Fred Meyer $10.59
I broke my personal rule of not shopping at the grocery store Thanksgiving week because we ran out of milk. Maybe in your house running out of milk wouldn’t be a big deal, but when you drink 20 gazillion cups of decaf tea with milk and sugar every single day, it’s kind of a deal breaker if you ask me.
The HH found a last minute {free} flight on Tuesday and jetted off to spend Thanksgiving week with The Girl. They had a blast visiting museums and sipping coffee in hipster cafes. Meanwhile back at home, Monkey Boy worked everyday {except Thanksgiving} and brought home random food people were going to discard from the breakroom. And yes, I just about passed out when he walked through the door with a dozen plus day old doughnuts. I ate 3 before I set the box in the garage. {I think it’s safe to assume he ate the rest because I found the empty box in the recycling bin. Barf.
We ordered pizza one night.
Monkey Boy and I joined my parents for a Thanksgiving feast at Maggiano’s.
The leftovers were AMAZING and lasted for days.
After all the doughnuts, pizza and restaurant leftovers were gone, I tossed a bunch of ingredients in the Crock Pot and made a big batch of Rustic Pea Soup hoping to flush my system from all the junk we ate earlier in the week.
I also ate the last of the Madras lentils. {Someone hid a pouch behind a box of crackers if you can believe that! Clearly, they should have hid it better.}
Muffin the muffin top is back and I still feel full. You’d think by now I’d be able to pace myself.
How was your Thanksgiving? Are you wearing elastic pants this week too?
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week $10.59
Weeks 1-28 Shopping Exclusively at Costco $1,229.25 {$43.90 a week/$175 a month average}
Weeks 29-48 Shopping wherever the heck I want $497.61
Total Spent Year to Date $1726.86
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Susan says
We had a fantastic Thanksgiving! Traditional turkey with all the trimmings. Made turkey – vegetable soup with the carcass . Everything is gone.
All 3 of our grown “children” were here for a couple days. It was the first time in 25 !! years that all 3 have actually spent the night at the same time 🙂
It really was a nice time for DH and me. I loved every moment.
Joanna says
I was away for Thanksgiving, so I just saw your fruit fly/fungus gnat post. I’m commenting on it here though in hopes that others will see it.
We had a horrible, horrible fruit fly infestation a few months ago. I resorted to seven(!) juice & dish soap traps around my kitchen and dining room. Some advice:
* If it’s a bad infestation, rotate through orange juice, apple cider vinegar, red wine, grape juice, apple juice, etc in your traps.
* Get a garbage can that has a lid that seals. We have a swinging lid and when we pulled out the clear bag to take out the garbage, we could see hundreds of fruit flies swarming around in the trash.
* Put a trap in the refrigerator and cover food in there. Even the fruit you put in there to get them away from the flies. Clean off jars like ketchup and jam. After the fruit flies were gone I was cleaning out the fridge and found tens of dead flies on the shelves. In the freezer too!
* Put a trap in your pantry. I found flies around jars in there.
* Clean your kitchen like it’s an operating room. I had to be scrupulous about putting dirty dishes directly into the dishwasher and cleaning the counters so there was no food residue anywhere. Don’t forget to sweep and mop your floors often.
I hope this helps!
Susan says
It warmed my heart to read that your HH was able to go spend time with The Girl. My DH (and also my son) are involved, loving fathers, too.
Lunch Lady says
No Stretchy pants, but definitely feeling all the pie and tamales I ate. My daughter, a couple friends and I have a tamalathon the Sunday after Thanksgiving each year. We made 392 tamales in 6 hours! We do these for Christmas gifts and freezer meals. Whew! glad it’s over. They are all pack away in the freezer now. We did turkey( leftover from T-giving) pork and chicken. So many hands makes the work much lighter and everyone’s eyes light up when they get tamales for Christmas!
Marcia says
That’s pretty cool that the HH got a free ticket to spend with your daughter. I went to college 2 hours drive from home, so I was able to see my mom for holidays. I can’t imagine what it would be like if a flight were required.
No stretchy pants here. In fact, I need a belt for my skinny jeans. I lost 12.6 pounds in October. For the first 3 weeks, I gave up wheat, wine, and sugar completely, and lost 6 pounds.
Then right before Thanksgiving (as we were about to embark on a road trip from CA to Utah to see Zion National Park), my 3 year old got the stomach flu. (and the rest of us got it too, because he’s a sharer!) A week of nothing but toast and applesauce? Down another 6.5 pounds. (These pounds will come back when I start eating real food, and I hope they do. This weight doesn’t look too great on me.)
I’m not sure what I’ve spent on groceries the last week. I have a pile of receipts to enter. The receipts are full of gatorade, crackers, bagels, bread, and applesauce. Can’t be too much right? At least the kids are back to eating normal food.
Anonymous says
I polished off a Costco Cheesecake in a record setting 5 days. I did my best to avoid temptation but then decided the best way to stop eating it was just to eat it all. When everyone else went looking for Cheesecake I then lied and said I threw it away. Yep, im bad:)