What I Spent, What We Ate | It’s a new year!

Oh, my gosh! Remember when your kiddies used to put their stuffed animals in your grocery pictures? The googly eyes reminded me of them and their little selves. :)

love the fruit :) Not planning is disastrous for me - I lost my planning mojo a lot last year but found it over the holidays again - such a relief; I find it so exhausting after a long day to have to decide/shop/plan then cook. I found it best to plan weekday breaky, lunches & snacks or it goes to custard & I buy too much takeaway. I plan for the wk but am happy to move things around as needed - I tend not to plan w/e meals as I don't always know what I'll be doing & it gives me 2 nites to eat what is leftover or I go out with or to someone else's place. My new trick is to do vegie prep for the next couple of nites during or after cooking tonites dinner - this feels relaxed & I'm prepping when fed & then the next meal is much quicker & easier to prepare

I too like a few of you don't have a clue what I ate this wk but somewhere in there was steak & vegies, lentil vegie soup, dim sims from the freezer. Tonite I will have panfried savoury mince & vegies with pasta - the best part is the already chopped vegies ready to go :)

I do much better with a plan for dinner- flying by the seat of my pants winds up costing me money or not the best food to eat.

Hi. Does your $150 a week budget include things like toiletries, cleaning supplies etc?

I vowed to make a new recipe every week- this last week I made pioneer woman’s butter chicken and her cast iron pizza! Both were excellent. Today I just made 2 quiches- looked online for recipes and kind of improvised- spinach, mushrooms and onions. I am freezing one for a later date. I made my own pie crust and used various cheeses from Aldi I had in fridge. So proud of myself!