The Challenge - Day Three

[minxybaby]

I updated my food inventory post tonight. It's going great so far. Woohoo, we made it past day 3! lol

Some of you have really taken an interest in this challenge. At first I thought you might find these posts annoying, but since the interest is high, I'll continue to post updates now and then. If any of you take on this challenge yourself, please let me know! I'd love to have a challenge buddy. hehe

For the first 3 days I didn't sit down and do up a menu. Bad, minxy! I did have a menu in my head though, but today is the last day I planned for, so now I must write one up for reals. I'm thinking I should have rules for this too. Like a cap on the amount of fresh items I can spend every week or two weeks. And how often we can buy junk food like chips, or items to make junk food like my cheesecake. Maybe I'll just put a general allowance on what we can spend per week, and if we go under it, then great. What do you think? If you'd like to share how much you spend on groceries, please do! I'd like to know some of your grocery spending habits too.



Due to our different work schedules, my husband and I won't always eat our meals together. We will most likely eat separate lunches, but there will be times we don't eat dinner together either. I will list our foods separately when we don't eat together. If our name isn't beside the meal, then we ate the same meal together.

Here's what we had for lunch and dinner the first 3 days:
Challenge Day	Lunch	Dinner
Day One	leftover pizza (from dinner the night before)	Seasoned Chicken pieces, Sidekicks Rice, the small bag of mixed veggies from the freezer
Day Two	minxy_baby: leftover chicken (the only thing leftover from dinner) & a Bowl Appetit cheese pasta nodeg: tuna sandwiches & baby carrots	Perogies! Cheesecake for dessert.
Day Three	minxy_baby: tuna sandwich & a Thai noodle bowl nodeg tuna sandwiches, baby carrots, and a piece of cheesecake	Pork ribs marinated in the Tex Mex Marinade (packet), homemade seasoned fries (a mix of fresh sweet potatoes & white potatoes), and corn Cheesecake for dessert? ;)
And here's what I plan for our meals for the next week:
Day Four	minxy_baby: Staggs Chilli & toast nodeg tuna sandwich, baby carrots, and a piece of cheesecake	Hamburger Helper & mashed potatoes
Day Five	Pea soup & toast Brown sugar & honey breakfast sausages, fried potatoes & onions, eggs, toast, and coffee	Tilapia filets either baked or fried (seasoned), lemon and dill sauce, homemade rice of some kind, and brussel sprouts
Day Six	Breaded chicken burgers sliced up and made into chicken Caesar wraps (will have to buy romaine lettuce and wraps)	Skillet Sensations Teriyaki Chicken & a Caesar salad
Day Seven	Homemade Cannelloni & tossed salad (will have to buy more veggies) pea soup & toast	Indian Night: something with ground beef (have to google a recipe!) Kofta!, seasoned Basmati rice, maybe both mixes for Vadai & Pakora, tomato & onion & cucumber salad, and Onion Uttappan
Day Eight	minxy_baby: Homemade Meatballs & Rice (frozen dish) Leftover chicken Caesar wraps nodeg Homemade Taco Casserole (frozen dish) Leftover Brown sugar & honey breakfast sausages, leftover fried potatoes & onions, eggs, and toast	Hamburger Helper & mashed potatoes or a salad Leftover Indian food
*Day Nine*	Homemade Cannelloni	Hamburger Helper & mashed potatoes or a salad
Day Nine Ten	Kraft Dinner	Homemade beef empanadas & Greek salad Pub style chicken strips & fries
Day Ten Eleven	minxy_baby: flakes of ham sandwiches nodeg tuna sandwiches & baby carrots	Pub style chicken strips & fries

And if anybody has any good recipes for ground beef (preferably using a minimal amount of ingredients) please post it or link it for me! Thanks!! I want to make a tuna casserole or a tuna pasta dish, but with all the tuna sandwiches hubby has been taking to work, I think he'll want to wait at least another week. lol

Comments

[jbredrebel.livejournal.com]

well when i was growing up the "sidekicks" name wasn't there... it's a bit fuzzy to me, but the packets contain those flat noodles in a creamy chicken flavoured sauce.... are they still around? i miss those so much.. oh man i love those...
i'm visiting the canadian food shop in london on saturday, but am not sure how much stuff they have

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

I think Sidekicks has been around for about 10 years. I remember buying them when I first moved in with my husband. And my nephew wouldn't eat anything "grown-up" unless the meal had Sidekicks noodles. They have so many kinds now (different pasta shapes and sauces), and everytime I go I find a new one I like. My favourite right now is spicy tomato (spaghetti)... it's got a bit of a kick to it.

[jbredrebel.livejournal.com]

hmm.. will have to have a look out for that one when i'm home next!
am thinking about joing that community focus_focus .. you don't own it, do you? i think it would be interesting to do..

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

The community was created by scotty2naughty. He wasn't able to keep it running so I've pretty much taken it over. It's now our community. You should join! It's loads of fun. :)

You're not on ICQ!! lol

[jbredrebel.livejournal.com]

i was on icq! but my mac is slow, so i need to restart it. i'm in the process of closing down programs! i will be back in a few minutes...
i just joined the community, but it says i need to contact you for access!

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Oh don't worry about that. This community is run a little different from most photo communities. Members aren't allowed to make posts. They make their submissions using the new contest thread that I post. Anybody can leave a comment - even annonymous posters. The only thing to worry about is if we're on your friends page so that you don't miss our posts... and you've done that. We don't fill your friends page they way it's run, and I think it works out great like that. :)

I'm gonna head downstairs and make coffee, then take Vicki out. It sounds like it's raining. :( Maybe I'll see you when I get back (about 10 minutes). :)