The Professional Domestic

I did much better this week with cooking at home and taking snacks to work, but we did fall off the wagon this week and went for lunch on Saturday. I’ll talk about that little tidbit in a sec.

Here is what we ate (mostly):

Monday dinner: Tuna noodle

Tuesday – (golf night for hubs) leftover tuna noodle for me

Wednesday -French onion soup and French bread

Thursday – leftovers

Friday – I took an apple pie and squash to our friends house for turkey dinner

Saturday – I winged it and ate some leftover French bread an apple and some popcorn lol.

Here is what we spent on groceries this week.

$.37 for 2 bananas, $1.99 for 2 lbs carrots, $.99 for dozen eggs, $1.79 evaporated milk, $3.99 lactose free milk, $3.99 for carmel dip, $2.19 for 1/2 gallon milk, $3.99 butter, 2 bags apples and a huge 5 lb buttercup squash, $21.21, coffee, $12.99

Total for groceries this week $53.50 that makes us -$31.46 over my goal of only $300 this month. BUT I actually started this challenge with a shopping trip on 9/27, so I am going to end this challenge on 10/25. That will be 4 weeks. So if I don’t go over much more than $40, I will be super happy! I do know I need more coffee creamer, but I’ll buy the smallest one, lol!

Ok, now let’s address going out to eat on Saturday. Seriously, going out to eat is so automatic for us sometimes that I didn’t even give it much thought. I was extremely stressed out about a cake I had to do. I will share that cake later in another post. I just couldn’t function enough to say no to going out. God’s honest truth. I have come to a point in my life where I have been saying no in a very big way to certain orders, and after this cake, I will not be taking on another cake like this again. Believe me, you will know what I mean when you see it in my next post. We spent $35 for lunch on Saturday, and other than that, we didn’t go out. I still call that a win!

How have your meals been this month? Are you happy to have cooler weather?

Until next update!

-MM

This week was so hard in so many ways. My boss’s mama passed away the week before and her funeral was Wednesday. Mary was also a friend of mine and boy did she love my scones and herbs from my garden. It’s easy to sit at a funeral listening to the priest until you see the family cry and then well…you just lose all composure you thought you had.

I just couldn’t find a cooking rhythm this week. Every evening was either a hair appointment or a board meeting and on more than one occasion the hubs had to talk me out of going out to eat. It’s easy to just say “screw it let’s go, I deserve to have someone else cook.” But we didn’t and I am grateful for him keeping me on track,

I probably shouldn’t have combined two challenges together, not going out to eat and only spending $300 this month. My biggest goal was not to go out and spend $75 a pop for the two of us to eat. But hindsight and all that right?

In order to not go out to eat Wednesday night hubs brought home stuff to make our own subs. Very sweet of him but that would screw up the grocery budget for the month but that is ok. I really appreciated him taking that off my plate.

Here is what we spent on groceries this week.

$18.29 sub supplies, $3.99 Lactaid milk, chicken breast, $9.45, 18pk eggs $2.39, sugar, $3.29, evap milk $1.89, bananas $1.21, cinnamon raisin bagels, 3.99, celery, spinach, swiss chard from local farm stand $15.

Total for groceries this week $59.50 that leaves just $22.04 left in the budget to not go over the $300 goal.

I am definitely going to go over my $300 grocery budget this month but I am still determined to not go out to eat!

In the meal department I did manage to squeeze out homemade cream of broccoli soup on Friday and yesterday we had roast beef with mashed potatoes and sauteed chard. Homemade subs, leftovers and rice and peas seemed to have dominated the menu otherwise lol.

What are you eating lately? Anything interesting?

Until next update!

-MM