How Much We Spent on Groceries and What We Ate – Week 46 of 52

Well hello Monday!

Last week started off with a date day trip to the Portland Head Light, the LL Bean Home Store and lunch at a restaurant called the Owl and Elm Pub. We saw their ad for a hamburger in Maine Magazine and photo looked so good, we just had to try it. And WHAT A WINNER!!! We were still talking about our meal 3 days later. I’m not sure if that’s a sign that we’re getting old, or that is truly was delicious and we just could stop talking about it. 😉

Butternut Squash and Quinoa Salad with frozen spinach. Note to self: buy more butternut squash. I’ve been craving the  Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna dish lately.

Homemade chicken soup.

Homemade tomato soup. OH MY GOODNESS, this was a new recipe and it was so good I had 3 BOWLS the first go around. I had to freeze the rest so I wouldn’t eat the entire batch within a 24 hour period. I’ll post the recipe soon because if you are a lover of tomato soup you are going to want to make it.

Pumpkin cheese coffee cake {I’ll share the recipe tomorrow}.

Alaska Airlines First Class Flight Boston to Seattle Cost $5.60 + 40,000 frequent flyer points {each way}.

Food consumed on 6+ hour flight: 4 cups of tea, 2 waters, 1 orange juice, Greek yogurt {gag} with granola, nutty cinnamon dried fruit bun with butter and cranberry chutney {delicious}.

Followed by a delicious creamy potato pancake {?} stuffed omelette and Canadian bacon. There was also a Theo dark mint chocolate bar towards the end of the flight.

That was breakfast.

Here’s what lunch looked like on the very same day.

And then dinner.

Breakfast the next day at The Net Shed.

And then linner.

With the parental unit.

Breakfast the next morning was tea and sweet bread and a handful of chocolate covered cherries. Linner was a full on mock Thanksgiving feast with roast turkey, cherry cola jell-o salad, Amberlina’s sweet potato casserole, home-style scalloped potatoes, corn, baked pineapple, biscuits and Costco pumpkin pie and ice cream for dessert.

The title of this post should have been Woman Eats Enough Food for an Entire Week in Less Than 48 Hours.

Food+ Friends + Family = Automatic weight gain of 10 pounds.

Peace Out Girl Scouts, I need a nap. I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

Have an awesome Monday everyone.

~Mavis

• Total Spent on Groceries in November $147.11
• Total Spent on Groceries in October $218.59
• Total Spent on Groceries in September $249.15
• Total Spent on Groceries in August $253.38
• Total Spent on Groceries in July $300.74
• Total Spent on Groceries in June $259.12
• Total Spent on Groceries in May $262.39 {More meat!}
• 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 $2569.84

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