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What’s for Supper? 03.15.21

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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.

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?

What's for Supper?

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.

What's for Supper?

What’s for Supper? 03.01.21

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03.01.21 What’s for supper at your house this week?  

Hello friends!  I hope that you are doing well.  I am totally behind, but valiantly trying to get back on track.  We shall see.  Are you seeing hints of Spring where you are?  We woke up to a shivery 28* this morning, but are looking at steadily increasing temperatures for the next little bit.  Now that I’ve updated you with our weather, lets get to the food.

Here’s what we ate last week:

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Baked chicken with a giant salad, baked potatoes and buttered bread.03.01.21Soup beans, salmon, roasted veggies and Mac and cheese.  My comfort food.03.01.21

Baked ravioli with a giant salad and garlic bread.  YUM.03.01.21

Chicken fajitas with chips and salsa.  These were delicious.  03.01.21

Hot dogs without chili (again) with a variety of chips and broccoli salad.  I had another craving.

03.01.21Hamburgers with onion rings and French fries from a local place in town that opened up recently.  They were just okay.  I don’t say that lightly.  But when EVERYONE’S food is just okay, it’s just okay.03.01.21

Liv and I did the grocery shopping on Saturday, so Sunday dinner changed when I found ribeyes on the clearance rack.  They were divine, with a giant salad, baked potatoes, and garlic bread.

Groceries:  I needed to run into our local Food Lion to find chicken nuggets (hopefully) and came out on Wednesday with a total of $54.93.  On Saturday Liv and I drove to the next town over to stock up on things that our Kroger had on loss leader and walked out of there with a grand total of $173.71.  I had a list and everything!  One of the things that went into the cart was the ribeyes, but I’ve already gotten two meals out of those, so my brain is already telling me that they were justified.  And delicious.

Grand total for the month of February:  $547.53

February 28:  $228.64

February 20:  $88.93

February 13:  $127.09

February 6:  $102.87

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 February?

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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.

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What’s for Supper? 02.15.21

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What’s for supper at your house this week?

Hello friends!  I hope that you are doing well.  We had snow for the third week in a row.  You already know what I’m waiting for.  However pretty it is, and it does melt quickly, I’m still just over here waiting to plant my tomatoes….

Here’s what we ate last week:

Thick cut pork chops with baked potatoes and buttered bread.  There was a salad to go with this, but I somehow missed it when I took the photo.

Baked “Lasagna” with garlic bread and giant salad.

Hot dogs without chili, perfect boiled eggs and chips.

Potato soup, oven bacon and biscuits.  YUM.

Takeout.  But I did make my own green beans!

It was a “whatever you can find” night.  I had hot dogs without chili again. Sometimes you just want something and you have it.  Delicious.

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.

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What’s for Supper? 02.08.21

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What’s for supper at your house this week?

Hello friends!  I hope that you are doing well.  It snowed again this past Saturday night.  While it’s beautiful, I am so ready for Spring.  As always.

Here’s what we ate last week in no particular order:

I made pulled chicken on buns with chips and air fryer pickles.  We have a tavern in our area that makes these pickles deep fried and we love them.  These turned out really good, but I need to tweak the recipe before I share it with you.  Why yes, those are my Christmas dishes.  What do you use to eat on when you don’t run the dishwasher that morning? 😯 

Pancakes with bacon and hash browns.  Liv asked me why I do this to my pancakes.  No, it’s not very appealing to look at, but I can get a better coverage with my syrup this way with less, which doesn’t make me wish I hadn’t made pancakes for supper.  They were pretty good, but I won’t be using this recipe I found online again.

Soup beans with salmon, Mac and cheese, roasted onions and potatoes with fry sauce.  Yum.

Taco salad with a cheese and refried beans and onions rollup.  Delicious.

Roast chicken quarters with baked potatoes and roasted carrots and onions.  We had sweet Hawaiian rolls on the side.

It was a canned soup and grilled cheese night.  Everyone seemed to be content.  I also got Hayden to try my beloved Vegetable Beef which he has now asked for more than once for lunch, so I count that as a win.

Tuna sandwiches with chips and cucumbers.

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.

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What’s for Supper? 02.01.21

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What’s for supper at your house this week?

Hello friends!  I hope that you are doing well.  I completely missed last week.  I am sorry about that.  Every time that I think I’ve found my rhythm this year, I have to start from scratch and find a new one.  One thing that I’ve learned about myself after all of these years on earth is that I’m getting better at it.  Or at least today that’s my feeling.  Ask me if I feel the same later this week, when I’m sure something will be off kilter and I’ll need to realign myself.  Again.  Let’s go!

