WIS, WWA | on cheap lunches
What I Spent
I was thinking...I often spend around $110 in a week, and even if that was feeding only me, that would average out to a little over $5 a meal (dividing by 21 for three meals, seven days a week).
Given that I am also feeding Zoe a number of meals during the week, I'm likely spending less than $5 on each of my meals.
And that tells me that my packed lunches are cheaper than cafeteria food. You can't usually get a decent meal there for less than $5!
I spent:
- $97 at Aldi
- $8 at Safeway
So, $105, which is pretty close to the $110 figure I mentioned above!
What We Ate
Saturday
I did a great job of taking pictures of every other meal for the week, but I'm missing Saturday, and my brain is coming up empty.
I can't even say, "Oh, I probably had pancakes." because I know I had blueberry pancakes that morning. And even I rarely eat pancakes for two meals in a single day. Ha.
Sunday
BBQ chicken sandwiches, broccoli, and cantaloupe.
Monday
I made a pot of chicken gnocchi soup with carrots and spinach, and I packed it up for lunch for my following two work days.
Tuesday
St. Patrick's Day! I wore my modified green-ish shirt, and reader Kristin reminded me to look in my pack of Halloween earrings, where I found a pair of green studs to wear. 🙂
Anyway, Zoe baked a pan of ham and Swiss sandwiches and we ate those after I got home from work.
Wednesday
I switched to the peep bunny badge holder since Easter is the next holiday. 🙂
After work, I made some chicken quesadillas with cilantro sauce; easy because the chicken was already cooked and the sauce was already prepped.
Thursday
I just had my monthly new grad residency class from 8:00-1:00, so I had time to cook some dinner. I sauteed some fish fillets, made some potato cubes, and a spinach salad.
Friday
I'm working a regular 12-hour shift today, which means I might just have raisin bran for dinner. 😉
I'm thinking of taking out x amount of cash next month and seeing if that will cover my food budget!
This week's eats:
Saturday: Burritos with mixed veg, brown rice, black beans and sauce.
Sunday: Veggie stir-fry with the leftover beans and ramen noodles.
Monday: Baked sweet potato with veggie burgers. I had avocado and tomatoes on crackers with hummus as a side.
Tuesday: Chilli mac and cheese.
Wednesday: Leftovers. I was sick that day so was very thankful to Past Me that I didn't have to make dinner!
Thursday: Burritos again. I was out of beans and there weren't any in the shop so I used a tin of chickpeas.
Friday: Undecided. Possibly a fritatta.
Do you eat snacks, or only 3 meals a day? If you do snack, what snacks do you have?
I was thinking this too! Maybe she can do a post on snacks because who doesn't love a post about snacks? LOL
Happy Friday, everyone! We spent $216 to restock our fridge, freezer and pantry ($86 at Trader Joe's and $130 at Target).
- Parmesan risotto with peas
- Salad: butter lettuce, Parmesan cheese, English cucumber, homemade croutons, vinaigrette (twice)
- Spanish tortilla with cilantro lime sauce (yes, Kristen's recipe)
- Rice, garbanzo beans and cilantro lime sauce
- Veggie pizza (twice)
Saturday - We had macaroni and cheese with chunks of brats and hot dogs (depending on preference) to add in, plus asparagus and roasted broccoli. When I was picking my 6th grade daughter up after a rehearsal some of her friends heard we were having mac and cheese for dinner, they declared her "lucky" and one told me that she was suddenly up for adoption. Ha! I had no idea that mac and cheese was such a big deal for middle schoolers.
Sunday - Our youth group was doing a taco fundraiser after church and we ate there.
Monday - Parmesan herb chicken tenders, devilled eggs, rice pilaf, and roasted broccoli
Tuesday - My husband was at a meeting, so it was a lot of kid requests: garlic knots, french fries, popcorn, veggies, and fruit
Wednesday - Burrito bowls
Thursday - My husband cooked since it was my birthday. We had steak, baked potatoes, peas, and cheesecake.
Friday - Chicken wild rice chowder
Love your Raisin Bran dinners 🙂
$37 at Target to avoid grocery store crowd when storm was moving in fast
Fri plans: black bean burgers on choice of bun or bed of rice
Thurs: pepperoni pizza & I had tomato & onion focaccia
Wed: baked quesadillas for the guys (was out of cheddar so I used cream cheese and they thought the cheese was ricotta) I had some of the bean mixture on rice with a spoon of salsa.
