Hello Monday!
I hope you had a nice weekend and there are leftovers in your fridge this morning. 🙂 I know we’ll be eating leftovers for days… That’s for sure.
We bought a LOT of food last week! Ate a lot of salads {4 bags down, 1 to go} and I have no idea how our grocery bill can be so high when all we do is {practically} eat salads! It’s a mystery to me.
But here goes.
Costco Shopping Trip #1 $97.20
We went to Costco, not once, but twice last week. The first time we loaded up on salad things, butter and coffee for the HH.
Kerrygold butter was on sale and so I grabbed four pounds. I LOVE using Kerrygold butter in baked goods. It makes a big difference if you ask me. Eggs were $7.69 for 2 dozen.
Market Basket Shopping Trip $50.59
I made a list for the HH for Market Basket and he got everything on the list {hooray!}. I requested a frozen pizza but he came home with some sort of giant man crust pizza and I don’t even want to try it.
Pizza crust should be THIN in my opinion. I am a horribly ungrateful wife I know, but I think I’d rather eat a banana than a little pepperoni and cheese on a giant hunk of bread.
$1.09 for 1 tomato. Bananas are still $0.49 a pound.
I love avocado toast.
And BLT’s.
Nachos are pretty rad too.
Costco Shopping Trip #2 $69.87
No more trips to Costco!! We have a bunch of food in the freezer we need to eat. I’m thinking for the next month we should only buy milk! And bananas. I need bananas. They are like air. Or a really, really good “filler” food when you’re super hungry but it’s too late in the day to eat a real meal.
Side note – When do you stop eating/drinking for the day? I stop at 5 pm. Unless we are going out to dinner with friends.
“We don’t need to buy those potato pancakes again” – HH
“Nope” – Mavis
The spicy Mexican-style riced cauliflower was really good though, even if it did have quite the kick to it.
I’d get it again…
You cannot beat a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup on a rainy day. I think the only thing that would top that is a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup in your pajamas on a rainy day. 😉
I think the HH may be getting tired of the Costco Mediterranean Crunch salad. Even though I try to rotate all the “extras” I add to the salad, I think he’s ready to move on to something else. HA HA HA.
We’ve pretty much been eating the salads several times a week since the beginning of the year. I’m actually kind of surprised he has gone this long.
Maybe what he’s really doing when he goes on a Costco run is stopping off at the food court to get one of their $1.50 weenie and a soda deals before he comes home. Hmmm. It’s possible.
Easter Dinner: Steak tips, mustard potato salad, Carole’s creamy grape salad and roasted asparagus. We’ll be eating leftovers for days… And that’s fine by me. 🙂 Did you make anything special for Easter? Curious minds want to know.
Have a great Monday everyone, SUNSHINE is in the forecast today here in Southern Maine! That means Lucy and I are going to be out there playing in the dirt. And you know what? That’s a mighty fine way to spend the day if you ask me.
Peace Out.
~Mavis
Total Spent This Past Week On Groceries $216.66
January $229.38
February $260.86
March $433.46
April $260.42
Nancy Settel says
All of our family was doing other things this Easter we did not want ham etc. so I made a huge batch (which I will share with a few neighbors) of White chicken chili. My husband has been wanting it so I thought why not. Your asparagus looked so darn good I need to get some this week.
Adeline says
I love your monday posts about what you ate, and the cost of food in your neck of the woods. I live in France (at the western point of Brittany, the next land over the sea is actually America !), so for me it’s really entertaining to compare products and prices ! Also, I work in retail and doesn’t get home before 7.30 pm, so I eat around 8.30 and drink herbal tea before bed. So wild…
Mavis Butterfield says
Drinking tea right before bed IS wild! 🙂
Christa H. says
Had two family members over for dinner, but let them know I was going to make something easy so I could garden all day and work my beehives. I used what I had so I didn’t have to go shopping. We ate crockpot creamy chicken and potatoes, roasted asparagus, roasted cauliflower, and roasted baby tomatoes/sweet onions with seasonings and added Boursin in the middle for the last 10 minutes. Ten minutes of prep for all of it! Yeah. Everything was gobbled up.
We eat dinner every day between 4-5pm , so if I am hungry later, I will eat a piece of fruit. If we go out with friends and eat a lot later, we can’t sleep well.
Lana says
Your grocery bill is so high because you buy so many convenience foods! You may not even realize it anymore. Go to Costco and buy salad ingredients instead of the kits and get back to cooking real food again instead of all those reheat foods. Just saying.
Mark says
We did a full on holiday meal yesterday for just 3 of us. Ham, roasted potatoes, honey glazed carrots, brown butter and garlic green beans, baked corn, macaroni salad, deviled eggs, rolls, apple pie, and peanut butter pie. I won’t be cooking for the rest of the week.
Mavis Butterfield says
Peanut butter pie!!! I’m going to have to look that up.
JamieH says
We don’t usually eat after 6:30-7pm. If either one of us is especially hungry we just crab a handful of nuts, pretzels or a few strawberries.
