Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Meat and Vegetables
Yesterday AJ asked me what I'd like for dinner and I said "meat and vegetables," which is the only thing you can eat when you are going low-carb. He made chicken enchilada casserole (a low carb recipe, but not exactly meat and vegetables.) Tonight I got home after a long, long day and beheld a pristine kitchen. All I could smell was bleach.
"Um, what were you thinking about for dinner?" I asked, fake-cheerfully.
"Oh, meat and vegetables," AJ said fake-casually, as he opened the oven and whipped out a beautiful pot-roast, just like Sylvia used to make. Done to perfection.
He's already packed my lunch for me tomorrow.
What a man.
Also, the bleach smell was from AJ cleaning the bathtub and tile, which got become kinda mildewed.
I mean, seriously. What a man.
Kristin Ate:
1 1/2 scrambled egg with onions, peppers and mushrooms
2 coffees with cream
salad with meat and cheese
diet coke
olives
1 cheese stick
pot roast
potato
carrots
parsnips
onion
garlic
weight watchers fudgesicle
1/2 piece apple walnut almond wheatless bread with butter
Kristin Spent
$10.19 Nook Book (Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers)
AJ ate:
scrambled eggs with mushrooms, onions peppers
2 coffee with cream
enchilada hotdish
chocolate covered donut
2 slices of apple walnut bread
potroast and vegetables
slice of gluten free toast (2)
coke
AJ spent
$75.00 HSN
$221.00 car insurance
$1.39 (donut at holiday)
$47.89 Costco for pot roast, butter, cheese, eyeglass cleaner
Not just a donut but a gas station donut.
"Um, what were you thinking about for dinner?" I asked, fake-cheerfully.
"Oh, meat and vegetables," AJ said fake-casually, as he opened the oven and whipped out a beautiful pot-roast, just like Sylvia used to make. Done to perfection.
He's already packed my lunch for me tomorrow.
What a man.
Also, the bleach smell was from AJ cleaning the bathtub and tile, which got become kinda mildewed.
I mean, seriously. What a man.
Kristin Ate:
1 1/2 scrambled egg with onions, peppers and mushrooms
2 coffees with cream
salad with meat and cheese
diet coke
olives
1 cheese stick
pot roast
potato
carrots
parsnips
onion
garlic
weight watchers fudgesicle
1/2 piece apple walnut almond wheatless bread with butter
Kristin Spent
$10.19 Nook Book (Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers)
AJ ate:
scrambled eggs with mushrooms, onions peppers
2 coffee with cream
enchilada hotdish
chocolate covered donut
2 slices of apple walnut bread
potroast and vegetables
slice of gluten free toast (2)
coke
AJ spent
$75.00 HSN
$221.00 car insurance
$1.39 (donut at holiday)
$47.89 Costco for pot roast, butter, cheese, eyeglass cleaner
Not just a donut but a gas station donut.
Wheatless Apple walnut bread
Going wheatless but need bread. Only 5grams of carbs per slice high in protein. Had to make my own almond flour and apple sauce. Needs to cool before I can taste it to see if it was all worth while. Well it came out of the pan in one piece and you can slice it. Tastes sure like what I would imagine an almond soufflé would taste like, probable could have baked another 5 minutes. I'm sure I'll have no problem getting it eaten. A slice of cheese and a slice of this should be a good breakfast with coffee.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
White Knuckle
So it's the second day of no wheat, wheat belly style, which allows any veggie in unlimited quantities except for corn and starch. I think that's fair enough, don't you?
Apparently wheat is the root of all illness and belly fat, because it is not your great grandmother's wheat. There's a lot of chapters explaining why, but that's about the size of it.
Kristin Ate
1 1/2 scrambled egg with onions and peppers.
2 coffees with cream
beef and cabbage and mixed veggies
celery and carrots
9 cheese curds and 7 carrots
good-belly enchiladas
green salad
water
fudgesicle (weight watchers)
2 arithrimycen tablets (sinus infection)
lots more water.
Kristin Spent
$25.00 minute clinic
AJ Ate
Scrambled eggs with onions and peppers
english muffin
carrots and celery
2 sloppy joes
2 pieces of white cake
coke
good belly enchiladas
green salad
2 coffees with cream
Not so much wheat free for me need to use up what we have around the house
AJ spent monday and tuesday
$35 augsburg
$21.33 Hachenmuellers
$30.91 target for drugs, ice cream and gorp supplies for kristin
$9.27 linden hills coop
$43.34 costco
Apparently wheat is the root of all illness and belly fat, because it is not your great grandmother's wheat. There's a lot of chapters explaining why, but that's about the size of it.
Kristin Ate
1 1/2 scrambled egg with onions and peppers.
2 coffees with cream
beef and cabbage and mixed veggies
celery and carrots
9 cheese curds and 7 carrots
good-belly enchiladas
green salad
water
fudgesicle (weight watchers)
2 arithrimycen tablets (sinus infection)
lots more water.
Kristin Spent
$25.00 minute clinic
AJ Ate
Scrambled eggs with onions and peppers
english muffin
carrots and celery
2 sloppy joes
2 pieces of white cake
coke
good belly enchiladas
green salad
2 coffees with cream
Not so much wheat free for me need to use up what we have around the house
AJ spent monday and tuesday
$35 augsburg
$21.33 Hachenmuellers
$30.91 target for drugs, ice cream and gorp supplies for kristin
$9.27 linden hills coop
$43.34 costco
Monday, February 25, 2013
Reboot
Ok. It's time for a reboot. It's been a week since our last post. This sounds like confession. Bless me father for I have sinned. It's been 7 days since my last confession. How do I even know what confession is like? I am not catholic. I read a lot and I see lots of movies. Ah, the movies. An occasion of sin. Which is another Catholic thing, to the best of my understanding.
So last week we needed to see 4 movies to make our Academy Awards show deadline. Tbis was the second year in a row that we made it. We had a great time, but it was not good for our consumption. Money was spent, although carefully. We had discount tickets for Zero Dark 30. Candy was eaten, but only a half-pack at a time. There was lots of wheat and starch consumed, so I'm giving it up.
Today AJ made me an egg macmuffin and a lunch with lots of carbs. I threw away the muffin, the chips, the hummous, the bread.
Kristin ate:
egg and ham
emergen c
french onion soup
celery and carrots
shredded cheese
2 diet cokes
1 cheese stick
a pile of burger and cabbage
mixed veg
tabuli
weight watchers fudgesicle
1/2 beer
Kristin spent
$0.00
I guess beer is made of wheat, so it's a no go. That's fine. Water tomorrow. Can't be perfect on the first day.
We're back, baby.
AJ ate
Homemade egg mcmuffin
roast beef sandwich
piece of cake
banana
diet coke
2 coffee with cream
cookie
burger with cabbage
mixed veg
.5 beer
piece of cake
AJ Spent
$0.00
So last week we needed to see 4 movies to make our Academy Awards show deadline. Tbis was the second year in a row that we made it. We had a great time, but it was not good for our consumption. Money was spent, although carefully. We had discount tickets for Zero Dark 30. Candy was eaten, but only a half-pack at a time. There was lots of wheat and starch consumed, so I'm giving it up.
Today AJ made me an egg macmuffin and a lunch with lots of carbs. I threw away the muffin, the chips, the hummous, the bread.
