What I Spent
Let’s see!
I spent:
- $20 on a box of bruised peaches
- $45 at Sam’s Club
- $10 at Safeway
And that’s it! $75 and I was good to go.
What We Ate
I did a REALLY bad job of photographing my meals this week! Not that I took bad photos…it’s just that I didn’t take many photos at all. Whoops.
Saturday
It was my second day of working and I just ate a peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread once I got home.
Sunday
Ummm, I don’t know.
So here’s a picture of Chiquita instead.
Don’t worry; the stove wasn’t on
Monday
Tuna melts! With pepper on top because OF COURSE.
I had some yogurt and peaches on the side.
Tuesday
I made some burgers (to use up some ground beef from my freezer. Look at my working on my to-do list!) and we had some fruit on the side.
from a previous grilling session! I did not photograph this week’s burgers
Wednesday
Burgers again. With fruit again. 🙂
Thursday
As I prepped my food for my next two work days, I had a rather haphazard dinner of rotisserie chicken and some fruit and veggies. I did a better job of lunch prepping than I did with dinner-cooking! 😉
Zoe had some French toast after she got home from work.
Friday
Not gonna lie, Zoe and I will probably have some takeout after we both get off of work! Then I will shower, and go to bed so I can get enough sleep before the next shift. 🙂
These are my last two shifts before school starts, and from there on out, I will probably only work two shifts a month. School will be the priority!
Beth
Sunday 25th of August 2024
WIS: $77 at Aldi WWA: I normally struggle with remembering the WWA part, so this week I astutely made notes on my phone so I can confidently and accurately state that we ate:
Saturday: Tacos
Sunday: Tacos (because leftovers and I love tacos!)
Monday: grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and cookies (two sons and gf came for dinner and younger son requested chicken legs--always his favorite!)
Tuesday: husband had salad with some leftover chicken; I had veg soup from the freezer, toast with jam, and an apple
Wednesday: husband out for evening, so it was a can of tuna with olive oil and pepper, sauteed plantains, & toast w/pb&j
Thursday: hmmm...my phone note system seems to have failed for Thursday, and I'm guessing salads??
Friday: daughter (celiac & vegetarian) and her friend (vegan) were here for dinner! :) so black bean burgers, pickles, & peaches cut up and sprinkled with cinnamon
Joy in NW Iowa
Saturday 24th of August 2024
Had kind of funny week. I didn’t keep track of the money but we had sandwiches on Sunday. Chicken thighs and broccoli on Monday, free steak supper on Tuesday (took half of my steak home, Wednesday had left over steak, broccoli and tater tots, Thursday I ate out and not sure what hubby had, Friday finished the chicken and broccoli. (The broccoli was from my friend from her garden and we have fresh tomatoes for hubby).
Selena
Friday 23rd of August 2024
Sat - decent fast food burgers with fries Sun - barely mediocre fast food - under staffed but please I will wait two more minutes for all the fries in my order to be well cooked. Better half was in a bit of a snit. Mon - grilled butter/garlic/Parmesan marinated chix breast w/homemade potato salad (with home grown potatoes) and cole slaw Tue - dine out Mexican - fajita veggies with cheese over rice w/steak for me, shrimp for in-a-better-mood-better-half Wed - burgers with the rest of the aforementioned potato salad and cole slaw Thu - Tue leftovers enhanced with home grown zucchini, bacon (from butcher shop), and the last of the frozen cooked shrimp we had in the freezer Fri - steak 4 me, salmon for better half. Going to try a new place Saturday night for broasted (why spell check??) chicken (bar and grill place that states the from x to y minutes when ordering chicken). I think Popeye's chicken sandwiches rock (KFC is so-so). Will never set foot in chik-hate-fil-a. Buffalo Wildwings are overpriced. I can't believe Raising Cane's makes money selling chicken strips (oh yeah, I guess they have a sandwich), fries, cole slaw, and "Texas" toast. Besides a long drive, demolishing a perfectly good building to build a generic fast food building with a drive thru is just nuts. Money laundering comes to mind truth be told. And where it is located should not have a drive thru as traffic has been a bear for years. I suspect it won't last. The large city near me is quite fickle truth be told. Off soap box.
Selena
Friday 23rd of August 2024
@Selena, @A. Marie post reminded me we had leftover sweetcorn in leftover Thursday meal.
Jean
Friday 23rd of August 2024
I was hoping for some space for discussion of "complementarianism." It's a fascinating and disturbing concept, and I'd really like to hear what people think!
Selena
Friday 23rd of August 2024
@Selena, Oh I forget - if #2 or #3 happens, allow an agency or religious group to sell your baby. It is for the best you know.
Selena
Friday 23rd of August 2024
@Rose, I so agree with you. But let's be quiet lest some politician start yammering about that. Bad enough they are talking about eliminating head of household tax brackets so they can extend the tax cuts for rich people. "be a good girl and stay married". "Be a good girl and don't get pregnant out of wedlock". Raped - well some man will marry you.
Rose
Friday 23rd of August 2024
@Jean, It's gross and disgusting and repulsively sexist.
But Kristen didn't talk about it on the blog.
Karen A.
Friday 23rd of August 2024
Let me see if I can even remember. I had my Math in Health Sciences profiency test today and, to borrow a phrase I saw Kristen use a while back, my brain is crispy right now.
WWS: $431 at Kroger.
Sat/Sun: homemade pizzas, and I made chocolate pudding pops.
Monday: DH cooked burgers outside, as well as a huge batch of tuna burgers for Tuesday, and I cut up a canteloupe that was malingering in the fridge and made a fruit salad. We had chips, too, I think.
Tuesday: Tuna burgers and corn on the cob, leftover burgers as well.
Wednesday: Chicken shawarma, rice, salad.
Thursday: Mexican night (not tacos, since we stopped buying taco shells when I realized people were just breaking them up to use as chips. We get unsalted tortilla chips instead.)
Tonight: we have tons of leftovers, we're tired, my brain is crispy, so it's leftovers and maybe some boxed mac and cheese as well.