Grocery shopping for the week
My daughter picked up a bunch of bananas for me while she was at Walmart on Monday. Spent $1.60. I need my bananas for my lunchtime smoothies.
On Wednesday, I went to WinCo to buy Halloween treats and 5 medium/large pumpkins (28 cents/lb). I cook these large pumpkins (large compared to my garden pumpkins) with the skin on and puree for winter pies, breads, muffins, cakes, soups, and pasta sauces. I also bought a head of cabbage (78 cents/lb, some bulk peanuts ($1.98/lb), bulk cornstarch ($1.28/lb), bulk flax seed meal ($2.28/lb), bulk peanut butter powder for smoothies ($6.08/lb), ketchup ($1.18), boneless/skinless chicken breasts ($2.88/lb), a gallon of whole milk ($3.29), and 5 dozen medium eggs ($7.28). I spent $54.34, for $55.94 total for the week.
I spent $247.91 last week, which was the first time in the month I grocery shopped, so my monthly total so far is $303.85.
Dinners this week
Friday
Our first homemade pizza in months. I made a garlic, rosemary, olive oil crust, then topped with tomato-based sauce, pizza blend cheese, and sliced gyro meat that was leftover from my husband's and my birthday dinner in April (it's been in the freezer all this time). With the pizza we had sautéed Swiss chard and onions, and chopped apples. We watched Crazy on the Outside, with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver, a free movie on Freevee watched with the Roku.
Saturday
A vegetably meal tonight. Sometimes I just want lots of vegetables. We had black-eyed peas, baked with onions, garlic, celery leaves, thyme and olive oil. With this we also had steamed baby carrots, oven-roasted purple potatoes (using up the tiny ones), and cheese.
Sunday
Again with the purple potatoes. This time I chose some larger ones and baked them, then topped with a cheese sauce. Sautéed kale and grilled onions on the side.
Monday
I made beef and vegetable stew, using carrots, celery, and potatoes from our garden, and some frozen peas. I wasn't feeling great this afternoon. A stomach bug is going through our family and it was just catching me. Anyway, I took my bowl of stew to bed and suggested others make toast to go with their stew. I started to feel better after eating my serving of stew.
Tuesday
This was my easy day, including making an easy dinner. I made scratch tomato soup and focaccia bread. So tasty and it hit the spot.
Wednesday
One daughter made dinner for us tonight. She roasted a small garden pumpkin then mashed it with butter, baked a sheet pan of purple potatoes, and skillet-sautéed a large chicken breast, diced, seasoning the meat with onions, garlic, and tex-mex spices.
Thursday
My other daughter is cooking tonight. She's making scrambled eggs, sautéed cabbage, slices of freshly baked bread and chopped fresh apples.
The air turned very cold this week, so I'm hurrying to get celery and the rest of the garden onions in. I washed and sorted 2 bundles (of 9) of celery this afternoon. I pulled out the good ribs for fresh eating, then chopped the rest of the ribs and leaves for the freezer, to use in soups, stews, sauces, and casseroles this fall and winter. The celery was very dirty, so I only took care of 2 bundles today. I covered the rest of the plants with 2 sheets for the night, in case temps really drop overnight. The next few days will be freezing overnight. So I hope to get all of the celery harvested by Saturday. I'm a little slow getting everything harvested this year. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now.
How was your week? Were there any especially tasty meals on your table? My favorite dinner this week was probably the pizza dinner, closely followed by all 6 other dinners. Can you tell I like to eat?
