Meals and snacks for 06-17-14

The chili turned out great. I will probably reduce the amount of beans in it next time though, because it has a LOT of potassium in it. Jeremy has to be careful about getting too much potassium. I also spent 50 cents on two pieces of chocolate at Dilletante at work. I worked until 8 pm, which means I don't get home until after 9, and that is  long time to go before eating dinner.

Breakfast: Liberte Mediterranee yogurt with strawberries
Lunch: egg salad sandwich with lettuce, strawberries
Dinner: vegetarian chili with reduced fat sour cream
Snacks/desserts: dried cranberries, two pieces of chocolate, lime sherbet
Beverages: water, Crystal Light

Jeremy is still pretty sick. He skipped breakfast, ate a frozen entree for lunch, and chili for dinner. He's been vomiting more often than not for a week now. He has a doctor appointment today. It's troubling since he has kidney disease, but he believes it's related to a recent medication increase, and not the kidney disease itself. Here's hoping.

The cats also ate two cans of tuna yesterday because Jeremy forgot to pick up cat food.

Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili

1 cup dried pintos
1 cup dried black beans
2 veggie burgers (or 1/2 cup veggie ground round)
14 oz tomato sauce
14 oz diced tomatoes
2 T chili powder
1 T cumin
3 T dried onion flakes
dash of red pepper flakes
4 cups water

Soak the beans in the water overnight. The following day tear the veggie burgers into small pieces and add all ingredients to pot. Top it off with a little more water if necessary. Slow cook on low for 7-9 hours until beans are tender. Recipe makes about 2 quarts. Nutrition info is for 1 cup.

Accidental discovery

I made egg salad for lunch today. I don't normally put paprika in my egg salad, but it's good in deviled eggs, so I figured, why not? I was maybe a little heavy handed with it, and it had a familiar taste. I realized that it was the predominant flavor in some of my favorite Ethiopian dishes. I've never had luck replicating them before, even with recipes, but I may have to try again.

I've been making good progress into the things that needed to be used up. Out of everything on the original list there is just a small amount of lettuce left. I also need to finish up the carrots, mango, and strawberries soon.

Meals and snacks for 06-16-14

For some reason I was a bottomless pit yesterday. Maybe because I got up at 6 am. Who knows? We used up the frozen bagged meal for dinner. It had chicken, potatoes, broccoli, red pepper, and cheese sauce. We added a bag of mixed frozen vegetables in. It was ok, not super great, but we didn't have lots of time, and the bagged meal needed to be used up.

Breakfast: Liberte Mediterranee yogurt with mango and banana chunks
Lunch: Parmesan crusted Tilapia sandwich with lettuce
Dinner: Bird's Eye chicken potato and cheese skillet with added broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, and carrots
Snacks/desserts: teriyaki jerky, Skittles, honey roasted peanuts, Lindt truffle, cherries, lemon ice cream
Beverages: water, shared fruitwater with Jeremy

Odds and ends

Somehow I missed the big bottle of BBQ sauce we bought at Grocery Outlet. That was 99 cents. Jeremy bought a bottle of orange juice  at Rite Aid a couple of days ago for $1.50 as well.

Yesterday Jeremy and I were in Ballard at five pm and weren't due to get back home for an hour and a half, but he was nauseated and I was starving. We stopped at 7-11 for snacks and a drink. I spent a little more  than I'd have liked.

Teriyaki jerky $3.29
Small bag of honey roasted peanuts $.69
Fruitwater $1.49
Lindt white chocolate truffle $.49

Total with tax on the drink was $6.22

We also had to pick up a couple of things at the grocery store on the way home, and I was STILL hungry!

Buttermilk bread $2.50
8 oz sour cream $1.25
Skittles $.50
Dried onion flakes $3.04

Total $7.29

Meals and snacks for 06-15-14

Breakfast: shredded wheat and milk
Lunch: tuna salad sandwich with lettuce, watermelon
Dinner: parmesan crusted tilapia, couscous, cherries
Snacks/desserts: frozen yogurt
Beverages: water, diet Dr. Pepper

Jeremy wasn't feeling too hot yesterday. He had watermelon, sorbet with grapes, and leftover bean and sausage soup with some couscous mixed in.

Lots of grocery shopping today, and frozen yogurt

Jeremy and I went to Menchie's for frozen yogurt today after I got done with work. I got salted caramel and dark chocolate yogurt with brownie bites, hot fudge, whipped topping, roasted peanuts and a maraschino cherry. Jeremy got watermelon and tangerine sorbet with green grapes. The total was $10.28. It was worth every penny.

We then took a bus to the Grocery Outlet. That store is always interesting because you never know what you are going to find, so it's hard to do any sort of planning ahead. I had to exercise a lot of restraint. They always have things that I really don't need to be eating at pretty incredible prices. I did buy a bag of those Hot Pockets Snackers macaroni and cheese bites though. I looked at the nutrition info and they really weren't all that awful, so I decided to go ahead and indulge on one thing.

Here's what we got:

12 sugar free energy drinks (fifty cents each) $6.00
Hot Pockets Snackers $1.99
18 oz. Craisins $1.99
2 bags organic frozen mixed vegetables (99 cents each) $1.98
8 oz. shredded mozzarella $2.39
7 oz. Lancashire cheese $2.30
3.5 lbs pearl couscous $4.99
20 oz Diet Dr. Pepper $1.09
18 white corn tortillas $1.19
1 can diced tomatoes $.59
4 Yves veggie burger patties $1.99
3 Liberte Mediterranee yogurts $1.00
2 Liberte Greek yogurts $1.00
1 quart organic half & half $1.99
8 oz black pepper white cheddar $1.99
3 7 oz boxes of tomato sauce 3/$1.00
7 oz jalapeno havarti $1.99
Yellow bell pepper $.99
Red bell pepper $.99
1 lb cherries $3.99
1 lb strawberries $1.99
1 dozen large eggs $1.69

That comes to a total of $43.13