Leap Day Splurge

Breakfast: Eggs and Mushrooms ($0)
Lunch: I was at my friend Lani's house and she made me half a sandwich. ($0)
Starbucks: Wednesday is my day to do homework at Starbucks, evidently the card I had on me only had a dollar on it so I bought an iced tea but had to pay the difference ($1.08)
Snack: A bowl of Total ($0)
Dinner: There was a mixer for the MBA program, I like to go to them to get free food. Last night didn't disappoint, sushi and those amazing frosted store cookies that come out at every holiday. ($0)
Later Snack: Wednesday is also my day to meet my friend Grace to finish our weekly homework, I usually drink water but had a free club soda last night and left a tip. ($1)

why i'm over chicken

Breakfast: Mushroom egg scramble again ($0)
Lunch: Finished off my broccoli pie and brussel sprout salad with pita chips ($0)
Dinner: A few weeks back I found some chicken in the freezer so i cooked it, shredded it, refroze it and was just bursting with ideas of what to do with it...chicken quesadillas, chicken salad...chicken tortilla soup...etc. In reality I ate it twice and then was frustrated deciding if I should keep it frozen (and have to chip away at it) or keep it refrigerated (and shorten the shelf life).  Because I'm lazy I kept it in the fridge ate it maybe one more time and then forgot about it. Tonight I was thinking of using it again and surprise surprise it was bad.  Don't worry I could smell the rancidness and didn't try to eat it.  I think this happened to me last semester too.  I'm over chicken.  Have no fear, instead I made a mushroom quesadilla with some corn tortillas that were donated to me recently.  It was really delicious, I'm not joking it was amazing.  I also had some green beans, they were great too.  ($0)

what a way to start my week

Breakfast: I was going to to make a mushroom, cheese omelet but remembered that I don't make omelets so it was mushroom, cheese scrambled eggs and a grapefruit. ($0)
Lunch: Leftover broccoli Bisquick pie, brussel sprout salad and pita chips (a new donation). ($0)
Dinner: Cereal ($0)

Finishing off at $0

Breakfast: Since last night's dinner was kind of like quiche and quiche can be a breakfast food i had a slice on the way to church (on a paper towel so my hands smelled like onion) ($0)
Lunch: At the Lennoxes ($0)
Dinner: Bean and cheese quesadilla and an orange. ($0)

Weekly total: Another week at $0 but I feel like a cheater since I used gift cards twice for groceries.

actually eating while at a restaurant

Breakfast: I went to breakfast with my friend Heather to this great little place, The Grove, that I had never been to (or heard of...I don't get out much), I was fully planning on paying for myself but she paid. ($0)
Lunch: Breakfast was pretty late but I did have beans in a tortilla for a snack. ($0)
Dinner: I had Heather over for dinner, almost as fancy as breakfast.  I bought Bisquick yesterday (with a gift card from Aimee) so I totally can use my Bisquick cookbook now.  I was going to make the impossibly easy broccoli chicken pie but the chicken was questionable so it became impossibly easy broccoli pie. I also made that brussel sprout salad again because it is super good. They're gone now so next week I'll have to move onto a new vegetable. ($0)

Hello Friday

Breakfast: My roommate loves the Schwan's man (which is a whole other story for a different blog) so she bought some pecan caramel cinnamon rolls from him, I ate one of those with an egg (you know balance carbs and protein) ($0)
Lunch: Another egg with some mushrooms ($0)
Snack: Green beans! ($0)
Dinner: A family from church had me over for homemade pizza and store bought salad ($0)

Hello Thursday

Breakfast: Total (I meant to have a grapefruit but I never got around to it) ($0)
Lunch: The rest of my brusell sprout salad, it was really delicious and i have more of all the ingredients so I need to make more.  I got a donation of like 2lbs of mushrooms this week so I have to figure out what to do with them, today I sauteed them and stuck them in a quesadilla, also delicious. ($0)
Dinner: Trail mix and hot chocolate ($0)