Kristin ate:
egg and ham
emergen c
french onion soup
celery and carrots
shredded cheese
2 diet cokes
1 cheese stick
a pile of burger and cabbage
mixed veg
tabuli
weight watchers fudgesicle
1/2 beer
Kristin spent
$0.00
I guess beer is made of wheat, so it's a no go. That's fine. Water tomorrow. Can't be perfect on the first day.
We're back, baby.
AJ ate
Homemade egg mcmuffin
roast beef sandwich
piece of cake
banana
diet coke
2 coffee with cream
cookie
burger with cabbage
mixed veg
.5 beer
piece of cake
AJ Spent
$0.00
Thursday, February 21, 2013
We did
My last post was made from the New Hope Cinema Grill. We did eat the sundae and it was perfect for 2. We each had a nordeast, too, and thought it was $2.00, but our total bill was 15.37, so it must not have been the advertised $2.00 special beer. Today i came home and there was a new snowblower in the bouse. Amanda wants to spend 12.00 on World War Z for her nook. I say sure, why not.
We are having a frugality backslide. Must be AJ's new job. The sense of urgency has lessoned.
Time for ARGO- I think I'll need to catch up on the "ate" and "spent" list tomorrow.
We are having a frugality backslide. Must be AJ's new job. The sense of urgency has lessoned.
Time for ARGO- I think I'll need to catch up on the "ate" and "spent" list tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Django Unchained!
It's $2.00 Tuesday at the Cinema Grill. We had FREE coupons for the movie! Four dollar savings! The brownie sundae would cost a total of $,99. Will we or won't we?
Monday, February 18, 2013
Retail Therapy
I thought Cost Plus World Market was out of business in our area. Kendra and Tom gave me some sweet items from Cost Plus World Market for Christmas- I assumed they got them online. So when Tom told me that they were looking at furniture at that store, I perked right up. Online? I said. No- in Roseville! Oh happy day! I truly love that store! It's like the Pier One of my childhood, not the fancy Pier One of today. I plotted and planned for an opportunity to slide in there alone and bask in the international glory.
Today was the day. I had to drive AJ to work so he could pick up his company car. (oh happy day again!) I cruised right over to Rosedale. I waited outside until they opened.
They had a "Life of Pi" department. Really. Beautiful trinkets and non-trinkets from India. I found a delightful sequined, jeweled and embroidered set of office tools. A tiny stapler. A tape measure. A bejeweld ruler. A ruler and a tape measure! I could put it in the batik bag that was part of the set and keep it in my purse! There were jeweled scissors and a jeweled pen. All for 14.99. I chose the best color and put it in the cart. Next time someone needs a pen, I'm gonna whip out that jeweled delight. I drove it around the store while I picked out a shower curtain, a floor lamp, and many items for easter baskets. I got to thinking that the pen would hurt my fingers if I wrote with it, the tiny stapler probably wouldn't work, that I had a tape measure from Mood in New York City in my purse already, and that $14.99 would pay for a our trip to Django Unchained at 2 dollar Tuesday at New Hope Cinema grill.
I left the store empty handed. All that stuff will be there in a couple weeks if I still want it.
Kristin Ate
2 cups coffee with cream
2 slices pb toast with honey
1 latte (grande, starbucks)
1 cinnamon scone
1 pretzel stuffed with feta and spinach
1 bag chips
tuna melt
1/3 orange
chips
1/2 bag popcorn
diet coke
1/3 box milkduds
handful jr. mints
Kristin Spent
$7.00 parking at hospital
$35.00 for lunch (pretzels with feta and spinach, chips, cookie, coffees for 2, and 3 magazines)
Aj Ate
2 slices pb toast
roast beef sandwich
apple
2 cups coffee
2 cokes
tuna melt
chips
1/3 orange
shared large popcorn
1/3 box milkduds
12 jr. mints
AJ spent
$7.00 movie popcorn
$35.00 gas
Today was the day. I had to drive AJ to work so he could pick up his company car. (oh happy day again!) I cruised right over to Rosedale. I waited outside until they opened.
They had a "Life of Pi" department. Really. Beautiful trinkets and non-trinkets from India. I found a delightful sequined, jeweled and embroidered set of office tools. A tiny stapler. A tape measure. A bejeweld ruler. A ruler and a tape measure! I could put it in the batik bag that was part of the set and keep it in my purse! There were jeweled scissors and a jeweled pen. All for 14.99. I chose the best color and put it in the cart. Next time someone needs a pen, I'm gonna whip out that jeweled delight. I drove it around the store while I picked out a shower curtain, a floor lamp, and many items for easter baskets. I got to thinking that the pen would hurt my fingers if I wrote with it, the tiny stapler probably wouldn't work, that I had a tape measure from Mood in New York City in my purse already, and that $14.99 would pay for a our trip to Django Unchained at 2 dollar Tuesday at New Hope Cinema grill.
I left the store empty handed. All that stuff will be there in a couple weeks if I still want it.
Kristin Ate
2 cups coffee with cream
2 slices pb toast with honey
1 latte (grande, starbucks)
1 cinnamon scone
1 pretzel stuffed with feta and spinach
1 bag chips
tuna melt
1/3 orange
chips
1/2 bag popcorn
diet coke
1/3 box milkduds
handful jr. mints
Kristin Spent
$7.00 parking at hospital
$35.00 for lunch (pretzels with feta and spinach, chips, cookie, coffees for 2, and 3 magazines)
Aj Ate
2 slices pb toast
roast beef sandwich
apple
2 cups coffee
2 cokes
tuna melt
chips
1/3 orange
shared large popcorn
1/3 box milkduds
12 jr. mints
AJ spent
$7.00 movie popcorn
$35.00 gas
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Serenity Now!
Two super restful empty days turned into bingey-pants party time. Saturday there was a quiet breakfast in bed followed by a string of family visits capped with a Dexter marathon that gave me nightmares. Today I had another uneventful day that started with coffee and muffins in bed, followed by a class, a hospital visit, a birthday dinner and an episode of Downtown Abbey that was so upsetting that I had to have some ice cream even though I had already eaten two pieces of birthday cake. I am planning another quiet day tomorrow, so I'll probably do seven things and take up jello shots and mud wrestling.
Note to self.
If you want to be frugal and thoughtful about what you eat, stay away from Dave and Buster's, Dexter, and Downtown Abbey. All seem to lead to consumption of fried food and ice cream.
In the Saturday food list, you will notice that I ate lunch at least twice, and for some reason, insisted on the purchase of high quality peppermint bon-bon ice cream for a milkshake.
Kristin Ate:
Saturday:
2 pieces cinnamon toast, 3 skinny slices of irish cheese
3 cups of coffee
3 pieces of pizza (the meatball was remarkable.)
a diet coke
12 french fired
1 piece of fried shrimp
1 stella artois (I ordered the "short" but it was huge- it wasn't 5 o'clock yet, either.)
