A specific call out to the second recipe I've made from my new A Taste Of Home One Pot Favorites Cookbook - it was super easy, and really delicious. So that bodes well for future recipes from it, yeah!
What We Made
Fri- Out with friends for Happy Hour dinner at a local restaurant.
Sat- Out at an event that included dinner
Sun- Mother's Day! We enjoyed Slow Cooker Braised tri tip steak with Horseradish mashed potatoes. That, plus some roasted broccolini and rosemary sourdough bread (which I'd brought home & froze after a recent luncheon I helped with for my women's group), was our Mother's Day meal. Restaurant dining is a zoo here on Mother's Day, so I much prefer either takeout or some easy home cooking.
Treated Mom and hubby to some chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream from a nearby ice cream shop for dessert. I happily watched them both enjoy as I'm now seven weeks without sugar and am really appreciating the freedom from extreme sugar cravings.
Mon- Sun night repeat
Tue- Grilled Salmon, Mango Cilantro Salsa, Brown Rice, Broccolini
Wed- Hoisin Sriracha Chicken Bake, White Rice, Salad. This is my second recipe from cookbook below, and it was just as fantastic as the Curry Coconut Chicken soup I first made last week. I made some mods, which you can hopefully see in the photo below.
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| Just $12 on clearance when I picked it up last week. |
What We Spent: $106.21, so easily under my weekly budget of $125, particularly considering that $30+ of this week's spend was to load up on loss leader beef for future meals.
This week's loss leader stock up items were:
- 99 cent strawberries (1 lb container). I bought two.
- $5.99 lb chuck roast, which I'll use in a slow cooker pot roast at a book club dinner I’m hosting in June.
- $6.99 lb NY Strip steak
- 99 cent soft wheat bread, which I'll use to make myself lower calorie sandwiches in that each slice is just 60 calories. The ‘good stuff’ wheat in our freezer weighs in at 120 calories a slice, so a whole sandwich vs half a sandwich for the same overall calories holds more appeal for me.
Otherwise, in addition to the above meals, my weekly spend includes the usual repeat breakfast items as needed (Greek yogurt, frozen berries, sourdough bread, bananas, strawberries, peanut butter, eggs, and coffee), the usual repeat lunch items as needed (Wheat bread, deli meats, deli cheeses, spinach, tomatoes, avocado, Mini oranges, apples, grapes, plus cookies for hubby - he has no sugar issues - he can stop!), plus the usual snack items as needed (Hummus, pita chips, baby carrots, cucumber, Trader Joe cheeses, and crackers).
How did you all do this past week? Any winner recipes?
Your meal on Mother’s Day sounds amazing m! Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteIt was! Normally my daughter's boyfriend cooks for me on Mother's Day, but they are no longer living near us, so on my own I decided an easy recipe was a far better option than dining out.
DeleteI hope you had a nice day as well, Cindy!