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?
Cheryl says
Yes, that salad has such short expiration date that I only buy one and there are 2 of us also.
Grace says
Is that an apple galette? On my screen it looks like a cherry. Either one sounds good to me.
Ashley B says
My oven is currently out of commission and hopefully getting fixed today. I have had to creatively cook around this issue for a week now. Fingers crossed. I can’t wait to bake things again!!!
tc says
For the first time everI made a crock pot beef enchilada casserole, I was given corn tortillas, a large bag of sliced olives and red enchilada sauce and I had cooked a load of donated ground beef up 3 days earlier planning to make chilli. Never made it before but I layered the tortillas topped with the ground beef, canned, diced geen chilies, black beans, olives and crumbled feta cheese. I poured a little sauce over each layer then added the rest at the end. I think I did about six layers altogether, cooked it on low overnight took it to our first responders office this morning and they said it was excellent and asked if I would make it again. It was for their lunch but they said it smelled so good they had to try it for breakfast, I made a very small one for us and a neighbor which I will cook for our dinner tonight. Sometimes experiments work out well, I just hope my HH likes it tonight, I will serve it with a little salad about 1 cup of salad is all I can get him to eat.
Gwenn says
Meal department in eastern Wisconsin last week included: pasta fagioli, english muffins, chicken sausage & peppers/onions w/Rao’s marinara, roasted tomato soup (last of the tomatoes from the garden), baked pumpkin donuts.
It was a pretty good week.
Gwenn says
Oh….and I made vanilla yogurt in my Instant Pot. Haven’t made it in a while and it is soooooo much better than store bought stuff.
Stephanie in Utah says
Last week I made taco stacks, rolls and mac and cheese to take to a potluck, massaman curry and naan, pizza, and glazed salmon. Those galettes look amazing. I’ve made pies before, but maybe I should try a galettes this month.