Menu Plan Monday

Getting back on track after a week of vacation last week. Just listing the dinners since the kids are eating out of the freezer/pantry/fridge for breakfast and lunches on their own schedules!

Monday: Grilled chicken, pasta with veggies, rolls
Tuesday: Marlboro Man sandwiches, homemade hoagie buns, mac n cheese
Wednesday: Grilled hot dogs, pasta salad
Thursday: Santa Fe Enchiladas with fiesta rice
Friday: Manwiches, potatoes
Saturday: Fish fillets, corn on cob, tomatoes
Sunday: BBQ Pork Roast, baked beans, rolls

June Expense

My tally's for the month of June:



I ended up being $32.24 over my self-appointed $300 budget. I STILL think that's pretty stinkin' good, although I didn't quite make it since Harris Teeter had to throw in a Super Doubles sale for coupons under $2.00. Made it impossible to resist using some of the ones I wouldn't normally use because of the price of the items. (Okay - and well - Publix had a few extra things on sale like Velveeta that I felt I REALLY needed to get, lol!)

But - all in all - good!

Emergency preparedness

For those of you who attended the ladie's meeting, here's a list that you might find helpful!

Emergency Pantry list

There's a few items that I need to have for just in case times...

making a list

that's been on several of my visited blogs today:

Outside my window… There's a water sprinkler watering the heck out of the front yard.

I am thinking… about how uncomfortable I'm getting in this shell I call a body again.

I am thankful for… my family, my garden/flowers, and this place I call home.

From the kitchen… yells AT the boys while they fight and spend ONE HOUR cleaning it after the supper.

I am wearing… pajama bottoms and top.

I am creating… editing daily photos

I am going… to move the sprinkler to the backyard in a minute.

I am reading… White Coleander

I am hoping… that direction comes soon.

I am hearing… the sound of Olivia as she licks every square inch of my office floor for the umpteenth time this week.

Around the house… are the kids settling into their evening routines of continual and perpetual fighting.

One of my favorite things… 10 minutes of golden silence!

A few plans for the rest of the week… laundry, cooking, cleaning, watering, gardening, parenting, wishing, dreaming...

Menu Plan Monday

Have to stick to it this week. Did good the first of last week, but not so good the latter part.

Monday:
breakfast - eggs, bacon, sweet rolls
lunch - chicken salad, crackers
dinner - sausage/squash casserole, rice, cucumber salad

Tuesday:
breakfast - cereal
lunch - chicken salad lettuce wraps with tomatoes
dinner - paprika chicken with sour cream sauce, pasta, zucchini

Wednesday:
breakfast - pancakes with peaches
lunch - sandwiches
dinner -turkey stuffed meatloaf, green beans, mashed potatoes

Thursday:
breakfast - eggs in baskets, cantalope
lunch - fruit salad, ham roll-ups
dinner - Marlboro man steak sandwiches, fried potatoes, corn on cob, homemade hoagie buns, pound cake trifle

Friday:
breakfast - cereal
lunch - quesadillas, salad
dinner - cajun chicken alfredo, salad, yeast rolls, tomatoes

Saturday:
breakfast - french breakfast puffs, strawberries
lunch - leftovers
dinner - mexican chicken, salad, spanish rice

Sunday:
breakfast - breakfast delightslunch - taking kids to camp (drive-through)
dinner - something quick, light, and easy since it'll be just Thomas & I

This is completely insane

seriously?

PETA

Are they stupid? Does this mean that if 10,000 mosquitos infested with Malaria lands on their bodies that they wouldn't get them off? Does this mean that if they're in Central Texas in the middle of the summer and they accidentally fall into a BLAZING bundle of fire ants, they wouldn't stop, drop, roll, and KILL those suckers? Does this mean that if they were conversing through an Australian outback and came upon a swarm of pesky gnats, they wouldn't swat and swing at a few themselves?

Do they just LOOK for something to gripe at? Are they INSANE? COME ON!

Okay - off soapbox now!

More photos

From April 2009









From March 2009:

Various photos

Yesterday was a rather boring day so I spent it doing something I like to do (while escaping from the noise of the kids). I edited several photos from the month of June so far.

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Not a great week this week in the coupon world

for the locals...not much worth shopping for me. So, I'm staying at home. I went today to finish some little things. They were out a few things that I got rain checks on. Needed eggs and the kids LOVED the YoCrunch yogurts, so I bought 12 more @ .23/ea. Seeing as all 6 were gone that I bought Thursday, I'd say I'm fine to buy 12. Zachary LOVES his yogurt and especially in the summertime. He's been known to eat 2 at a sitting up to twice a day.

I've cut my grocery budget for the month back to $300 and I'm striving hard to get to that goal. My pantries are WELL stocked, so I don't think that should be an issue. I even cooked for the surprise birthday party after church Sunday night out of my pantry. AND...it was good. Strawberry Pretzel Crunch

I didn't have strawberry jell-o, though...but cherry worked just fine...fyi (in case that's all YOU have in your pantry, too)

My meal planning for this week is strictly from the pantry/freezer, with the exception of the eggs that had to be purchased today. I needed bread, but thought I'd break out the bread maker for as little bread as we've been eating lately. Even gonna make the hoagie buns instead of buying them since I have the yeast to do so.

I have about $72.00 left for the month. I know that seems like just a little and that I might not make it, but folks...if you didn't know this about me, know it now...I'm STUBBORN. And with only the basics needed, I'm DETERMINED to make it...and unless there's just something MAJOR to buy (and only on a REALLY great deal like Ritz crackers @ .89/each again) I won't buy it. Not even planning on going 'tripling' unless for free stuff. Seriously. I can do this.

I can.
I will.
Watch me.

:)