I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!I did my weekly grocery shopping yesterday. The ads were not very good for most things, but Safeway had a great price on bone in, skin on chicken thighs so I stocked up on that, ending up with enough for four meals for four people. I also got a decent deal on round steak. I usually don't buy steak from the store, but we are out of steaks from our beef purchase except for beef heart steaks and I'm working up my courage to cook those. I've never made them before. There's not much left of our half a beef, mostly soup bones, a couple roasts, and some hamburger. I will likely order another half at the end of the summer.
A lot of my shopping was just stocking up. We started off at Costco where I got:
1 case of organic tomato sauce
1 case of organic diced tomatoes
3.15 pounds of carne asada
3 3pks of Kerrygold grassfed butter
1 package of Yangtze pork
I spent $77.01 there. Our next stop was a brief one, at Haggen where I spent $23.36. For that I got:
9 round steaks
1.29 pounds of Ranier cherries (@3.99/lb)
Then we went to Safeway where I spent $43.37 and got:
3 value packs of chicken thighs (a total of 30 thighs)
2 1/2 gallons of organic milk
1 Woman's World Magazine
2.2 pounds of red cherries (@ 1.88/lb)
1 bottle 1000 Island dressing
Altogether I spent $143.74 out of my $200 weekly budget. I might have to buy more milk before Friday, or some bread, and my daughter wants me to pick up some coffee creamer. But I should still have quite a bit left after that. I am debating going back and getting more chicken before the sale is up. I could spend $30 on it and still have money left for bread, milk, and creamer.
I did find a recipe for making bread in the Nuwave oven that I am going to try this week. If it turns out, then maybe I'll stop buying bread again and just go back to making it. My mother's oven is not reliable enough for making bread in the larger oven, and the smaller one is not big enough for the bread to have room to rise, but it still works fine for rolls and pizza.
Grocery Shopping Tracking
July 1st, 2018 at 03:02 am
July 1st, 2018 at 05:36 pm 1530466605
July 1st, 2018 at 07:26 pm 1530473166
Have you ever used a bread machine for bread making? Many of our thrift stores have them and some look like new and include directions. I used to bake bread with a machine and actually wore 3 of them out. I am not eating as much bread as I did, but I miss the smell of homemade bread in the house. I think there's a recipe online for using your Crockpot as well, but I have not tried it.
July 2nd, 2018 at 02:19 am 1530497992
July 2nd, 2018 at 02:26 am 1530498390
Crockpot bread doesn't brown. That bugs me. I like my loaf to be browned.