3 nachos with guacamole
2 mini pretzel dogs
1 little piece of birthday cake
a dozen or more french fries
a "slider"
1 diet coke from costco
1 toffee covered with chocolate and rolled in almonds
peanut butter toast
hot lemonade with honey
peppermint bon bon milk shake
AJ ate
slices of cinnamon toast
cheese
2 slices of pizza
2 chicken wings
lots of nachos
blue moon
2 pieces of birthday cake
1 toffee
3 cups coffee
Kristin Spent
$ 26.65 at Michaels, Birthday presents for Haley, a dot to dot book for school, floss
AJ Spent
$50.75 on gas
$59.78 Dave and Busters
$58.88 Costco ( toffee and plant for Karen, coffee, cream, milk, bread.)
$6.00 parking at hospital
$10.61 Cub Ice cream, 2 cokes, grapefruit.
Sunday
Kristin Ate
3 malto meal muffins
a little pb and J
3 cups coffee with cream
1/2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 piece of Karen's toffee
2 cups hospital coffee with skim milk
2 frickadillars
potato salad
green salad
green beans
gravy
2 hawaiian rolls
2 slivers of 2 kinds of cake
1 scoop peppermint bon bon ice cream
8 saltines
AJ ate
3 magic muffins with pb and j
3 coffees, 2 with cream
slice pizza
coke
6 samples at costco (mahi with mango salsa, ice cream with frozen berries, popcorn, naked juice, turkey and cheese)
2 frickadillers
potato salad
2 buns
salad
green beans
2 pieces of cake
AJ spent
$58.92 at Costco (burger, flashlights, roast beef lunch meat, muffin mix)
$2.00 parking at hospital
Kristin Spent
$0.00
I am noticing a trend toward spending more, which is disturbing. More parties and going out. Yow, it sure costs more to go out that to stay home. We were invited to Psycho Suzi's tonight, but declined. Those sweet kids can party just fine without us. It would have been more relaxing than tonight's episode of Downton Abbey though. Holy cow. My heart's still beating fast.
Note to self.
If you want to be frugal and thoughtful about what you eat, stay away from Dave and Buster's, Dexter, and Downtown Abbey. All seem to lead to consumption of fried food and ice cream.
In the Saturday food list, you will notice that I ate lunch at least twice, and for some reason, insisted on the purchase of high quality peppermint bon-bon ice cream for a milkshake.
Kristin Ate:
Saturday:
2 pieces cinnamon toast, 3 skinny slices of irish cheese
3 cups of coffee
3 pieces of pizza (the meatball was remarkable.)
a diet coke
12 french fired
1 piece of fried shrimp
1 stella artois (I ordered the "short" but it was huge- it wasn't 5 o'clock yet, either.)
3 nachos with guacamole
2 mini pretzel dogs
1 little piece of birthday cake
a dozen or more french fries
a "slider"
1 diet coke from costco
1 toffee covered with chocolate and rolled in almonds
peanut butter toast
hot lemonade with honey
peppermint bon bon milk shake
AJ ate
slices of cinnamon toast
cheese
2 slices of pizza
2 chicken wings
lots of nachos
blue moon
2 pieces of birthday cake
1 toffee
3 cups coffee
Kristin Spent
$ 26.65 at Michaels, Birthday presents for Haley, a dot to dot book for school, floss
AJ Spent
$50.75 on gas
$59.78 Dave and Busters
$58.88 Costco ( toffee and plant for Karen, coffee, cream, milk, bread.)
$6.00 parking at hospital
$10.61 Cub Ice cream, 2 cokes, grapefruit.
Sunday
Kristin Ate
3 malto meal muffins
a little pb and J
3 cups coffee with cream
1/2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 piece of Karen's toffee
2 cups hospital coffee with skim milk
2 frickadillars
potato salad
green salad
green beans
gravy
2 hawaiian rolls
2 slivers of 2 kinds of cake
1 scoop peppermint bon bon ice cream
8 saltines
AJ ate
3 magic muffins with pb and j
3 coffees, 2 with cream
slice pizza
coke
6 samples at costco (mahi with mango salsa, ice cream with frozen berries, popcorn, naked juice, turkey and cheese)
2 frickadillers
potato salad
2 buns
salad
green beans
2 pieces of cake
AJ spent
$58.92 at Costco (burger, flashlights, roast beef lunch meat, muffin mix)
$2.00 parking at hospital
Kristin Spent
$0.00
I am noticing a trend toward spending more, which is disturbing. More parties and going out. Yow, it sure costs more to go out that to stay home. We were invited to Psycho Suzi's tonight, but declined. Those sweet kids can party just fine without us. It would have been more relaxing than tonight's episode of Downton Abbey though. Holy cow. My heart's still beating fast.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Bon Bon
I also ate two delicious handmade Bon bons on feb 15. Full disclosure. Didn't mean to skip them. Just forgot. Besides, there were witnesses.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Some sloppy reporting and delicious dinners...
First, I need to report that we changed tradition and gave the adult boys underwear, but socks instead of drawers. The ladies got socks too. All are delivered, except for Jon and Heidi, who apparently took two days off work to watch the LOTR movies, extended version, three in a row. I can't believe they aren't blogging about that.
The little boys got traditional underpants. No red were available, so we dyed them red. We had always wanted to do that. It was fun to have a big pot of red underpants cooking on the stove. AJ forgot to take the picture. It was going to have a caption that said "What's cooking?" Another betrayal.
AJ did the delivering because I was sitting with Karen while she had her third surgery to repair her broken leg. I hear she woke up hungry and had a tuna sandwich for lunch.
All I did was sit there, but today I have a sore throat.
Exhausted from a big week, with holiday preps. Feel like I've been bleeding money and self-control.
Here is what we ate, to the best of our recollection:
Feb 13 Wednesday
Kristin ate
2 coffees
egg on bun
salami sandwich
chips
diet coke
latte
4 kinds of chinese food, a little of each, including
shrimp and peapods
beef and brocolli
pork fried rice
chicken and something
cream cheese wonton
2/3 eggroll with sweet sauce and mustard
1 brownie
tea
Kristin Spent:
$0.00
$60 ballons
AJ ate
egg and biscuit
3 coffees
orange
corn chowder
fried rice
chicken and veg
egg roll
2 cream puffs with plum jelly
latta
25 conversation hearts
AJ spent
$18.23 bulb garden
$25.03 gas
Feb 14 Kristin ate
2 coffees
egg on toast
1 chocolate heart
1 snickerdoodle
large hot chocolate
1 black coffee
1 blackberry creamcheese danish
about a million thin pretzels, chocolate covered
1 diet coke
2 meatballs
mashed potatoes
beets
1/2 beer
Kristin Spent
$6.01 hospital coffee shop, cocoa and danish
$0.00 for parking, because machine was broken. Bonus!!!!!
AJ ate
2 coffees with cream
Toast and egg
strawberry raspberry smoothy
fried rice
diet coke
2 brownies
celery
4 meatballs
mash potatoes and mushroom gravy
6 conversation hearts
AJ spent
$10.71 diet cokes
February 15 (happy birthday amy!)
almonds (dog ate my egg sandwich)
emergen c
2 coffees with cream
1 salami sandwich
celery
1 diet coke
2 cups of tea
toasted biscuit with honey
2 hot lemonades with honey (fave sore throat remedy)
salad
5 pieces homemade pizza, )potato, onion, goat cheese, leftover meatball. Less than one small pizza in all.
fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ ate
toast and egg
2 coffee with cream
white rice and chicken and veg
diet coke
toast
4 pieces of pizza
salad
1/2 a beer
AJ spent
$0.25 diet coke
AJ is now a Journeyman Structural Pest Control Professional
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Red Underpants and Mylar Balloons
When my parents were young, my dad always got my mom nice, classy and traditional gifts on valentine's day. The gift included a box from Dayton's with tissue and a nice, classy set of lady undies, lingerie, with silky panties and a matching bra, possibly a slip or a half-slip. There was nothing pervy about it. There was no such thing as a thong or even bikini panties then. My mom could wear that underwear around the house and be fully covered. Of course, she did not. It was a nice, personal, mildly flirtatious attention from my dad to my mom; something I have to say he was pretty good at.
