Saturday, February 9<\/strong><\/p>\n Spice Merchant – $54.37<\/p>\n This was our coffee and tea for the month – we splurge because, oh my, this stuff is wonderful.<\/p>\n Tuesday, February 12<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam’s Club – $45.63<\/p>\n Walmart – $45.99<\/p>\n That’s $145.99, which is $59.99 over this month’s budget of $86 per week. :-\\ <\/p>\n So… What We Ate:<\/strong><\/p>\n Saturday, February 9<\/strong> Supper – Thai Red Curry Chicken served over rice – I don’t remember what else I served with it<\/p>\n Sunday, February 10<\/strong> Supper – “Ella’s Taverns” (aka sloppy joes) with lettuce salad and corn salad<\/p>\n Monday, February 11<\/strong> Tuesday, February 12<\/strong> And once I was done with my first burrito? I made a second plate as a salad, sans the tortilla<\/p>\n Wednesday, February 13<\/strong> Thursday, February 14<\/strong> We had it with banana pudding (special request from Daniel) and… more canned peaches.<\/p>\n Friday, February 15<\/strong> I’m late this week because we spent the weekend with Daniel’s brother and his family in the Kansas City area. We went up Friday morning (a little earlier than planned in order to beat a snowstorm), which meant I missed my usual ALDI trip. Which, given how much I spent on the front half of … Read more What I Spent\/What We Ate (2018.02.15)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1630],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWeek 1 – $78.27 ($7.73 under)
\nWeek 2 – $145.99 ($59.99 over)
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\nBreakfast – Buttermilk pancake men (like Ma made in Little House in the Big Woods<\/em>) with blueberries, and scrambled eggs (not pictured)<\/p>\n
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\nLunch – Leftovers because we were too busy Saturday for me to make “Ella’s taverns” in advance<\/p>\n
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\nMeatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Green Peas, and Canned peaches<\/p>\n
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\nSalsa chicken burritos, lettuce salad, and homemade (not)refried beans<\/p>\n
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\nLasagna, lettuce salad, and canned peaches (My fruit and veggie choices have been pretty uninspired this week!)<\/p>\n
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\nFor Valentine’s Day, I made what is normally “Chicken and Broccoli Gravy over cornbread biscuits” a little differently.<\/p>\n
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\nWe traveled up to the KC area to visit Daniel’s brother’s family – I made some cheese bread for with dinner (but my sister-in-law cooked the main meal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"