams Family with my father, and at one point we had parakeets called Morticia and Gomez. Our local animal rescue has original Chas Addams drawings hanging up, since he lived nearby and supported the rescue.
Yesterday we have Indian takeout
Wednesday we had dinner at the restaurant where trivia was held. My son had a tomahawk steak. I had just creamed spinach since I wasn't hungry.
Tuesday we had spaghetti with fresh grape tomato sauce.
Monday, pizza.
Tonight, I have 0.0 idea. Maybe pancakes or something.
In fact, Mr. Addams was such an animal lover, his ashes were interred in the pet cemetery on his Hamptons estate at his request. Gotta love that guy.
I am 100% onboard with fried eggs over leftovers. In fact, today I have leftover butternut squash that will be topped that way for breakfast. This week:
Monday - After work I fished around in the freezer and had an HEB Fully Cooked burger patty topped with cheese and some sweet potato fries, no bun.
Tuesday - (homemade) Shake and Bake Chicken, pan sauteed okra, corn (this was a very meh meal - I think S&B is very over-rated)
Wednesday - Tamales, cheesy refried beans, salad with cucumber and red onion
Thursday - Pot Roast with carrots and onions
Friday - Lemon Pepper Tilapia, avocado rice, a veggie from the freezer
Saturday and Sunday - kitchen closed, but I will feed myself well for Mother's Day weekend!
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$175@ Piggly Wiggly and $235@ Walmart FYI this covered meals for us while on vacation and for those who stayed home.
Saturday…this was our traveling day so we ate takeout pizza
Sunday…pot roast with carrots, onion, celery and potatoes, string beans and jasmine rice
Monday…leftovers
Tuesday…turkey meatloaf, mashed potatoes & green peas
Wednesday…takeout from Whattaburger
Thursday…spaghetti and meat sauce made
With ground turkey, garlic bread
Friday…leftovers it will be before tomorrow’s road trip
Happy Friday!!
Zoe is an adorable little Wednesday! We really liked the Netflix Wednesday series and hope you guys do, too.
I love that picture of Zoe as Wednesday Addams so much! 🙂
Saturday: We cooked hot dogs and bacon cheddar brats over a fire and had chips and veggies on the side. S'mores for dessert! We have neighbor kids for the first time in our lives (my kids are so excited) and they joined us for part of the evening.
Sunday: I made cheesy baked spaghetti for our life group. Others provided salad, garlic bread, and one of my friends made one of her amazing cookie cakes. So yummy.
Monday: Kristen's enchilada recipe (ALL of my kids liked it! WIN!) and pineapple
Tuesday: Burgers and asparagus on the grill, macaroni salad and potato salad that I got on discount at the store, and cut up veggies
Wednesday: I had salad and pizza at a meeting at church. Everyone else had the extra pan of cheesy baked spaghetti.
Thursday: My 9yo wanted to make dinner. She decided on sheet pan pizza and best bake sale brownies from the ATK Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs.
Friday: One kid will be at a birthday party, so we're having a meal she doesn't like... Corn dogs! I'll probably have salad with it and the rest of the potato salad.
Oh, that's so funny that you made the enchiladas...I just came across that recipe in my archives and shared it on Facebook last night.
@Ruth T, we just got kids on our street for the first time too! My only child is in heaven 🙂
$421. 66. For the record, this is never in one trip--my husband and the kid who is racking up driving practice go twice a week, so it gets split up. They usually go on Thursday to get food for Thursday, Friday and the weekend, and on Monday to get stuff for Mon-Wed.
Saturday/Sunday: homemade pizzas. Our usual toppings besides sauce and cheeses are ground beef, sausage, pepperoni, deli ham, turkey bacon, and raw broccoli. Guess who is the only person who uses broccoli on her pizza? This person. Slice it thin and put it on top of the cheese, I love it. Turns every pizza into a salad.
