cold oatmeal and school events

Breakfast: I have reverted back to the days when 8am is way to early to function.  But I had to be up Skypeing with my boss so I made myself some oatmeal with an apple chopped up in it.  It had some potential but I was impatient and didn't wait for the kettle to whistle. Yeah, it wasn't done. ($0)
Snacks: I was working at a booth for club days from 10-2, the booth next to ours had goldfish so I may have snagged some of those. They also had pizza for workers and I got to it just in time. ($0)
Lunch:  It was free chicken nugget day at Chick-fil-a, you still had to buy a drink and side but the lovely Kelly Bishop mailed me a gift card a while back.  They offer fruit cups as a side so it wasn't terrible. Evidently tomorrow is free fry with no purchase but it's like 20 minutes from my house so not really worth it. ($0)
Dinner: We had this big happy hour kick off, and by big I mean a lot of publicity not a lot of people.  But I'm OK with that.  There were like 25 and that is perfect number for me to schmooze.  Our club bought food and I got drunk off of an open bar of club soda.  ($0)

Tomorrow I'm going to camp with my church, they'll feed me. 

mexican

Breakfast: Goodbye pancakes. ($0)
Lunch: Lani took me to Garcia's for some brisket tacos, it was the most Mexican food I've had here in New Mexico. ($0)
Dinner: Watermelon and my quiche substitute. ($0)

Tuesday

Breakfast: Pancakes, I figured I should finish up that batter before it ferments. ($0)
Lunch: Some more of my quiche-ish stuff and tomatoes. ($0)
Dinner: At class, granola bar and nectarine. ($0)
Dinner: At home, bowl of granola. ($0)

Quiche?

Breakfast: I, as always, have plenty of leftovers from yesterday's church potluck. I brought a Bisquick thing and I'm going to pretend it's quiche becasue then I can eat it for breakfast with watermelon. ($0)
Lunch: Orzo salad and grilled cheese sandwich. ($0)
Dinner: At like 10pm after my late class, a bowl of granola, welcome back milk. ($0)

another perk of christianinty

Breakfast:  Last night Heather gave me a to go container of baked oatmeal. ($0)
Lunch: Church potluck, I made a Bisquick recipe with chicken and cheese from the taco bar and the milk I bought. ($0)
Dinner: Youth group. I usually bring something but got permission to slack. ($0)

Week's total: $15.88

meeting food

Breakfast: Pancakes ($0)
Brunch: I had this meeting from 9-12 and there were quesadillas and bruschetta which was little weird for the timeframe. ($0)
Dinner: Orzo salad and watermelon. ($0)
Snacks: I went to Heather's, she always have exciting food.

shoppping

Breakfast: More pancakes ($0)
Lunch: Orzo salad ($0)
Walmart: I needed some milk and a popsicle and sugar.  I thought I saved the receipt but now I can't find it. ($8.50)
Dinner: Grilled cheese sandwich with the bread from last night. ($0)

stigma

Breakfast: I had some pancake mix someone gave me a few months back and then, in honor of my dad, I added some apple that I was given yesterday (I cut out the worm).  One batch of batter is a ton so I'll be eating pancakes for awhile. ($0)
Snack: My friend Sara just started college so I wanted to take her to coffee. You know how King David says he won't offer anything that didn't cost him? I have to remind myself that sometimes. ($7.38)
Lunch: I made up some baked burritos utilizing only ingredients from last week's taco bar surplus. ($0)
Dinner: Community group dinner.  It was Italian theme and I made an apple crisp, becasue I had apples and everything else needded and they probably eat apples in Italy, right?  I brought home a loaf of bread, a bunch of pasta, and a good amount of watermelon.  So yes, I think I'm stigmatized as that person.  You know who I'm talking about. Usually it's someone homeless, or at least a guy.  ($0)

