It was a great week in the meals department. I turned on the oven for something other than cookies and bacon!! Can you believe it?
I don’t know what came over me? Maybe it’s the weather? Maybe it’s the shorter days? Who knows.
Costco $68.52
Hot cocoa mix was on sale so I had to load up for winter. 50 packets should do it. 😉 Bacon is now $15.99 and I told the HH is was high time he whipped up some of my favorite copycat Panera tomato soup now that the temps are starting to drop so he loaded up on canned tomatoes.
I have no idea when the last time he made that soup was.
Big salad before the dressing.
Big salad with bacon, eggs, tomato, cucumber, feta cheese, pecans, peas and flatbread crumbs. Yes please!
The HH was craving a turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich on toasted Trader Joe’s sourdough. We freeze all our bread and take out a slice or two as we need it. Do you do that too?
Apple galette. Simple the BEST pastry {crust?} recipe out there.
Market Basket $16.24 {bananas not pictured}.
They sure grow big blueberries in Peru. All the berries in the stores are huge right now!
Sometimes you just want a few bits for dinner.
And sometimes you’re like holy cow man, you know what sounds good right now? Mississippi pot roast.
I don’t know what I like more; the pot roast or the bean soup I always seem to make the next day with the leftovers.
Not only did we eat well last week, but we ate something more than salad. 🙂 Hooray!
What did YOU make last week? Anything exciting? Curious minds want to know!
~Mavis
Total Spent This Week On Groceries $84.76
January $229.38
February $260.86
March $433.46
April $369.57
May $110.69
June $448.14
July $134.63
August $240.70
September $364.07
October $400.11
Linda says
We love your Mississippi Roast! Had it two weeks ago & froze the leftovers to make the Mississippi soup for Sunday dinner just last night. Added some green beans that were in the fridge also. Thanks so much for this recipe!
Lesley says
Mavis, your food photos are looking super professional. Is that just in your kitchen? Seems like a hip, moody restaurant! 🙂
Carrie says
Costco has wild blueberries in the freezer section. We really like the flavor if those. The are small berries. My son uses them in his yogurt and german pancakes.
Kath says
Have you ever tried Wyman’s Wild Blueberries? They come in a 3 pound bag in the freezer section. They get me through the winter once I run out of my own blueberries from the garden. I grow low bush varieties to get the smaller fruits with the wild blueberry taste.
Do you have a recipe for the day after bean soup?
Mavis Butterfield says
I actually have a bag in the freezer! I was going to use them for pie. I didn’t think to thaw them for my yogurt. Thanks for the reminder. 😉 Here is the soup recipe: https://www.onehundreddollarsamonth.com/leftover-mississippi-pot-roast-stew/
Sue says
I’d love to know how you keep 4 big bags of Med Crunch fresh and edible for 2 people!
We two have “big salads” nearly every night as well, but the last bag (and probably the 3rd) would be brown and slimy by the time we got around to it. Our fridge is set to 34 degrees. What’s your secret?