This past week was a hodgepodge of meals and we ate everything from convience food to fruit and cheese platters. Some weeks are like that I guess. Real life. It stinks. And you really just have to go with the flow and don’t sweat the small stuff to get through the harder times. 🙁
Here’s what we bought last week:
Fred Meyer $13.63
I wasn’t planning on buying a stalk of brussel sprouts when I popped into Fred Meyer last week but at only $3.50 for a 4 pound stick of goodness I couldn’t resist. And yes, I stood there in the produce section weighing a bunch of them so I could get the best deal. Please tell me I’m not the only one who does that.
Costco $14.46
You can never go wrong with a big salad for dinner. Especially when you are trying to use up the reaming heirloom tomatoes from your garden. I pretty sure I could live the rest of my life eating a big salad everyday for lunch or dinner. The possibilities are endless, wouldn’t you agree?
Costco – My Mother’s version of stocking up for the storm. {The Doritos were for Monkey Boy of course}.
Here are some of the meals we ate last week:
Sunday breakfast. Scrambled eggs and scones. The perfect combination if you ask me.
Fish and Brussel sprouts.
What my mother eats for dinner almost every single night at home.
And in the hospital as well.
Lunch with my dad and possibly the best turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich I’ve ever had.
Pumpkin pie, Caesar salad and a flatbread sandwich.
Meals from Valley Food Storage.
I seriously think I’ve gained at least 5 pounds this past week from all the hospital food my mother and I ate. For some reason eating is comforting… even when you’re not hungry.
Everything’s better with ice cream. Or so the nurse said.
~Mavis
Total Spent this week $28.09
Total Spent Year to Date $1392.09
- Total Spent in October $118.29
- Total Spent in September $195.98
- Total Spent in August $111.42
- Total Spent in July $121.97
- Total Spent in June $167.81
- Total Spent in May $299.74
- Total Spent in April $0
- Total Spent in March $136.58
- Total Spent in February $106.85
- Total Spent in Janaury $105.36
Freebies we’ve been gifted or were earned in 2016: $200
- $100 gift card to Whole Foods {Christmas gift from my parents}
- $100 gift card to Trader Joe’s {Christmas gift from my parents}
- 22 packets of vegetable seeds, meat from Zaycon
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Jen@FrugalSteppingStones says
So sorry there is illness in your family.
Your mom’s favorite dinner is mine as well. I call it a “snacky dinner”.
AmyWW says
Oh, dear Mavis. I’m so sorry for your family and think of you and your brother and mom and dad often throughout the days. Wishing you all peace and love and comfort in this hard time. Love to you all.
lynne says
You guys are in my prayers…
Love your mom’s idea of mealtime! Perfect.
Carole says
To rake or not to rake. I agree with you. Fighting with the snoop committee is fruitless. I use the leaves as mulch, compost bin filler or in my raised beds as cover during the winter. Then I till it all in again in the spring. Its mother nature’s way of composting for us
Marcia says
Oh boy. I am sorry about all the hospital time.
First, yes I eat a big salad for lunch every. single. day. Until I run out of greens. I’ve been packing some side salads for my spouse’s lunch, because I want him to live long. So by around Thursday I end up improvising.
Your mom’s dinner looks pretty awesome, I must say.
marie says
We rake! If you leave the leaves on the grass they decompose along with the grass under neath them and then come spring you have holes in your grass. We take all our leaves to a compose pile the city has at various spots.
Sorry about all the hospital time.
Ellen in Clackamas says
I have two huge walnut trees in front of my house and always take up the leaves because they get slimy (ewww). However, I am helped along by my wonderful neighbor who likes to make use of his big-boy leaf blower and he blows them all into a pile for me and I can put into the yard debris bucket (these do not work for compost)
Karin Carson says
Hope your brother is able to get out of the hospital soon.
My mom taught me many many years ago to weigh anything that comes in a bag in the produce area, I do potatoes, onions, carrots, apples, grapes or anything in the clam shell, I also search through the cheese that is sold for 8.99 chunks as there can be 200-300 gram difference, I buy my fresh chickens breaks for 5 for 20, I always buy them when over 1kg, some are 700 grams, it pays to weigh.
Have a wonderful day tomorrow and hope all gets better with your brother soon .
Hi Lucy .
Karin from
Nora says
Hi Mavis and Mom!
The storm provisions are perfect! One of the brews is called “la fin du monde” , which is french for “the end of the world”. Cool coincident!
They don’t sell brussel sprouts on the stalk here, but yes when I buy per piece or bagged I always weight. Have to find the best ratio, don’t we?
Nora
L bryant says
Mavis your very lucky to have a mom with the right idea for storm prep!!! Might as well celebrate the good and the bad.
Our prayers that you and your family will continue to find the joy throughout your brothers struggles.
Best wishes from Lawrenceville Georgia