Monday: Deli fried/baked chicken, chips and raw veggies. Monday we like to hit the easy button.
Tuesday: Ham and bean soup (using up the bone I stashed from the Easter ham), cornbread, which I won't bother to make again, as everybody avoided it like the plague. I had some leftover frozen rolls in the freezer and I thought I'd bake those up as well, only I overbaked them. They still got devoured, so I guess the masses prefer yeasty wheat rolls over homemade cornbread. FINE.
Wednesday: Burgers and fries. I should have thought ahead and gotten the ingredients for a broccoli salad, but I forgot/didn't care/was apathetic, your choice.
Thursday: Taco night.
Tonight will be hamburger stew, and I'll probably make some chicken nuggets for the youngest, who dislikes soups and stews in all iterations.
Ohh, the driving practice. Yes. It's a time of life where you don't actually make any efforts to be efficient with car trips!
@Karen A.,
My mom used to make cornbread as a warm breakfast choice for us kids. We ate it warm with butter and syrup on top. Delish!!
@Gina, I second warm cornbread with butter and syrup! My mother would bake a big pan for ”supper” and we’d split slices open to put on the butter and syrup. So good! I still make cornbread for part of a meal, but just a small pan of Jiffy mix. I often take my piece right away and put butter and syrup on it while still hot. Mmmm.
@Karen A.,
A pizza place in town that all adore has creative toppings. One is Greek salad with all of the ingredients included (but no dressing). It’s delicious. You can have a whole salad on your pizza!
@Gina, I adore warm cornbread (bonus points if it's crispy on the edges), but am right now limiting carbs and starches for health reasons. Would appreciate thoughts and prayers. 😉
@Erika JS, Oh, that sounds delicious. I should branch out and get more veggie toppings for our pizzas. I just live with a bunch of carnivores/cheesivores.
@Karen A.,
yum.....warm homemade cornbread is soooo deelish. I would have consumed a big hunk.
@Karen A., I adore cornbread as long as it's the proper Southern variety (no sugar). I may have lived in Yankeeland these 45 years, but I'm still a Southerner when it comes to cornbread. Cornbread with sugar is just cake.
@A. Marie, No sugar in mine! Even though I grew up in the North, to me if it had sugar in it that would not be a side dish, but dessert.
I can actually remember what we ate all week for once, so I can share...
Saturday - our oldest graduated from college, so we had some friends over to celebrate in the evening. We had pizzas, drinks and chips
Sunday - we celebrated the graduation with family. We made prime rib, twice baked potatoes, green beans, rolls and for dessert we had banana split dessert and pistachio dessert.
Monday - leftovers from Sunday
Tuesday - meatballs and sauce over bow tie noodles with parmesan cheese, marinated italian cucumbers
Wednesday - we went out. I had a buffalo chicken wrap with fries....so good
Thursday - baked fish, breaded shrimp, macaroni and cheese, french green beans
Friday - I pulled chicken out to either grill and have a salad or to make chicken stir fry
WIS: Well, it would have been $0 for groceries for the week (still eating down the refrigerator/freezer/pantry), but yesterday I saw Haagen-Dazs on sale for $2.50 instead of $6.49, so I bought a pint of vanilla bean and one of dulce de leche churro (which I will regret discovering). So $5.00 for “groceries” (hah!), $14.04 (including tax + tip) at Laguna Burger for lunch with a friend, and $35.63 (including tax+ tip) for dinner with friends at Seasons 52, which is a regularly scheduled monthly dinner (location varies*), so $49.67 on restaurant meals with my best friends + $5 for “groceries” for a total of $54.67. Worth every. single. penny. Je ne regrette rien. Except possibly the ice cream.
