What I Spent
I didn’t do one of these last week, but I’m back at it this week!
I went to Aldi and spent $117.40.
And one day when I picked Lisey up from work, I spent $4.32 on flour, cornstarch, and parsley.
I must say, it IS super handy to have a kid who works at a grocery store. It makes it very easy to pick up an odd or end in conjunction with dropping her off or picking her up!
Another day, I spent $2.34 on bananas while picking her up.
And of course, I got a Hungry Harvest box. This is my first week with the full harvest size instead of the mini harvest, so I spent $25.
So, my total for this week is $147.06.
Perfect.
What We Ate
Monday
This was the night I made the Chicken Francese.
I am having THE most dreadful time remembering what we ate with this.
Oh! I do remember that I made biscuits to use up the buttermilk in my fridge.
And we had a green salad.
It’s amazing how hard it is to remember what you ate a few days ago.
Tuesday
I made this chicken enchilada recipe, except I used the leftover carnitas in the filling instead. It was a pretty good substitute, and now the carnitas is (are?) not in my freezer. Yay!
Wednesday
I roasted a spatchcocked, salted chicken and I made a batch of stuffing/dressing to use up the bread cubes I’d frozen.
I virtuously planned to make a salad with dinner, but ran out of time. So we had watermelon instead. 😉
Thursday
I baked a pan of stuffed pasta shells that I had in the freezer, and I also made two loaves of French bread.
And we ate some more of our watermelon.
Friday
Since we had stuffed shells last night, I’m thinking pizza tonight might be too much Italian in a row. So, I’m thinking of maybe making the shrimp cobb salad I tried a few weeks ago.
That might be perfect because I have some lettuce from Hungry Harvest that needs to be used anyway.
Your turn!
What have you been eating for dinner this week?
Ms. LLC
Monday 5th of June 2017
Great post Kristen! I love seeing the meals you made and how much you spent on them, it really gives me some awesome ideas to make my family.
I also wanted to say that I've been reading your blog for some time now and you were one of my biggest inspirations to start my own - so thank you!The
Kristen
Tuesday 6th of June 2017
Aww, that is so encouraging to hear. Yay!
Hawaii Planner
Tuesday 30th of May 2017
Here's what we're having: -Chicken risotto (leftovers) -Pizza (leftovers from a swimming party) -Kebabs & rice (leftovers) -From the freezer night (gyozos & grilled chicken) with salad -Likely out to celebrate the end of the school year (almost there!)
I don't usually cook during the week. I cook bigger meals on weekends, and make enough for leftovers during the work week. This has worked well for almost 10 years, but now the boys are getting big enough that they are eating too much & throwing off my plan. ;-) May need fresh ideas for meal planning come the fall.
Julia B
Sunday 28th of May 2017
I agree about it being so hard to remember! Our collard, kale, and chard are growing like crazy right now so they have been featuring prominently in our meals!
Monday--baked pasta with home-made red sauce, veggies (including home-grown kale), and cheese Tuesday--TV dinner kind of night (husband cooked!)--breaded fish, oven fries, broccoli Wednesday--stir fry with tofu, brown rice, some Indian sauce, and veggies including home-grown greens Thursday--roast potatoes, salmon, home-grown greens Friday--we ate out, spent too much money and it wasn't very good.
Elizabeth
Saturday 27th of May 2017
Was it really just 4.32 for the flour, cornstarch, and parsley? Thought maybe it was 14.32 because that's how much it would be (or likely more) in my small town.
Kristen
Saturday 27th of May 2017
Yup, because the flour was only $0.97! It's a brand new store and it was on a crazy sale.
Cindy
Saturday 27th of May 2017
Monday- Chicken and dumplings
Tuesday- Put hamburger patties in tin foil with potatoes, carrots and onions and baked it in the oven.
Wednesday- Pepperoni pizza
Thursday- Salmon, Sweet potato and mixed veggies
Friday- hot dogs in a bun with mustard and a lettuce salad