What I Spent
I did not even realize how chicken-heavy my week had been until I sat down to write this out. I guess my tolerance for chicken is quite high!
And when you are in a small household, buying a rotisserie chicken means you gotta do some serious chicken-eating to get it all eaten in time.
This week, I spent:
- $7.50 at Giant (a rotisserie chicken!)
- $27 at Safeway
Sooo, only $34.50. But…I probably need to stop in at Sam’s Club next week, so don’t anticipate two such low weeks in a row!
What We Ate
Saturday
I was on my own (Zoe was at the beach with friends for the weekend), and I made a green bean/chicken dish, with some fresh basil courtesy of my neighbor Kate. 🙂
Sunday
I had a chicken lettuce salad with nuts and fruit.
Monday
Zoe had some orange chicken (from Trader Joe’s frozen section) and I have no memory of what I ate. I don’t think I was very hungry because I took my lunch break at work really late.
my lunch for two days
Can you tell last week’s Hungry Harvest box came with more green beans than I had anticipated? I’m doing my best to get them all eaten (Zoe hates green beans!)
Tuesday
After work, I made myself some potatoes and eggs, with fresh cherries on the side and then I went to BED.
Wednesday
I used the last of the rotisserie chicken to make a small pan of chicken enchiladas, topped with pico de gallo.
I didn’t have any canned jalapenos to use, but I did have a fresh one in the fridge, so I just chopped that up and cooked it with the onions as I made the sauce.
Thursday
Leftover enchiladas!
Friday
Zoe’s gonna be at work until 10:00 pm so I will probably make something that can easily be reheated later when she gets home. Or maybe I’ll make a cold main dish salad.
Perhaps with some chicken. 😉 Ha.
Dori
Monday 12th of August 2024
Chicken is just so good on the hot days of summer! We've been eating a lot of it lately too. (And also to balance out the fact that I think we'd been eating a bit too much red meat lately) Lots of roast chicken, grilled chicken, and chicken salad. Yum!
Elizabeth M
Saturday 10th of August 2024
WIS: $41 at Aldi. They had breakfast sausage and dairy-free cheese on sale, so I bought several of each, plus other things of course.
WIA: All I remember is what I had the last two nights - chili beans and dairy-free cheese on corn tortillas.
Jan
Friday 9th of August 2024
We (3 people) get at least 4 meals from a smallish rotisserie chicken. I look for sales at local grocery chains. I don't like buying the really big ones (like the Costco birds) because they are big because they are pumped with a fluid that contains salt and other chemicals. They taste weird!
For our first meal we eat all the dark meat. We are not great fans of white meat in our house. But we pick off all the white meat and chop it up. Half goes in the freezer for another meal. The other half becomes part of a meal, like chicken salad on a hot evening, or something like "chicken glop" which is chicken, rice, cheese, and veggies made into a sort of casserole, stir fry, or some other concoction. The frozen half will be used this way too. The carcass goes into our collection bag in the freezer for the next batch of chicken broth.
Bonus--a grocery store roasted chicken doesn't trash my oven!
Madeline
Friday 9th of August 2024
Sunday: Linguini and Red Clam sauce and side of garlic broccoli Monday: Chana Masala (chickpea meal) over brown rice with palak paneer from Trader Joe (1 frozen container feeds 2 of us and the whole meal makes leftovers for one of us to have for lunch the next day.) Tuesday: The rest of the linguini and clams with a large greek salad Wednesday: Pan fried cod with stir fry veggies (refrig. cleanout) Thursday: Pizza (frozen,Screamin Sicilian I get 2/1 on sale and have them in freezer) and a large chopped salad Friday: Eggplant Parmesan and a salad. Saturday:Eat down the refrig. Fruit salad and cottage cheese for me, need a light food day.Husband can eat all the leftovers.. he is so good at that!!
Next week;
Sunday: Salmon on grill, Santa fe orzo salad, carrot coins Monday: Spaghetti and salad Tuesday: A chicken from costco, some mashed potatoes and green beans. Wednesday: Pizza and salad Thursday:Enchiladas (chicken from costco) with salsa,rice and calabacitas ( mixture of chopped tomatoes, corn kernels, chopped onion, chopped zucchini and some of the Trader joe chile lime seasoning) Friday: Lemon pasta from trader joe with artichokes from jar and tuna in oil with some garlic warmed into a sauce. SOOOO good.The pasta is REALLY LEMONY!! Saturday:WHO KNOWS.. maybe go out!!! I need a date night!
I will have lots of extra chicken, I cube up the meat and freeze for future meals and chicken chile, or chicken tortilla soup.
Selena
Friday 9th of August 2024
Sat - I think pork loin with yellow rice enhanced with home grown garden veggies Sun - dine out Mexican Mon - burgers. I finished left over home grown potatoes-salad and better half had leftover rice Tue - eggs, spam, fried home grown potatoes and toast Wed - steak for me, salmon for better half & kiddo. Baked boiled and sliced home grown potatoes, zucchini, onions covered with cream of celery soup. It wasn't bad Thu - take out sushi as kiddo was in town (no inflation on sushi take out cost) Fri - Fried spaghetti with meat sauce with sliced Italian sausage, mushrooms, halved cherry tomatoes, zucchini, and onion.