Tues: just me home so I had the remains of the Scotch broth (also know as beef barley soup), and apple, and some toast with jam.
Mon: one son here for dinner so he had a container of chicken dumpling soup from freezer and a grilled cheese sandwich. I had tuna, rice, and a bag of Calif veg.
Sun: Scotch broth, apple bars (think cake but in a 9x13 dish). Lunch was lemon hummus with chips & an apple.
Sat: just me so eggs on toast with jam, spinach on side, apple, prunes. Made a pot of beans & collards for lunch Sat.
Lunches this week were mostly beans and collards, apple, orange, prunes, and maybe a little piece of chocolate
The last two weeks I have averaged around $60 at the store, but that included shampoo and tp. I am not counting eating out in my budget, as it comes out of a different pot. (: This week:
M - I had a chick-fil-a wrap. But I shall switch to raisin bran for Mondays!
T - Pork Chop, sweet potato, black beans
W - I made a biscuit-topped chicken casserole with corn, peas, and spinach
T - Fish tacos with creamy cilantro ranch and avocado, peppers and onions, black beans
F - I haven't decided...I do have some HEB Fully Cooked burgers and frozen fries. I know I will eat butterbeans and ham for lunch. (:
S&S - packing a large salad with protein, an extra pbj and fruit, cottage cheese, and something for breakfast.
Cafeteria food has the added non-benefit of being not particularly healthy, which seems ironic at a hospital, no? Ours serves, burgers, pizzas, quesadillas, and whole menus involving mac and cheese or baked potatoes. ):
If your grocery shopping includes your household supplies (toothpaste, shampoo, detergent, toilet paper, etc) your price per meal is way lower than $5/ meal.
That was my exact thought!
In spring 2020, my parents went from a household of to a household of five adults (the two of them, myself, my then-fiance, my sibling.) The grocery bill was staggering. But I remember doing the math and we figured it came to about $5.30 CAD (3.80 USD at the current rate) per person per meal. Can you do cheaper? For sure, but it really drove home for me how you can buy almost anything at the grocery store and still come out ahead of takeout.
We ate:
Friday: Mr. B made baked schnitzel, fries, and cucumber salad.
Saturday: We were at a synagogue event until evening. Mr. B made some pasta and sauce for a late dinner, plus we had leftover salad.
Sunday: I was alone for dinner, so I had frozen potato/mushroom pierogies with onions, then snacked on fruit later.
Monday: Pasta with leftover sauce, broccoli
Tuesday: Pancakes and fruit--a great way to save the softening strawberries from the fridge
Wednesday: My mom came over and brought sushi. I made some frozen edamame to add to the meal.
Thursday: Mr. B roasted a chicken, and we had rice and peas.
Friday: No idea.
Sunday we had our house of 5, a boyfriend, a girlfriend and my MIL over for supper- weather was gorgeous so we pulled the smoker out. I grabbed 2 flats of b/sless chicken thighs and a flat of chicken legs which the husband seasoned and smoked( it was more meat than I thought when I purchased. Made a crock pot of baked beans, a large pan of cheesy potatoes, chopped a hug bowl of green salad and pulled a bag of biscuits from the freezer. What we purchased at the grocery store was around $65- I had other parts of the meal at home. Husband was making noises about how expensive, feeding ALL the people( lol) and I pointed out that while it feels like a lot, paying for pizza and chicken a few weeks earlier was a lot more, a restaurant meal- even a cheaper one- is more.. 4 of these kids are college kid on a shoestring budget. We all filled at supper, sent 2 home with containers for a meal the next day. Husband and oldest took leftovers for the next day lunch.. That Sunday night meal came to way less that $5.00 a meal once you considered how many meals that fed.
Monday oldest is in charge of and he made korean beef with broccoli and rice.
Tuesday I tossed a small pot roast into the instant pot with potatoes and carrots after I got home from work.
Wednesday I made a pot of chili using a frozen container of leftover red meat sauce as a base- added chili beans and seasoned it up. The guys who were here at that and I ate salad and the last of the hardboiled eggs I had cooked up.
Thurs husband and I ate a a local wing restaurant since I had a coupon, while out running errands
Fri- not sure will be out of the area watching the first outdoor track season of this college year!
Your Sunday meal sounds amazing!!
