The week started off with The Girl making Naan bread. It was her first attempt and you can see she got better at rolling out the dough as she went along. She made it for a class she was taking so I didn’t even get a piece. The peeps in her classed liked it though and so I think I’ll make some sort of curry dish this week and have her make it again so we can try it.
Cheese, crackers, salami, fruit and a slice of cheesecake. Now that’s my kind of dinner. I also made breaded fish and green beans, spaghetti and meatballs, kung pao chicken and a quiche last week for dinner.
The HH’s lunch {+ a yogurt}.
I also baked a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, a second bath of zucchini cheddar scones and froze the extra donuts from our trip to the bakery.
When I bake a batch of cookies or scones, I only set a few out at a time in the pantry {in a recycled container of course}. When those are gone, I pull a few more out of the freezer. Food seems to last longer around here that way. My mother has been doing this for years and I think that’s where I picked up the habit from. Having 2 dozen cookies sitting on the counter is never a good idea. 😉
I harvested zucchini, raspberries, onions and potatoes from the garden.
And Lucy ate the low lying raspberries and strawberries right off the plants pretty much everyday. I’m amazed she knows to wait until they turn red before eating them.
Costco $14.98
When you were a kid, do you ever remember eating granola bars? I don’t. I remember Fruit Leather {maybe because it was made locally} being a REALLY big deal {and it was expensive too}. All the cool kids had it in their lunch boxes while all the other kids had an apple or something. But granola bars? I don’t remember my mother ever buying those. And if she did {and seriously, I think I’d remember} it certainly wasn’t at the rate we, and most of America, buys them today. I mean there are grocery stores with aisles dedicated to them. It’s crazy. It’s become the go to snack of this generation. What’s up with that?
Actually, now that I think about it, I don’t even remember snacking as a kid. It just wasn’t a thing.
Hey mom, if you are reading this remember the time I was like 10 and you were curling my hair in the bathroom and I was whining about being hungry and you were like “Oh stop it, we are leaving to go to the {Brunch} buffet soon”… and then like 10 seconds later I fainted because I hadn’t eaten anything for breakfast yet?
Ya. So see, snacking, it just wasn’t a thing. Waiting until the next meal though, that was real. 😉
Costco Take Out $10.80
The HH was milling around the kitchen and kept asking if I wanted pizza for dinner on Saturday which was really just code for “Hey, will you drive to Costco and buy a pizza because I don’t want to.” So I did.
Happy Donuts $14.05
1 dozen donuts + 1 dozen donut holes. I have zero regrets about this purchase.
- The donuts were tasty.
- I watched the owner make them.
- I love sugar.
Japonessa Sushi Bar $90 {Wowza!}
My Mom has been wanting to try the new sushi bar Japonessa and since almost everyone else loves sushi, we thought hey, why not? Usually we go to Purple {my Dad and I LOVE the food there} but hey, it can’t always be my choice, right? I mean just because I spent every summer of my childhood on a boat and have had my fill of all things seafood for um, I don’t know… a LIFETIME, doesn’t mean I can’t go and eat some rice while everyone else around me eats sushi and pops edamame across the table for two hours. Eating out is a compromise. Unless you’re Monkey Boy and all you ever want to do is go to Mc Donald’s and nobody will go with you. Then you lose. Every single time. 😉
Monkey Boy isn’t a sushi eater either so he tried ribs and some sort of chicken dish. Both of which he liked.
The HH had some sort of steak rolls.
The Girl {who LOVES sushi} ordered some sort of tuna and mango rolls. Even though the bill was high, everybody enjoyed their food and had a good time. And really, that’s what going out is supposed to be, right? Having a good time.
Trader Joe’s and other odds and ends – Free, thanks to mom.
After dinner we stopped by my parents place where my mother gave us a bunch of wine corks {I requested then for an art project} plastic cutlery, Granny Smith apples {apparently she has a tree now} some sun-dried tomatoes, $0.22 mini marshmallows, dried figs and all the $0.50 items from the Trader Joe’s anniversary sale {corn, bread, eggs, pasta and avocados}. I tried to give her some money but she wouldn’t take it.
It was a good week. I didn’t spend any money on groceries, just take out and restaurant food. Which seems totally out of character for me, but hey, life is like that sometimes.
