End of Novemeber

I'm totally cheating and writing this two weeks after the fact, but I saved my receipts (this is my personal expense report.

Now I will think back on what I ate on the 29th and 30th two weeks ago.

Thursday's dinner I had a meatball sandwich (meatballs, bbq sauce and bread on its way out from thanksgiving) I was very proud of myself for coming up with that one.  Friday night was family pizza night with my adopted family.  Breakfast and lunch were probably remnents of thanksgiving. ($0)

But alas, I did have to go grocery shopping, in anticipation of hosting a Christmas party I figured people probably wanted more than water to drink.  $24.73 on mostly tea.

 Monthly Total:$79.86

day 6 of cranberry sauce

Breakfast: Pancakes, using flaxseed instead of egg, and cranberry sauce (have you seen a trend). ($0)
Lunch: Thanksgiving. ($0)
Snack: I met some ladies from work and bought a hot chocolate, it wasn't very good. ($3)
Dinner: Cheese and crackers, again, and some veggies, i did consider eating cranberry sauce with my crackers. ($0)

packed lunch

Breakfast: French toast with cranberry sauce. ($0)
Lunch: I worked from Starbucks (on a gift card) but packed a lunch. I made a sandwich: old bread, turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin cream cheese.  I also had my 2nd coconut milk yogurt. ($0)
Dinner: Cheese from tailgating and crackers from when my dad was here and got a stomach virus. ($0)

exhaustion

Breakfast: Rice ($0)
Lunch: For some reason I was really tired so took a nap for most of the afternoon instead of eating lunch. ($0)
Dinner: Thanksgiving in a bowl aka stuffing, cranberry sauce and butternut squash. ($0)

ginger cookies and inner struggles

Breakfast: Oatmeal ($0)
Brunch: I made cookies as a back up dessert for the day after Thanksgiving and they weren't needed so I brought them today instead.  Once again everyone was amazed by the chewy ginger cookie.  ($0)
Lunch: Pizza with one of the families from church. ($0)
Dinner: Potato bar at youth group, I volunteered to bring green onions. ($.59)

Weekly Total: $35.23

I realize this is more than all of the month of October, I am becoming more and more like my parents with an aversion to eating out.

bonus money

Breakfast: French toast with cranberry sauce. ($0)
Dinner: I went with Heather to Village Inn, it is ABQ's version of Baker's Square or something.  I got a grilled cheese and paid!  This blog really doesn't reflect that this money was spent out of bonus house sitting money ($22)

day after

Breakfast: Stuffing, cranberry sauce, hard boiled egg and m&m's. ($0)
Lunch: Really with a breakfast like that lunch isn't really a necessity. ($0)
Dinner:  We had a Thanksgiving dinner at church, I brought cranberry orange relish, the easiest recipe ever (whole cranberries, whole oranges, and sugar in a food processor)!  And I brought ginger cookies because there were already 10+ pies.  ($0)

thanksgiving!

Breakfast: My friends host a Thanksgiving breakfast.  The steak and eggs were quite delicious and I made a really good pumpkin coffee cake. ($0)
Dinner: I'm dog sitting again and turned down the neighbor's offer for dinner and instead ate with my roommate and her parents. Did you know that if you eat dinner with only 4 people you can make mashed potatoes with 2 potatoes.  I was anticipating one of the more awkward meals of my life but it really wasn't that bad.  I made stuffing. ($0)

rice

Breakfast: The rest of my brown rice with cinnamon and sugar. ($0)
Lunch: I met with a lady for work and she bought be a breakfast burrito, I was was willing to pull out my own wallet to pay but she writes my pay check so understands my situation. ($0)
Dinner: I made white rice (from scratch!) and had it with more of those veggies and some shrimp.  I then threw away the rest of my veggies. ($0)

the depths of our freezer

Breakfast: Same as yesterday...scone, pumpkin cream cheese, egg sandwich. ($0)
Lunch: Veggie quesadilla. ($0)
Dinner:  TJ's brown rice (probably been in my freezer since May), some more of those vegetables sauteed with shrimp also from the freezer not purchased by any of my current roommates.  I think it created a pretty classy meal. ($0)
Dessert: More of the brown rice with milk, cinnamon and sugar. ($0)

shopping for thanksgiving

Breakfast: Scones and pumpkin cream cheese left over from the baby shower turned into an egg sandwich. AMAZING. ($0)
Lunch:  In August I brought home and froze a lot of leftover food from a taco bar, I finally got around to defrosting the veggie portion and put some of them in a quesadilla with homemade tortillas. ($0)
Dinner: Ladies Bible study, I brought the veggie tray again. ($0)

And I went shopping for Thanksgiving.  I was a little bothered by the amount I spent but realized I was shopping for 3 Thanksgiving events, drum roll...$12.64.  I think my mom spends a little more than that.

church food

Breakfast: Scones left from yesterday. ($0)
Lunch: The same family from last week invited me to lunch again after church.  They made amazing lamb gyros and ratatouille ($0)
Dinner: We had a toy wrapping party at church with pizza, I brought a veggie tray that I took home from the baby shower. ($0)