Love your Sunday meal! Totally worth the $$ and much cheaper than a BBQ place, that’s for sure!
Sometimes for lunches I’ll make a 3days worth batch of tuna or egg salad. Lunchmeat gets tiring after awhile, and we often don’t have much in the way of leftovers to take.
Monday- homemade hamburger helper
Tuesday- a chopped salad containing lettuce, marinated chicken thighs, roasted zucchini, hard boiled eggs, red onion and dressing. I totally forgot to add cheese to it!
Wed- Aldi crab cakes, master potatoes, and peas
Thursday- homemade chicken soup made from a Costco chicken carcass from the freezer.
Sunday: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and carrots
Monday: Chicken quesadillas
Tuesday: Takeout pizza, breadsticks and free boneless wings
Wednesday: Reubens, french fries and chocolate silk pie for dessert
Thursday: sausage tortellini soup, homemade bread
Friday: hopefully fish dinner out
Saturday: Separated chicken leg quarters marinated in yogurt and curry powder and then fried, curried split peas, rice, raw bell peppers and radishes
Sunday: The rest of the big package of chicken I couldn't fit in the marinade the day before. I re-used the marinade, but this time I baked the chicken. Much less messy. We also had leftover meatloaf, and I baked potatoes while the chicken was in. Green salad with vinaigrette, and my daughter made brownies for Sunday dessert.
Monday: Rib steaks, various leftover starches (macaroni and cheese, one baked potato, rice), cucumber with salt and vinegar, and some old cookies that I microwaved for 30 seconds with a damp paper towel on top to take care of the staleness.
Tuesday: Our traditional St. Patrick's Day pasta with pesto. No, not Irish, but it is green. 🙂 We also had leftover steak, I cooked a package of sweet Italian sausage, and I made caramelized cabbage. I just realized this is like a fusion Irish/Italian meal which reminds me of one of my favorite movies, "Return to Me," in which Minni Driver works at an Irish/Italian restaurant, and also is perfect for this week which also features the feast of St. Joseph two days after St. Patrick's Day. St. Joseph's feast day is associated with Italian food. I didn't intend to be so liturgically aware, but there you go.
Wednesday: Chicken-fried pork chops with gravy, the last container of New Year's Day black-eyed peas from the freezer, rice, green salad with vinaigrette
Thursday: I went to a track meet, which is always a long adventure. I brought a salad with me for my dinner. I also brought salami and cream cheese for the trackster to eat in the car on the way home, and then he ate some of the things I had bought at a small store on my way to the meet, including store-brand Doritos, bananas, and grapes. The family at home had a choice of leftovers.
Tonight: My husband is planning a big seafood fry with some octo-mari and a bag of shrimp my friend gave us. I don't deep-fry, so this is all him. 🙂 We will have two guests with us, which means I'll put a little more effort into side dishes than I usually do. These must be ready to go when the seafood is done, so it all has to be done ahead of time. I already made baked beans yesterday (minus the bacon I usually add because it's a Friday in Lent, but molasses gives a good smoky flavor), and I'll make potato salad and carrot salad this morning. I would make coleslaw, except I'm out of cabbage and the small store I went to yesterday didn't have it. I do have a lot of carrots, though, and the dressing I use for coleslaw is mostly based on yogurt instead of mayonnaise, so it works well with just shredded carrots.
How do you make carrot salad? Our "house" carrot salad is just shredded carrots, parsley, green onion (because shallots are expensive) and a vinaigrette dressing. Lasts days and days in the fridge. My parents used to make a sweet one with shredded carrots, shredded coconut, pieces of dates, and an orange-juice-based dressing.
It's just shredded carrots, very finely diced onion or shallot (I usually use pickled onions, as they're less assertive than a plain yellow onion and I don't buy shallots), and the dressing from this coleslaw, minus the celery seed:
https://going-country.blogspot.com/2021/06/tt-one-coleslaw-to-rule-them-all.html
My mom used to make a carrot salad with mayonnaise, raisins, and sugar that I loved, but I know that it would not fly with my children. 🙂
I definitely don't enjoy raisins with carrot. Jess Mariano said it best: 'what the hell are raisins doing in a salad? Why can't people leave well enough alone!'
My kids like shredded carrots, crushed (drained) pineapple, raisins, and mayo.