WIA #1: For lunch AND dinner, the best Mushroom Swiss Hamburger and fries I have ever eaten. Laguna Burger is owned and operated by the Laguna Pueblo, and is just across the street from the Indian Cultural Affairs Center. Both are very much worth a visit if you find yourself in New Mexico. The Laguna Pueblo is a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people in west central New Mexico (about 45 miles west of Albuquerque) who have inhabited the area from about 6500 B.C. to the present. Or about 8,497 years before me (B.JDinNM). The Cultural Center (online at indianpueblo.org) serves as a gathering place for all 19 Pueblos of New Mexico and has a museum and gallery, a library, archives, a teaching kitchen and restaurant (where you can go for Thanksgiving), a store with authentic Native American art and jewelry, and cultural programming and events.
WIA #2: Carmelized sea scallops on mascarpone risotto with roasted asparagus at Seasons 52. Ten stars. Highly recommend.
And WIA #3: from the freezer/refrigerator/pantry inventory, leftover beef ribs with leftover egg noodles with homemade beef gravy using leftover beef broth and drippings; sirloin steak with garlic butter, roasted smashed potatoes and broccoli; and A. Marie’s famous Senior Citizen frittata™.
In hindsight, a pretty beef-alicious week … but once I work further down in the freezer I’ll hit the chicken fajitas.
*Next month, the St. James Tearoom!
@JDinNM,
No. You are not allowed to regret ice cream purchases on this blog. I don't make the rules, but I will enforce them! 😉
@Becca, just for that, I'll swing by the store and grab another pint!
@Becca, I approve of this rule!
@JDinNM,
Hahaha! Yes!
Saturday - my husband was out with friends so I thought it would be fun to take the kids to the grocery store and let them pick out whatever they wanted for dinner. I went to the store closest to our house though, which is a more expensive market. We ended up with chips, a box of corn dogs, a fancy frozen cheese pizza, ice cream and cones and some chicken tikka masala and naan (for me) and somehow that all came to like $70! I think our regular take out would have been cheaper. We do still have a lot of corn dogs left at least haha
Sunday - chicken pot pie
Monday - shrimp scampi, pasta with butter and Parmesan, steamed broccoli, chopped salad kit
Tuesday - ground turkey and mushroom stroganoff
Wednesday - defrosted some enchilada filling that was in the freezer so made very easy enchiladas, served with corn and avocado
Thursday - sausages, pearl cous cous, corn on the cob, chopped salad kit
Friday - chicken patty sandwiches for adults, chicken nuggets for kids, leftover Kraft, cucumbers and sugar snap peas
Aww, but your kids will remember that fun grocery store outing. Good job, mama!
I love little "Wednesday!"
Last week I spent $151 for two weeks, and it included a farm order. That does not include stocking up for the dogs, and I don't want to talk about how much THAT cost, ha. One of my dogs is sensitive to chicken and some grains and so many of the dog foods contain chicken. Some of the grain-free brands without chicken are $75 for a 25 pound bag.
WIA:
Farm-raised pork chops with frozen "California Blend" of carrots, cauliflower and broccoli and roasted beets as the sides. I ate the rest of it in lunches.
Leftover turkey from the freezer with collard greens and a big bowl of peaches. I had this again but added cucumbers to the plate.
The last of that pack of leftover turkey, sliced and added to a stir fry of mushrooms, onions, garlic, carrots and celery, served over cauliflower rice. Topped with coconut amino sauce and fish sauce.
A portion of leftover chicken liver pate' with apple slices and cassava crackers.
Amish-made uncured beef/pork hot dogs with jicama sticks and quick pickled cucumbers. No bun. The hot dogs are closer to a sausage than a hot dog.
I have an appointment with my autoimmune specialist over 2 hours away this afternoon, so tonight will be some form of the easy button.
Today is our 44th wedding anniversary and thanks to this appointment, I won't be able to visit with my husband. He has trouble keeping up with what day it is when all his days are the same, and seems to have forgotten our anniversary was coming up. I'll see him this weekend and bring him a little something. We rarely did anything for our anniversary anyway, since money was tight most of our marriage, but I'll admit, this is a bit depressing. I know A. Marie knows just what I mean.
