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$50,
two
bellies,
One
week
part one:
the shopping list |
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Planning for dinners requires a bit more thought, because while I’m
perfectly fine with eating sandwiches or the like for lunch every single
day, I crave a bit more variety with my evening meal. Since I always
cook heaps more than two servings worth, and since I'm sure I'll have
leftover remnants of various ingredients near the end of the week, I
estimate that I should be able to get away with planning for a mere five
entrees this week. I come up with the following tentative menu: garlicky
spinach rice, Mediterranean
veggie stew with garlic bread,
steamed scallion chicken with rice, fried rice with zucchini and peas,
and my old stand-by, roasted bell pepper sauce over pasta.
With shopping list in hand, it’s time now to make that trip to the
supermarket.
The shopping cart …
At the supermarket, we do an admirable job of sticking to our
list. Eating that wilted salad – blah as it may have been to the
tastebuds – was decidedly a good call, since we possess the
unfortunate inability to exercise any sort of self-control in the
grocery store when buying on empty stomachs (ooo – ice cream
sandwiches – we need those! Fig Newtons … sure, those too! Peanut
M&Ms; of course, they’re on sale!) Still, I’m no slave to lists,
and when I see that there are some good sales going on – canned tuna
at 3 for $1, canned chickpeas at 2/$0.59, Tropicana Pure Premium orange
juice (the yummy, not-from-concentrate sort) at 2 for the price of one
– I toss those items in the cart, even though they weren’t on the
list. I'm also replenishing our supply of rice, flour and sugar -- due
to the horrifying discovery several weeks ago that our supplies of those
items had been infested by nasty little beetles, we are currently
completely without any of those essentials. I’m a little embarrassed
to admit that we also buy 3 cans of Wolfgang Puck brand canned soup; it’s
on sale and for some reason, I find I’m suddenly craving the immediate
satisfaction of heat-and-serve chicken and rice soup, to be enjoyed as
soon as we return home from our little shopping expedition.
The final tab: $48.47
All items, except where noted,
are Safeway supermarket-brand. Hey, we’re being cheapskates this week
… we want to get the maximum quantity for our limited bucks.
Italian bread (1)
Split Chicken (1)
Flour (5 lbs.)
Tropicana Pure Premium OJ (2)
Sugar (5 lbs.)
Moisturizing lotion (1)
Cheddar cheese (1)
Fabric softener (1)
Zucchini (5)
Penne (2 lbs.)
Wolfgang Puck Chicken Rice Soup (2)
Wolfgang Puck Chicken Vegetable Soup (1) |
Chickpeas, canned (2)
Chicken broth, canned (2)
Bananas (7)
Yellow onions (5)
Roma tomatoes (9)
Tuna, canned (6)
Russet potato (1)
Red onion (1)
Scallions (1 bunch)
Tom’s of Maine Cinnamint toothpaste (1)
Spinach (1 bunch)
Rice, long-grained (2 lbs.) |
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