What I Spent
Well, after last week’s high spending, this week I only spent $47 on groceries, and all of it was at Aldi. I also spent $20 on a dinner out with a friend. So, $67.
And lemme find a random picture of Chiquita for this section.
What We Ate
Saturday
Zoe was at work, so I made a leftover burger into something like a salad (all the burger things in a bowl, just without a bun*) and I had cottage cheese on the side to add some more protein.
*I am not avoiding bread altogether. But I am trying to make my carb calories count for something either in terms of delight or nutrition. A white burger bun doesn’t provide a lot of either thing for me, so I’d rather use my carb calories somewhere else. 🙂
Sunday
I had a tuna melt, and I can’t remember what Zoe ate!
Monday
A friend from my Divorce Care group is moving to Ohio, so we got together at a local restaurant for a bite to eat before she moves.
I had a green salad with shrimp and bacon in it. 🙂
Tuesday
I picked up a shift at work, and on the way home, I picked up Panera for Zoe and me, using a gift card.
I ordered a Green Goddess chicken salad but sadly when I got home, there was no chicken in it. BOO. How am I supposed to build muscle with no chicken??
So I made a batch of protein pancakes to eat with my no-chicken salad.
Wednesday
I browned some sausages and asparagus, and I ate that with some cottage cheese, black pepper, and tomatoes (thank you to whoever suggested that earlier this week! It’s a great combo.)
Zoe ate a chicken sandwich when she got home from work late at night (using a cooked chicken breast in the fridge.)
Thursday
I made a taco salad, with enough to pack as leftovers for work tomorrow.
Friday
I do have lunch packed for today but I do not have a dinner plan, so I guess we are winging it. 😉
Selena
Saturday 20th of July 2024
Sat - Chicago deep dish pizza and local sweet corn. Nothing beats Midwest sweet corn. To this day I cannot believe some local grocery stores sell FL sweet corn which barely qualifies as silage. Sun - Mexican dine out Mon - local butcher shop brats and home made (aka home grown potatoes and locals eggs) potato salad Tue - $15 2 burgers-fries deal Wednesday - we each cooked eggs in our preferred style, skillet of home grown potatoes and zucchini, local bakery toasted bread Thursday - grilled chicken breasts with home grown potatoes Friday - salmon for better half, steak 4 me, local sweet corn, shrimp cocktail
J
Saturday 20th of July 2024
Have you tried mixing cottage cheese with peanut butter? We love that for a double protein boost and also will add a couple spoonfuls of cereal, oats, and nuts for breakfast. We also like to mix cottage cheese into our salad with a little vinegar and oil as kind of a dressing.
JNL
Saturday 20th of July 2024
This week we mainly ate salads, either with lamb scewers or with tuna and eggs (nicoise), or feta cheese. On the only much cooler day we had beetroot and sausage. Today it is nearing 35 degrees C (quick calculation = 100F?) so it will be salad again, with solar powered oven baked picanha. And salads of all kinds again next week. Fortunately our parsley is finally thriving. I love the smell of fresh herbs on the chopping board. Off topic: we have a lot of rain water in the containers and rain forecasted. So I splashed a few buckets of rain water on the terrace in front of the doors, to reduce radiation temperature where we move in and out of the house. You could immediately feel the difference and I don't know why I don't do this more often. Such a simple trick my mother taught me (she would also sprinkle water on the hot windows but !!! only when the glass was in the shade). All predating the invention of AC.
JNL
Saturday 20th of July 2024
@JNL, Roast, ofcourse
Megan in CA
Friday 19th of July 2024
I am so glad to read that I'm not the only one calling a lettuce-based salad "green salad"! I signed up to bring green salad to a work potluck and all my co-workers said they'd never heard that expression before. How else am I to let them know I'm not bringing pasta salad or potato salad??
Kristen
Friday 19th of July 2024
Or a fruit salad???
Blue Gate Farmgirl
Friday 19th of July 2024
WIS: Costco - $32 Grocery Outlet - $16 Eating out of the garden: Lettuce, Tomatoes, peppers, peas, carrots, kale, cabbage, radishes, cucumbers, zucchini, broccoli and kohlrabi. Blueberries & strawberries. Sunday: Taco salad Monday: Bean, rice & beef burritos w/mango salsa Tuesday: Bacon lettuce & tomato salad, watermelon for dessert Wednesday: Hamburger patties, veggies w/homemade ranch Thursday: Chicken alfredo w/tons of veggies over zucchini noodles (zoodles) Friday: Funday will have leftovers and a couple of sliced tomatoes Saturday: Huevos Rancheros w/refried beans, cottage cheese w/avocado sliced & sprinkled w/tajin, watermelon