The four sisters in the family got underwear too. A little box of candy and a pair of red carter panties. My dad wanted to give us something "just like mama," but age appropriate. It wasn't at all pervy, but very sweet. By the time I was a teenager, we were focused on making the day nice for the nephews, and then my own children. We got stuff from Welcome, but the undies went away. There would be a big family dinner with red food, mom, dad, the cousins, and so many valentines on the table that we had to have an opening and a clearing before food could be served. I loved that day.
Well, we don't gather like that any more, and Welcome and Sylvia have been gone for a while now, but I still want that sweet moment. I have one child at home, and five grandchildren. I've been searching the town for red underwear for my adult sons every year, no matter the cost, and often delivering days after the holiday. I had the good sense not to get red underpants for the girlfriends and wives, thank, god, because that really would be pervy. I think they think it's a little pervy that my boys still get red underpants from me. AJ and I decided to rethink. It's expensive, and probably not quite appropriate. There is little reciprocation (which is ok- I'm not about that.) We're conflicted. These are the moments that our frugality falls apart.
The other thing- I was all ready to give up getting a red mylar balloon for each student. My students are going to exchange cards but no candy. All of the parents agree that candy kind of wrecks it. I started to explain the balloon thing to my student teacher and almost choked up. I decided to get the balloons again, and be frugal with something else.
So frugality is put aside, the pilgimage to Target is complete. I can't spoil the surprise, but I will say that undergarments were purchased.
Kristin Ate
Egg on a bun
2 coffees with cream
4 animal crackers
diet coke
celery and olives
almonds- 1/4 cup
1/3 milk chocolate trader joes candy bar
a small brownie
triscuits and brie
handful of almonds
4 peanut butter pretzels
corn chowder
2 biscuits
1/2 beer
McDonald's hot fudge sundae
Kristin Spent
$157 at target on Valentines for amanda to give friends, for grandsons and boys and their girls, outfit for Amanda, and lovely gift for Amanda. Google eyes for school project. Yow. Not so frugal.
$3.69 at Michaels for rit dye and puff paint.
AJ ate
Hot chocolate
2 cups of coffee with cream
egg on toast
potato chips
salami turkey san
diet coke
celery
milk chocolate
corn chowder
2 biscuits
hot fudge sundae
1/2 beer
AJ spent
$10.78 diet cokes
$2,79 hot fudge sundaes
The four sisters in the family got underwear too. A little box of candy and a pair of red carter panties. My dad wanted to give us something "just like mama," but age appropriate. It wasn't at all pervy, but very sweet. By the time I was a teenager, we were focused on making the day nice for the nephews, and then my own children. We got stuff from Welcome, but the undies went away. There would be a big family dinner with red food, mom, dad, the cousins, and so many valentines on the table that we had to have an opening and a clearing before food could be served. I loved that day.
Well, we don't gather like that any more, and Welcome and Sylvia have been gone for a while now, but I still want that sweet moment. I have one child at home, and five grandchildren. I've been searching the town for red underwear for my adult sons every year, no matter the cost, and often delivering days after the holiday. I had the good sense not to get red underpants for the girlfriends and wives, thank, god, because that really would be pervy. I think they think it's a little pervy that my boys still get red underpants from me. AJ and I decided to rethink. It's expensive, and probably not quite appropriate. There is little reciprocation (which is ok- I'm not about that.) We're conflicted. These are the moments that our frugality falls apart.
The other thing- I was all ready to give up getting a red mylar balloon for each student. My students are going to exchange cards but no candy. All of the parents agree that candy kind of wrecks it. I started to explain the balloon thing to my student teacher and almost choked up. I decided to get the balloons again, and be frugal with something else.
So frugality is put aside, the pilgimage to Target is complete. I can't spoil the surprise, but I will say that undergarments were purchased.
Kristin Ate
Egg on a bun
2 coffees with cream
4 animal crackers
diet coke
celery and olives
almonds- 1/4 cup
1/3 milk chocolate trader joes candy bar
a small brownie
triscuits and brie
handful of almonds
4 peanut butter pretzels
corn chowder
2 biscuits
1/2 beer
McDonald's hot fudge sundae
Kristin Spent
$157 at target on Valentines for amanda to give friends, for grandsons and boys and their girls, outfit for Amanda, and lovely gift for Amanda. Google eyes for school project. Yow. Not so frugal.
$3.69 at Michaels for rit dye and puff paint.
AJ ate
Hot chocolate
2 cups of coffee with cream
egg on toast
potato chips
salami turkey san
diet coke
celery
milk chocolate
corn chowder
2 biscuits
hot fudge sundae
1/2 beer
AJ spent
$10.78 diet cokes
$2,79 hot fudge sundaes
Monday, February 11, 2013
With a couple of goldfish crackers, I can rule the world.
I have all kinds of problems with manipulating behavior with food. Not problems in implementation- I am a master at doing it. I think it's morally wrong. I remember hearing Alfie Kohn say that the Pizza Hut reading program was successful at creating fat kids who hate to read. But what about a few goldfish crackers for kids who are dying to have just a little something to eat? Is that so wrong?
I am teaching an after school class to a bunch of older kids who want to brush up on their math. They are wild and wonderful, hungry for social time, academic success and FOOD!!! So hungry for food. They will do anything, I mean anything for the chance to have a couple, literally a couple goldfish crackers. If I fell the need for a little quiet worktime, I can say, "silent contest!" and walk around with a bag of pepperidge farm goldfish, and they will bend their big old heads to their work. pick up their pencils and go to town. The loud ones, the funny ones, the needy ones and the silly ones. Will work for goldfish. Or a pretzel. And by that I mean one pretzel. I'm not kidding.
How hungry are these kids anyway?
Kristin Ate
egg on toast
2 cup coffee with cream
five animal crackers
1 piece of homemade bread
spaghetti with veggies
diet coke
celery
1/2 orange
bag of scooby snacks (stale)
Luna bar
3 goldfish crackers
hamburger with onion and mayo
potato chips
spinach
fudgesicle
...and a bowl of kix
Kristin Spent
$3.00 Amanda's field trip
AJ Ate
egg and toast
2 coffees with cream
black coffee
spaghetti with vegetables
popcorn
coke
spinach
hamburger
potato chips
15 almonds
orange
AJ Spent
$.75 on coke
$25.00 overdraft protection payment TCF
House payment
I am teaching an after school class to a bunch of older kids who want to brush up on their math. They are wild and wonderful, hungry for social time, academic success and FOOD!!! So hungry for food. They will do anything, I mean anything for the chance to have a couple, literally a couple goldfish crackers. If I fell the need for a little quiet worktime, I can say, "silent contest!" and walk around with a bag of pepperidge farm goldfish, and they will bend their big old heads to their work. pick up their pencils and go to town. The loud ones, the funny ones, the needy ones and the silly ones. Will work for goldfish. Or a pretzel. And by that I mean one pretzel. I'm not kidding.