Salami and cream cheese - yum. The only way it is better is if you can toast bread or bagel with it. I miss the olive cream cheese our local bagel place had. Jalapeno cheddar bagels are still available. Perhaps I should try my hand at olive cream cheese. Green olives mind you which are my favorite. Better half is more of a black olive person.
Friday: Steak Salad. We had some leftover steak from my husband’s meal prepping and I was once again craving salad. Another fun salad dressing was whipped up too!
Saturday: Stay At Home Date Night – homemade Ricotta Cavatelli with Bolognese Sauce. We had a fun time rolling the cavatelli and trying to recreate a dish from one of our favorite restaurants.
Sunday: Cornish Game hens, roasted potatoes, kale salad
Monday: Chicken Tamale Casserole
Tuesday: Band Concert Night – baked potato soup and buffalo chicken melts
Wednesday: Slow Cooker BBQ Beef with mashed potatoes and kale salad
Thursday: leftovers
This was a week where I was constantly polling the group to see who would be home for dinner, with plans changing at the last minute. DS19 is home for spring break, and DH had a big work event that often went into the evening.
Here's what we had:
-Grilled chicken salads
-Steak + crostini (request from the spring break/birthday boy)
-Dinner out to celebrate the birthday boy
-Leftover steak (DH) + leftovers from the dinner out (me)
-Chicken salad
-Last night was a total smorgasbord, with all of the above being served. DH grilled the last steak, and DS19 & DS20 shared that. DH had the last two pieces of chicken. I finished off the chicken salad, and I also made the rest of the crostini, some pasta & meatballs to round things out, as all of the servings were small because..leftovers. Everything was eaten, with the exception of maybe one serving of pasta & meatballs.
As for tonight, I know DS20 works. We are definitely out of leftovers in the fridge. If DS19 is going to be around, I will likely do tacos, as that's a favorite. It not, I'll pull something out of the freezer.
WIS: $102, mostly at Food Lion. Until just recently I could keep spending around $90 for 2.5 people, but prices went up again. DS buys a lot of his own groceries, but I supply him with some healthy basics he would not buy on his own.
WWA: For DH: Leftover lamb roast. Ham sandwiches with fresh fruit, veggies, and Smart Root chips from Dollar Tree. Chili with cheddar-herb corn muffins. For me: White beans and sausage soup, with added butternut squash, spinach and mushrooms. Shared the corn muffins that day. A lot of smoothies and a couple of frozen Weight Watchers meals that were discounted at the grocery store.
For desserts I made chocolate chip muffins and pudding.
THANK GOODNESS YOU HAD BLUEBERRY PANCAKES! Even if it was only for breakfast. It's been weeks and I was so worried lol.
Wedding Anniversary party on Saturday. The couple, my brother and his lovely bride of 25 yrs asked for Shepherds Pie, fried cabbage, parsnips, beets an carrots from the garden oven roasted and apple cake with whipped cream. There were 26 guests.
Sunday - corned beef dinner for family, we had left over guests from the night before, so I fed 39.
Monday - corned beef hash and gravy with green salad
Tues - caramelized corn beef bits and made street tacos
Wed - elk fajitas
Thurs - more elk fajitas, fruit salad
Friday - cod from the freezer
Saturday - fish tacos
I am constantly astonished at how frequently and how well you cook for large groups. It's great.
She might have a grange cookbook available. My late mother's has a recipe to make BBQ sandwiches (ground beef) for 150 people! As well as recipes for food to feed the masses.
I spent about $80 (been a low spend month for groceries)
We ate:
Saturday: beef fried rice with veggies stirfried in
Sunday: tacos with refried beans and salad
Monday: adult beanie weenies (good beef sausages not hotdogs. DH loves beanie weenies, but I don't make it much).
Tuesday: swedish meatballs with some pasta and peas
Wednesday:air fried chicken breasts and potato cubes with green beans
Thursday: chicken casserole
Friday: smoked pulled pork bbq over baked potatoes with salad
WIS: $22 at Aldi, $9 at McDonald's
WIA:
I didn't do a good job of recording what I ate, and my brain is not doing a good job of remembering.
Here is what I ate this week -- but I don't know which one what day:
Apple pancakes
Granola with raisins
Popcorn
Romaine and cabbage salad with blue cheese dressing and cornbread croutons
Spring mix salad with dried cranberries, walnuts, Swiss cheese, cornbread croutons and ranch dressing
Everything bagels with cream cheese, prunes
Swiss cheese and crackers, apple
Tonight I'll have chicken fajitas and leftover salad.
