Dinner Tonight

made a quick dinner for russ and myself tonight. I made four cheese lasagna hamburger helper with italian sausage with Pillsbury grands biscuits and salad. So... thats:
hamburger helper: .75
1 lb Italian sausage: 2.00
biscuits: .50 (well we only ate three, so that's not quite .50 but I don't wanna do that math)
salad- ok here's the hard math
Romaine 1.00. I used 2 leaves of what 16? So thats about .12
3/4 a roma tomato which was about .20 cents so that makes it about .15
2 stalks of green onion which was .69 and how many of them were there? 8? about $0.16
1 baby carrot and dressing. yeah I'm not counting all that. I'm rounding off the whole salad to .50 cents

Total: $3.75
plus lots of leftovers. Not to bad.

Food Waste Wednesday

Not the best week, but I think I'm improving. I see improvement at least. In the picture:
1 apple
1 banana
3/4 yellow pepper
8 oz mozzarella
just a little over 1 cup bagged salad.

I can never(!) eat the last banana. I don't know why. It doesn't matter if I buy 8 or 2, the last banana never gets eaten! The cheese I'm actually proud of because I've had this for a while and it was good for a long time. I used 1/2 the block then it finally turned. I bought the yellow pepper and have been adding little bits to salad, but couldn't use it up in time I guess. But you know what's not in this picture:
The tub of cottage cheese Russ finished!

Debt Confessions

Okay, so I have debt. As much as I try to be frugal, I have debt. (Actually...my debt inspired my frugality) and I had a plan to help ease my debt but that didn't work. I was declined. Sad. My mom loaned me money for school, about $1000 (I did pay off about $400 already) and then my credit card debt just started somehow racking up. To the tune on $2300. I finally (!) came clean to my mom about my debt and she immediately took action and transferred $2400 into my bank account. So yay! my credit card is finally and officially paid off. I thought this was going to take years! But now I owe my mom just under $3000. Luckily for me she gave me a really low interest rate- because yes, I made her put interest on my loan. Now, I'm going to pack away my credit card and use it only for emergencies! My new debit card is in the mail, and I will try and use cash much more often!
Debt: $3000

Menu Plans

K, here's a super rough draft of my dinner plans this week:

Sunday: Work till 11
Monday: (If this is gross, I'm giving up on my slow cooker!) Italian chicken
Tuesday: Dinner with mom
Wednesday: Lemon Chicken
Thursday: Italian Sausage Lasagna Hamburger helper
Friday: Farmhouse chicken
Saturday: Soup in a bread bowl

Dinner Tonight

I love my slow cooker. I love coming home knowing dinner is already cooked. But tonight, well...dinner was gross. I made 20 garlic chicken which came to a rough total of $3.50 and it was not good! So I made myself chicken nuggets and russ ate a bagel.
I served the chicken with knorr's alfredo pasta sides and zucchini. The only thing we ate was the zucchini!

Dinner Tonight

Made dinner tonight. Somehow I got the dates wrong on my meal plan post- I worked last night and made dinner on Wed and well, I just didn't wanna make french toast so I made the pork chops instead. I just breaded the boneless pork chops with an italian crumb/parm seasoning blend and pan fried them in olive oil. Then I made a sauce out of 1 c chicken stock and 1/3 chive and onion cream cheese till it thickened into a sauce. I served it with biscuits and veggie sticks.
Pork chops: 4.00
chicken stock: 1/2 a .83 can- .40
Cream cheese: 1/2 a 1.99 tub- 1.00
veggies: carrots and radishes: roughly .25
biscuits: 1/2 a .50 can- .25.
The meal was about $6.50. Not terribly expensive, but I really want to try and make sure dinners cost less than $5 in the future!

Dinner Tonight

Dinner tonight was pretty good, if I do say so myself! We had Italian Pot Roast and mashed potatoes and corn and salad.
The Pot Roast was a Hormel Refrigerated Entree I got at Albertsons for 4.99 -1.ooQ 1.00DQ=2.99
The mashed potatoes were Country Crock for 3.99 -1.00Q -1.00DQ= 1.99
The corn are these great little individual cups at walmart, a pk of 4 is 1.60 so 1 is a little less than .50 cents. Russ likes corn and I do not, so I ate the leftover packaged salad.
I was skeptical about those Hormel entrees but it was really good! With a coupon, I highly recommend.
the total came to about 5.50, plus I have leftover potatoes for tomorrows lunch.
Plus, it came together iin like 10 min!