Fred Meyer $8.73
Milk and OJ was on sale $0.99 per half gallon. I also picked up last week’s Friday freebie of Meow Mix {no I don’t have a cat but animal shelters LOVE free stuff}. The cottage cheese was $.88 per container as were the cake mixes. I can’t remember the last time I bought a cake mix but let me tell you Bob, I thought the chocolate cake I made for Monkey Boy’s birthday tasted AWFUL {Monkey Boy and the HH liked it}. Once you’ve had a homemade cake…. there is just no comparison. Lesson learned.
Albertsons $2.97
Garlic bread and potato rolls. I popped these babies in the freezer to use later.
Harbor Greens Market $15.14
My best find of the week was butternut squash on sale at our local produce market for $1.00 each!!! The regular price on butternuts is around $1.49 a pound, on sale you can usually find them for $0.79.
39 pounds for $10? Heck ya I’m going to stock up.
I also picked up 2 pounds of sliced deli ham at $4.99 a pound. I didn’t realize until I got home the cashier only rang up one bag. I called the store but they were like…. forget about it, enjoy your ham. Works for me! 😉
Last week was kind of a funny one. Almost every dinner I made, lasted 2 days. I made a tuna casserole one night and the next day packed some of the leftovers in the HH’s lunch. We ate the remaining leftovers for dinner. 
I also made a pot roast with potatoes and carrots in the slower cooker one night.
The next night I turned the leftovers into a shepherd’s pie which we ate for dinner the next night as well. Giddy up!
Roasted butternut squash is pretty much the bomb diggety. I’ll post the recipe I use later this week. 
Pumpkin season is here and this past week I made 7 small loaves of pumpkin bread. The HH and I love having a slice of it with a cuppa in the morning. {I’ll post the recipe tomorrow}. 
Homemade tapioca. 
Happy birthday Monkey Boy.
6 dozen chocolate chip cookies. Half for the cookie jar and half for the freezer for later.
Those are just a few of the things I made last week.
What’s on YOUR dinner plate these days?
Have you found any good deals on squash in your neck of the woods yet?
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week $26.84
Weeks 1-28 Shopping Exclusively at Costco $1,229.25 {$43.90 a week/$175 a month average}
Weeks 29-43 Shopping wherever the heck I want $379.83
Total Spent Year to Date $1627.19
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Susan says
Chuck’s Produce in Vancouver has winter squash (including butternut) on sale for .24 !!! lb. this week.
They have a large variety and massive amounts. I picked up 15 lb. of various sorts for $3.60
I have an extra fridge in the garage and put them in the bottom drawer. They should “keep” for quite a long time.
Elizabeth in Upstate NY says
Cottage Cheese for 88 cents! We’re lucky if it’s under two bucks! Coming from the midstates, the family dislikes New England style cottage cheese. So when we travel west, we stock up on our way back. Almost time for another trip, down to our last 4 containers.
Linda says
Like Elizabeth, I’m from upstate NY and I never see deals on groceries like you have there. I used to get cottage cheese for $1.99 a quart, but now it’s closer to $3.50 for 24 ounces. When you get Ritz crackers for $2.00 a box, unheard of here.
MerryMouse says
Butternut squash is way better than pumpkin, to my taste. I planted THREE butternut squash plants this summer and got FORTY-FOUR huge squashes that filled my garden cart. Can’t wait for your pumpkin(squash) bread recipe. I’ll prep and puree the squash today to get ready for it. Oh, and your pic of the cookies reminded me that there is a product out there made from chopped-up Andes mints which can be used instead of chocolate chips for really unique cookies. I get mine at Winco foods.
Rebecca says
WOW that is some haul you got on the butternut squash! I planted butternut squash this summer for the first time and it did fabulous. It spread out of its 4 x 8 raised garden bed and wandered through the lawn and across the patio. I was happy to just let it go where it pleased, so we got quite a nice harvest. I diced some and put it in the freezer, made soup and froze it, and have a dozen fresh stashed away for the winter. So please keep the recipes coming for butternut 😀
I really enjoy your show and tell on groceries – – – you sure do scout out fabulous deals!
As far as my family’s menus, we are enjoying the return of fall and stews, soups, and chili. I made a pot of crab soup recently (we’re on the east coast, close to the Chesapeake Bay) and yesterday to celebrate my husband and daughter-in-law’s birthdays I made a mini Thanksgiving with turkey breast, dressing, mashed potatoes, and sauerkraut – – – everyone was so excited about it. I’m already planning to stock up on turkey when the stores start giving away free turkeys for holiday promotions………..
Julie says
RE: Box cake mixes
I find it interesting that people in the same household (even a mother-son combo!) have such different tastes! I’m curious if you think that
1) Growing your own food and making food from scratch has a psychosomatic effect (e.g. The food I make/grow from scratch tastes better than the food I don’t make/grow.)
2) You’re tastes have morphed over the time you have been gardening.
3) Monkey Boy and/or HH would notice the difference if they grew/made from scratch what they ate. (This assumes you are doing all of the gardening and cooking.)
My husband hated raw tomatoes until I grew cherry tomatoes in our yard. Now he calls them natures candy. But I don’t know what the difference is to him.
Mavis says
I think, honestly, it’s a little of all of those things.
Sandra says
Two things to do with cake mix:
My daughter, who runs a cottage bakery, says cake mix is only good for making “cheap cake mix cookies.” (There are various recipes online.)
I buy the mixes on sale to donate to our local food bank. When I had a Girl Scout troop we used to gather and donate cake mixes, frosting, birthday candles and a new, unmarked birthday card so parents could celebrate their child’s birthday.
Susan says
What a great Girl Scout project! I like that.
Renay says
Re: Cake Mixes…the best boxed cake mix is Duncan Hines. If you have to do it, do it well! haha Also, there is a great cookbook, The Cake Mix Doctor by Ann Byrn, you all might like. Tons of recipes for every kind of cake all doctored up. Your guests and families will never know…
Helen in Meridian says
My local old Albertsons had bins of butternut etc out front for .79 #. Inside back by the meat dept , they had butternut, acorn and spaghetti squash for .29 lb. I bought 7 butternut and 8 spaghetti and 2 acorn. I have never made spaghetti squash and this year have made 3 butternut recipes so far.