Sat: Sauerkraut mushroom pierogies, sausage
Sun: chili from the freezer
Mon:pork chops on the bbq, roasted veggies
Tues; repeat of Monday
Wed: Minestrone soup from the freezer
Thurs: got hit with a stomach virus so ginger ale and water
Fri; not sure how the tummy will feel
In my first month of super penny pinching, I have reduce my food budget by 47%. Having said that, there was much room from the previous couple years of "cushion" . I am sure next month's savings will be less dramatic. Still, it feels great!
In farming it seems to be feast or famine. Last year two coops went bankrupt meaning they did not give us our hundreds of thousand of dollars in walnut money owed to us. Del Monte is bankrupt and has cancelled contracts for all our neighboring farmers. The price of gas will put a nail in the coffin of many. It doesn't seem my little food budget will change anything, but I know Hubby feels better knowing that we can live on very little. He is very smart and I know will come through this.
So my cheapest meal was chicken gnocchi soup! I bought the fresh gnocchi for .99. Bone broth 1.99. I bought organic frozen minestrone veggies - 2 pounds for 2.00. Chicken thigh meat for2.50 a pound. Several healthy meals for under $1.00. a piece I bought a King Arthur pretzel kit for. 77. So tasty with the soup.
Second cheapest, healthy meal was roasted petite brussels sprouts with tempura sole made in the airfryer. Yum! The brussells sprouts were .99 a pound. I bought several pounds.
I picked that last of our oranges - so good. Free.
The one things I am not compromising on is Fairlife Protein drinks. They are pricey at 2.50 a pop but they have fueled our diets that have been so successful - getting Hubby off cholesterol and blood pressure meds. We drink about three a day between the two of us.
Mary Ann, your second paragraph is sobering. I'm sorry you've been hit hard.
Saturday - takeout night, I had Turkish food (which my family doesn’t like) and picked up Italian food for the rest of the family (the two restaurants are next to each other so not a huge hassle)
Sunday - Went to my parents house for a St Patrick’s day dinner of corned beef, potatoes, carrots, Irish soda bread and some other less traditional things like Mac n cheese and Caesar salad. My cousins had made cookies with lucky charms marshmallows mixed in instead of chocolate chips, a big hit with my kids, not so much with me.
Monday - turkey noodle and alphabet noodle soup from the freezer with biscuits from the freezer, a no cooking night for me!
Tuesday - the night I work late, my mom fed the kids, I had butternut squash soup and banana bread with peanut butter when I got home.
Wednesday - weekly play date for the kids so I quickly made them bean burritos. I had homemade black bean dip (from the freezer) spread on corn tortillas that I’d crisped in the oven so they were hard, topped with avocado.
Thursday - soup dumplings and shrimp dumplings with white rice for the kids, more butternut squash soup for me with sourdough bread and apricot jam. I also tried these scallion pancakes I’d bought at h mart, they weren’t to my liking though, too big and flaky and greasy, made a bit of a mess and didn't taste that good. Fun to try new things though anyways.
Friday - I’m hosting book club tonight. I’m going to make a chickpea salad and spread it on a sliced baguettes to serve, other people will be bringing food too. I’ll make spaghetti and meatballs for the kids beforehand.
WIS
Albertsons $238.10
Saturday- chicken piccata, pasta, asparagus
Sunday-Grilled steak, broccoli, sourdough bread, roasted potatoes
Monday-takeout which wasn’t the plan but my elderly mom was struggling so my stop by visit took longer than planned
Tuesday-corned beef, cabbage, potatoes & carrots, Irish soda bread
Wednesday-loaded baked potato
Thursday-Reuben sandwiches, potato chips, pickles
Friday-usually pizza but since it’s Spring Equinox we shall have grilled salmon, asparagus, pasta with lemon sauce
I have so many groceries on hand that I think I can skip buying anything for next week but I am buying fresh flowers today to honor the Spring Equinox. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
I misread your last comment, and read "raisin brain" instead of raisin bran. But that's probably how my brain would feel after a 12-hour shift 🙂
Actually, raisins do look a little like brains. 😛
That’s what I was gonna say!