Here’s what we ate in the last two weeks in no particular order:

Chicken and yellow rice with cornbread muffins and coleslaw.  I’ll try to post this super simple and yummy recipe tomorrow.

BLT sandwiches with chips and fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.  Yum.

Hamburgers with chips and fresh tomatoes and onions.

Kielbasa with rice, fresh cucumbers and garlic bread.

Chinese!  It was my birthday and I got to choose, so this was it.  It was delicious too.

Homemade meatballs with spaghetti and buttered bread.  The meatballs were just okay in my opinion.  Firstly, I’m not a great meatball lover, so I’m already inclined to dislike them. Do you have a tried and true meatball recipe?  I would to have it!

Chicken and dumplings with cornbread muffins.  This looks pretty terrible, but it tasted amazing.  I got the recipe from my brother.  When I make them again, I’ll take photos so I can share it with you.

Soup beans, salmon, Mac and cheese with roasted potatoes, onions and broccoli.  

Burgers with Doritos, fresh onions, tomatoes and cucumbers.

When I spent my morning getting groceries Denton ASKED for Chinese food again.  We tried something new last time.  It was their steamed chicken dumplings, and he feel instantly in love with them.  So I got Chinese twice in two weeks.  Yay for me.  And the dumplings were amazing, again.  Also we have a new favorite to share, their black peppered chicken.  YUM.

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.

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What’s for Supper? 01.18.21

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What’s for supper at your house this week?

Hello friends!  How are you?  Is it cold where you live?  We are having “actual” winter right now here in our part of Virginia.  It snowed all day today.  It didn’t stick, but it’s still cold as all get out.  I’m ready for Spring!!!!  And may it last for at least eight months.  It’s probably a good thing that I’m not in charge of the weather….  Now that I’ve given you our weather update….

What we ate last week in no particular order:

Spaghetti with Rao’s sauce (our favorite!), a giant salad and buttered bread.

Tuna sandwiches, chips and pickles….

Mexican rice and creamy chicken enchiladas.  This meal was AMAZING.  Everyone loved it. I’ll try to recreate it and put it up on the blog.

Slow Cooker Coca Cola Pork Loin (only I made this one with Dr. Pepper….) with green beans, mashed potatoes, stuffing from a box and crescent rolls.  Yum.  I made this meal with “intentional leftovers” in mind….

Slow cooker pork loin on buns, with chips and blueberries.

Soup beans, salmon, roasted potatoes, broccoli and onions.  I made my version of Mac and cheese again, and it was delicious.  I’ve almost perfected it.  Recipe coming soon….

Slow cooker pork loin tacos.  These turned out fantastic.  This was Hayden’s plate.  He ate it all and asked for more later that night.  And he ate all of that too.  Sneak peek for next week – he ate it again on Monday!  This is definitely a keeper.  Also just for reference, he and Denton used the extra large burrito wrappers as taco shells…..and I used a normal human sized one below….

This was my plate.  And yes, yes I do regret covering the whole tostada with ranch dressing.  Otherwise it was very good.  And the pork taco?  Delicious!

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.

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Easy and Delicious Baked Ravioli

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Easy and Delicious Baked Ravioli

If you need an easy and delicious, QUICK meal, this is it.  It’s also just different enough that I can get away with it being something new.  Yay!  Best of all, it’s only FOUR ingredients.

Here’s how I make it:

As always with all of my recipes, if you don’t have something, say ricotta cheese, substitute something else.  I like cottage cheese in bakes like this.  If you don’t have spinach and cheese ravioli, use what you have.  I like this though because it gets more veggies inside us without sacrificing the taste.  This was excellent and I’ll definitely keep it stocked in my freezer from now on.  I HIGHLY recommend the Rao’s marinara though.  Yes, it costs the earth for a spaghetti sauce, but it also tastes amazing, and it doesn’t give everyone in my house heartburn.  Which is worth a gold piece or two.  Right?  Right.

Pour about 1/3 of your spaghetti sauce in the baking pan….

Put down a layer of ravioli…..  Get out your handy dandy scooper….

Put down a layer of ricotta (or cottage cheese)……  The scooper just makes everything more tidy, which makes my heart happy….

Sprinkle over some shredded cheese….

Add another layer of spaghetti sauce….

More ravioli and ricotta…..

More shredded cheese……

And just keep doing that until you are happy or you run out of supplies, OR your pan is completely full.  You do you, boo.Baked Ravioli

Bake until golden brown and bubbly.  I don’t mind that the ricotta doesn’t spread much, but if you do, just smear it about with a rubber spatula.  But I don’t have time for that…. YUM.
Serve with my favorite garlic bread.  And a giant salad.  More salads Tracie……

ravioli bake

And voila!  Here’s the handy dandy printable.