Eileen Stewart says
I’m sorry, Mavis, to ask this here. I used to get you delivered to my mailbox and I loved hearing about your adventures. Suddenly, I’m not getting them anymore and I can’t find a place to renew here on your page. Please help!
Pamela Sheppard says
the same thing is happening to me often. Some weeks I might get it and some weeks nothing. I can’t figure it out either!
sandy says
me as well-and most often it is delivered to my “junk” box. Oh well-I search for it!
Mavis Butterfield says
I’m sorry you are having problems with the email. I just signed you up again. An email with an activation link has just been sent to you. 🙂
Sue says
I tried to go to Costco on Good Friday, which was a hugely dumb move on my part. Every Single Parking Space Was Filled. Went to Whole Foods instead. Didn’t save money, but did save my sanity!
Easter dinner was firecracker salmon, coconut rice, steamed broccoli, roasted asparagus, and buttermilk biscuits. Dessert was Easter candies, strawberry shortcake, and homemade peanut butter ice cream w/ chopped PB cups.
Mavis Butterfield says
I don’t think I’ve ever tried coconut rice before. Do you a recipe you can share?
eliz says
Does your HH not use his espresso machine anymore?
Mavis Butterfield says
He does. 🙂
eliz says
I’ve seen pre-ground coffee in your purchases a few times. I know you don’t drink coffee.
Does he use pre ground in his machine?
eliz says
My husband likes thin crust pizza as well.
Have you tried this Kirkland pizza? It is his favorite lately,
https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/kirkland-signature-cauliflower-crust-pizza%2C-supreme%2C-2-ct.product.100420606.html
Mavis Butterfield says
Thanks Eliz, I will put it on the list.
Tamara says
Shrimp and grits, ham biscuits with honey/pepper, green peas, roasted asparagus, raw veggies, deviled eggs, salad, stewed apples and pears. Lamb cake for dessert.
suzanne says
Lamb/lambie cake. Is this regional? Saw an insta where a red velvet lamb cake was served but I don’t think that’s the norm lol.
Tamara says
For years I made a bunny cake then a friend gave me a lamb cake mold. Because it is 3D a pound cake batter works best as it is more dense. Toothpicks help him to stay together and sit up. Jelly bean eyes and mouth, green coconut “grass”. Nothing professional but the grandsons love it.
Annette says
DiGiorno makes an Ultra Loaded Thin Crust that is our favorite.
What type of grill is used to cook the steak?
Kathy Wolfe says
I hope I read the price wrong on that pack of steak!!
Mavis Butterfield says
Nope. 🙁
Pamela Sheppard says
I made kind of a traditional Ham dinner for Easter for 3. We all love leftovers so we had the exact same meal today. We are down to 1 serving left of everything except the ham. I made a joke that we have enough ham left for 17 meals. It was like the endless ham when I was slicing it! There is no set time that anyone stops eating for the day in my house. My previous job got home from work around 930 pm 4 nights per week so I often ate what I would consider a lunch portion meal at that time.
Brianna says
We do not celebrate Easter, but I did pull the leftover spiral sliced ham on the bone from New Year’s out of the freezer and reheated it. I added steamed broccoli spears, peas, cranberry sauce, and smashed baby potatoes. Good enough for us and now I only have a ham bone to do soup with later this week. I am not a person who can do leftover ham for a day or two afterwards.
sandy says
Eating well and what you love is worth the cost to me. There are things I budget on and there are things I will not. Butter, meat, chicken, bread, fruit, ice cream, veggies, cheese, those are staples that deserve the cost. Good butter-oh yes. A good hearty bread? I am in. Life is short-eat what you love, and enjoy it.
Kippy says
We generally eat before 6 p.m. and try to not snack after that. Just a cup of tea and maybe a small snack before bedtime.
Have you tried the Trader Joe’s Alsatian pizza or Margarita pizza with thin crusts? We love them. Didn’t like the latkes from TJs.
Mavis Butterfield says
I think we’ve tried the TJ’s pizzas before.
debbie in alaska says
I love a thin crust pizza but that deep dish from costco is SO good.
TC says
Friends came to visit so Saturday evening we had Fresh corn on the cob, small sirloin steak with boiled potato’s butter and fresh parsley, green beans and of course wine. For desert individual jars of tiramisu
Sunday Breakfast, scrambled egg on toast with fruit. Lunch cheese, pate, crackers, black bean dip with white wine sitting on the deck in the sun. DINNER Roast Leg of Lamb, Honey ham, mashed potato’s, mixed roast veg, green beans and gravy, Red wine, desert was coffee and peach ice cream with raspberries.
Monday Brunch; Shakshuka served with warm bread and butter, if you have never tried it, it is amazing.
Lots of laughter and relaxation, wonderful to have friends over and share good food and wine.
Christie says
Do you fast? Is that why you don’t eat after 5pm? HH & I are researching some plans as we get older to help keep the weight off.
Mavis Butterfield says
No, I don’t fast. I’m just not a heavy eater and don’t like feeling full. 🙂