PEACHES!!!

Breakfast: Blueberry muffins!!!

Lunch: Get whatcha want

Dinner: Barbecued chicken legs, roasted green beans, and Alton Brown's fingerling potatoes! T'was delicious!

WE GOT PEACHES TODAY!!!!!!!! They're SOOOO good!!!! And now all that's left of the grocery money (until tomorrow, supposedly) is $13.06. Was it worth it? Oh, yes.

A day of left-overs

We still have a bunch of left-overs in the fridge, even after yesterday.

Breakfast: Not left-overs! Bagels/get whatcha want

Lunch: Yep, left-overs

Dinner: You guessed it! Left-overs...

Let's pretend...

That Monday and Tuesday didn't happen - food-wise anyway - 'cause I don't remember much of anything. So that brings us to today. Mama and I went grocery shopping today (by the way, Aldi's has great prices on chicken this week! We were totally out of chicken, so I was delighted to find that!). The grocery total is now: $46.62. Yeah, ouch... Thankfully payday is just around the corner!

Breakfast: Get whatcha want (I'm assuming... Daddy was the only other one up when Mama and I left this morning.)

Lunch: Mama and I had Einstein's Tuscan Pesto Chicken (or something like that) and smoothies. It was all quite good, but we thought it was rather pricey.

Dinner: Cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and smoked sausage with corn on the cob on the side.

The Weekend

It's over, unfortunately.

Saturday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want, I think; I don't really remember...

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Claire and Kyle were at a gig, and the rest of us went into Dickson (Lowe's run;). We grabbed Subway while we were there.


Sunday:

Breakfast: Scones

Lunch: Cabbage, carrot, potato, and smoked sausage soup/stew, slaw, and lemon bars

Dinner/fellowship: Coffee punch (that didn't get used at the baby shower) and potato stacks (I did more or less the same thing, but I added sliced onion to the potato layers - it was good!).

Finally Friday

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-over chicken salad

Dinner: BLTs!!!

Over the last couple of days we reduced the grocery money to $695.66.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Breakfast: Eggs and English muffins

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Chicken salad

Today's Thursday, which means, of course, it's cookie day! I look forward to this day all week. Today I made Chocolate Crinkles. Today's batch didn't look as nice, for some reason... Oh well, they still tasted good.

Also today, Luke and I picked some blackberries! They're just coming in, and I'm hoping to take full advantage of the many wild ones we have around us.

Wednesday's Meals

Breakfast: Get whatcha want - I think most of us chose cereal.

Lunch: Left-over pasta, pepperoni stuff

Dinner: Grilled veggies and smoked sausage and rice

Done with Tuesday

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Tacos

Dinner: Left-over tomato soup

Mama and I had to go into town early yesterday morning, and we picked up some things we'll need this weekend. We spent $32.26, making the total $730.94.

Monday came way too soon.

Breakfast: Blueberry muffins!

Lunch: Left-over beef hash

Dinner: Pasta, pepperoni, mushrooms, sauce... Claire threw it together.

Daddy picked up some items that were running very dangerously low (as in, we had about 4 eggs left, and maybe one onion...!). He spent $68.97, making the total $763.20.

Father's Day Weekend

Saturday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Again, get whatcha want. I was alone in the kitchen most of the day preparing for the Lord's Day, and I was too busy with that food to think about Saturday's meals...

Dinner: It was AWESOME! All of y'all who didn't get any, be jealous. Daddy grilled steak kabobs - just steak and peppers. MAN, it was GOOD!!!!


Sunday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Tomato parmesan soup, Napa cabbage slaw, scalloped turnips, and pecan pies

Dinner/Fellowship: Buffalo chicken roll... things. Supposed to be bites, but thought they would hold up better as individual rolls.

Friday - Pay Day

Breakfast: Left-over pie, smoothie, get whatcha want

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: I turned the left over faux boeuf bourguignon into beef hash. It's nice and versatile that way.

I also got paid yesterday, meaning the total is now $832.17.

Behind again?!

And I thought I was doing better... :/

Wednesday:

Ah, I know what happened! I was gone all morning on Wednesday; I'm not sure I got on my computer at all that day! While we were out, we spent $37.51 of grocery money, bringing the total to $382.17.

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Mama, Claire, and I were gone, so we picked up chicken strips, honey mustard, and Pringles at Walmart for lunch. I don't know what the menfolk had.

Dinner: Squash casserole, greens, and salad - maybe another dish, but I don't remember...


