It never fails. The grocery list price always hurts and I think it's getting bigger even though it doesn't seem like we are eating any more than we did a few months ago.
If I put a recipe up and you're interested, please let me know and I'll share the recipe. I forget so much, but I'll stick a reminder on my computer if I know somebody is interested...
So the meal plan...
Breakfasts are pretty normal.. I found a yummy cinnamon roll recipe that freezes them, then you thaw the night before-also uses the bread machine to mix the dough making it super easy on me.
Saturday lunches we have Hawaiian Fajitas, meatball subs and smoky maple mustard fish fillets.
Every other Sunday we do pizza for lunch.. the weeks we do pizza, we have BBQ Ranch Chicken Sandwiches for supper (mini hoagie buns from Sam's are surprisingly low in carbs!!). The other Sundays we do hot sandwiches from a fast food restaurant for lunch with chips and drinks from home, and homemade pizza for supper. I found a pizza dough recipe that uses the bread machine that we are loving. One recipe makes two pizzas for us as we prefer thin crust... For now we are using regular cookie sheets, but round pizza pans are on my list so I can pre-make the entire pizza before hand and have them frozen.
Weekday lunches aren't changing too much... I did find an entire turkey in the deep freezer, so that's going to meet the slow cooker and the kids and I will do something with it. Along with Peanut butter and jelly with homemade bread (I'm really loving this bread machine).
For snacks I'm making cookies (I freeze a bunch so they are not just sitting out on the counter), fruit, popcorn, we'll get ice cream like we usually do in the summer, and I'm hoping to find teddy grahams and m&ms cheap at Aldi's to make a popcorn trail mix for something different.
Suppers... Everything is on a repeat this month, so there's not that many different ones.
Dorito Taco Salad
Honey Mustard Chicken, Bacon and Avocado salad
Teriyaki Marinated Chicken with broccoli
Simple Mexican Chicken with homemade refried beans
Easy Parmesan Chicken with broccoli and roasted potatoes
Five Spice Tilapia with fried rice
Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken with bacon green beans and roasted potatoes
Garlic Chicken with salad
Oven BBQ Asian Chicken with fried rice
Ouch. That shopping trip was painful. In more than just the sore back way. Dennis isn't feeling well so he sat in the car with kids while I did the shopping. He's not allowed to do that anymore. :/ lol
Now I will say in my defense that I've never actually looked at the total pounds of chicken we use... This month I bought the pre-frozen chicken breast (10 lbs for $18, cheaper for us than buying it from the butcher counter like we usually do)... So while before I could write down on my list how many breasts I needed then count how many are in a package and get however many packages... But this time I had to go by weight... so I made a guess and got 20 pounds of chicken... Which still seems like a lot of chicken, but I would have rather had extra than not enough.
Also in my defense I point you to the baby belly, which was unchecked in the store lol... so in Aldi I grabbed a few extras-hey, they looked good! And Dennis should enjoy them, too. I also picked up some sandals that were originally marked $30 and were $8.99. Can't go wrong with that, right? Especially with my swelling feet not fitting into ANYTHING (yes I'm milking these pregnancy symptoms for everything I've got).
That was really all the extra I picked up.. Ok ok, we spent $3.50 on a dozen donuts. But cinnamon rolls DO get old lol.
Now, we already have earned $2 back from the savings apps I have-Saving Star and Ibotta. We're waiting on receipt verification from the rest, which give us points that are particular to the app, we have to earn so much to get a payout.
Ok. So... for the damage. $683.71
Now that you've picked yourself up off the ground... Yeah.. It's painful. I'm REALLY hoping that chicken will last us a few months. I also completely forgot what I was going to type... So...
Have a good week!
~Tabitha
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