What we ate and what we bought, 07-11-14 plus the news from my dentist appointment (not good)

Jeremy made dinner last night. The chicken was cooked well. The pasta was cooked well. The sauce was... oh dear god. The sauce was a mixture of mustard, honey and Sriracha. Not something I'd have put together and mixed with pasta. But I appreciate the effort.

Breakfast: Cocoa Krispies with milk
Lunch: salad made with cabbage, radishes, grilled chicken, slivered almonds and ginger sesame dressing
Dinner: mustard pasta
Snacks/desserts: sugar cookies
Beverages: water, Crystal Light

I also stopped at the store and got the following:

Lofthouse key lime sugar cookies (reduced for quick sale) $2.00
1 pint of half and half $1.49
2 6 oz blackberry yogurts ($.39 each, reduced) $.78
Peanut Butter Cookie flavored Powerbar (had a free coupon loaded onto my QFC card) $0.00
Zico pineapple flavored coconut water drink (also free) $0.00
.89 lbs broccoli $1.59

Total: $5.86

I went to the dentist this morning about my broken tooth. Apparently the damage goes into the root, and it's infected. So my options are to get a root canal and a crown for $800, or an extraction for $100. I also had to spend $1.45 on a round of antibiotics. I am going with the extraction because we really don't have $800 to spare. Suckssssss. I am going back on Monday to have the tooth pulled. At least the exam and x-rays were covered at 100%.

What we ate 07-10-14

100% fruit

Last Christmas we got an Amazon gift card for the family. We wanted to get something the whole family could use and enjoy, so after much deliberation we bought a Yonanas machine. What it does is it turns frozen fruit into a soft serve style frozen dessert. Last night I turned some frozen bananas and strawberries into strawberry banana Yonanas for dessert. It tastes more like a smoothie than straight up ice cream, but the texture is very smooth and ice cream like. I also like it made with mango and/or kiwi. Some fruits pulverize better than others. In general, the less fibrous the fruit is the better it works. Winter loves Yonanas. Sometimes we have it for breakfast.

Breakfast: protein bar and chocolate milk
Lunch: wrap made with flour tortilla, goat cheese, chipotle chicken, radishes, and cabbage, and leftover bean and vegetable soup
Dinner: stir fried chicken, cabbage and carrots with teriyaki sauce and brown rice
Snacks/desserts: strawberry banana Yonanas
Beverages: Coke Zero, water

Jeremy had a sandwich for lunch, stir fry for dinner, and we shared the Coke Zero and the Yonanas.

Purchases yesterday were the Coke Zero for $1.69, the chocolate milk for $1.39 and the protein bar for $1.00

Some work and health updates

So I may not be taking that shift at the spa in Bellevue after all, because my boss at my main job offered me more hours today. I would be coming in two hours earlier on the four days I currently work. It would be a total of 35 hours a week, so I am thinking if I took up the offer I should probably make that my only job. 35 hours is a lot of work for  massage therapist. I'm going to give it some thought. Having three days off would be pretty nice, but if I had a slow week or two, I wouldn't have any other paychecks coming in to fall back on. I'd like to think I could just work sub shifts on a very occasional basis, but I also know I have a tendency to say yes to everyone and overbook myself. On the plus side I would also save $40-50 a month in bus and train fare since I walk to that job.

On that note, I finally have a day off on Monday. I can almost taste it. Oh, and my boss brought in a microwave too, so I can now take leftovers for lunch!

Jeremy got his veins mapped  today for the fistula surgery. He said they didn't have to use an ultrasound because they could see them quite easily. I laughed so hard. He has the most vascular arms I have ever seen on someone who wasn't a professional bodybuilder. He has veins popping out on his fingers. His fingers. Really. So his vascularity may have saved us the cost of an ultrasound.

He's scheduled for the fistula surgery on the 21st, which quite luckily is one of my four days off this month. He is also getting a minor procedure on his eye to remove some cloudiness from behind the lens. They were going to do it on the 24th, but they moved it to the 25th. He should be able to see fine afterward (operative word being "should")  but I'll still go into work late that day, just in case. The eye doctor is only one block away, but I don't want him stumbling around trying to get home.

