What’s for supper at your house this week?
Last week we had Black Bean & Poblano Flautas, Santa Fe Pork Tacos and more.
Hello friends! I hope that you are doing well. We are well into summer here in Virginia already and I am lamenting the swift passing of Spring. However we are having Florida weather, with thunderstorms every afternoon which makes Denton happy. But it also makes for filthy floors from our resident 110 pound friend who thinks running as hard as he can through knee high mud holes is the best thing ever. Here he is looking clean and content.
How are your temperatures right now?
Here’s what we ate last week:
Black Bean and Poblano Flautas. This was one of our Hello Fresh meals and it was fantastic. I will definitely be making these again.
Santa Fe Pork Tacos. This was our second Hello Fresh meal. Denton said that this was hands down the best meal we have eaten from these meal kits. Now here is where everything comes down to your tastes. Everyone else thought they were just fine. Fine. I actually thought they tasted sweet which was throwing me off, but Denton raved about them. To each their own. I think I would like to try these with beef instead of the pork to see if it cuts out that sweetness that I didn’t care for. But the slaw was excellent on them.
Denton played with his new toy and we had grilled burgers with grilled zucchini, chips and raw onions and tomatoes. Well, that’s what you had if you are me. Everyone else just had burgers, chips and zucchini…..
Sloppy joes. When you need something to put on plates in under 20 minutes this is always a winner in my book.
Creamy chicken with mushrooms and rice. I’ve been wanting to try this after we had the Creamy chicken with spinach and artichokes, and I liked this much better. 
Subway. Sometimes I just crave this 9 grain oat bread. I need to find a local source to buy it here, or learn to make it myself.
I found a Tri Tip cut of beef at my local Food Lion and brought it home to Denton and his toy. I had never heard of this cut of meat until we visited our family in California. It’s really good. I wish that this hadn’t had a sauce on it already, because I really didn’t like what Food Lion used and I know what the steak was supposed to taste like……
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. If you want to see what we are eating every night before I post it here on Monday’s, you can follow me on Instagram.
Groceries
This past week I used the Walmart grocery pickup again and I still have nothing bad to say about it at all. I pulled in, checked in with the app that I have on my phone. A man came out within a couple of minutes, checked to see who I was and came back out in under three minutes and loaded it all in the back hatch of my Pilot. He even asked if I wanted to put my eggs and bread up front with me. I find this fantastic.
The only issue I’m having with this system is I can’t let go of my inner control freak and let them give me substitutions if they don’t have one of my items. This week, I didn’t get one of the pizza’s I had put on my order and the variety pack of 32 ice creams that I had been dreaming about since I added them to my cart…..I actually didn’t need the ice creams, but I certainly wanted them. I need to just try it and see what happens, but I do LOVE the Nature’s Own Butterbread……
I did however run into Food Lion to grab Pepsi because it was on sale 4 for $11.00 and this is when I found the Sweet and Smoky Tri Tip on sale. Don’t buy the Sweet and Smoky version. Just get it the way it came out of the steer. Trust me, it tastes much better that way.
I am loving what this is doing for my grocery budget!!
June 9: Walmart $84.55 | Food Lion $19.09 Total for the week: $103.64
June ~ so far: $166.18
May $513.19
April $643.67
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?
Hello Fresh: Trattoria Tortelloni Bake. This was yummy. The 
I need to experiment and find out what they put in their fry seasoning. It was really great on the roasted potato wedges. That’s the one downfall of just using Hello Fresh’s recipes alone. When they send you your meals, they send you everything that you would need to make it. You can always substitute veggie stock for veggie stock, but “fry seasoning” is pretty vague.
Soup beans with 
Hot dogs on the fire. 
You have to remember that my main reason for wanting to try this food experiment was to try new things that I know are supposed to taste like what they actually are. Kim ran a Korean restaurant for decades and I’m telling you it was very, very close to what she made us for dinner. She is an AMAZING cook and what I made was very comparable.
