Not only did I stay under $20, I managed to go to the grocery store one day later than last week -- so I stretched my pantry 8 days instead of 7.
Here is what $20 bought this week:
Bag of salad spring mix (on sale)
18 eggs (on sale)
3 fresh-baked bolillos (on sale)
Half gallon skim milk
2 3-lb. bags cat food
Tube of house brand biscuits (on sale)
The salad is for my low-carb days, as well as the eggs. I will hard-boil some of them.
The bolillos I will have in place of bread this week. A loaf of bread goes stale too quickly for me. Even though I freeze the surplus it seems like it always gets freezer-burned, no matter how carefully I wrap it. Anyway, having the fresh bolillos will be a real pleasure. On my high-carb days.
The milk -- I have given up and will only purchase a half-gallon at a time. This week I made white sauce and sausage gravy (freezing both) just to use up my milk. I can't keep doing that indefinately. And I can't drink/use a gallon before it goes bad.
Why two bags of cat food? One is higher-nutrition, for my indoor cats, and the other is cheap, for my feral cat.
The biscuits are for using up that sausage gravy! On my high-carb days.
I'm on a low-carb day today. I had sausage for breakfast and a low-carb soup for lunch. For dinner I will have the meat left over from my Monte Cristo sandwich wrapped around cheese sticks and warmed in the microwave.
I've lost two pounds. Of course, it comes off quickly when it has been put on quickly. I'll be glad to get back to where I was when I came home from the hospital in August. That's 12 pounds lighter than I am now!
I also got a few errands done today. I took a necklace to the jeweler to be repaired. I've been meaning to do this for a year -- why did I put it off? It will only cost $22.
And does anybody remember the $2 suit I bought over Thanksgiving? I finally took it to the cleaners to have the pants lengthened and to get it cleaned.
Yesterday I walked to the library and returned "The Help." I saw that another movie I wanted to see was in -- "Sarah's Key." Renting that was another $2 spent, but I am happy to support the library. By the way, older DVDs are rented free; it's just the "hot picks" that cost $2. And I can keep them for 3 days.
It's cold and rainy today, so I'm staying in now. I think I would rather have snow. At least it's pretty!
$20 limit
December 30th, 2011 at 06:06 pm
December 30th, 2011 at 06:37 pm 1325270220
When NT lived alone, he would separate his loaf of bread into pairs of slices, then put each pair in a separate baggie and freeze. He said that worked really well to keep bread fresh.
December 30th, 2011 at 07:18 pm 1325272722
December 30th, 2011 at 08:25 pm 1325276726
December 30th, 2011 at 08:37 pm 1325277463
I thought Viola Davis and the actress who played Minnie stole the show, though.