no time indeed

i didnt post. i'm sorry about that. i will post this week.

i kind of went off task this last 2 weeks. instead of preparing a meal plan ahead of grocery shopping, i just went willy-nilly. probally not the best plan. i spent $110 at the market. including my coffee and cookie. we're going to CNF tomorrow to buy a bit more (cheese....and some other stuff) but the plan is to spend less than $50. damn i hope we do.

i'll post with all the info early in the week.

no time like the present

ok, i havent organized my post for this week yet.

i will.

its crap though. i spent too much (which was still less than normal)

i STILL have the chicken thighs in the freezer!!!!

maybe this week??

jan 14th - jan 20

ok. the list is much smaller this week. I think i over buy, and over plan. so i'm going with less this week. I have 2 nights planned for leftovers, and i'll still have too much food in my house.

so here it is:

MENU
sunday ~ roast beast leftovers (there should be tonnes!!!)
monday ~ turkey stew (making a stew from the soup from last week) and biscuts
tuesday ~ chicken thighs and roasted veg (thighs from last week - freezered)
wedndsday ~ black bean burritos
thrusday ~ shrimp stirfry (shrimp from christmas)
friday ~ veggie casserole (tonnes in the freezer - and the last of the fresh - hopefully)
saturday ~ leftovers


GROCERY LIST

**from the market**
milk
yogurt
bread
chicken breakfest sausages
2 avacado
2 yellow onions
2 apple pears
carrots

total - $27 (there may have been a few more things - i dont recall)

**from community natual foods**
rice
cheese
salsa
squash
frozen corn
prunes (for my little paity pants :( )
coffee
tea
chocolate
dried friut
millet
*pretzels
*caleb bought a cereal for him
*2 magazines
*rice crisps

ok, so the magazines were a very frivilous (sp?) purchase, but nick doenst really know the meaning of staying on the list - and i got suckered into a "mothering" magazine, so i cant say much. The tea was $11, the damn cereal was almost $7, (i really should have checked that!) and how is it exactly that rice can be $8 for 1.33KG? wow.

so the total of our "cheap" shopping trip was $98.19, for a grand total of $125.19 (aprox)

so much for keeping it cheap and using stuff that i had in the house.
i'm hoping that if i keep to the list (and maybe shop alone?) i'll spend less. I have to bake muffins with the bananas that i have, and make nick some granola bars too, but i should have time to do that tomorrow, after we go bowling!!!

jen

one thing i've learned

I'm pretty sure i over buy food. It was never obvious to me before. I plan. its what i do. but it seems to me that i must over plan. (i guess to go with my over buying??)

We're 5 days into this meal planning thing, and i've only made 1.5 planned meals. Its worked out well finacially because i ended up using up left overs. my chicken thighs are still in the freezer, the tofu is cooked, but not eaten as i sucked at the cooking part.

so its working.....i'm learning.

the first of many

My new years reasolution is to get our grocery situation a little more under control. So I stole this fabulas idea from the most delishhogaboom. So here I start, for all to see.

Menu for Jan 6 - Jan 13

sat ~ stir fry
sun ~ out for party
mon ~ veggie chili
tues ~ chicken thighs with roasted veg
wed ~ black bean & rice burritos
thrus ~ turkey soup w/seed biscuts
fri ~ leftovers
sat ~ roast beast

Grocery List:

canned tomatoes x3
dried black beans
lettuce
red pepper
ginger
bread x2
dipping sauce (for calebs chicken in his lunches)
granola bars
nuts
yogurt x2
jam
chocolate
salsa
burrito shells
rasions
diapers
frozen berries
cereal
oats
apples
pears
tea
eggs
buttermilk
*eggnog (on sale)
*butter
*crackers