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| This is the filling for Friday's turkey and dumplings. Doesn't it look colorful? It's got turkey, mushrooms, onions, carrots, cooked squash, frozen spinach, barley, and canned green beans in it. |
I spent $2.10 at Walmart this week on boxed stuffing mix, bringing my monthly spending up to $83.12. I have $22.92 remaining in January's grocery budget. There's only 1 week of January left, so I think we'll do fine with the budget this month.
Our meals were again all made at home.
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| Friday |
Friday
turkey, vegetables, and dumplings
orange wedges
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| Saturday |
Saturday
bean tacos, using fried homemade flour tortillas, filled with refried beans, sprouts, salsa, yogurt
carrot sticks
orange wedges
Sunday
ham from New Years
boxed turkey stuffing
roasted butternut squash
Monday (we watched a movie from the library with dinner tonight, fun times)
lentil vegetable soup (made a double batch to have again later)
toasted cheese sandwiches
Tuesday (daughter's night)
baked lentils (like baked beans, just using lentils because they cook so quickly)
mixed canned green beans and canned corn
corn muffins
apple pie
Wednesday (other daughter's night)
scrambled eggs
boxed stuffing
canned green beans
apple pie
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| Thursday |
Thursday (the power went out just as I was serving dinner)
homemade ham and pineapple pizza (dough and sauce was frozen from another night, ham from New Years, canned pineapple)
slaw with cabbage and lentil sprouts, scratch dressing
carrot sticks
orange wedges
cookies
Last night's dinner was somewhat exciting. I had just taken the pizza out of the oven and was in the process of cutting it into slices. All of the side dishes were made and plated up. At 6:07 I called the family to dinner and before they could get to the table, our power was out. I scrambled to find flashlights, battery-powered candles, and a couple of wax candles/matches. I finished serving up dinner and we ate in very dim light. It was just over an hour when we had all finished eating, and the power came back on. We're very fortunate to live in an area where power rarely stays out long.
This has been a difficult week for Seattle. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, there were 3 shootings in a very crowded part of the downtown area. This is very unsettling for most of us in the region. It's what everyone is talking about. When you read about a mass shooting in someone else's city, it never seems to register just how upset the entire population of that area will be, and for several days. But when it's your own city, the city where you may go often or just occasionally yet always feel safe, it feels so tragic and inconceivable. It also feels wrong to those living in the affected area that this news story fell off of the major national news sites' front pages. I know -- the rest of the world goes on. But for us, right now, this feels so sad and very confusing that this could happen here.
Sorry, so off-topic. But I just don't feel right, right now.
I am wishing you all a good, safe, and secure weekend. Be back Monday.