How hungry are these kids anyway?
Kristin Ate
egg on toast
2 cup coffee with cream
five animal crackers
1 piece of homemade bread
spaghetti with veggies
diet coke
celery
1/2 orange
bag of scooby snacks (stale)
Luna bar
3 goldfish crackers
hamburger with onion and mayo
potato chips
spinach
fudgesicle
...and a bowl of kix
Kristin Spent
$3.00 Amanda's field trip
AJ Ate
egg and toast
2 coffees with cream
black coffee
spaghetti with vegetables
popcorn
coke
spinach
hamburger
potato chips
15 almonds
orange
AJ Spent
$.75 on coke
$25.00 overdraft protection payment TCF
House payment
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Wheat Belly?
We bought a book called Wheat Belly. The central thesis is that the wheat of today is not the same as our Grandmother's wheat, but is as genetically similar to ancestral wheat as today's humans are to a monkey. The effort to create a high-yield wheat that would feed the world efficiently accidentally caused wheat to be, well, bad. I have read less than 2 chapters, and AJ has read more. I can see where this is going. The bread dough in the fridge was not turned into cinnamon rolls today. We had delicious oatmeal instead. We are having spaghetti for dinner, because we may be getting ready to say goodbye to pasta and bread. I feel a crusade coming on.
Kristin Ate
3 cups of coffee with cream
oatmeal with raisins, milk, brown sugar and butter
1/2 orange
fried rice
1/2 pb and honey sandwich
potato chips
1/2 diet coke
hot chocolate
2 piles of pasta with mushrooms, onions, garlic and tomatos
salad
2 pieces of homemade bread
glass of wine
fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ Ate
oatmeal
1/2 orange
1/2 pb sandwich
6 samples at costco- hotdog, cheese, cracker with cream cheese and roasted red bell pepper, chimichanga (awful) granola balls, granola bar
fried rice
chips
hot chocolate
pasta with delicious vegetable sauce 1 pile
2 slices bread
1 glass wine
salad
3 cups coffee with cream.
AJ Spent
$8.72 ink refills
$59.98 costco 2 pairs of movie tickets with further discount, celery, onions, milk, almonds chunk of corned beef
$30.01 gas
Kristin Ate
3 cups of coffee with cream
oatmeal with raisins, milk, brown sugar and butter
1/2 orange
fried rice
1/2 pb and honey sandwich
potato chips
1/2 diet coke
hot chocolate
2 piles of pasta with mushrooms, onions, garlic and tomatos
salad
2 pieces of homemade bread
glass of wine
fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ Ate
oatmeal
1/2 orange
1/2 pb sandwich
6 samples at costco- hotdog, cheese, cracker with cream cheese and roasted red bell pepper, chimichanga (awful) granola balls, granola bar
fried rice
chips
hot chocolate
pasta with delicious vegetable sauce 1 pile
2 slices bread
1 glass wine
salad
3 cups coffee with cream.
AJ Spent
$8.72 ink refills
$59.98 costco 2 pairs of movie tickets with further discount, celery, onions, milk, almonds chunk of corned beef
$30.01 gas
Giant Boxes of Candy
The last time we saw a movie we were determined to resist buying popcorn and candy, but seemed to buy popcorn and candy anyway. Amanda had been looking forward to seeing the latest zombie-based rom-com, Warm Bodies, an apocolyptic romp in which a handsome young "corpse" inexplicably begins to recover his heart-beat after eating the brains of the heroine's boyfriend. To the best of my understanding. Obviously, no human being should be required to watch this movie without popcorn and candy. So AJ and I went to Target to buy a box of milk duds for me and an bag of gummy worms for Amanda, and some popcorn to pop in a pan. While we pushed the cart around, looking at all of the stuff we didn't really want to buy, I read the ingredients of the candy. Holy cow. A movie sized box of milk duds has 3.5 servings, at 170 calories each. Yikes. If I had that whole box I would eat it all, or most of it. About 600 calories. The gummy worms had four servings, at 130 each. The gummy worms were easy to portion out. 4 worms per serving. The whole bag (16 worms!) 520 calories. Dang. Cripes.
AJ packed the candy into portion sized ziplocks, Amanda made a fuss. She was pretty sure that she would eat the candy all at once and would then be candyless. Her words. She was almost crying. We decided that 4 worms were pretty skimpy and increased her ration to eight. I thought my milkduds were skimpy too, but I was trying to be a good example, so I didn't complain. We packed our popcorn, candy and bottles of diet coke into our biggest purses and off we went to the 3:30 showing (still cheap seats!).
The movie was better than expected, the milk duds held out, and Amanda didn't even eat all of her popcorn. I've already hunted around for the hiding place, but haven't found it.
When we got home, I made the most delicious fried rice ever, with fresh ginger, chicken, and peapods, with AJ as my sous chef. The frozen potstickers were too old to eat, so we chucked 'em. I was so glad I hadn't eaten the whole box of milk duds.
Kristin Ate
3 coffees with cream
bowl of kix with milk and sugar
peanut butter and honey sandwich with potato chips
a diet coke
a gallon of popcorn with real butter
1/3 box milk duds
another diet coke
big pile fried rice
1 1/2 glass red wine
fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$15.00 on movie
$2.00 candy
$3.69 popcorn
$9.89 hair dye.
AJ ate
bowl of kix with milk and sugar
cookie
pb sandwich
chips
chocolate
fried rice
2 glasses of wine
AJ spent
$15.04 holiday gas
$2.59 2 diet cokes in bottles
AJ packed the candy into portion sized ziplocks, Amanda made a fuss. She was pretty sure that she would eat the candy all at once and would then be candyless. Her words. She was almost crying. We decided that 4 worms were pretty skimpy and increased her ration to eight. I thought my milkduds were skimpy too, but I was trying to be a good example, so I didn't complain. We packed our popcorn, candy and bottles of diet coke into our biggest purses and off we went to the 3:30 showing (still cheap seats!).
The movie was better than expected, the milk duds held out, and Amanda didn't even eat all of her popcorn. I've already hunted around for the hiding place, but haven't found it.
When we got home, I made the most delicious fried rice ever, with fresh ginger, chicken, and peapods, with AJ as my sous chef. The frozen potstickers were too old to eat, so we chucked 'em. I was so glad I hadn't eaten the whole box of milk duds.
Kristin Ate
3 coffees with cream
bowl of kix with milk and sugar
peanut butter and honey sandwich with potato chips
a diet coke
a gallon of popcorn with real butter
1/3 box milk duds
another diet coke
big pile fried rice
1 1/2 glass red wine
fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$15.00 on movie
$2.00 candy
$3.69 popcorn
$9.89 hair dye.
AJ ate
bowl of kix with milk and sugar
cookie
pb sandwich
chips
chocolate
fried rice
2 glasses of wine
AJ spent
$15.04 holiday gas
$2.59 2 diet cokes in bottles
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Slippery Slope
Everybody loves Friday- just a few hours of work, and then the weekend starts. The trouble is that by Friday I am exhausted, my guard is down, and down the slippery slope I go. Lots of junky eating is about to be recorded.
