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Sick with the Yuck and Snakes...No, Not that Kind

January 26th, 2011 at 09:01 am

I've managed to catch a cold on top of my kidney infection. It's that awful sort of full head, dripping nose, sore throat, don't want to do anything productive cold. So my meal planning kind of went out the window. We did not get takeaway though, no matter how sorely I was tempted. This makes...16 days I think with no eating out.

Instead I opened the cupboard doors and pulled out chili for the boys and beef stew for the girls. I don't like to do that sort of thing often. I'm not a big fan of processed foods but the chili was from Trader Joe's and the stew doesn't have additives or preservatives so in a pinch it'll do. That was about $7. I also ate ice cream twice today. Not something I normally do, but my throat hurt so much I just didn't care. It's $4 a quart and I ate half of it. Yikes. Oh, well. I hope I feel better tomorrow.

DH spent $25 on a plumber's snake today and used it to clean out the dryer hose. The dryer hasn't been drying properly in ages and after going through three cycles on high heat with one load he figured out it was jammed up. It's twenty feet from the dryer to the outside vent so he bought a 25 foot snake. He got out enough lint to make a cat with. Now it's drying nicely. One thing to look for when we buy a new house is a dryer connection on the outside wall of the house. It was so easy at our old house, you just reached in from the outside and pulled out anything that was there. This house was badly designed when it comes to accessing things.

The final interest payment on the loan posted today so it is officially paid off, unless they pull something like interest on the interest. Darn evil empire(BoA).

My meal plan for Wednesday is basically Joe's O's (like Cheerios, but organic and from TJ's) cereal for breakfast and whatever DH packs the kids for lunch and chicken noodle soup for dinner. I've got onions, carrots, celery, parsley, chicken broth, some leftover chicken, and noodles and they can just go in the crockpot and simmer away for four hours.

4 Responses to “Sick with the Yuck and Snakes...No, Not that Kind”

  1. Savings Queen Says:
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    Sorry you're under the weather today. I just came through kidney stone surgery so I kind of understand the kidney thing. I have been reading past issues of your blog. It's so imspiring that you make your own breads, jellies, etc. and how closely you track the cost of your meals. Please keep posting the info about the cost of your meals as it is making me start to think about reducing our food budget. Your good work and even your resolve to eat out less is good for me to see. LOVED your only water and no dessert rule in restaurants. I always drink water and DH is better about it but I need to tell our kids the rule and the reason why. It makes me cringe to spend $2 each for drinks!!

  2. creditcardfree Says:
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    I hope you feel better soon!

  3. North Georgia Gal Says:
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    Sorry you don't feel well. Hope you get better soon.

  4. LuckyRobin Says:
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    Thank you, everyone.

    SQ--Well, I have to make a lot of things because my son has some pretty severe allergies to food additives, preservatives, colorings, and stabilizers. He's also allergic to apples and grapes and they put apple juice and grape juice or raisin juice in everything that doesn't have HFCS in it (which he can't have either). It's ridiculous. So we pretty much have to make our own jelly and bread and stuff. It's gotten to be a habit now. I'm glad the food tracking is helping you though. I'm always afraid it's just going to boring, but I do it because it helps me stay accountable.

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