@JD, I do understand what you mean. DH had a terrible memory for dates even before the Alzheimer's, so I never held his feet to the fire if he didn't remember my birthday, our legal wedding anniversary, etc. But the one he did always recall with great affection was March 10, the anniversary of our first and only traditional "date"--and it was a true grief to me when he no longer remembered that one.
@JD, We had a period of having to buy kangaroo based dog food for one of the Irish wolfhounds. They are the tallest breed of dogs, so you can imagine how much a 160 or 170 pound dog can consume in a day. It was $90 a bag and every time I filled the bowl I would tell him that I must really love him to spend more on his food than what I spent on my husband's food. I was very happy when the six months of kangaroo food ended and we could go back to other dog food. (And, since we had two IWs, I could not feed them different foods, so we did in fact feed both of them the expensive food for six months. We waited until we had established careers before we got IWs, and it was a good thing we did because in our early years we could not have afforded them!)
@Lindsey, my sweet middle dachshund had food allergies and we had to feed her rabbit-based food for awhile. She weighed only 22 pounds, but every pound should have been gold-plated on that diet.
Oh my goodness! Little Zoe was such a cute Wednesday Adams.
Oh, goodness. Remembering our menu is hard!
We had spaghetti & meatballs + garlic bread one night
Grilled cheeseburgers x2 nights
One night everyone was out of the house but me, so I had cheese, crackers & an apple
We had chicken fajitas x2 nights
For tonight, I think it will be leftover spaghetti & meatballs. Normally, at least one teen would miss dinner, but DS17 is grounded, because he slept through his alarm & missed a class. Despite alllllllll of the many reminders about needing to successfully get himself up on time. If anyone has successfully helped a teen with this, I'd love advice!
@Hawaii Planner, three separate alarm clocks, successively louder and more obnoxious, and each successively further from the bed. Final one was in the hall just outside the bedroom door - and crowed like a rooster. He still managed to miss getting up. I would go up to his room, fling the door open, and yell "Ray!! You're late!!! Fun to watch him levitate. He does just fine now, @ 38.
That photo of the fried eggs and sweet potato makes me so hungry every time I see it! Also, what kind of dressing are you using on your lettuce? I am really tired of all store bought salad dressings and want to "dress it down" a bit.
Enjoy Wednesday with Zoe 🙂 I am watching Mandalorian with my boys.
Sunday: Hamburgers with caramelized onion, sweet potato fries and green beans (veggie burger for me)
Monday: Chicken in a caper cream sauce over rice, green salad (tofu over rice for me)
Tuesday: Korean pancakes with sausage or tofu with leftover green salad (we have a ton of salad right now from our garden)
Wednesday: Cheese ravioli with a tomato, dill and burrata cheese salad
Thursday: Take out pizza (the evening turned out different than I thought and I am down with a cold)
Friday: Not sure yet, but likely pasta with some fresh veggies
@Kristina M., Someone (I think Kristin at Going Country?) asked about homemade salad dressings on last Friday's post, there are some great recommendations in the comments!
@Natalie J, thanks, I will check!
I was trying to use up a lot of things from the freezer!
Sunday: We ate random leftovers to clear them out before the new week. I can't really remember who ate what and I know one daughter made herself a fried egg sandwich.
Monday: I made a crockpot recipe with chicken thighs from the freezer and served it with rice and salad.
Tuesday: Using a small package of chicken breast tenders, I made fake KFC bowls. I cut the tenders into small pieces and sauteed them. I made mashed potatoes, corn and gravy. Everyone assembled a bowl. It was a good way to stretch a small package of chicken.
Wednesday: Baked potatoes with toppings. The toppings included cheese, sour cream, broccoli, leftover chili from the freezer, caramelized onions, bacon, chopped ham from the freezer, spinach and pico de gallo.
Thursday: American chop suey with the last package of ground beef from the winter meat farm share.
