04.26.21 ~ What’s for supper at your house this week?  

Hello friends!  Spring has sprung here in our neck of the woods.  We should only have one more cold spell in May for Blackberry winter and then the heat will be on if everything goes the way it normally does here in Virginia.  I’ll take just a little more spring please.

Here’s what we ate last week:

I made pecan and panko pork chops with roasted red potatoes, green beans, stuffing and crescent rolls.  I thought it was good, but Denton and Hayden weren’t particular fans of the pecans on pork, hahaha.

Chicken sandwiches with pickles and chips on the side.  Always an easy, simple supper.  But I do need to start making my own chicken for the sandwiches.  But that negates the easy part, right?

Two kinds of shrimp with baked potatoes, broccoli salad and buttered bread.  Yum.

Soup beans, with a terrible box of Mac and cheese, salmon, kraut and weenies, and the best homemade cornbread I’ve ever made.  I’ll try to remember to take pictures and post the recipe next week.  It was so good.  I also made a new kind of roasted potatoes.  They were delicious, but I prefer just fried potatoes or normal roasted potatoes with my soup beans.  These would be great as a side with chicken or pork, so I’ll make the recipe and post it soon too.Denton requested tuna sandwiches again, which I am always happy to oblige him with.

I also made another dump cake last week.  I’ll post the recipe tomorrow.  It is so easy and delicious, I know you’ll love it.

What did you eat last week?  What are you planning to eat this week?  You can see all of my other What’s for supper? plans here.

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Groceries

This weeks grocery budget went to our local Food Lion.  I spent $82.00 exactly which will never happen again in my lifetime.  I have one more grocery haul to make in April before I see what our total will be for the month.  You can see what we’ve spent in April so far down below.  We will have five weeks of grocery shopping in this month though, since I switched up my shopping day.

Are Saturday’s as insane in your town as they are in mine now?  Liv and I used to do our grocery shopping for the week on Saturday mornings.  We decided to pick a different day because our local stores were being swarmed and I wanted to hurt people.  We tried a Sunday, a Tuesday, but I always go into my office on Wednesdays, so I just decided to tick that off my to do list then.  I am surprised at how many people are out and about on a Wednesday afternoon too.  I hate grocery shopping, and when I have to dodge and weave to get it done does not make me a happy person.  Sigh.

April 3:  Walmart $152.42

April 6:  Food Lion $17.41

April 9: Food Lion $122.25

April 14:  Walmart $94.25

April 18: Food Lion $12.26

April 21:  Food Lion $82.00

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April ~ So far:  $480.59

March $524.80

February $547.53

January:  $485.88

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How did your grocery shopping go this week?  Did you buy something yummy?

04.19.21 ~ What’s for supper at your house this week?  

Hello friends!  It’s a new Monday.  I hope that your week has started out well.  I’ve been sharing what we eat each night on my Instagram page if you want the scoop before I post it here each week.  I am a creature of habit and routines so hopefully this will keep me on track.

Here’s what we ate last week:

Soup beans, with roasted onions and potatoes, salmon, and butter fried mushrooms – boy those don’t look good, but they were delicious.

Totino’s pizza for an easy supper, with cucumbers and blueberries.  Sometimes simple is best.

Taco salad with chips and salsa.

Fettuccine Alfredo with my super cheap garlic bread, a giant salad and a big glass of water.  

This night was a find what you can, kind of night.  I had Strawberry Awake cereal.  It’s the Walmart version of Special K Berries.  Both are delicious, but if one of my local stores doesn’t have Special K on sale, I’ll always buy the off brand.  YUM.

On Sunday, Liv and I had to run into to town and we brought home supper from a local place.  I had a Shrimp Po’Boy with fries and my usual big glass of water.  I still drink my beloved soda too, but I’m trying to get more water in and drinking water with a meal is easy.

I hope that you ate something delicious this past week.  If you did, let me know in the comments down below.  I am always looking for a tried and true recipe to spring on my family.

What did you eat last week?  What are you planning to eat this week?  You can see all of my other What’s for supper? plans here.

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Groceries

This past week I went into two different grocery stores:  Walmart and Food Lion.  I spent the bulk of my grocery budget this week at Walmart, but I did run into Food Lion for a couple of necessities – Sprite Zero and Doritos.  What are your junk food must haves?  Ours are soda and chips.  We always have them, and they will be eaten by someone.  The soda changes per whatever is on sale at that moment.  I prefer Pepsi One.  GASP.  If you had told me ten years ago that I would be drinking a Pepsi of any kind I would have laughed myself silly.  But this is reality, hahahaha.

April 3:  Walmart $152.42

April 6:  Food Lion $17.41

April 9: Food Lion $122.25

April 14:  Walmart $94.25

April 18: Food Lion $12.26

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April ~ So far:  $398.59

March $524.80

February $547.53

January:  $485.88

Fetch: if you use my referral code QF4TJ, you’ll get 2,000 points when you sign up.

How did your grocery shopping go this week?

 

 

04.12.21 ~ What’s for supper at your house this week?  

Hello friends!  I’m finally back at this weekly update for what we eat in a week.  I have these moments where I am totally not happy with the way I’m doing things and I want to completely change everything up.  BUT, I don’t know exactly what I want to change it to and it becomes a vicious cycle in my brain.  Can you relate?  I drive Denton absolutely bonkers.  For someone who resisted change for so long, the older I get I seem to swing from one thing to the next very quickly now, hahahaha.

