Cheap & Cheerful Suppers For the End of April

Friday

• pancakes and syrup
• last of the milk divided between daughters 

Saturday (quasi-birthday celebration for husband, we let him off the hook for dinner and daughters and I made it)

• lentil-ham soup
• drop biscuits
• carrot sticks
• orange wedges
• birthday cake -- scratch, my daughters made it and it was delicious

Sunday (husband cooks)

• homemade flour tortillas
• beans and tomatoes
• canned pineapple chunks
• birthday cake

Monday

• baked chicken breast
• baked potatoes, topped with chives and cream cheese
• sauteed kale
• stewed prunes
• birthday cake

Tuesday

• hot dogs in bargain buns, from the freezer
• oven fries
• cole slaw
• stewed prunes

Wednesday (only 3 tonight)

• spinach frittata, topped with canned tomatoes, seasonings, mozzarella
• brown rice
• 1 orange, split 3 ways

Thursday

• pumpkin, spinach, chicken, potato, black bean, cream cheese (and anything else I could find) soup
• drop biscuits
• stewed prunes

And we got through another week! You know, I've been feeling like it has been a very rainy and chilly year, since the first of the year. I was thinking maybe it was all in my head. Then I saw a report that said this has been the rainiest October-April stretch on record.  My cabin fever has escalated! I have no idea what this means for summer. The year that we had the longest stretch of snow on the ground in winter (3 weeks in front of our house, really unusual for us), we hit an all-time high temp in the summer of 103. Who knows what will happen this year. 

So, my last project is a video. I'm working on that this weekend, and will get it all done, I hope. We really need me to do some cooking and shopping again. Our meals have been on the slim side. What's been cooking at your house this week?

I Haven't Grocery Shopped in Two Weeks and It Feels Like an Eternity

I just have not had time. I miss time. The interesting thing, though, is how much food we actually have in the house. That last shopping that I did two weeks ago wasn't even a big shop. It was just a couple of items that I thought would get through the next day or two. And then the ignition on my car broke.

I ran out of liquid milk on Saturday. I've been mixing up powdered milk as we've needed it. I am all out of any commercial milk that I can have.  So I made a quick batch of coconut milk yesterday, for my own consumption. We are all out of fresh fruit and are now relying on frozen berries, prunes, and canned pineapple. The fresh veggie supply is limited to 2 carrots, 1/4 head of cabbage, several onions, 3 or 4 lbs of potatoes, and whatever I can scrounge from the garden. I do have canned yams, pumpkin, tomatoes, and corn, still, plus a couple of meals of frozen spinach. It is slim pickins around these parts. Oddly, the kitchen freezer continues to look very full. I keep digging around in there to find goodies. Yesterday, I found another container of pineapple liquid (saved from draining canned pineapple). I've been sick since Saturday, so that tasted good, and helped rehydrate me.

I am wondering just how long I can stretch this limited shopping. Tuesday is Senior Discount day, so I will be adding a milk supply, as well as some fresh produce, tortillas, hot dogs, and cheese.

How about you? Are your grocery supplies dwindling for the month? Just a few more days as the month draws to a close. Be back tomorrow morning!