I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 28 years, disabled daughter, adult 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 didn't feel good enough on Monday to do my usual baking. I didn't really feel good enough to do it today either, but DH is home until the 8th so he did most of the work under my directions. He's good like that. I'm probably too contagious to really be touching the food anyway.
We made two batches of hamburger buns today because we decided to make up a bunch of cheeseburgers to freeze. We had gotten into a habit of buying 20 of the cheap double cheeseburgers at a time from McD's and freezing them for days when things were just crazy. Each one costs $1.29 with tax for a total cost of $25.80. I figured we could do them cheaper from scratch, but the other way was just more convenient. Well, today DH grilled up 20 hamburger patties and then we assmebled 20 cheeseburgers for the freezer, wrapped them in plastic wrap and then into two large tupperware container made for transporting cakes. Total cost was $12 (including wrap), so a savings of $13.50.
Normally a batch of hamburger buns is twelve, but we made smaller dough balls this time on two of the batches and just let them rise for 3 hours instead of 2. So each batch made 18 instead of twelve. This left us with the usual twelve leftover to use for the next several days worth of sandwiches and rolls.
Then DH made up two batches of biscuits. To one batch we added garlic powder, parsley, and a handful of cheddar cheese and brushed the tops with butter and they taste pretty close to the Cheddar Bay Biscuits that Red Lobster makes. DS loves them and I figured they'd be pretty cheap to make at home. We froze half of each batch for later in the week.
When DD got home from school today she made a batch of her sugar cookies so we will have some sweets this week. I like having sweets when I'm sick, though I tend to limit it to one serving per day.
Meal planning is really hard to do when I am this sick, mostly because I can't cook and DH is so limited in what he can cook. So I have to tailor it around what he can do.
Breakfast:
French Toast with real maple syrup ($2.50)
Milk ($2)
Lunch:
2 kids
PB&J sandiches ($1)
Apple ($1)
Orange (.50)
baggy potato chips (.50)
baggy natural Cheetos (.50)
water
$3.50
2 adults
Chicken and vegetable soup ($2)
Grilled ham and cheese ($2)
water
$4
Total Lunch: $7.50
Dinner:
Beef stir-fry
-beef ($3.50)
-1 pound bag of mixed veggies ($2)
Can of pineapple ($1)
Biscuits (.50)
Milk ($2)
$8 total
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