Tonight: We might go out to dinner, I hate to go out on actually Mother's Day since every place is crowded, so we often go out on the Friday of Mother's Day weekend. Or if people are feeling too tired, we will probably order a pizza.
@Ann, I also hate going out on Mother’s Day, it’s so crowded! I just requested bagels for breakfast that day and my husband is going to smoke some chicken wings for dinner!
@LB, Restaurants are awful on Mother's Day. The last time we braved one was probably before the pandemic, and I remember just looking around at how crowded it was and how not-relaxing it was, and we decided to never do that. That said, we will be doing a short road trip tomorrow so will probably stop somewhere, but most likely Taco Bell or something junkily delicious like that. Also we can get our food and eat in the truck. Much more relaxing than sitting waiting for a poor waitress who by rights should have Mother's Day off! 😉
Those lazy crepes look really good!!
We had:
- Leaf sauce and peanut sauce over rice
- Red sauce and chicken over rice
- Bean and rice bowls
- Vegetarian spaghetti
and that's as far back as I can remember. 🙂
Oh, such a cute Wednesday!
WIS: $103 @ Food Lion. Remarkably, food prices have come down a bit here.
WWA: Leftover spaghetti with homemade sauce. Pancakes, eggs and bacon. Cheese, fruit, homemade honey-oatmeal bread. Nuts, fresh veggies, protein shakes. A few times a Healthy Choice power bowl when I was tired and everyone else had already eaten.
MAYCEMBER is upon us. MY is crazier and more expensive than December! My husband are both high school teachers. 117 Kroger pickup 19 from Aldi banana stock up …got more than bananas. WAH!
Monday: crustless Mexicali quiche with air fryer potatoes tomatoes and cottage cheese
Tuesday: leftovers
Wednesday: DELICIOUS chicken salad from the Aldi cheese prepared section! On buns. I had also made a small pasta salad with tuna peas and chives and green onions from garden.
Thursday: frozen pizza and leftover pasta salad
Friday: premade frozen Aldi meatballs and jarred red sauce in slow cooker. Cucumber salad.
@Stephanie, another teacher here, Maycember is real and it is ridiculous!
Zoe's serious face is so adorable, when she smiles it must melt your heart, even in Wednesday Addams garb. I was such a fan of the original show, haven’t checked out this new one.
Got a salad enough for 2 meals for 16 cents with 4$ off coupon. My primary grocery store will have good coupons regularly-have to check the app. My other meals are a little of this and little of that using up most items that I already had in frig and freezer. Used up last of my red bell peppers I’d vacuum packed in large canning jars (put in frig) 3 weeks ago-still crisp and tasty. Not related directly but saw my first tiny grape tomato on one of my plants. Hopefully this year they won’t be burned up with our last summer’s scorching temps!
This was a week of RFQS meat stock up/preserving and specialty items (one can not go into the North End and not get cannoli and scali bread) so a little higher than I had hoped but it won't all be eaten this week so there is that.
WIS: Wegmans-$237; neighborhood-$32; TGTG-$8.50; milk delivery-$19; Bakery-$38; Vinegar-$35 Total: $369.50
WWA: Sat: Out for SIL bachelorette. We had "tapas" (read: american pub food). Cheesy bacon tots, pretzel w/ beer cheese, salted caramel chicken tenders, bacon chicken ranch flatbread. It was all delicious...it was not tapas lol
Sun: Pasta w/ spinach chicken sausage and ricotta
Mon: Korean style pork belly, green beans, and rice
Tues: Supper Club-The Weekday Vegetarians. We made chilled asparagus soup w/ croutons
Wed: homemade steak bombs w/ Doritos
Thurs: Had 2 pints of chicken that didn't seal that needed to be used up so we made a pasta concoction with the chicken, green beans, ricotta, garlic scape butter, and pasta
Fri: Seeing Andrew McCarthy talk about his new book and then dinner out with a friend
Dinner last week... I honestly don't remember. One day we had dumplings... Zoe is so cute!!