A completely separate comment, but WWA related:
We live in Canada, and so with the recent political scene we haven't had access to American alcohol. I had been wanting to make @Kristen Bourbon chicken recipe but we can't get bourbon here. So my husband suggested I try whisky or Rum instead. I served it last night for the first time for dinner. My girls have called it "suburban chicken" (sub- Bourbon chicken). 😁
Helen, good one by your girls!
Sometimes I think I could just eat cereal most nights for dinner. But my ravenous husband would die of starvation, so I cook most nights. I have to think about quesadillas more often. Here's what we ate this week.
I spent $32 at Walmart. This is the least I've spent in months.
– Sunday – grilled strip steaks, baked sweet potatoes, brussels sprouts, homemade cucumber salad.
– Monday – we cleaned up the leftovers – chili, steak, pasta, green beans.
– Tuesday – I cooked corned beef in the crockpot all day while we were out. Just before dinner, I made boiled potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage on the stove top. It was perfect.
– Wednesday – steak fajitas on tortillas made with an envelope of fajita mix and leftover cooked steak I had frozen. I added cheese, sour cream and sliced avocado. I usually cook 2 steaks and we have at least half of one (my half) left. If my husband doesn't eat it the next day, I've learned to freeze it. (At nearly $15 a pound, I'm not wasting any steak!) I added onions and peppers. Served it with doctored-up canned refried beans.
–Thursday – Mexican chicken breasts (dusted with seasoned flour and pan-fried with added cheese and salsa), black bean and corn salad.
– Friday – we will most likely have skillet meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green peas.
What is it with men and eating? I'd be more than happy to eat PB&M/bologna(fried or not with mayo)/tuna or chicken salad/salad with protein - aka steak. Better half is into "variety" - he can't wrap his head around I like 3 or 4 flavors of yogurt. Recently he asked for a list of food for consumption during election day. Despite a brand/flavor of one item, he comes home with a "variety" from another brand - which was not all that good. I'll do my own shopping come the general election this fall.
I mean, I'm a woman and I'm also into variety! I also wouldn't enjoy cereal for dinner (not as a judgement, just that I want something more).
I think a common problem is that stereotypically, the woman is the one doing the food prep. And it is very easy for the non-food-prepper to have big standards for what constitutes a meal, while the food prepper is dying for a night off when everyone can just eat sandwiches.
I know it's not all relationships, and not all men, but WOOOOO I have seen it play out a lot this way.
That reminds of something I see on recipe blogs which bugs me, where the person posting (almost always a woman) says something like 'even my picky husband/boyfriend/sons/kids (usually a reference to sons) went crazy over this!' Like, I'm interested in what you think, not your male partner's or offspring's opinion. And if they don't like it, I'm sure they're perfectly capable of making something themselves (the men should be at least!). It could be as simple as a sandwich!
Anyway, that was a slightly convoluted way of saying that it annoys me how the women who do the cooking are always framing the food in terms of the husband's opinion, who never seems to step in and cook.
Saturday: Sushi
Sunday: Picked up mexican food
Monday: Rice, dal, roti and the worst saag paneer I've ever had (I made it)
Tuesday: Taquitos, guac, strawberries
Wednesday: Crispy Tofu bowls (tofu, sweet potatoes, broccoli, garlic ginger edamame, carrots and rice), pears, and apples
Thursday: Buttered Noodles, roasted cabbage, and raspberries
The two meals out cost more than all the other meals combined and they were just takeout...
We had ham and Swiss cheese sandwiches on Tuesday as well, along with broccoli salad!
I usually try to make a few meals that serve twice to cut down on cooking, as I also cook breakfast and lunch almost every day!
This week:
-Monday: I forget 😂
- Tuesday: we went to a hockey game and ate at the stadium!
- wed/Thursday: cabbage farro soup with sourdough bread
- Friday: dobu jorim with rice, radish greens and oi muchim
- Sat/sunday: refried beans and rice with tortillas
Not sure what I spent this week. However, I have been trying to eat down my pantry and freezer, so the last few weeks have been reasonable.
Meals I ate in no particular order (some lunch, some supper):
-shrimp fettuccine (3×) and veggies or salad
-Hungarian goulash and cheese toast (lunch out)
-sausage and potato stew, green beans, pear salad
-Chinese buffet
- Philippino buffet (special event in my town)
-leftover frozen pizza
- fried potatoes, sausages, and eggs
Quite an eclectic week for food and very uncharacteristic amounts of eating out, but fun! I think I am in the mood to cook again.