Easy and Delicious Ravioli Bake

Print Recipe
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 (24 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce (we LOVE Rao's)
  • 1 (30 ounce) bag frozen ravioli
  • 1 (16 ounce) container ricotta cheese (or whatever yummy cheese you have on hand, like cottage cheese for instance)
  • 1 cup (or more) of shredded cheese

Instructions
 

  • Pour a thin layer of sauce in the bottom of your baking pan...
  • Add a layer of frozen ravioli
  • Then use a scooper to add a layer of ricotta cheese
  • Sprinkle with shredded cheese
  • Repeat the layers until you are happy or you run out of ingredients....
  • Ending with shredded cheese on the top.
  • Bake in a 400* oven until golden brown....
  • Serve with your favorite garlic bread and a giant salad! Enjoy!
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What’s for Supper? 01.11.21

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What’s for supper at your house this week?

Hello friends!  How are you?  So far this year I am keeping up with having something green on my plate every day, even if it’s only a pickle!  How are you doing in the vegetable department?  I hope that you are eating something yummy every day.

What we ate last week in no particular order:

Baked potatoes with a giant salad and buttered bread.  There was supposed to be baked chicken with this meal, but I had technical difficulties….

Burgers with chips and raw veggies.  My favorite.

Taco salad.  Yum.

Soup beans, with roasted potato wedges, asparagus and onions, salmon, and homemade Mac and cheese.  The Mac and cheese was really good.  We are getting very picky about things in our old age – even Hayden and Olivia.  It’s quality over quantity in some things now.  When I feel like the Mac and cheese is the best I can do, I’ll share the recipe with you.

For Liv’s birthday she asked for chicken and yellow rice.  Or rather, tofu and yellow rice.  I added garlic bread and coleslaw and it was great.

Chicken patties on a bun with pickles, raw tomatoes and chips.  I’m trying to add more raw veggies and less chips.  It works sometimes.

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.

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Easy Green Bean Casserole

Easy Green Bean Casserole

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Easy Green Bean Casserole

Do you have a favorite easy green bean casserole recipe?  This is mine.  It’s super easy, fast and it tastes delicious.

Here’s how I make it:

Start with all of your ingredients:  I like the French style green beans, a can of cream of mushroom condensed soup, soy sauce, milk and French fried onions…..

Drain your green beans….

Add the can of soup…..

Then add a half of can of milk…..

A teaspoon of soy sauce….

As much black pepper as you can stand.  For me it’s a LOT.

Mix that all together…..

Add in half OR all of the French fried onions.  Just remember that you’ll want to add more to the top later.  So maybe you should buy two…..

Pour into a greased baking pan and bake for 20 minutes until its hot and bubbling.  Then put on the rest of your French fried onions and bake for another 10 minutes.

Or until it looks like this.  YUM.Easy Green Bean Casserole

And voila!  Here’s the handy dandy printable.

Easy Green Bean Casserole

Print Recipe
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cans french style green beans, drained
  • 1 (10.5 ounce can) cream of mushroom condensed soup
  • 1/2 can milk
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper, or more to your taste
  • 1 or 2 (6 ounce bags) french fried onions

Instructions
 

  • Mix everything EXCEPT your reserved french fried onions together and pour into a greased baking dish.
  • Bake at 350* for 20 minutes until hot and bubbly.
  • Sprinkle the reserved french fried onions over the top and bake for an additional 10 minutes.
  • If you can wait for it to slightly cool, do that. Then enjoy!

Easy Green Bean Casserole

 

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What’s for Supper? 01.04.21

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What’s for supper at your house this week?

Hello friends!  How are you?  Isn’t it lovely to see that date?  I’m always just thankful to see another day; life is a gift.  I want to try to make the most of it and that involves eating better to fuel my body to function the best it can for as long it can.  All of that to say, I want to make a concerted effort this year to sit down each month and actually PLAN our meals with the hope that I’ll get more green things into our bodies on a more regular basis.

Here’s to plans, and sticking to them!

What we ate last week in no particular order:

Hot dogs.  Yum.  I don’t remember why I didn’t get my chili on this one, but I made it.  And look:  something green!

Potato soup, with buttered bread, broccoli salad and slow cooker little smokies.  

Taco salad, chips and salsa and a bean and cheese burrito.  

Soup beans.  My favorite.  With a side of salmon, Mac and cheese, roasted potatoes and fried mushrooms.

Subway.  I love these occasionally.  And it contains green peppers, so that counts.  Right?

Pizza Hut.  Again.  We are desperate for our pizza joint to open back up.  Or I just need to buckle down and make pizza myself again.

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's for Supper?

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.