Thursday:

'Twas Mama's birthday!

Breakfast: Claire fixed an egg and greens casserole thing.

Lunch: Get whatcha want

Dinner: Stuffed/rolled pork chops, grilled garlic scapes and broccoli (bite-sized pieces, foil pouch, olive oil, salt and pepper), fried apples, baked the left-over stuffing, and cranberry sauce/gravy thing. It was a really awesome dinner! I was especially pleased since I didn't have any idea what I was going to do at 3pm. :) For dessert Claire and I fixed a couple fresh blackberry pies. Oh, gosh, that has got to be one of the best pies EVER!!!!! (The recipe is for the strawberry version; for blackberry, peach, or another type of soft fruit just substitute the appropriate jello.)

It's got it going on!

Breakfast: Deviled eggs, etc.

Lunch: Left-overs

Dinner: Faux boeuf bourguignon that was good! Love it when that happens...

Monday, June 11, 2012

Breakfast: Get what you want? Perhaps? I don't really remember...

Lunch: Chicken and turkey salad

Dinner: Turkey and onions and peppers in a cream sauce over fettuccine

Another weekend

I got paid back from some of the non-grocery items we purchased the other day. So now the grocery total is $419.68.

Saturday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want (possibly)

Lunch: Get whatcha want - we were cooking...

Dinner: Turkey


Sunday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want

Lunch: Turkey, green beans, and M&Ms

Dinner: Pizza bites!

Hello, it's me again,

your terrible, horrible, no good, very bad blogger. I keep trying, and, these couple weeks/months, I keep failing. For that I apologize, but I can't really do much about it. It's been one crazy week - good, yes, but incredibly, unbelievably crazy (Hello, Summer!). I will now attempt to recall what we've eaten the last couple of days, but, again, I will probably fail.

Thursday:

Breakfast: Get whatcha want (probably???)

Lunch: Left-overs, get whatcha want... Maybe?

Dinner: Tomato soup and garlic toast, I think


Friday:

Breakfast: We didn't really have breakfast. We were out awfully late the night before, and slept in WAY too late.

Lunch: A dear friend from church, at whose house we were currently at (is that proper syntax/grammar???), provided us with delicious tuna salad, crackers, chips, salsa, Greek yogurt, and edifying conversation. We had a lovely time, and it was practically dinner time by the time we left. :P

Dinner: Claire and I threw together a fruity, grilled chicken salad with pineapple on the side (it's too good to go in a salad!).

I actually think that's pretty close to the truth!

Yes, yes, I'm terrible...

I know I said I was hoping this week would be better, and here I am again after 2 full days of no posts. Here are my excuses: Tuesday was grocery shopping and a late-night class after which I was exhausted. Yesterday I finally succumbed to the illness that has been lingering in our house for a month or two. The symptoms are an extremely sore throat, off-and-on fever, chesty cough, and major fatigue (some also have congestion - I don't... yet), so I spent most of the day sleeping. Thankfully I'm doing much better this morning; I'm quickly becoming a believer in Thieves Oil! I've had 3 drops down my throat, and it's far and away better than it was yesterday morning! I kind of suspect it's helped with the fever as well!

Anyway, because of the last two crazy days, I'll not try to come up with the past 6 or so meals. However, I will tally up the grocery total since we went grocery shopping the other day: We spent $360.43, bringing the total to $392.68.

See? I'm back!

With today's stories...

Breakfast: Smoothie, get whatcha want

Lunch: Get whatcha want - I had a smoothie

Dinner: Smoked sausage, spaghetti squash, and peas

I got paid! But only $437, bringing the total to $753.11. We're going grocery shopping tomorrow morning though, so that nice, comfortable total won't last long.

Weird week

Or perhaps it was a weird month. I don't know, but whatever it was, I was a terrible blogger. I hope to be better this week/month. Part of being so terrible means that I got behind on the grocery total. We spent (hopefully this was all that was unaccounted for in the previous total) $206.06, bringing the total to $316.11. *Sigh* I was hoping to have more than that; I believe this next shopping trip is going to be... somewhat major. Perhaps I'll get paid soon; that would be good!

I'll try to keep up with the daily menus better this week, but for now, I really don't remember everything we ate in the past four days. So with that, I'll be back, Lord willing, tonight or tomorrow morning to reveal to you all the feasts that were today's meals (and yes, I'm probably exaggerating - it's Monday, peoples!).