Weekly Total: $5.34

weekend fun

Breakfast: Coconut milk yogurt from TJ's and then random snacks at a meeting for school ($0)
Lunch: Quesadilla ($0)
Linner: Baby shower food, I brought scones -made from a mix.  ($5.34)

lots of carbs followed by grease

Breakfast: The guy who promised me a breakfast burrito fell though so I went to the meeting then had to run home and grab the rest of my baked oatmeal before my next meeting. ($0)
Lunch: At meeting #2 I was seated in front of a bowl of cuties and a loaf of chocolate chip bread. It was lovely. ($0)
Snack: If that wasn't lunch enough I stopped by a new thrift store and they had amazing homemade cinnamon rolls for free! ($0)
Dinner: Grease.  It was another happy hour for the business club but at a not very good bar.  My stomach did not respond well. ($0)

Night off

Breakfast: Eggs on an english muffin ($0)
Lunch: Leftovers from last night's dinner ($0)
Dinner: Sometimes you go to TJ's and splurge!  I think I bought 6 things, all on a gift card.  One of those things was a garlic mushroom pizza for dinner. ($0)

On a side note we got a new fridge!  I suggested to my landlord that it would be appreciated and he gave me the OK to buy one.  No more frozen food in the fridge!  And as a bonus, a freezer that opens!

Real meat from 9 months ago

Breakfast: Baked Oatmeal ($0)
Lunch: On the go with the rest of my veggies from last week's potluck. ($0)
Dinner: A REAL ONE.  In March I bought some hamburgers from Target's clearance section, they've been in the freezer ever since. I made one and half an acorn squash. ($0)

repurposing

Breakfast: Baked oatmeal ($0)
Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich. Bread=hamburger bun. Cheese=from tailgating's cheese platter. ($0)
Dinner: Ditto ($0)

standards

Breakfast: Instant oatmeal ($0)
Lunch: Lamb gyro at a work lunch ($0)
Dinner: Soup and sandwiches at ladies Bible Study. ($0)

Side note: At class the guy who sits next to me said he went to a potluck and there were a bunch of nasty leftovers and he thought of saving them for me.  I thanked him for the thought but let him know I already had 2 free meals that day. Friday morning we have a group meeting and he said he'd bring breakfast burritos. I think I'm a little pathetic.

veteran's day

Breakfast: String cheese and things from the snack table at church. ($0)
Lunch: Sometimes Sunday's are frustrating becasue too many people offer to feed me, people need to learn to spread the love throughout the week.  Anyways I went to a different house than normal and the food was delicious...I don't know what it was but wow. ($0)
Dinner: Veggies from buffet night and a quesadilla - I'm still making them fresh as I go and rolling them out with a jar of spaghetti sauce becasue I don't have a rolling pin, the cheese is leftover from tailgating yesterday - we shopped at Costco so I'll have cheese for a while. ($0)

Weekly Total: $11.56

tailgating

Breakfast: More biscuits and gravy. ($0)
Lunch: We planned a tailgating party before a UNM football game, fortunately a guy that knew how to grill showed up before it was time to eat. ($0)
Dinner: The rest of my beet mac and cheese and a grapefruit. ($0)

comfort food

Breakfast: Halloween candy. ($0)
Lunch: Tomato, basil soup at my boss's house.  I think this is the first time I've ever eaten tomato basil soup and it was delicious. ($0)
Dinner: It was a really long day so I made myself chocolate gravy to eat with canned biscuits.  Nowhere near as good as my grandma's but still quite good. ($0)

buffet?

Breakfast: Grapefruit, fried egg on a fresh tortilla. ($0)
Lunch: Some more of that mac and cheese. ($0)
Snack:  I made another tortilla then found string cheese (thank you Julie!) in the crisper drawer. ($0)
Dinner:  The dinner theme was buffet food.  I brought broccoli and carrot and celery sticks (I looked for those strange baby corn on the cob but couldn't find them). I also bought grapefruit and acorn squash for myself. ($7.61)

one of a kind

Breakfast: I finished off my yogurt with Cheerios and energy bites. ($0)
Lunch:  I had a beet in the fridge and decided to chop it up in some mac and cheese.  It was very pretty and didn't taste bad. ($0)
Dinner:  Quesadilla. ($0)
Dessert:  I decided to make cookies for Bible study and have a lot of peanut butter so I made peanut butter cookies and they were a big hit. ($0)

scrounging

Breakfast: Cheerios, yogurt, honey - but I did pull milk from the freezer. ($0)
Lunch: I have this recipe for these no-bake energy bites, I made some they were quite delicious but not really a legitimate lunch. ($0)
Dinner: I made tortillas.  Then turned 2 of them into quesadillas with some kind of sketchy beans defrosted from the freezer. ($0)

Back from Pittsburgh

Breakfast: Cheerios, plain yogurt and honey. ($0)
Snack: I was at a terrible meeting at school with a pack of not good peanut butter sandwich cookies in front of me, I ate too many. ($0, sitting in the meeting: $100K)
Lunch: After the meeting I realized I should have a real meal but knew I didn't have much at home so I splurged and got a breakfast burrito. ($3.95)
Dinner:  Ladies Bible Study...they feed me. ($0)