{"id":19521,"date":"2019-03-22T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=19521"},"modified":"2019-03-22T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:55:21","slug":"what-i-spent-what-we-ate-2019-03-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2019\/20190322-19521.htm","title":{"rendered":"What I Spent\/What We Ate (2019.03.22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new baby in the house means I simplify, simplify, simplify &#8211; which for me means skipping any outings that require taking kids out of the car. So no ALDI and no library storytime. We pick up all our groceries instead.<\/p>\n<p>Also, simplifying means very few pictures. Sorry folks!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"center\"><strong>What I Spent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, March 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s Club Pickup &#8211; $27.48<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2019-03\/IMG_20190317_140334167.jpg' alt='Sam&#039;s Club pickup 2019.03.17' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p>Walmart Pickup &#8211; $64.26<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2019-03\/IMG_20190317_135806366.jpg' alt='Walmart pickup 2019.03.17' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p>Walmart was out of the generic for my &#8220;unhealthy cereal&#8221; so I ended up with name-brand. Can you tell which one it is?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>That&#8217;s $91.74, which is $23.26 under my budget of $115 per week. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p><!--So...\nWeek 1 - $78.27 ($7.73 under)\nWeek 2 - $145.99 ($59.99 over) \nWeek 3 - \nWeek 4 - --><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"center\"><strong>What We Ate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, March 16<\/strong><br \/>\nBreakfast &#8211; Daniel made us scrambled eggs and&#8230; pancakes? toast? I can&#8217;t remember<\/p>\n<p>Supper &#8211; Beef Papriganoff over noodles with&#8230;some kind of fruit<\/p>\n<p>I had peppers and mushrooms &#8211; so I mixed a recipe for beef stroganoff and one for chicken paprikash to make a hybrid &#8211; that we enjoyed quite a lot. I think I&#8217;m going to add it to my rotation on weeks where I&#8217;m buying mushrooms anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, March 17<\/strong><br \/>\nLunch &#8211; Arbys on our way to pick up groceries<\/p>\n<p>Supper &#8211; Daniel and I had a foster\/adoptive parent dinner at our church<br \/>\nThe kids ate Crockpot BBQ meatballs over rice with peas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, March 18<\/strong><br \/>\nChipped beef gravy over cornbread with broccoli and peaches<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2019-03\/IMG_20190318_181434297.jpg' alt='Chipped beef gravy on cornbread with broccoli and peaches' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 19<\/strong><br \/>\nPot Roast (Beef) with carrots and potatoes<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2019-03\/IMG_20190319_175829373.jpg' alt='Pot Roast - really attractive, I know' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><br \/>\n<em>I forgot to take a picture until after I&#8217;d eaten everything on my plate and was full. So this is what&#8217;s left on the platter after we&#8217;ve all eaten. Really attractive, I know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 20<\/strong><br \/>\nLeftovers (since I was going crazy getting ready for our annual state licensure visit)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 21<\/strong><br \/>\nBlack beans and rice, lettuce salad, and cowboy caviar from our neighbor (who had extra)<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2019-01\/IMG_20190128_173615302.jpg' alt='Black beans and rice' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><br \/>\n<em>This is an old photo of my recipe &#8211; this time I piled my beans and rice right on top of my lettuce, dumped a bunch of my neighbor&#8217;s homemade salsa on top and then spread the whole thing with ranch. Delicious!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, March 22<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll have lasagna with a lettuce salad and some sort of canned fruit tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new baby in the house means I simplify, simplify, simplify &#8211; which for me means skipping any outings that require taking kids out of the car. So no ALDI and no library storytime. We pick up all our groceries instead. Also, simplifying means very few pictures. Sorry folks! What I Spent: Sunday, March 24 &#8230; <a title=\"What I Spent\/What We Ate (2019.03.22)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2019\/20190322-19521.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I Spent\/What We Ate (2019.03.22)<\/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\/19521"}],"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=19521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19547,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions\/19547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}