$100 a Month For Groceries – Week 13 of 52

After spending over $90 in the third week in March, the plan for the rest of the month was to spend zero dollars on food and so far, so good. After today though, I’ll be out of milk and have to use powdered milk for my tea until the beginning of April. Which is just sad. But oh well. 

Food wise, it was a bit of a boring week. On two occasions, we even ate tater tots for dinner!!!  

Beans and rice. 

Rice and beans. 

Roast chicken bits with buttered rice and broccoli that I swear was dipped in sand before being put on the store shelf. 

Rice, leftover beans from last week with a little leftover chicken on top. 

We still had leftover chicken in the fridge and so I whipped up a batch of sheet pan party nachos. Chips, pepper jack and cheddar cheese, a can of Rotel, black beans, chicken bits and jalapenos. The nachos were delicious.

And with the remaining chicken and leftover rice from earlier in the week,  the HH made a big batch of his homemade chicken which I served with bacon jalapeno cheddar biscuits I had stashed in the freezer from the last batch I made.

I also made a loaf of Dutch oven cinnamon raisin bread and a plain loaf of Dutch oven crusty bread. I LOVE making these breads! They’re cheap, quick and satisfying. Plus, they toast up beautifully and are lovely with butter and jam in the mornings or even when sliced thick for grilled cheese sandwiches. 

It’s funny, I’ve been making this bread for a few years now, but only recently {since the bakery closed back in September} have I been making these loaves on a regular {about every 4 days} basis.

But now that mixing up the dough has become another part of my nightly routine, I’ll probably keep on making them even when the bakery re-opens for the summer. 

And last but not least, the third and final pie from Southern Baked Pie Company.  For this round Mrs. HB sent me a caramel and pecan pie {which was outstanding!}. 

Pie, bread, beans and rice… I could live off those things for ever.  

How was YOUR week? Did you make anything exciting, or was it just the same old meals? Curious minds want to know. 

Here’s to a happy and productive week,

~Mavis

Total Spent This Past Week on Groceries $0

• Total Spent in March on Groceries $114.12
• Total Spent in February on Groceries $94.64
• Total Spent in January on Groceries $96.58
• Total Spent on Groceries in 2022 $305.34 {$5.34 over budget for the year so far!!}

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