Cheap & Cheerful Supper Menus for Late May

Friday

• leftover pizza
• cole slaw

Saturday (husband cooks)

• tomato and vegetable sauce over linguini

Sunday (husband cooks)

• scrambled eggs
• carrot sticks
• hashbrowns

Monday

• turkey, cream cheese, cranberry sauce sandwiches (the turkey sandwiches were leftovers from a luncheon for which I volunteered on Saturday. I added the cream cheese and cranberry sauce.)
• tortilla chips and salsa
• carrot sticks and celery sticks
• canned pineapple

Tuesday

• baked chicken
• brown rice with chicken gravy
• dinner rolls topped with chicken gravy
• sauteed kale and onions in ham fat
• rhubarb pie

Wednesday

• vegetable-beef soup using pot roast from the freezer, carrots, celery tops, kale, onion, barley
• drop biscuits
• salad of cucumber and cabbage in blue cheese dressing
• rhubarb pie

Thursday

• homemade pizza, using scratch dough, spaghetti sauce from the freezer, cheese and olives
• green salad from the garden
• rhubarb sauce from the garden

Sorry I wasn't here yesterday. I had something major that I was working on all Wednesday and into Thursday. It took over my life! It's a long weekend this weekend, here. Anyone have plans? I think we'll do a cook-out on Saturday night, with hot dogs and s'mores. If no one has discovered them, I have graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate pieces in the pantry. I have homemade hotdog buns in the freezer, and a package of hotdogs in the fridge. Tonight, it might be just me and one daughter for dinner, or it might just be me. Whatever, it will be low-key. 

How was your week? Anything special going on this week for you? Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

Browsing Self-help Books Online

I find recommendations for a lot of books at different groups that I visit. One group in particular recommends a lot of self-help books. Before even checking the library, I pop over to Amazon to see if they have the book. I then, browse the book through the little "look inside" feature. Not every book has this, but many do. If you click on the "Look inside" the page will bring up a good chunk of the book. Sometimes, you have to hover over the upper right corner, just above the book, for the "Look inside" to appear.

Obviously, they don't show you all or even most of the book. But much of it is available this way. And depending on if you're visit Amazon.com, or Amazon.ca, or Amazon.co.uk, different amounts of the book may be available, depending on the book. I sometimes read the excerpt to a book on another's country's Amazon site.

Clearly, this sneak peak is designed for shoppers to see if they want to purchase the book. I use it to see if I want to check the book out from the library. And then, perhaps I may want to own a specific book. Most of the time, though, with self-help books, I can get the gist of the information, enough for my tastes, in just the sneak peak. It's just another frugal indulgence of mine.

I mentioned the sneak peak feature to a friend who had ordered a book from Amazon, recently, and this friend was very surprised that this even existed. So, I'm sharing, in case you don't know this either.