Kristin Ate
egg on toast
2 cups of coffee
1/2 school breakfast (a power-packed oatmeal cookie. It was delicious.)
5 animal crackers
salami sandwich
celery
1/8 cup almonds
diet coke
2 little debbie zebra cakes
hot chocolate
muffin with butter and honey
homemade pizza
1/8 cup chocolate chips
1/2 beer
cran walnut cookie
fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ ate
2 muffins
black coffee
2 toast with pb
orange
2 coffee with cream
banana
1/4 cup ice cream
4-5 samples at costco
4 pieces of pizza
1/2 beer
2 cookies
AJ spent
$20,00 gas $81 groceries (accidental clams, flour, sugar, 2 loaves bread, discount movie tickets, diced tomatoes, basil garlic tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, fudgesicles, romaine)
Kristin Ate
egg on toast
2 cups of coffee
1/2 school breakfast (a power-packed oatmeal cookie. It was delicious.)
5 animal crackers
salami sandwich
celery
1/8 cup almonds
diet coke
2 little debbie zebra cakes
hot chocolate
muffin with butter and honey
homemade pizza
1/8 cup chocolate chips
1/2 beer
cran walnut cookie
fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ ate
2 muffins
black coffee
2 toast with pb
orange
2 coffee with cream
banana
1/4 cup ice cream
4-5 samples at costco
4 pieces of pizza
1/2 beer
2 cookies
AJ spent
$20,00 gas $81 groceries (accidental clams, flour, sugar, 2 loaves bread, discount movie tickets, diced tomatoes, basil garlic tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, fudgesicles, romaine)
Thursday, February 7, 2013
What a Diva!
It was roller skating night at our school, and AJ and I had planned that I would come home at around 4:00, have dinner, and then we would go skating together. Of course I had a meeting that lasted a little too long, then a couple conversations, one for business and one for pleasure, that lasted longer than planned, and what do you know? I left school at about 5:30. I called Dawn to go over the day on my way home, and discovered that we were driving next to each other on the road, and since she was going early, and since traffic looked really blocked up, I decided to get to the roller tink, and called AJ to meet us there and bring us dinner.
It turned into an episode of The Californians, but Sonquist style, where we talk endlessly about food, rather that the traffic.
"What are you doing? I'm going to the roller rink! But you were going to come home! I know, but traffic is bad! Just bring the food here! I can't! Why not? Just put it in a bowl! It's all laid out! How about putting the salads together and bringing three bowls of salad? I can't very well do that? Why not? They aren't going to like that! It's the roller rink- they'll never know. I know, I'll eat dinner, and put yours in the refrigerator, and then you can eat yours after and if you are too hungry, you can buy a piece of pizza. Well, ok then, I'm going in now. Ok, I'll see you when you get here. OK. "
Well, usually AJ is so happy to accommodate me, as all of you know! But not today. Today he was an inflexible diva. Eventually, I got the taco salad, (it was nicely done, but will never be a favorite. Burger on cold lettuce? Who ever thought of that.) But it was worth it. You should see the man skate.
Kristin ate
egg on toast
2 cups coffee
6 animal crackers
diet coke
salami sandwich
cauliflower and celery
8 fritos
4 ritz crackers
1/4 cup almonds
pizza slice
diet pepsi
taco salad
muffin 1 1/2
1/2 beer
ice cream
Kristin Spent
$10.00 roller skating
$10.00 pizza and pop
AJ ate
kix
taco
10 almonds
2 diet cokes
taco salad
3 muffins
ice cream
AJ spent
$4.10 catalina dressing and doritos
$5.00 roller skating
It turned into an episode of The Californians, but Sonquist style, where we talk endlessly about food, rather that the traffic.
"What are you doing? I'm going to the roller rink! But you were going to come home! I know, but traffic is bad! Just bring the food here! I can't! Why not? Just put it in a bowl! It's all laid out! How about putting the salads together and bringing three bowls of salad? I can't very well do that? Why not? They aren't going to like that! It's the roller rink- they'll never know. I know, I'll eat dinner, and put yours in the refrigerator, and then you can eat yours after and if you are too hungry, you can buy a piece of pizza. Well, ok then, I'm going in now. Ok, I'll see you when you get here. OK. "
Kristin ate
egg on toast
2 cups coffee
6 animal crackers
diet coke
salami sandwich
cauliflower and celery
8 fritos
4 ritz crackers
1/4 cup almonds
pizza slice
diet pepsi
taco salad
muffin 1 1/2
1/2 beer
ice cream
Kristin Spent
$10.00 roller skating
$10.00 pizza and pop
AJ ate
kix
taco
10 almonds
2 diet cokes
taco salad
3 muffins
ice cream
AJ spent
$4.10 catalina dressing and doritos
$5.00 roller skating
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
End of an Era
When most husbands lose their jobs, they spend time lying on the couch, drinking beer, and catching up on TV shows. While AJ seems to know all about SMASH and IDOL, and sure knows his way around the couch, he also has a lovely dinner on the table every night, has cleaned the garage, replaced the basement ceiling, installed the backsplash, painted the ceiling, and been at my beck and call since November 1. He is a reincarnated 50s housewife, without the valium and pearls. He also has a little robot to clean the floors, just like Judy Jetson. And takes care of the chickens, changes tires, and shovels snow, babysits and helps the boys, shops and runs errands.
So on Monday AJ starts his new job, and I'll be on deck for more of the cooking and other stuff. Which is awesome- I love to cook and do other stuff. But I'm a little sad that it's the end of an era.
Kristin Ate
Toast (egg slipped into the snow on the way to the car.
2 cups coffee
5 animal crackers
8 pretzels
salami sandwich
celery
cauliflower
diet coke
2 tacos
black beans
guac and sour cream and salsa
1/2 cup ice cream
small margarita
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ ate
egg
steak
toast
3 cups coffee with cream
rice and curry
small piece of naan
3 oatmeal cranberry cookies
2 glasses of coke
2 tacos
black beans
margarita
ice cream
AJ spent
$8.97 Amanda's perscription. tomatos, ice cream, taco shells Target
$17.48 HSN payment make up.
So on Monday AJ starts his new job, and I'll be on deck for more of the cooking and other stuff. Which is awesome- I love to cook and do other stuff. But I'm a little sad that it's the end of an era.
Kristin Ate
Toast (egg slipped into the snow on the way to the car.
2 cups coffee
5 animal crackers
8 pretzels
salami sandwich
celery
cauliflower
diet coke
2 tacos
black beans
guac and sour cream and salsa
1/2 cup ice cream
small margarita
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ ate
egg
steak
toast
3 cups coffee with cream
rice and curry
small piece of naan
3 oatmeal cranberry cookies
2 glasses of coke
2 tacos
black beans
margarita
ice cream
AJ spent
$8.97 Amanda's perscription. tomatos, ice cream, taco shells Target
$17.48 HSN payment make up.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
How could I not? (with mild cursing, aimed at myself)
It was a long, long-a-- day at school, with teaching first, refreshments, a meeting, and then refreshing convo, then refreshing cleaning. Got home at 6:40 and was greeted by a heavenly aroma. A lovely curry, with onion relish, chopped almonds, greek yogurt and rice. I actually had the nerve to say, "Where's the homemade Naan? Didn't you make Naan? I was sure there'd be Naan?" What a b- I am. I mean really. The dude slaved. Still, out came the pan and the nicely made olive oil dough, perfect for Naan, a little lecture (but no other help) on the process and property of ghee, and the Naan was made. Deliciously, incredibly, there was homemade Naan to go with the homemade curry, in five minutes or less. I ate a lovely helping, with a big chunk of naan, marveling at the quality of the curry and the fact that I was enjoying it. (I didn't like curry until I was about 52.)