What we ate 07-09-14

I used the rest of the fish burrito sauce in a breakfast burrito yesterday. I think in retrospect t I'd have used less. It was a bit too much. I also spent $2.45 on a frozen yogurt, $.75 on a lemon mousse yogurt, and $1.25 on a pack of 8 hamburger buns.

Breakfast: burrito with scrambled egg, pepper jack, and left over white sauce

Lunch: peanut butter and honey sandwich, apple, sweet potato crackers with peppered goat cheese and honey

Dinner: leftover bean soup

Snacks/desserts: cookies and cream frozen yogurt, lemon mousse yogurt

Beverages: water, tea with sugar

There will likely be a permanent shift coming available at the spa in Bellevue in mid August. It would be 10-4 on Wednesdays. I am strongly considering taking it. That would give me a total of five regular shifts a week, and once Winter comes back for school I am not wanting to be at work all the time, so I will have to seriously cut back how many shifts I take at the airport. I don't think I'd quit though, since it's a good way to bring in a bit of extra cash, and I like having a badge so I can meet Winter at her gate easily. I won't be taking any more of the later ones except when Winter's at her dad's though. Nothing that gets done past 4:30.  

What we ate 07-08-14

Breakfast: smoothie with frozen banana, strawberries, vanilla yogurt and milk
Lunch: wrap made with a flour tortilla, chipotle chicken, peppered goat cheese, cabbage, and sliced radishes, apple
Dinner: bean and vegetable soup
Snacks/desserts: chocolate LaraBar, Dove milk chocolate, smoothie made with frozen banana, vanilla yogurt, milk, and goat milk caramel
Beverages: water, Crystal Light, Mt. Dew Baja Blast

Jeremy had a frozen entree for lunch, and bean soup for dinner. We also shared a 20 oz bottle of Mt. Dew Baja Blast. He measured out 8 oz and drank it out of the Pyrex measuring cup. Weirdo.

Slow cooker recipe for hearty bean and vegetable soup

sooooo many vitamins

This soup gets tons of flavor from fresh, dried, and canned veggies and beans, and is high in with lots of assorted micronutrients. I am tagging this recipe as vegetarian, because you can very easily replace the chicken bouillon with vegetable or mushroom bouillon. Don't be intimidated by the long ingredient list. This is super fast to put together.

1/3 cup dried black beans
1/3 cup dried pinto beans
1/3 cup dried garbanzo beans
1/3 cup yellow split peas (if you can't find these, try brown lentils instead)
1/3 cup green split peas
5 cups water
2 carrots, thickly sliced
1 bell pepper, chopped
1/4 cup dried onion
2 T sodium free chicken bouillon
14 oz can diced tomatoes in juice
3 cloves of crushed garlic
1/4 cup white wine
1 t oregano
dash of black pepper

Combine all dried beans and pulses with the five cups of water the night before and allow them to soak. The following day, combine all ingredients in a 2 qt or larger slow cooker and cook on the low setting for 6 or 7 hours until beans and split peas are tender. Makes 8 cups. Nutrition info is for 1 cup.

What we ate 07-07-14, and what I bought today

OMGMOARSPAGHETTI!!!

I made spaghetti sauce with basically the same recipe I used before, but I used mushrooms instead of zucchini, 1/4 lb of browned, drained, and rinsed ground beef instead of veggie burger, and I cut the olive oil back to one tablespoon, since the meat was pretty fatty.

Breakfast: just coffee(see beverages)
Lunch: Wensleydale cheese with dried fruit, sweet potato and cinnamon crackers, cherries
Dinner: spaghetti with meat sauce
Snacks/desserts: apple, butter toffee Rice Krispie treat, Chocolate Therapy ice cream
Beverages: coffee with milk, Crystal Light, Diet Dr. Pepper, water

Jeremy had a fish burrito for lunch, and we shared the Rice Krispie treat and the Diet Dr. Pepper.

Today I picked up 12 oz of raw organic honey for $3.79, and a chocolate LaraBar for $.95 at Target, I also got a milk chocolate Dove bar at Rite Aid for $1.00.