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I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping Trips – Week 19 of 52

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King Arthur Flour $62.84

Last week I went to King Arthur Flour to buy a few specialty ingredients as there are a few bread recipes I want to try out before winter rolls around. I don’t know how it happened, but a box of lemon bar and lava cake mix jumped in the cart as well. 😉 I’ve never used pumpernickel or Irish style flours before but I am excited to work with them.

Homemade bread is kind of an art form if you ask me, and luckily the HH is really good at from his days of working in a pizza place. I think I’ll try and enlist him to help me with the bread recipes this summer.

It’s been a few months since I had made Ritz Cracker chicken for dinner and since we were having homemade rolls, and I had some left over mashed potatoes in the fridge, I thought it was the perfect time to make a pan of the buttery and crunchy goodness. If you haven’t tried the Ritz Cracker chicken yet, you don’t know what you are missing and you totally need to make it.

Corned beef, kraut, lack luster carrots and mashed potatoes. It’s a good thing I added a little pepper for some flair.

Frozen lasagna dinner and Texas toast. My toast is on the right, the HH’s is at the top of the pan. He thinks I overcook the toast…. I think he under cooks it. Please end this martial debate and chime in below because TOAST SHOULD HAVE A LOUD CRUNCH when you bite into it.

Big salad with whole beets, tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, cheese, salami, dried cranberries, avocado, egg and a little ranch dressing. I can eat this for lunch and be done with food for the rest of the day.

Saturday night beans. And pork ribs and mustard potato salad from ALDI.

Sunday night picky dinner, or pickety bits, as Alfred from Downton Abbey would call it. 🙂 Whatever you want to call this little sampler style dinner, we sure enjoy eating it about once a week. And the apple-wood smoked Gouda cheese from ALDI? Delicious!

And last but not least, a pineapple upside down cake minus the maraschino cherries. I do like a maraschino cherry in a Shirley Temple drink, but I wasn’t sure I’d want them in a cooked cake. Any who, the cake turned out delicious and lucky us, there are leftovers for breakfast this morning.

How about YOU? How was YOUR week? Did you make anything especially tasty or just the same old same old stuff? Curious minds want to know!

~Mavis

  • Total Spent in May on Groceries $203.33 <- Included a stock up trip to King Arthur Flour
  • Total Spent in April on Groceries $169.98
  • Total Spent in March on Groceries $306.75 <– Apartment life, moving across the country and settling into a new house
  • Total Spent in February on Groceries $259.81 < Living in an apartment and buying a lot of ready-made meals
  • Total Spent in January on Groceries $240.15 <– Packing mode and not cooking from scratch as much

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Comments

  1. FYI-your chicken recipe links to an error page. I did a search in the search bar and it also went to an error page. Looks yummy though!

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  4. Garlic toast…SLIGHTLY crunchy, but tender middle… Yours looks a little overdone {sorry!}. lol!!! LynneinWI

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  5. I like my garlic bread soft in the middle with a crunchy crust…so I think I’m going to have to go with your husband on this. It is “bread” after all -in our house anyway.

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  6. Your toast is PERFECT! The HH toast looks edible but slightly underdone.
    I make cornflake chicken but need to try the Savoritz chicken, it looks so yummy!

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  7. Link isn’t working for ritz chicken. Goes to error 404?
    Your toast is perfect but I like mine almost burned. Crunch is everything! How was the Aldi potato salad? Also did you get those ribs at Aldi?

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  9. My husband’s grandmother used to tease him to say “I forgot you like warmed bread, not toast.” Yes, that is correct! I like mine a bit darker than you, but his would not be at all close to my tastes. Tomato, tomAHto I suppose!

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    • lol, I like my toast on the lighter side, but what your HH has looks like dried bread!!! Toasted means TOASTED!!!

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  11. My husband should be logging on tonight to say thank you: decided to have chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and bacon corn thanks to you. He’ll be thrilled :). You’d be in luck though because I’d be wanting the HH toast !

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  16. I like crispy toast 🙂 On Sunday evenings after church we would often have cereal and toast for supper and my dad would heat up the oven, toast some bread in the toaster, butter it up good, and then open the oven door and set the toast on the racks leaving the door open so the toast would get nice and crunchy but not burn. A favorite memory!

    Pineapple upside-down cake is one of my husband’s favorites and I usually make it for his birthday cake. We don’t care for maraschino cherries so I often use pecan halves or pop in a fresh cherry, either sweet or sour, instead. Sooo much better!!

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  17. I’m afraid I’m with your husband on this one. No LOUD crunch….just a delicate crispness and a soft interior for me!

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  18. Hey Mavis,
    Love reading your story, fun seeing your food choices, gives me ideas when I get bored with our regulars……you are right about the garlic bread, which I love tons of ways, as the bun for pulled pork, as a dipper for vegetable soup, wrapped around a hot dog, and best of all is with soft fried egg on top! Thats a great dinner by itself.

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  20. Mavis, the potato flour is wonderful in buns and dinner rolls. It helps make them very tender and delicious!

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  21. Someone one else already said it, but he eats warmed bread! I want toast and yours looks perfect!

    For pineapple upside down cake, I use the crushed pineapple because then every bite has pineapple! (And no cherries,)

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  22. I’m with the HH on this one. Less crunch so no crumbs all over the place! On another note, is there a link for your pineapple upside down cake? It looks delicious!

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  24. If the toast isn’t toasted, it’s just bread..Gotta be a bit crispy to be considered toast IMO..Mavis for the win! Whoo hoo!

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  25. Crunchy crust, soft middle but with a slightly toasted surface. Looking at the picture, I would pick your husband’s toast thought it may be a little underdone. I don’t want to feel like I’m eating a big crouton lol.

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  26. Three things:

    1. Your hubby’s insane, obviously Texas Toast needs to have crunch!
    2. I love a ‘pickity bits’ dinner – it’s one of my favorite kinds!!
    3. Wahhhh I miss Downton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  27. The important thing is How Much Garlic and Butter is on the toast. There is never too much garlic or butter for my taste.

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