AJ asked if I wanted any more. I was full, didn't need more at all, but....how could I not? It was such an effort and so good. I'm still uncomfortable.
I'm obviously on a feeding frenzy. When you see the list, you will notice that we are still out of healthy choice fudgesicles, and AJ went out to get three $1.00 sundaes for dessert, My mother didn't believe in desert, but I sure do like something cold and fudgey after dinner. So, because I am such a B-, I said, "I sure wish we could have a little ice cream." And out went that nice man into the cold, so I could have a little ice cream. I know he's a marvel. How could I not?
Kristin ate
egg on toast
2 coffees with cream
6 animal crackers
2 little steak sandwiches on buns
celery
diet coke
a scoop of ice cream with chocolate sauce (I almost had more, but thought better of it)
tbsp peanuts
bag of vanilla wafers
chocolate chip cookie
rice
curry
1/2 naan (but it was huge!)
1/2 nordeast beer
a little more curry
a little more naan
macdonald's hot fudge sundae
Kristin Spent
$8.and change for professional book, amazon, Conferring with Readers
AJ ate
peanut butter toast
orange
3 coffees with cream
small roast beef sandwich
1/2 cup rice a roni
2 crackers with frosting
chicken veg curry over rice
1/2 beer
naan
hot fudge sundae
AJ spent
$44.50 at CUB for chick peas, hot chocolate, chicken, onions, red potatoes, peppers, cauliflower, 2 bags shredded cheese, ice melt salt, a coke, curry powder
$3.89 at McDonalds, for 3 dollar sundaes that now cost $1.19!
AJ asked if I wanted any more. I was full, didn't need more at all, but....how could I not? It was such an effort and so good. I'm still uncomfortable.
I'm obviously on a feeding frenzy. When you see the list, you will notice that we are still out of healthy choice fudgesicles, and AJ went out to get three $1.00 sundaes for dessert, My mother didn't believe in desert, but I sure do like something cold and fudgey after dinner. So, because I am such a B-, I said, "I sure wish we could have a little ice cream." And out went that nice man into the cold, so I could have a little ice cream. I know he's a marvel. How could I not?
Kristin ate
egg on toast
2 coffees with cream
6 animal crackers
2 little steak sandwiches on buns
celery
diet coke
a scoop of ice cream with chocolate sauce (I almost had more, but thought better of it)
tbsp peanuts
bag of vanilla wafers
chocolate chip cookie
rice
curry
1/2 naan (but it was huge!)
1/2 nordeast beer
a little more curry
a little more naan
macdonald's hot fudge sundae
Kristin Spent
$8.and change for professional book, amazon, Conferring with Readers
AJ ate
peanut butter toast
orange
3 coffees with cream
small roast beef sandwich
1/2 cup rice a roni
2 crackers with frosting
chicken veg curry over rice
1/2 beer
naan
hot fudge sundae
AJ spent
$44.50 at CUB for chick peas, hot chocolate, chicken, onions, red potatoes, peppers, cauliflower, 2 bags shredded cheese, ice melt salt, a coke, curry powder
$3.89 at McDonalds, for 3 dollar sundaes that now cost $1.19!
Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday
No regrets at all. Just hungry all day from all that eating.
Kristin Ate
2 cups coffee with cream
egg on toast
20 cheddar goldfish
1 cup of animal crackers
2 little beef sandwiches
celery
diet coke
4 pretzels
rice a roni (homemade)
open faced toasted cheese
green beans
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream with a little chocolate
6 ritz crackers with chocolate from fountain only it was dry
1 glass purple cowboy
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ Ate
crab cake with a basted egg on a bun
emergen c
bagel with cream cheese, avocado and tomato
3 cups of coffee
sea salt caramel
brownie
rice a roni
cheese bread
green beans
ice cream with chocolate sauce
1 glass purple cowboy
AJ spent
$.75 on brownir
Kristin Ate
2 cups coffee with cream
egg on toast
20 cheddar goldfish
1 cup of animal crackers
2 little beef sandwiches
celery
diet coke
4 pretzels
rice a roni (homemade)
open faced toasted cheese
green beans
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream with a little chocolate
6 ritz crackers with chocolate from fountain only it was dry
1 glass purple cowboy
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ Ate
crab cake with a basted egg on a bun
emergen c
bagel with cream cheese, avocado and tomato
3 cups of coffee
sea salt caramel
brownie
rice a roni
cheese bread
green beans
ice cream with chocolate sauce
1 glass purple cowboy
AJ spent
$.75 on brownir
Brothers Super Bowl Bash of Glorious Food!
We had lovely breakfast of
german pancake
amylu's chicken gouda sausage
1/4 orange
3 cups of coffee
After that, It's impossible to tell what we ate. We had lots of fun planning and negotiating the menu. There was so much cooking, tasting, and snacking going on that our careful accounting of any other day went away, and we just enjoyed the food.
We were looking for food from Baltimore, food from SanFrancisco, and a lovely white cake to celebrate Heidi and Jonny's engagement, Amy's CPA and any other weddings and engagements that may have happened or might be about to happen.
It's better if we just say what food was hear and that we ate a little of all of it. Kristin was quite moderate but did a lot of tasting. AJ ate man-sized portions. Just kidding. As I said, we really have no idea what we ate. It was all really awesome. Just like the super bowl.
We ate
Baltimore Pit Beef sandwiches with horseradish Aoli, lettuce and onions.
homemade rice a roni
homemade shoestring potatoes
purple cowboy wine (Kristin had a big glass- I guess it's lucky)
nordeast beer (We shared one as usual)
Amy's sausage dip with fritos
Amy's cheese spread with ritz
chocolate fountain with fruit (ghiradelli chocolate of course)
Lady Baltimore Cake (3 layers, baby!)
sourdough bread
ice cream cake
crab cakes (homemade)
Also, by the end of the evening all of the bars and cookies accumulated over the last couple days disappeared. It was adorable to see Julian and Kellen work that chocolate fountain.
We Spent
$119.31 at Costco (beef kitty litter coffee milk cream eggs buns fruit rice wheat belly (a book) potato chips
$15.50 at Rainbow (cake mixes, chocolate, ice, Krab.)
We didn't get premade crabcakes because they were puny and expensive. We made our own out of imitiation crab and they were really, really good. Lots more for the money, and we knew exactly what went in.
german pancake
amylu's chicken gouda sausage
1/4 orange
3 cups of coffee
After that, It's impossible to tell what we ate. We had lots of fun planning and negotiating the menu. There was so much cooking, tasting, and snacking going on that our careful accounting of any other day went away, and we just enjoyed the food.
We were looking for food from Baltimore, food from SanFrancisco, and a lovely white cake to celebrate Heidi and Jonny's engagement, Amy's CPA and any other weddings and engagements that may have happened or might be about to happen.
