Hello Monday!
I hope you had a nice weekend and there are leftovers in your fridge this morning. 🙂 I know we’ll be eating leftovers for days… That’s for sure.
We bought a LOT of food last week! Ate a lot of salads {4 bags down, 1 to go} and I have no idea how our grocery bill can be so high when all we do is {practically} eat salads! It’s a mystery to me.
But here goes.
Costco Shopping Trip #1 $97.20
We went to Costco, not once, but twice last week. The first time we loaded up on salad things, butter and coffee for the HH.
Kerrygold butter was on sale and so I grabbed four pounds. I LOVE using Kerrygold butter in baked goods. It makes a big difference if you ask me. Eggs were $7.69 for 2 dozen.
Market Basket Shopping Trip $50.59
I made a list for the HH for Market Basket and he got everything on the list {hooray!}. I requested a frozen pizza but he came home with some sort of giant man crust pizza and I don’t even want to try it.
Pizza crust should be THIN in my opinion. I am a horribly ungrateful wife I know, but I think I’d rather eat a banana than a little pepperoni and cheese on a giant hunk of bread.
$1.09 for 1 tomato. Bananas are still $0.49 a pound.
I love avocado toast.
And BLT’s.
Nachos are pretty rad too.
Costco Shopping Trip #2 $69.87
No more trips to Costco!! We have a bunch of food in the freezer we need to eat. I’m thinking for the next month we should only buy milk! And bananas. I need bananas. They are like air. Or a really, really good “filler” food when you’re super hungry but it’s too late in the day to eat a real meal.
Side note – When do you stop eating/drinking for the day? I stop at 5 pm. Unless we are going out to dinner with friends.
“We don’t need to buy those potato pancakes again” – HH
“Nope” – Mavis
The spicy Mexican-style riced cauliflower was really good though, even if it did have quite the kick to it.
I’d get it again…
You cannot beat a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup on a rainy day. I think the only thing that would top that is a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup in your pajamas on a rainy day. 😉
I think the HH may be getting tired of the Costco Mediterranean Crunch salad. Even though I try to rotate all the “extras” I add to the salad, I think he’s ready to move on to something else. HA HA HA.
We’ve pretty much been eating the salads several times a week since the beginning of the year. I’m actually kind of surprised he has gone this long.
Maybe what he’s really doing when he goes on a Costco run is stopping off at the food court to get one of their $1.50 weenie and a soda deals before he comes home. Hmmm. It’s possible.
Easter Dinner: Steak tips, mustard potato salad, Carole’s creamy grape salad and roasted asparagus. We’ll be eating leftovers for days… And that’s fine by me. 🙂 Did you make anything special for Easter? Curious minds want to know.
Have a great Monday everyone, SUNSHINE is in the forecast today here in Southern Maine! That means Lucy and I are going to be out there playing in the dirt. And you know what? That’s a mighty fine way to spend the day if you ask me.
Peace Out.
~Mavis
Total Spent This Past Week On Groceries $216.66
January $229.38
February $260.86
March $433.46
April $260.42
Nancy Settel says
All of our family was doing other things this Easter we did not want ham etc. so I made a huge batch (which I will share with a few neighbors) of White chicken chili. My husband has been wanting it so I thought why not. Your asparagus looked so darn good I need to get some this week.
Adeline says
I love your monday posts about what you ate, and the cost of food in your neck of the woods. I live in France (at the western point of Brittany, the next land over the sea is actually America !), so for me it’s really entertaining to compare products and prices ! Also, I work in retail and doesn’t get home before 7.30 pm, so I eat around 8.30 and drink herbal tea before bed. So wild…
Christa H. says
Had two family members over for dinner, but let them know I was going to make something easy so I could garden all day and work my beehives. I used what I had so I didn’t have to go shopping. We ate crockpot creamy chicken and potatoes, roasted asparagus, roasted cauliflower, and roasted baby tomatoes/sweet onions with seasonings and added Boursin in the middle for the last 10 minutes. Ten minutes of prep for all of it! Yeah. Everything was gobbled up.
We eat dinner every day between 4-5pm , so if I am hungry later, I will eat a piece of fruit. If we go out with friends and eat a lot later, we can’t sleep well.
Lana says
Your grocery bill is so high because you buy so many convenience foods! You may not even realize it anymore. Go to Costco and buy salad ingredients instead of the kits and get back to cooking real food again instead of all those reheat foods. Just saying.
Mark says
We did a full on holiday meal yesterday for just 3 of us. Ham, roasted potatoes, honey glazed carrots, brown butter and garlic green beans, baked corn, macaroni salad, deviled eggs, rolls, apple pie, and peanut butter pie. I won’t be cooking for the rest of the week.
JamieH says
We don’t usually eat after 6:30-7pm. If either one of us is especially hungry we just crab a handful of nuts, pretzels or a few strawberries.
Eileen Stewart says
I’m sorry, Mavis, to ask this here. I used to get you delivered to my mailbox and I loved hearing about your adventures. Suddenly, I’m not getting them anymore and I can’t find a place to renew here on your page. Please help!
Sue says
I tried to go to Costco on Good Friday, which was a hugely dumb move on my part. Every Single Parking Space Was Filled. Went to Whole Foods instead. Didn’t save money, but did save my sanity!
Easter dinner was firecracker salmon, coconut rice, steamed broccoli, roasted asparagus, and buttermilk biscuits. Dessert was Easter candies, strawberry shortcake, and homemade peanut butter ice cream w/ chopped PB cups.
eliz says
Does your HH not use his espresso machine anymore?
eliz says
My husband likes thin crust pizza as well.
Have you tried this Kirkland pizza? It is his favorite lately,
https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/kirkland-signature-cauliflower-crust-pizza%2C-supreme%2C-2-ct.product.100420606.html
Tamara says
Shrimp and grits, ham biscuits with honey/pepper, green peas, roasted asparagus, raw veggies, deviled eggs, salad, stewed apples and pears. Lamb cake for dessert.