Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Week 20, Day 1

Breakfast: Crispix, except Jason who usually has cold cereal at work had a breakfast burrito because he made one for Cress forgetting that we had cereal for today

Lunch: Cress had a ham sandwich on church bread but it was multiseed and apparently she doesn't like poppy seeds.

Snack: popsicle - 100 degrees today!

Dinner: sandwiches. I cooked white beans yesterday but it is just too hot to do the soup.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Week 19, Day 7

Week 26 will be my halfway point - this takes a surprising amount of focus.  It feels like forever....

Breakfast: Cress had oatmeal.  Dai and Phyllis had fried eggs.  They cooked them themselves.

Lunch: Cress and Phyllis took taco beans and chips.  Jason couldn't find the frozen church bread in the freezer when this was offered.  I found it - they still wanted beans and chips.  Dai had a ham sandwich.

Dinner: spaghetti with green beans and a green salad.  Dai asked for spaghetti yesterday.  I told her I didn't have any, but I got some today.  I had to go the Tully Costco anyway to get tortillas so I thought I would grab spaghetti makings at Grocery Outlet.  You can see how that went in the shopping section below.

I bought a small can of spaghetti sauce (my girls eat it because I make them but they don't love it so if I buy the other size we usually have leftovers) and I put sliced mushrooms, garlic and basil form our plant in it.  Dai helped sautee the mushrooms since I was mid-sautee when I had to leave to get Phyllis.
So we ate four of us and then Dai ate when she was done.  Shift eating but not terrible on Mondays.

Jason had to go to Ace so I asked him to get "something popsicley."  He brought back fruit popsicles.  Not exactly what I wanted but also Sugar Free.  Aspartame - so he might get me something else - the girls can have those.  I have had two diet sodas, one today and one yesterday, and have a headache.


Costco

Eggs $7.39
Grated Cheddar Jack Mix $15.69
Jack cheese $6.19
Flour Tortillas $2.99

$32.26



Grocery Outlet

Thin spaghetti noodles (2 lbs) $1.78
Mushrooms $1.99
Can of spaghetti sauce $0.59 $4.36
Crispix $5.98
Corn Pops $3.49 total munchy food for me
Garlic Powder $3.99
Pickles $3.87
Bread $1.98
Tomatoes $0.99
Cucumber (5) $1.67
Quick Grits $2.49 splurge
60% Chocolate chips $2.49 for Dai's class basket
Tollhouse caramel bars mix $2.49 for Dai's class basket

$33.80




$66.06

So, cold cereal is a splurge - and I could have been out of there with only the spaghetti stuff for under $5.  It makes me think about if I made a plan and only bought enough food for the plan, working down to nothing in the house in between - how cheaply could I do it?  I recall that I could do it more cheaply than I have been.  And Jack in the Box two days in a row doesn't help, either.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Week 19, Day 6

Breakfast: burritos (we are down to our last flour tortilla)

Lunch: ham sandwiches for the girls on church bread. Jason took the rest of the fava bean soup and I had Jack in the Box - didn't pack because it wasn't a smooth morning.

Dinner: taco salads - except with no cheese because we are out.  With swim we still ate in shifts, but not sandwiches and not soup.

Make-ahead: potato leek soup.  Using the last of the potatoes (one had gone bad!) and leeks - a smaller batch.  It is prepared to the point where I blend it and add the cream - man, it is so easy!  But I need to make bread - blech! It isn't hard just time consuming and I have much to do tomorrow.

I made peach ice-tea but it wasn't ready for dinner.  I will love scarfing that down.  Probably need a new batch for dinner tomorrow.  I feel so much better drinking herbal iced tea than diet soda.  

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Week 19, Day 5

Breakfast: crepes with lemon juice and powdered sugar.  Jason sked last night if I would be okay having crepes twice in a row or if I would feel cheated - but that had been his original Mother's Day breakfast plan.  Not cheated at all - one of my very favorite things for homemade breakfast.

Lunch: Fava bean soup with church bread.  Cress and Phyllis really didn't like it.

Dinner: Potato leek soup with church bread.  The soup is all gone.

We also cut up the rest of the church bread into chunks for sandwiches this week - I am outof wheat bread and didn't want to make more.  

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Week 19, Day 4

Breakfast: burritos

Lunch: fava bean or hamburger soup (the hamburger soup is gone now)

Dinner: Breakfast for dinner at the Wunderli's for Abigail's birthday.  Whole wheat pancakes, crepes with fruit, yogurt, Nutella, whipped cream, scrambled eggs, sausage and bacon, juice.  Cake followed, of course, as it was a birthday party.  So nice not to have to cook or clean up.  I did help a little but not much - I cracked eggs for Dan.

We also made  hcolalte chip cookies.  I started the dough before we went to the party and then put it in the fridge.  Jason cooked it after preparing the greens tonight.  

Friday, May 9, 2014

Week 19, Day 3

Breakfast: burrito for girls, I had a smoothie

Lunch:

Dinner: Hamburger cabbage soup

Prep ahead: gringa beans, fava bean soup and potato leek soup

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Week 19, Day 2

Breakfast: eggs - Dai did an egg sandwich, the rest of us did egg burritos.  I was then totally out of eggs - but Heather went to Costco and got us some.

Lunch: PBJ's and produce.

Dinner: BLT's

Shopping:

From Heather Castro's Costco trip - she got me egs and we split the other two

Quart Ziplocks  $8
Bacon                $9
Eggs                  $7.29
                          $24.29