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What's on your menu this week? 10/3/16
So technically 10/4 but looks like we forgot to get this started yesterday!
So what do you have on the menu this week?
What are you doing/making to make sure you stay within your grocery and eating out budget?
So what do you have on the menu this week?
What are you doing/making to make sure you stay within your grocery and eating out budget?
Re: What's on your menu this week? 10/3/16
Monday: Homemade cheeseburger mac
Tuesday: BBQ chicken wings and homemade cheese biscuits, and a chopped salad with blue cheese and bacon.
I have to make the biscuits for a work potluck tomorrow.
Wednesday: Either chicken parm with pasta and garlic bread or meeting up with some friends who are in for a couple days from out of town.
Thursday-Sunday: Vegas! Well, Vegas/Mesquite. We fly in Thursday evening, will make a pit stop at In N Out, then head out to Mesquite where we're staying at the IL's condo. We are going for hockey games on Friday and Saturday nights, but no real meal plan set yet. I did see that the new arena has a Shake Shack so I may want to try that, I've never had it.
This week our menu is this.
Last night we ate out after our meeting.
Tonight: Pork chops, steamed cauliflower, and quinoa
Tomorrow: Thinking BBQ, French fries, and broccoli
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Not sure yet
For lunches we have salads and potato cheddar chowder soup with beer bread. I made a huge batch on Sunday.
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Tuesday: today is our dating anniversary, so we're having grilled NY strips (on sale) with grilled potatoes & vegetables. And wine.
Wednesday: Couscous & sauteed veggies (onion, green pepper, carrots). This is one of our 'cheap' meals.
Thursday: Tacos (bought whole wheat soft shells instead of regular)
Friday: random/leftovers/not sure yet
Saturday: will eat dinner at a party
Sunday: apple sauerkraut country style ribs in the crock pot, made with apples and apple cider that we'll pick up from our local orchard. One of our favorite recipes
Last night was our first real grocery shop in months, as in, I spent time meal planning & looking through cookbooks, and we made a special trip to the store and spent time comparing prices & nutrition facts. Most of the summer I made a hasty list at work and stopped on the way home, so our pantry is pretty bare.
Monday - homemade tomato soup with provolone grilled cheese
Tuesday - salad with roasted acorn squash, apples, goat cheese, sweet & spicy pecans, crumbled bacon, red cabbage, and homemade dressing
Wednesday - beet pesto pizza with kale beet pesto mozzarella and goat cheeseon homeamde dough with side salads
Thursday - soba noodles with red peppers, bok choy, green onions, and a peanut sauce
Friday - left overs
Saturday - H works and takes leftovers, I usually go grocey shopping and pick up a piece of Salmon and cook up any leftover veggies from the week to go with it
Lunches are salads & leftovers
Monday - Brats.
Tuesday - Beef stroganoff, egg noodles, broccoli since I didn't make it last week
Wednesday - Leftover beef stroganoff for dayyyyyyssss
Thursday - Hoping to get one more day out of this.
Friday - Chicken breasts, asparagus, maybe risotto Whoops, I forgot we're going to the local county fair on this night so we'll probably have something there.
Saturday - Chicken, asparagus and risotto.
It's just the two of us and I cannot stand coming home and cooking every night so I try to tend to cook meals that will last 2 nights at a minimum. 3 is even better.
Monday - leftover thai noodle salad with chicken (snagged this from a work meeting on Friday)
Tuesday - dinner out and then a movie (Girl on the Train preview!)
Wednesday - grilled swordfish and veggies
Thursday - bacon wrapped chicken and veggies
Friday - steak and veggies
Saturday---H is on his own for 2 weeks while I am in Australia. I wonder how many days he will eat pizza?
This is a very cheap week. The Sun/Mon leftovers were free food I took from work and the company box at a baseball game. Tonight we will use a coupon at a sandwich and salad place so that should easily come in under $20 and Wed-Fri is using what we have in our freezer.
Sunday - burrito bowls (rice, black beans, peppers, onions, mushrooms, salsa, cheese and avocado)
Monday - spaghetti with tomato sauce and sauteed mushrooms, garlic bread
Tuesday - minestrone soup and crusty bread
Wednesday - tofu/delicata squash curry over rice
Thursday - grilled chicken, potatoes and veggies
Friday - takeout or leftovers
Tuesday - leftovers from the weekend
Wednesday - Friday - I'll pull sausages or pierogis from the freezer depending on what we're in the mood for. Maybe do breakfast for dinner if we aren't that hungry.
Monday - We bought porterhouses on Sat. (half off at Winn Dixie) that we were going to grill Sunday. Except we had a light dinner instead. My H surprised me when I got home last night with those yummy steaks just coming off the grill. He used a rub and a marinade. Super flavorful.
He ate all of his steak, mine will be at least one more meal, if not two this week.
Tuesday - My H and I have a big Home Depot run when I get off work. I suspect we'll grab something somewhere on the way home.
Wednesday - Leftover spaghetti with garlic bread.
Thursday - Leftover steak. My H is on his own.
Friday - Garlic-parmesan wings or fried chicken from a nearby place that is awesome. The FDA needs to ban them from putting addictive drugs in their food. I'm sure that is what is going on.
What are you doing/making to make sure you stay within your grocery and eating out budget?
I do almost all my grocery shopping at warehouse stores (yes, 5% back this quarter with Chase), Wal-mart, and will grab good BOGO or half off sales at Winn Dixie.
Gasp! Have we stumbled on an "all husbands" secret? To the bolded, my H has literally used that term. Or, "that's not dinner", with a side-eye and expectation that I also eat something more substantial.
That last one is usually reserved for when I'm having the "oh so classy" dinner of ramen with a hot dog or an egg in it. Ashamed to admit it, but it's a comfort food for me that I crave sometimes.
-cereal
-Most deli type sandwiches (exceptions can be made if eating with soup)
-hearty salads (salads are a side item, not an entree)
-Any meal without meat (example: if we do soup and grilled cheese sandwiches his has to have meat on the sandwich)
There are many nights where I don't want a big meal and could make due with a bag of popcorn, a salad or cereal and toast, but that doesn't fly with him. That being said I'm perfectly okay with telling him that he is on his own for a meal every now and then.
My H works shift work and some shifts he's gone before I get home for work... On those days I will have ice cream for dinner and it's glorious.
He is kind of a party pooper and will never just eat ice cream for dinner even on the weekends.
And then I'll complain I need to lose weight haha!
I really weirded him out the other morning. He was sleeping in late, and ramen noodles sounded good to me for breakfast, so that's what I ate. When he saw that's what I had he was like "umm, what?"