Well, Week 3, despite my less than stellar shopping experience, ended up a great success. Pizza challenge night and “breakfast for dinner” with our farm fresh eggs were both popular events that we’ll repeat! We even made our 75% challenge! The shopping experience went much more smoothly this week, although we have a TON of greens. We will definitely be getting our fresh greens in! We also picked up our first meat box from Farmhand Foods. The box included a braising cut (2 beef shanks), a grilling cut (hangar steak) and a roasting cut (mini boneless ham) all from local farmers. Since that’s a lot to eat in one week, we’ve frozen the steak and ham and are having the shanks this week. To make budgeting easier, I cut the cost of the box ($45) into thirds and will add each third into my budget as we use the meat. So how did we do budget-wise? Here is the breakdown:
- Farmhand Food (beef shanks from meat box): $15.00
- Mae Farm (Italian sausage, eggs): $12.00
- Farmer’s Market-various vendors (onions, carrots, locally ground grits): $6.00
- Farmer’s Market-Heaven on Earth Organics (collard greens, kale, salad mix, pea shoots, broccoli, sweet pepper): $23.00
- Trader Joe’s (organic canned tomatoes, organic garlic, organic apples, soy milk, frozen fruit, wild caught salmon, yogurt, wine): $45.13
Total this week: $101.13 (YAY!!!!)
What good eats are we having this week? Here is what’s on tap at our house:
Sunday–Braised beef and sausage ragu over creamy grits, sautéed collard greens (Recipe will be posted this week)
Monday–Broccoli quiche and salad greens with pea shoots
Tuesday–Poached, wild caught salmon with sautéed greens and red quinoa
Wednesday–Leftover quiche or sandwiches (scout night–everyone fends for themselves)
Thursday–Leftover ragu over whole wheat pasta
Friday–out (date night!)
Saturday–Pizza challenge using leftover vegetables and cheese carryover from last week
As usual, breakfasts are toast, bagels, oatmeal and lunches are sandwiches or leftovers. I see more kale chips in our immediate future!
Have a happy and fulfilling week!
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