Awww...what a sweet picture of your little Wednesday! I liked the series too. A few cringey moments but it's to be expected with a teen-type show like this one.
Our freezer seemed a little out of control so I've been trying to clear that out. My dinners have looked kind of like Kristen's breakfasts - sort of random but also kind of delicious. Otherwise, it was a pretty uninspired week at our house with food but at least the fruit has been tasty and we made cookies last weekend that made for a sweet end to each meal.
This has been a stellar week for not spending money on groceries, due to two grocery mystery shops that paid for over $60 of food and 2 restaurant mystery shops where we ended up with so much food that the husband and I were fed for two evening meals. The other four meals involved eggs since the chickens are laying like they are being paid to do so. That brings us to today, when a friend is coming into town from one of the villages where there are no fast food places and only one restaurant; since the village is not accessible by road it is not like you can drive to another town to eat out. She loves McDonalds and especially Fillet-o-Fish, so tonight she is treating us to McDonalds fish sandwiches---which makes me VERY happy.
I honestly don't remember what we've eaten this week, it's been a busy one.
I do know that last night, we had a "fancy meal", because I had more time while my fiance took my daughter to track practice. We had shrimp with sherry & paprika, cous cous, sauteed mushrooms and roasted carrots with herbs & honey over ricotta cheese. Wednesday was a school concert, so I think it was a bit of a grab-whatever-leftovers evening, Tuesday no memory, and Monday I was at a board meeting, so I had the Brown Bag dinner that was served there (salmon over rice, a cup of fresh berries, and soup - but it is always too mcuh food, so I brought the soup and fruit home to have for lunch other days).
Currently sitting on the couch with a sleeping sick child and unable to move, so let's see what I remember without checking the paper on the fridge:
Sunday: Japanese curry, with breaded chicken or breaded fish (different preferences)
Monday: Ramen with all the fixings
Tuesday: A can of Trader Joe's eggplant and tomatoes dumped into a pot of pasta. Super easy and tasty!
Wednesday: Preschooler's choice, which meant ramen again, less fancy this time
Thursday: Slow cooker plans fell through, so we had the backup spaghetti from the pantry.
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: We're going to a hot pot place with some friends.
I just realized in my recap that it was a very Asian inspired week. Have a good weekend everyone!
We are getting ready to move. We have a mix of pantry meals & spontaneous date night splurge.
WIS - Kroger $34 (milk for 2 weeks, fruit for snacks this week & breakfast for Gent). Jimmy Johns $10 (forgot my lunch Monday). DQ $8 date. Farmers market (we are mostly stocking up for next location, summer grilling): beef $12, pork $22, bagels $20, produce $18.
Saturday - went to a women’s event at church in eve & they had chartucerie cups for everyone. I had 2 which was filling enough!
Sunday - Gent grilled, we had venison hamburgers (bread heels for buns for him), Brussel sprouts (pantry meal).
Monday - we were both sick so we did grilled cheese & soup (pantry meal).
Tuesday - went to urgent care for bronchitis, DQ date & fend supper (I had grilled cheese again, Gent had leftovers).
Wednesday - cheesy pasta with asparagus (pantry meal).
Thursday - fried rice with green onions & bone broth, fried eggs & kielbasa, another pantry meal. Made double rice so we can have it again next week.
Friday - spontaneous date night after errands @ Sushi Mama. Gent paid so it didn’t come out of my food budget. We had one roll each & split salmon teriyaki, no special drinks. Food was enough for 3 dinners! At home I had a dessert from Aldi that needed to be used up!
To clarify, we have been buying in advance pork, beef, corn, rhubarb, blueberries & strawberries to store up for future cooking/baking/grilling at our new house. Our Farmers Market budget has been adjusted to compensate. We lost our freezer about 3 months ago and have been resupplying ever since!