shopping cart challenge

I decided I would give it a go. We had some leftover rice from the other night. I had grated a blend of three cheeses and we had many cooked pinto beans from a pressure cooker experiment I did the other day. I whipped up a bunch of taco meat and started assembling.

Heres what I used:

12 tortillas

4 cups beans

2 cups rice

2 cups ground beef

2 cups cheese

I quickly heated the tortillas and then put down the beans. I sprinkled on some rice and cheese and added the meat. I rolled so both ends were closed. I put them on a baking sheet and froze them individually. Then I filled a freezer ziploc with them. When you are hungry just pull out one or two and microwave or throw in the oven for a bit. You have lunch or dinner without messing up a bunch of dishes. Yay!!!

I looked through my fridge and based my meals on what we like as well as what we have around home. I did not put them on certain days as I change my mind depending on my mood. I made it for 5 days because I am going out of town on Friday. I am doing some prep today to make it easier throughout the week. I will see how it goes. Hopefully well because in the long run I think it will make my life easier.

Here is the plan

Spaghetti

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Chicken and Green Curry

Mini Hamburgers

Tacos

I also want to make a batch of mozzarella and some more sourdough starter. I want to make a batch of freezer burritos and pack up the turkey stock I have last week and label it and freeze it.

Todays plan- brown ground beef and season some for tacos and some for spaghetti. Make Chicken Broccoli Soup for dinner, bake cornbread muffins, and roll up burritos.

I have read everywhere that you should have a household notebook for all the important things including kids info and emergency numbers. That sounds wonderful but as I was getting things together I realized it was more important for me to start out with a notebook for me. An advanced journal to hold all the things I have been working on. A place to write down my feelings, a place to keep notes, a place for my lists. I have used a spiral notebook for all this but finding things in it seem impossible so, I made a 3-ring notebook. I put dividers inside and I filed all of my spiral notebook. I have had it for almost 10 days now and I am lovin' in!

My sections for now are

Food/Meal Plan

Business (I am self employed)

Bible Reading

Personal Finanace

Books

Gardening

Journaling

Master List

Our Farm (our quest to become self sustainable)

3 month plan (more self-sufficiency)

Other Stuff

Reference

I love it so far. It is not to advanced but yet advanced enough. I am hoping to have it grow and someday do something great with it. For now it is creating sanity in my life.

I bought a ton of ground beef the other day at a great price. It was just about .99 a pound. Now I just need to figure out what to do with all of it.

First off I am making meatballs.
I took around 3 pounds of ground beef and added oatmeal and all the seasonings. I mixed it all together in my kitchen-aid. Marvelous!
I rolled out 74 meat balls and stuck them in a 375 degree oven for 30 minutes.

Heres how it went.

I did 17 transactions at 5 Walgreens.

I started with 0 RR and ended with $19 RR

I spent $23 OOP (I bought $17.50 worth of soda for someone else so really my OOP was $6)

I saved $161

I am actually very happy with how it went. By starting on a week that professional Wag shoppers though was slow was good for me because it meant that the shelves were not cleaned out. I had fun. I did not make too many major mistakes.

I have $19 in RR to spend in the next two weeks. I guess I better start planning now.

By the end of the week I had accumulated over 200 coupons. I did not ever take all the coupons, I did not take coupons I would not use, and I did not tear off coupons from products I was buying.

I sorted them when I got home. Most of my blinkies do not expire till the end of December. I stacked them all together and they are thick like a book of cards.

Keep your eyes open at stores not just for super sales but for coupons that you can take now and use later with a great sale. It is a wonderful way to supplement your newspaper and internet coupons.

This is my first Walgreens trip in a long, long time. I have not gone because it is so far from home and I could not seem to get it right before.

Here is what I got

9 theraflu

4 Fusion Razors

4 Baby Powders

2 Oral-B toothbrushes

3 bags of skittles

2 packs of seeds

3 dawn dish soaps

3 dentek dental floss

They were out of Trident layers so I missed out on this deal. Oh well.