How about YOU? Did you spend your food money on anything exciting this week?
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week $114.85
Total Spent in January on Groceries $202.99
Total Spent in February on Groceries $143.94
Total Spent in March on Groceries $183.35
Total Spent in April on Groceries $205.67
Total Spent on Groceries in May $248.60
Total Spent on Groceries in June $147.47
Total Spent on Groceries in July $293.63
Total Spent on Groceries in August $5.78
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Total Spent in January on Take Out, Date Nights, and Bakery Treats $42.19
Total Spent in February on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $118.45
Total Spent in March on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $25.29
Total Spent in April on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $62.50
Total Spent in May on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $54.52
Total Spent in June on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $119.15
Total Spent in July on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $12.45
Total Spent in July on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $0
Total Spent in August on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $114.85
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Cindy says
My son has been making naan and curry lately too. I wish he’d come to my joyse and do this for us! I think I’m going to drop some hints
Cindy says
*house!*
Katelyn says
My grandmother had a “snack drawer” in her kitchen that always had the stoneground wheat saltine-type crackers (their actual name escapes me now) and Quaker Chewy Granola bars, peanut butter flavor. Those 2 things, and golden delicious apples, still remind me of her every time I eat them. (I was born in the late 70s, for reference.)
I also regularly got Quaker Chewy granola bars, chocolate chip, in my packed lunch. There definitely weren’t the eleventy-billion versions of granola bars that there are today but for my friends and I, granola bars were definitely a thing.
Interestingly, fruit leather wasn’t – fruit roll ups, yes, but those were just how we conned our moms into giving us sugar in our lunchboxes. 😉
Brianna says
My snacks growing up were simple and pretty much only after school to tie us over until dinner. We had a choice of a small lunchbox red delicious apple, graham crackers and milk, or a tortilla with cheese. The rare occasion we had chocolate chip Quaker granola bars was because we were on vacation. I have 3 kids today and they would snack throughout the day if I allowed it. In Kindergarten my kids had 2 snacks plus lunch during the school day and they got use to the snacks. It drives me nuts how expected snacks are. We didn’t have snacks in school unless it was a special class day or a birthday. I purposely don’t buy snack foods because they are expensive and not necessary. Honestly, the snack food varieties at the grocery store is overwhelming to look at.
suzanne says
Iv’e read a lot of articles that state that the constant snacking on carbs is driving the obesity epidemic.
If you are insulin resistant and you keep eating carbs you constantly spike your insulin. It has no place to go other then fat storage. Ironically the more you eat the hungrier you get in short order. That is why a palo lifestyle is so popular with certain body types. Low carb+higher fat= zero food cravings.
Debbie says
I made homemade fruit leather, the kids loved it.
Sarah says
I started shaving my “fuzz” about a year ago! No one ever talks about it! I’m so glad you brought it up!
Debbie says
Mavis…Please PLEASE PRETTY PLEEZE will the Girl share her Naan Bread recipe??? I have been looking for a good recipe for this and hers looks great!!!
I must admit to using that little pen-shaped face shaver (forgot the name) on occasion. I need to use it more. I have been totally afraid of shaving my face with an actual razor for fear of the Man Stubble thing!
Mama Cook says
I think a little peach fuzz is normal…but if it’s much more than that, go get it waxed! Eventually the peach fuzz won’t grow back. Female face shaving? Never!!!!!!
Danskos…i know lots of people love them…they just weren’t comfortable to me. Fashion wise I think you can get away with pretty much anything here in WA, not sure about the East though?
Julie says
No face shaving here, I think if you don’t like the fuzz which is normal then get it waxed. No I’m too old for snacks, we never had snacks in our lunch box as we had school dinners or came home for lunch. Having said that we lived next door to the vicarage and the vicars wife used to give us a little white paper bag (obviously an early recycler this was the mid 60s) with red skinned peanuts and a few raisins, it was unheard of in our house though. You could have an apple or a pear in season but the rest of the time it was a piece of bread with jam no butter.
Carrie says
We love Japonessa – a great treat for date days in Seattle! Please tell me you took advantage of the Happy Hour until 6:30 in the restaurant. Though not the cheapest place in the world, it is still a pretty good deal for dinner in the city.