I know, I know...I was doing so well with blogging each day about our SNAP challenge. Sadly, something tragic happened in our country on Friday & drew my attention away. I did, however, keep track of our food for when I got back to this place. Let me go through our food & then we'll do a final blog with our thoughts from this experience.
Friday.
My turn:
I started my day as I have many days this last week. For breakfast I had a bowl of steel cut oatmeal with cinnamon and half of my last grapefruit. I also had 1/2 cup of almond milk.
Lunch: I finished the last of my salad, about 1/3 of the container was left & I finished the last of the crockpot meal that we made for Monday night's dinner. This meal has served us so well. I believe we got 6 meals out of it. However, I have to say, I'm a bit sick of it.
Snack: banana with 1 TBS of peanut butter
Dinner: I was overwhelmed with watching the news until it was time to go hear Mayor Cory Booker speak so I didn't eat before I left. I got home from his inspirational lecture around 9:40. Too late to eat anything heavy. I toasted 2 slices of that crappy bread I bought Zach & put some peanut butter on it...voila..dinner!
Zach's turn
For breakfast was HIS standby for the week....generic cornflakes w/ some milk.
For lunch he had tuna fish (not his favorite but I nagged him to bring lunch), a pack of 100 calorie snacks & a banana.
For dinner Zach made himself an egg sandwich...2 eggs, 2 pieces of bread.
Saturday
Mom's turn:
I got up this morning with some errands to run so I quickly scrambled 2 eggs & at the last of my grapefruit for breakfast.
I skipped lunch because I was running errands. Since I sleep a little later on weekends (when I can), I tend to only eat 2 meals so this didn't feel like a biggie to me. (During my errands, I picked us up a few groceries since I had $12.79 left to spend..I'll go over that list later).
For dinner I grilled up some veggies & ate a giant plate of them. I used one of the onions I bought on my original shopping trip, the bell pepper & the zucchini. This is one of my favorite, filling meals, actually.
For a snack I had a yummy granny smith apple with a bit of peanut butter.
Zach's turn
Zach often eats worse than mom on weekends!
Breakfast: he slept through breakfast.
Lunch: He ate the last of the tuna with 2 slices of bread and had a banana
Dinner: He had chicken breast, brown rice & french style green beans that I picked up on my shopping trip.
Sunday
This morning began with us both leaving the house too early to go get a Christmas tree. Of course we already had one but it was sooo dead that we knew it wouldn't make another 10 days. Ornaments were on the floor & so were lights. It wasn't pretty!
We ran out w/o breakfast.
When we got home, for brunch, I made us some eggs, turkey bacon & home fries (made from those canned white potatoes). We also had toast b/c we still have bread left.
For dinner we splurged. Zach loves red meat and has missed it this week. (he doesn't eat it often but he does eat it more than never. I don't eat it as often). At Shop Rite, I was able to find one of those "manager's specials $1.00 off stickers on 2 little steaks. I don't know what cut they were but I will tell you they were NOT fancy and they were not particularly tender!! Also, they were small! With the manager's $1.00 off, they cost $4.63. To go along with them, I grabbed, from the freezer section frozen corn that was on special. So that was our dinner: little steaks, brown rice & corn. I only had a few bites of rice b/c I try not to eat too much starch. I wanted Zach to eat it b/c I wanted him to feel more full than he's been feeling (more on that in the last blog).
Here is what I purchased at the store Saturday to get us through our last 2 days:
turkey bacon (on sale) was 3 for $5.00. I got one package making it $1.66
another dozen eggs (I always keep on hand for pops of protein). $2.39 (not the sale price they were last week)
those substandard little steaks: $4.36
can of sliced white potatoes: .68 (all cans of everything seemed to be .68. I assume that is the regular price)
can of green beans: .68
frozen corn was 2 for $3.00. I purchased 1 for $1.50 I should have, of course, grabbed a can & I'm not sure why I didn't, to be honest.
My total today was $11.27 of the 12.79 I had left...leaving me with $1.52.
We have to say, we are glad the week is done, done, done. We both have thoughts we'd like to share as well as facts that we learned during the week. It's getting late & football is one so we're going to table that until tomorrow. Until then, friends, be well!!
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