Anyhoo, I have decided that I am going to post my picture of what we eat each day on my Instagram and I’ll use this space to link the recipes.  Basically nothing will change on the blog, but I’m trying to keep up some momentum for myself and the crazy town that my brain lives in believes that posting to Instagram each day will give that momentum to me.  Yes, I know there is probably a disorder or something along those lines that I fit into, so don’t mention it, okay?  Okay.

After all of that hullabaloo, here’s what we ate last week: P.S.  thanks for hanging around!

Tuna sandwiches with TWO kinds of chips and pickles.  Fancy.  Actually I like the chips at the bottom of the bag.  You know the ones, the ones that no one in your family will eat and they get thrown away.  Well, I actually like those because they are already broken up for me.  If I have whole chips, I break them before I eat them.  Yes, I know I am a weirdo.  I am completely fine with that.

Roast beef with potatoes and carrots, green beans, corn bread and coleslaw.Chinese food.  My favorite.

Soup beans, salmon, roasted potatoes, onions and asparagus.

A giant salad, garlic bread and spaghetti with an enormous glass of water.  I always forget to include my water with my pictures.  

Ham, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus and carrots, with crescent rolls and perfect eggs.

Even though you can’t see it, there is Taco Pie under that mound of lettuce.  With tortilla chips and salsa on the side.

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Groceries

April 3:  Walmart $152.42

April 6:  Food Lion $17.41

April 9: Food Lion $122.25

I didn’t keep up with my grocery totals – at all – while I was taking my hiatus from this page.  I am very surprised that the total for March wasn’t worse.  I know that it isn’t because I have been deliberately eating from our garage freezer for the last month and half.  All of the meals that you see above, the meats came directly from my freezer.  I haven’t been buying meat lately so my grocery total is directly from fresh fruits and  vegetables and all of the miscellaneous things that get thrown into the cart, like potato chips.

Once we eat everything down in the freezer, I’ll slowly start adding to it again from all of the clearance deals I find later in the summer.

April ~ So far:  $292.08

March $524.80

February $547.53

January:  $485.88

Fetch: if you use my referral code QF4TJ, you’ll get 2,000 points when you sign up.

How did your grocery shopping go for the past couple of months?

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That’s it for us.  I hope that you ate something delicious this past week.  If you did, let me know in the comments down below.  I am always looking for a tried and true recipe to spring on my family.

What did you eat last week?  What are you planning to eat this week?  You can see all of my other What’s for supper? plans here.

03.15.21 ~ What’s for supper at your house this week?  

Hello friends!  I hope that you are doing well.  I missed last week’s post, due to being indisposed.  That’s a polite expression for the misery, but I lived through it.  I said the older I get the longer it takes to recover from terrible things like a stomach bug.  But you are definitely not here to hear about that.  In the meantime, we are enjoying spring like weather.  We will discuss the fact that we will have freezing rain later this week, and we’ll enjoy the Spring while we have it!  Right? Right.

Here’s what we ate last week:

Over the past two weeks I managed to take seven photos of the food that was eaten at our house.  Here is what they were:

Burgers.  Burgers with chips and pickles is always a go to when I need something easy.

Alfredo with a giant salad  and garlic bread.  I used frozen pappardelle pasta.  Everyone but me liked it a lot.  It may have been because I had been sick, so I’ll definitely try it again.

Chili with grits and raw onions.  Comfort food at its finest.Our favorite quick Italian pizza place opened back up.  Yay!  It was excellent.

Walmarts version of Lasagna with a giant salad and my bread.  Its just okay in my opinion. I would much rather have my “fast” version.

Soup beans with salmon, Mac and cheese, and roasted veggies.

McDonalds.  What can I say about that?  It was fine.

Taco salad with chips and salsa.

Roast with everything, corn muffins and coleslaw.  Yum.

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Groceries

Since I missed last weeks post, I decided to just list everything below that I spent the first two weeks of March on groceries.

03/13 – Walmart $100.05

03/13 – Food Lion $41.31

03/05 – Walmart $105.67

I didn’t even try to cull out all of the non food items.  In the perfect world where I live inside my head, sometimes I do this and keep everything straight.  But reality is that I don’t live in a perfect world, so all of the shampoo, face wash, toilet paper and cat litter get lumped in with milk, bread and everything in between.

Are you better at this than I am?

I keep up with this through my Fetch app.  I just cashed my money out and I’m buying myself an ice machine that supposedly makes ice like you get from Sonic.  I can’t wait to see if it actually does.  I’ll let you know!  If you don’t already have Fetch, you can use my link below and automatically get at least 2,000 points added to your account.  Woohoo!

March ~ so far:  $247.03

February $547.53

January:  $485.88

Fetch: if you use my referral code QF4TJ, you’ll get 2,000 points when you sign up.

How did your grocery shopping go for the month of March?

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That’s it for us.  I hope that you ate something delicious this past week.  If you did, let me know in the comments down below.  I am always looking for a tried and true recipe to spring on my family.

What did you eat last week?  What are you planning to eat this week?  You can see all of my other What’s for supper? plans here.