We headed to Market Basket early in the week to buy groceries. We thought we were being super clever by sitting down in their little cafe area and having something for lunch before we did our shopping…. But you know, I think we went home with just as many snack items as if we hadn’t fueled up first.
Oh well. You can’t win them all.
The strangest thing I found on our trip down the aisles was cut rhubarb wrapped in cellophane on foam plates. What in the world are these people thinking? Wouldn’t it be easier to just stick entire stalks out on the produce shelf? Plus, by the time you had to cut off the ends of each one of the stalks, you’d be throwing 10% of it away. So weird!
Market Basket $72.20.
Wowza. Back in my double couponing days I probably wouldn’t have spent more than $20 on this. But that cream cheese filled brioche bread…. at $4.49 a loaf… it’s totally worth it. So was the pint of Ben and Jerry’s chocolate chunk brownie ice cream. 🙂 And the Good and Plenty? A total necessity.
Ahhh big salads… I’ve missed you. Note to self: Eat more salads!
Another big salad enjoyed in my pj’s after a long day working in the garden. 😉
Pickety bits for dinner.
Did you know you can cook butternut squash in a Crock Pot?
Yes, yes you can. I think the best part though is not having to PEEL the squash first.
{The HH’s choice} Breaded fish and tater tots. The perfect dinner, if your’e like a seven year old boy wearing toughskins and just came in from riding your BMX bike all afternoon with the neighborhood kids. Why bother washing your hands first, it will just add a little protein to the meal.
And then there was the “Doesn’t a Cracker Barrel pancake breakfast sound like a good idea today” hints I had to listen to for three days in a row until I finally caved in and was like, “YES…. YES Big Mamma’s Pancakes sound MARVELOUS today please take me to Cracker Barrel and make my dreams come true.”
3 bottles of syrup. When does that ever happen?
The next day I made turkey BLT’s. With avocado. Would that make it a TBLTO?
Isn’t the light switch in the background distracting? I should have sat the potato chip bag up. {I’m only adding this comment in the post because I want YOU to know that I KNOW it’s distracting and that it bothers me. But obviously not enough to not share the photo. Because wow, that’s a good looking sandwich! Why I am even explaining this?}
Market Basket $31.44
And last but not least, last night’s dinner thanks to the HH.
My husband actually made it an entire 6 days before he fired up the smoker. Or rather smoker that converts to a BBQ. {I’ll spare you the 20 minute and very enthusiastic tell all I had to sit through}. The steak dinner with the most delicious scalloped potatoes ever? What a treat! I think he needs to cook from scratch more often. 😉
How did you do this week at the stores? Did you find any deals, or see anything unusual?
Have a wonderful day Monday everyone.
~Mavis
Total Spent on Groceries This Week $103.64
- Total Spent on Groceries in May $103.64
- Total Spent on Groceries in April $284.56 {My husband bought a smoker and a BUNCH of meat!}
- Total Spent on Groceries in March $321.69
- Total Spent on Groceries in February $220.92
- Total Spent in January on Groceries $41.19
- Total Spent So Far on Groceries in 2019 $971.89 {Goal is to average $150 – $175 a month for the year}
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Deb k says
How do you cook a butternut squash in the crockpot? Whole, cut up, add any liquid, if so what kind????? Thanks.
deb k says
also, how long??? Thanks.
Mavis says
Whole, 2 -3 hours on high with 1/2 inch of water.
Susan says
My best buy this week was a 49 lb. box of apples at Chuck’s Produce for $7.50 ( .15 a lb.!)
They are called “Manager’s Special” and I have always passed them up not wanting to deal with large amounts of
“do-something-with-me -right-now- produce.”
When I got home and looked, 90% of the box was organic fujis and mostly just ugly skins! Beautiful apples otherwise.
Over 3 days I made 12 pints of applesauce, 6 gallon bags of dehydrated apples, an apple crisp, gave a dozen to youngest daughter and have 9 left in the fridge.
Fred Meyer has a Buy 5, Get $5 off sale, and Solid White Chicken of the Sea tuna is .99
Got 10 cans
Not much couponing here either. I add coupons to my reward cards, but that’s about it. Don’t get a newspaper or find much in store. Once in a while a good coupon shows up on display.
Susan says
And I’m always amazed at the price of rhubarb. $3.49 lb. !! Really!?!?
Mavis Butterfield says
Me too. I thought the price was high.
Kayla says
You crack me up Mavis. The light switch was literally the first thing I saw in the photo. Why do we notice such things? And yes, fish sticks taste better with a little dirt- just ask my kids. All your pictures of yummy food is making me hungry. Thanks for the morning laugh.
Michelle says
We put some chicken on the grill last night and then I put a butternut squash on to cook. I hate letting all that heat from the charcoal go to waste! 🙂 We had to leave after that but when I got it off two hours later, it was just right.
Marcia says
The rhubarb…so many things wrapped in plastic kind of makes me ragey these days. Where does it all go? Landfill. What happens? Nothing. Just piles and piles of plastic. So unnecessary. It’s like the individually wrapped potatoes you can buy. Sigh
Susan says
I see those individually wrapped potatoes everywhere, too.
Someone must buy them…..I can’t imagine paying $1 + for 1 potato.
Rita says
Those tblta sandwiches look sssssss yummy! Going to have to make those scalloped potatos; thanks for the recipe.
Psuchic06 says
Your HH dropping hints about Cracker Barrel…classic! Men 🙂
Mel says
I’m not a fan of individual packaging, but I wonder if rhubarb is sold that way so there’s no chance of anyone eating the poisonous leaves by accident. That doesn’t explain why they don’t trim the leaves and then set the stalks out in a pile, but perhaps it’s a contributing factor.
Emily E. says
Mavis, after all your thrifty couponing to prepare for your “forever move” to your “forever house”, do you do any of your couponing now? Curious minds want to know!
Mavis Butterfield says
Not really, but I do get excited when I find a peelie coupon on something I was planning on buying. Couponing lost it’s zeal for me when Albertson’s took away their double coupons and I figured out most of the stuff I was buying was really junk food. These day I just try to buy what’s on sale or shop from the pop up fruit and vegetable stands.
Erin M says
I love your plug in OCD!!!! I can so relate.
Teresa J says
Do you use any type of weed control in your vegetable garden? The weeds horrendous and just too much for me anymore!
Mavis Butterfield says
None. 🙂 I do like to companion plant and plant my vegetables close together though to help control weeds.
Gina Seaton says
Wow, 6 whole days of not smoking meat! Did HH get the shakes? LOL! Love the smokie meat posts!