Gametime: What Meal is That?

Shopping Results:

My grocery shopping this week added up to $26.99 for:

WEEKLY PURCHASES:

Lettuce
Milk

LOSS LEADERS:

Cucumbers
Bell peppers (not as great as summer, but a good winter price)
Broccoli slaw

NECESSARY ITEMS:

Lemon juice
Lime juice


GAME TIME!

This next section is for you to play. It's a guessing game I'm calling "What Meal is That?" Looking at the Entree ingredients, can you tell what I will be serving this week? Leave your guesses in the comments. The person with the most right answers each week will be featured on my sidebar with blog link!

This Week's Menus:
Friday: (too easy)
Entree: hamburger, seasonings, a grill involved
Addition: salad, green beans

Saturday: (Ridiculously easy.)
Entree: scallops, raw vegetables, sticks and a grill involved
Additions: brown rice

Sunday: (Finally, a bit of a challenge!)
Entree: chicken, garlic, broccoli, black olives, tomato sauce
Additions: salad

Monday: (Don't strain your brain on this one!)
Entree: beef roast
Additions: Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, cornbread

Tuesday: (Embarrassingly simple.)Entree: chicken, lemon juice, garlic, grill involved
Additions: bell peppers, brown rice

Wednesday:Entree: Leftovers (I've got an evening meeting)
Additions: salad

Thursday: (This one's a bit deceiving.)
Entree: large lettuce leaves, shredded chicken, salsa, brocco sprouts
Additions: A second one of the above

Gametime: What Meal is That?

SHOPPING REPORT:

My grocery shopping this week added up to $68.67 for:

WEEKLY PURCHASE:
Milk
Apples
Bananas
Lettuce

LOSS LEADERS:
BLSL chicken
Beef Roast
Canned tomatoes (crushed, whole, diced)
Shrimp ($2.99/pound!)
Artisan bread (buy 1 get 2 free = .83 per loaf)

The meats marched that total right up there, but their prices were the rock bottom ones that I wait for to stock up.

GAME TIME!

This next section is for you to play. It's a guessing game I'm calling "What Meal is That?" Looking at the Entree ingredients, can you tell what I will be serving this week? Leave your guesses in the comments. The person with the most right answers each week will be featured on my sidebar with blog link!

This Week's Menu:
Thursday:
Entree: potatoes, corn, creamed corn, flour, butter, onions
Additions: artisan bread, salad

Friday:
Entree: ground beef, baked beans, cheese, flaky biscuits
Addition: salad

Saturday: (an easy one)
Entree: shrimp, salad
Additions: cheese, grits

Sunday:
Entree: ground beef, tomato paste, breadcrumbs, carrots/onions combo
Additions: potatoes, milk, sour cream, green beans

Monday: (Don't strain your brain on this one!)
Entree: Ham
Additions: Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, cornbread

Tuesday:
Entree: sweet potatoes, milk, curry
Additions: artisan bread, salad

Wednesday:
Entree: dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella, onions
Additions: salad

Thursday:
Entree: Leftovers! It's errand running/grocery shopping day.

NOTE:

Just FYI, my lunches are all leftovers from the previous night and my breakfasts are generally the following every week. Except for Sunday and Thursday, we eat together at the table for breakfast:

Sunday: Some type of sweet rolls and coffee--we have to leave early for church
Monday: Fried eggs, sausage or bacon, toast, citrus
Tuesday: Hot cereal and fruit smoothie
Wednesday: Scrambled egg sandwiches, citrus
Thursday: Cold cereal and citrus (DH leaves at 6:30--no table time!)
Friday: Pancakes or waffles, sausage or bacon, citrus
Saturday: Depends on what we're doing. Sometimes muffins, sometimes leftover pancakes, sometimes biscuits and gravy.

Cooking From the Pantry: 2012 Edition

Source

I began this blog in 2008.  My subject was cooking from my pantry with just a few purchases to keep us going.  HERE is where you can read about that.

With the new year I've decided to shop in my own on-site markets again to save money and to use up the stock.  This time, however, I'm going to change a few things.

1. I will purchase raw veggies for salads, apples, bananas, and milk each week.
2. I will ALSO take advantage of truly useful loss leaders at the two stores I frequent most.  Just the truly useful ones, though.
3. I'm going to plan in the classic frugal meals (eg beans) right from the beginning rather than waiting until the last several days.  My dh loves those kinds of meals, but I feel deprived.
4. I'm going to list my daily stock usage in a way that will give you opportunity to guess what meals I've come up with using those ingredients.  I'm doing this for two reasons:  Because it's fun and because you might make suggestions that I hadn't thought of for that particular food combination!

I will begin tomorrow and will go through February.  Tomorrow's post will list my meals and my grocery totals.  If you're up for some guessing games, come and see what you make of my un-named menus.