One Hundred Dollars a Month

I’m not sure how it happened, but with the exception of a new cookie recipe, last week everything I made for dinner was something I had made before. Comfort food. Tis’ the season. 😉 Have you made the Mississippi Pot Roast recipe I shared on the blog last year? If not, you don’t know what you are missing. I always save pot roast juices and make a soup with them the next day and MAN OH MAN is it good.

Tuna casserole with Ritz cracker crumbs.

Cheesy Beef Tortilla Casserole. It’s the perfect recipe for using up the crumbs at the bottom of the chip bag.

Split pea and ham soup. Perfect for chilly fall afternoons.

A new gingerbread type cookie recipe. Anyone want the recipe?

For date day last week we drove to the town of Walpole, Massachusetts and split a plate of nachos at the Raven’s Nest Pub. The HH discovered the Phantom Gourmet channel on you tube a few weeks ago and now he has a list about a mile long of restaurants and towns to visit all over New England.

For our next date day were are headed to the Berkshires to check out the Norman Rockwell Museum and the studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French {the artist who designed the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, among other things}. We don’t have a place to stop for lunch yet, so if you know of a eatery nearby, pipe up! I LOVE recommendations. 😉

Costco $21.87

Friends with Costco memberships are cool. But I’m glad we don’t live super close to one anymore because seriously, how long is it going to take us to eat 92 mozzarella sticks?

Market Basket $72.26

Oakhurst milk is the best milk I’ve ever had and I am totally willing to pay $2 more a gallon for it. Also, why does it seem like we can’t leave market basket these days without a box of Good and Plenty and a big bag of Cape Cod chips? Also, peppers are sold by the pound there and I can usually get 4-5 red or orange peppers for about $3.50 a bag. At Costco, they’re like $6 and at Fred Meyer they were almost never under $1 each. Isn’t that strange? I wonder why that is?

Has anyone tried “Good Thins” crackers? At 3.75 ounces per box, I’m hesitant to try them when I can get 9 ounces of Wheat Thins for the same price.

Hey, if you are a market Basket shopper, be on the look out for the November Nature’s Market Basket booklet at the front of the store. There are $1.00 off coupons for both Bob’s Red Mill and King Arthur Flour inside. King Arthur Flour is on sale for $2.99 this week and so with the coupon it’s only $1.99 a bag. Aldi $9.75

We stopped by ALDI yesterday to see if the Christmas cheeses that everyone keeps raving about were in stock yet {they weren’t} when I spotted a big aisle stuffed with their Christmas cookies and other needful treats. I picked up a few bags for myself {for research purposes of course} as well as an armload of goodness for a sweet giveaway tomorrow. 😉

The holidays… They’re almost here, and so is all the YUMMY FOOD!

~Mavis

Total Spent This Week $103.88

Total Spent in November $165.51
Total Spent in October $218.57 <– Stocked up on cheese Because cheese is life}
Total Spent in September $180.97
Total Spent in August $259.90 <– $30 on salami splurge
Total Spent in July $276.56 < – $38 Spent on Amish meat and cheese
Total Spent in June $206.47 <- Attempting once a month grocery shopping
Total Spent in May on Groceries $216.50 <- 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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