Fresh Eggs $7.00
Fresh eggs, you just can’t beat them. Last week we needed eggs and I since I had no other reason to go grocery shopping, I went a half mile up the street and bought 2 dozen eggs out of someone’s cooler at the end of their driveway for $3.50 a dozen. How cool is that? If I was still in the HOA neighborhood, an exchange like that would have never happened. But the best part? The little honor system cash box on the table next to the cooler.
Country Store $13.98
You know, I’m just doing my part to support the local economy. 😉 At the rate I am going though, I do think it’s time to start researching ice cream makers. But, that will have to wait until I have sampled all the flavors from Gelato Fiasco. {I’m having a hard time finding the wild blueberry and sunken treasure!} Also, I cream shops are BIG here. As in they are everywhere. Stand alone ice cream shops…. Open in April…. In one of the coldest parts of the country. Someone explain this to me. Seafood shacks I can understand, but ice cream?
ALDI $61.91
The HH and I were out running errands and since there was an ALDI nearby, we decided to pop in and pick up a few supplies. Milk this time around was $1.48 a gallon and eggs were $1.49 a dozen. Also, they had those gigantic marshmallows {for campfires} in stock if anyone is looking for them.
I still believe you get the best bang for your buck there when it comes to supplies for “picky dinners.” The red pepper fruit spread was delicious! I served it spooned over cream cheese and pita chips.
Someone asked last week if eating a few crackers, cheese and pieces of fruit really does in fact fill us up. And hands down, the answer is YES. Nobody in our family has ever really been a heavy eater, and honestly, I could eat salami, cheese and a few apple slices for dinner everyday of the week.
And big salads too. I could live off those as well.
Other things I made this week: Crock Pot Pork Roast with Sauerkraut, Mississippi Pot Roast, banana oatmeal chocolate chip muffins, and a chocolate pudding pie.
Breakfast in bed for my sweet husband. {It’s always nice to feed someone a big breakfast before asking them to shovel dirt} 😉
Date night with the HH. We found a cool local pizza place and I know for a fact we will be back! Ahh New England. I love you! How about YOU? Did you buy anything exciting this week? Try a new place? We’d love to hear about it.
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week $82.89
- Total Spent in April on Groceries $169.98 {I’m done shopping for the month!}
- Total Spent in March on Groceries $306.75 <– Apartment life, moving across the country and settling into a new house
- Total Spent in February on Groceries $259.81 < Living in an apartment and buying a lot of ready-made meals
- Total Spent in January on Groceries $240.15 <– Packing mode and not cooking from scratch as much
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Jennifer says
Love your shopping posts! Have you ever considered trying to shop in bulk for those things available in bulk in your area? Your annual goals posts inspired me to commit to reducing my disposable plastic usage as much as possible this year. So we shop almost exclusively in bulk or else we buy products packaged in paper, cardboard, etc. It has definitely changed our eating habits (we do miss some things, but we’ve tried products we’d never have tried before too), and we make so little landfill trash and recyclable trash I can’t believe it. Would love to know if you’ve ever tried it.
Rose says
Awwww, I love the picture with Lucy sniffing the eggs, she is so adorable!
Lissa says
Adore Lucy :). Curious what your plans will be for the mega harvests now that Monkey boy isn’t eating with you.
My grandmother used to prepare what they called “tiddy bit” lunches for my grandfather. Bits of cold meat, cheese, fruit and fig newtons 🙂
Mavis Butterfield says
Farm stand at the end of the driveway to sell the extra veg.
Kristin says
I’m pretty sure MA ranks #1 in ice cream consumed per person. It’s crazy!
Gwenn says
I live outside of Detroit (Redford) and we have LOTS of little mom & pop ice cream stands (my mom would have called them “root beer stands”) everywhere. They are awesome and we love being able to walk to one near us on summer evenings (and spring, they are opening soon!!!) with the dogs and get a tasty treat. We also have ICE CREAM TRUCKS that drive up and down the streets. The kids wait patiently (mostly) for the truck when they hear the music. It reminds me of when I was a kid.
Ellie says
We call them Nibble Plates and eat them at least once a week for dinner. They are sooo filling! I usually serve with crusty sourdough but crackers are good too.
I noticed beets in your salad…you probably can your own but Aldi has jarred pickled beets that absolutely rock my salad! In the canned goods aisle, sliced or whole. Best beets ever! Glass jar, no funky tin taste which ruin beets, IMO.
Glad you’re doing so great!
Mavis Butterfield says
The ALDI beets ROCK!!! So good and worth the price. A small jar lasts 3 salads for me. Hopefully I’ll get a good crop this year so I can can some.
jodi says
our aldi here in lancaster, pa never has milk that cheap (eggs once in a crazy blue moon, but not regularly). now amish stands at the end of the driveway, yes. in abundance.
R.M. says
That’s because PA has a state minimum milk price which is usually $1 or $2 more than NY or MD.
Mavis Butterfield says
I love the Amish stands in PA. We always make a point to stop and buy something at them.
Nicole says
Just got to try ALDI for the first time a few weeks ago and I have to say I love it. Love the sweet potato chips they have. Had a hard time convincing my husband and mom to try it out. But once I got my mom in the store she was all for it. Trying to put in a big garden this year too. If it would just quit raining long enough.
Lynne says
After a long cold winter, 40 is warm enough for ice cream. Honest!
Emily says
When you have hard winters, you have to celebrate the summers! Michigan has little, local, stand-alone ice cream places in every town too.
Amanda S says
Ha, that was me who asked if “picky dinners” fill you up. It sounds sort of like what my parents do for dinner on Sunday nights (cheese and crackers, I think), but they do have a big lunch on Sundays that holds them over. I think part of my confusion is I can’t eat what you are serving. I’m lactose-intolerant so can’t eat cheese, plus there may be dairy in the crackers you are serving (although I know there are dairy-free crackers you can buy), and I can’t really eat apples because they bother my stomach. Plus Thin Mints have soy, which I try to avoid as much as possible, and Fig Newtons are not dairy-free. So that type of dinner would not work for me. But if your family enjoys it, great!
Amanda S says
Also, I forgot to mention that it’s almost a holiday here in my town in MA when one of the local ice cream shops opens on March 1st every year. People line up on that day to get the first ice cream of the season. One of the bigger ice cream shops a few towns over is so popular in the summer that you could wait 30+ minutes in line.
Mel says
I also couldn’t eat that for dinner, but I could probably eat it for lunch. The main obstacle for me is preferring cooked foods later in the evening and cold/raw ones earlier. I wish I could do it–so much less prep, even with homemade crackers.