It's better if we just say what food was hear and that we ate a little of all of it. Kristin was quite moderate but did a lot of tasting. AJ ate man-sized portions. Just kidding. As I said, we really have no idea what we ate. It was all really awesome. Just like the super bowl.
We ate
Baltimore Pit Beef sandwiches with horseradish Aoli, lettuce and onions.
homemade rice a roni
homemade shoestring potatoes
purple cowboy wine (Kristin had a big glass- I guess it's lucky)
nordeast beer (We shared one as usual)
Amy's sausage dip with fritos
Amy's cheese spread with ritz
chocolate fountain with fruit (ghiradelli chocolate of course)
Lady Baltimore Cake (3 layers, baby!)
sourdough bread
ice cream cake
crab cakes (homemade)
Also, by the end of the evening all of the bars and cookies accumulated over the last couple days disappeared. It was adorable to see Julian and Kellen work that chocolate fountain.
We Spent
$119.31 at Costco (beef kitty litter coffee milk cream eggs buns fruit rice wheat belly (a book) potato chips
$15.50 at Rainbow (cake mixes, chocolate, ice, Krab.)
We didn't get premade crabcakes because they were puny and expensive. We made our own out of imitiation crab and they were really, really good. Lots more for the money, and we knew exactly what went in.
Super food Super Bowl
The brothers gathered for the brother's bowl. Here are some shoots of some of the food that we shared. What a great evening
Saturday
We hung out, and went to a movie. The food diary writes itself- it was that giant bucket of popcorn that made our day of food eating so short-looking. After all that popcorn, precedded by a fat tuna-melt, dinner was unthinkable.
Kristin Ate
3 cinnamon rolls
2 cups coffee with cream
3 pieces of cheese
1/3 orange
1 open faced tuna melt
a few sweet potato chips
diet coke
1/4 large bucket of popcorn
1 blond brownie
healthy choice fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ Ate
3 cups black coffee
1 coffee with cream
2 blond brownies
3 cinnamon rolls
12 almonds
1 cookie
1/2 orange
cheese
popcorn
tuna melt
sweet potato chips
coke
AJ spent
$7.89 netflix
$15.00 foresteers
$34.00 movie tickets
$7.00 popcorn
(Karen subsidized a little)
One of these days we'll figure out what the Foresters are and whether we want to keep sending them $15.00 a month. We've been doing it forever, so maybe it will be for some reason. I remember that they have a nice nursing home. I feel like we signed up when we still lived on Logan, but....
The movie was Life of Pi, and I really, really liked it. I'm still thinking about it. It might be my best picture Pick, but I'm not sure yet.
Kristin Ate
3 cinnamon rolls
2 cups coffee with cream
3 pieces of cheese
1/3 orange
1 open faced tuna melt
a few sweet potato chips
diet coke
1/4 large bucket of popcorn
1 blond brownie
healthy choice fudgesicle
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ Ate
3 cups black coffee
1 coffee with cream
2 blond brownies
3 cinnamon rolls
12 almonds
1 cookie
1/2 orange
cheese
popcorn
tuna melt
sweet potato chips
coke
AJ spent
$7.89 netflix
$15.00 foresteers
$34.00 movie tickets
$7.00 popcorn
(Karen subsidized a little)
One of these days we'll figure out what the Foresters are and whether we want to keep sending them $15.00 a month. We've been doing it forever, so maybe it will be for some reason. I remember that they have a nice nursing home. I feel like we signed up when we still lived on Logan, but....
The movie was Life of Pi, and I really, really liked it. I'm still thinking about it. It might be my best picture Pick, but I'm not sure yet.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Saturday Breakfast
Home made by AJ. Olive oil dough gives extra bounce, crunch and flavor. If you don't have "artisan bread in 5 minutes" you are missing out. Auntie Jaren better wake up soon, or these might be gone!
Good Day, Hard Day
It was a good day because AJ was hired by a good company for what we hope will be a good job. It was a hard day because we found out that Auntie Karen has to have a complete "do-over" of the surgery that was supposed to be the final step (no pun intended) in her BIG ORDEAL that started a few years ago. Pretty intense news, given to an intensely strong woman, who intends to proceed asap and recover by summer. A lesson to all you kids out there.
This all called for a "take in" dinner at 50s grill, and a nice pan of blond brownies that were baked by Auntie Janis in celebration of the new job.
Kristin Ate
4 cups of coffee with cream
3 cornmeal pancakes
sausage, potato onion fry (made with 1/2 potato and 2 sausages for both or us)
a beautiful homegrown egg laid by Buffy the chicken
5 cheese and crackers
diet coke
2 handfuls of almonds
1/2 turkey club sandwich from 50s grill
10 french fries
green salad
2 blond brownies
1 glass of milk
1 hunk of 50s grill bread- you all know what I'm talking about.
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ ate
2 pancakes
sausage, potato onion fry
egg
3 cups coffee with cream
18 almonds
15 crackers
cheese
2 pancakes
hot turkey sandwich
potatoes, gravy, cranberries, peas
coca cola
cookie
3 blond brownies
AJ Spent
$27.50 at 50s grill
$50.00 gas
We almost went out to breakfast. This was before the job offer, but after dropping Amanda at school. Kristin had a day off to hang with Karen at the ortho doctor's, but Karen wasn't coming for awhile. We were trying to decide between Milda's, Hazel's, the Good Day cafe and the original, but settled on a bowl of KIX at home. Felt really self-disciplined. Once home, instead of KIX, made an absolutely perfect breakfast, better than anything you could get out, with the correct amount of food, (instead of too much.) Since we ended up eating out for dinner, I was extra glad we hadn't treated ourselves in the morning. We intend to keep up the "frugal fit" long term, new job or not.
This all called for a "take in" dinner at 50s grill, and a nice pan of blond brownies that were baked by Auntie Janis in celebration of the new job.
Kristin Ate
4 cups of coffee with cream
3 cornmeal pancakes
sausage, potato onion fry (made with 1/2 potato and 2 sausages for both or us)
a beautiful homegrown egg laid by Buffy the chicken
5 cheese and crackers
diet coke
2 handfuls of almonds
1/2 turkey club sandwich from 50s grill
10 french fries
green salad
2 blond brownies
1 glass of milk
1 hunk of 50s grill bread- you all know what I'm talking about.
Kristin Spent
$0.00
AJ ate
2 pancakes
sausage, potato onion fry
egg
3 cups coffee with cream
18 almonds
15 crackers
cheese
2 pancakes
hot turkey sandwich
potatoes, gravy, cranberries, peas
coca cola
cookie
3 blond brownies
AJ Spent
$27.50 at 50s grill
$50.00 gas
We almost went out to breakfast. This was before the job offer, but after dropping Amanda at school. Kristin had a day off to hang with Karen at the ortho doctor's, but Karen wasn't coming for awhile. We were trying to decide between Milda's, Hazel's, the Good Day cafe and the original, but settled on a bowl of KIX at home. Felt really self-disciplined. Once home, instead of KIX, made an absolutely perfect breakfast, better than anything you could get out, with the correct amount of food, (instead of too much.) Since we ended up eating out for dinner, I was extra glad we hadn't treated ourselves in the morning. We intend to keep up the "frugal fit" long term, new job or not.
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