dig in deep

Breakfast: I was looking for a surprise in the fridge this morning and I found one!  Some plain Greek yogurt from a ways back.  Yippee, I haven't bought milk for awhile so my cereal has been neglected but today I got to pull out the granola.  ($0)
Lunch: Ritz crackers and a few mouthfuls of orzo salad. ($0)
Snack: A grossly sweet coffee drink.  There was some buy 3 get one free summer promotion going on at one of the local coffee shops, I bought my 3 so today I got my free one.  I had to wait for the ice to melt to make it drinkable. ($0)
Dinner: Orzo salad ($0)

raquel surprise

Breakfast: Egg, beans and cheese with a sopapilla. ($0)
Lunch: Orzo salad and cherries. ($0)
Dinner: I was on campus from 3:30-9:30 and had a granola bar, I was almost dead by the end so I need to reevaluate. ($0)
Dinner 2: When I got home Raquel had made another one of her mystery casseroles.  She would get along well with my mother.  There was nothing close to a recipe followed but it was still pretty good. Especially the cheese melted on top. ($0)

Thank you Jenn

Breakfast: Egg and tomato with a sopapilla (leftover from yesterday's lunch) ($0)
Lunch: My lovely friend Chelsea works really close to my house so we finally met for lunch yesterday.  She suggested Subway and I was quite excited that I had a gift card from there--thank you Jenn! I ate half a veggie sandwich. ($0)
Dinner: The rest of that veggie sandwich, warning: Subway's bread doesn't hold up well being stored in in a purse. ($0)

Summer Splurge

Breakfast: Whenever I go home my mom loads my luggage with whatever granola bar type products they have expiring in their pantry.  I had something from that stash, I don't know really what it was. ($0)
Lunch: My New Mexican grandparents took me to their favorite New Mexican restaurant  - Fiesta. I actually think is the most Mexican New Mexican food I've had here.  Like they serve genuine refried beans. ($0)
Dinner: Lunch was huge so Heather and I walked to get fro yo. I wonder what % of my spending is on frozen yogurt.  ($3.26)

And since it's the end of summer I decided I should tally up my spending, maybe I shouldn't have it was $256. For 2.5 months so $100 a month and some of that was free vacation time.  So then I start to over think this spending thing and have to remind myself that much of this was spent on "memory making" and I have 5 jobs so I don't actually have to live like I'm homeless.  Do you like how much time I've spent justifying this?

Until May I had spent $316.59, so I'm at $572.59 for the year.

Slow Saturday

Breakfast: I keep hearing about this Rebel Donut place in town so Heather and I tried it out. Really I think donuts should be preceded by a pre-breakfast (preferably with protein) but I was too lazy.  It was quite delish and Heather paid. ($0)
Snack: I ran errands and ended up buying a Snapple at the Dollar Tree. ($.50)
Linner: I had a 4 o'clock meal of leftover taco bar. ($0)

asian infusion

Breakfast: Instant oatmeal ($0)
Snack: Ginger snap crumbs ($0)
Lunch: Fried rice, except it wasn't rice or really fried.  I decided to "spice up" my orzo pasta salad by putting it in a skillet with an egg. It wasn't bad, or particularly good, next time I'll probably save a dish and just use the microwave if I want warm orzo salad. ($0)
Dinner: With a lunch like that who really needs dinner. ($0)

success

Breakfast: I made this beautiful omelet for breakfast this morning, I don't know how to make an omelet close so it was "open-faced."  Eggs, cheese, my first homegrown bell-pepper, and a tomato.  A colorful meal is a healthy meal! I really just wanted peanut butter Puffins, but I don't have milk. ($0)

Lunch: Breakfast was pretty late so I had cherries and some snacks I stashed in my purse on Monday's flight. Thank you Southwest! ($0)
Dinner:  As VP of the Association of Graduate Business Students I got to co-host new student orientation. We were hoping everyone would come to the after dinner so we ordered food for 80.  That didn't happen.  What did happen was a lot of leftovers. So I brought home these tinfoil packs of taco fixings. Tortillas, 2lbs of chicken, fajita veggies, cheese, beans and rice.  I almost brought tupperware but didn't and was kicking myself.  ($0)