Holler! Yes! I have done it a third week....or is this the 4th week? No wait it is the fourth! Holler! Holler! Holler! Yes. I have fed my family of five all organic food for $200 a week. And I plan on keeping this budget. I want to be able to afford gymnastics for Selah and art classes for Zoe and a sitter for me to get the heck out of here! Whoo hoo!
This organic grocery endeavor has been heavy on fruits and vegetables. It was hard at first, but after a bit, I got the swing of it. I never bought processed food. That saves so much money. And so does my bread maker! I should have saved my grocery lists for you. But I can tell you what we ate last week.
Breakfast: Toast, tea, and fruit and eggs for the girls. (thanks to Meg for the fresh eggs!)or pancakes. For me and Fara: scrambled eggs with vegies, smoked salmon, and chevre, fruit, green tea, latte. (we always eat later than the girls and I don't play when it comes to breakfast!) Snack: kefir smoothie with frozen fruit.
Lunch: Fruit/ vegetable squeeze, applesauce and sandwich for the girls. Maybe they will take some almond milk. Selah likes to see what she can score of the share table. If it is a fruit or vegetable, she will take it even if she is not hungry and save it for later. That's my girl! Zoe is too cool to do that now.
For me: leftover dinner. This week it was chicken vegetable soup, chicken sauteed with kale, red peppers, onions, cauliflower, and chevre, pan seared cod with vegies, or cauliflower faux potatoes, chicken salad with grapes in olive oil and balsamic vinegar, Kazak slaw with cabbage and carrots in olive oil and vinegar. Oh! Fara and I made a tuna salad with a balsamic vinaigrette and green beans and put it over spinach. That was bomb!
Dinner: We usually eat dinner together. We had chicken vegetable soup, pan seared cod with cauliflower potatoes and spinach, the kale sautee, baked chicken with vegies and potatoes. We ate the same thing a couple of times. Last night, I got them pizza from PCC and still was under my $200 budget. Holler!
This week's menu is the same for breakfast and lunch but for dinner we will be having stuffed green peppers, chicken caccatoire with spinach, pan seared cod with kale, and chicken lettuce wraps. yummy! I am going to make some egg salad with flax seed oil mayo just for something extra! I do have a turkey someone gave me. Maybe I will bring that out and cook it. I do cook something every day. The more labor intensive things, I cook once in a bigger batch and we eat that for lunch and dinner a couple of times. No big. I have 3 kids, a husband who is gone all the time, a business, and two part time jobs. If I can do it, I know anybody can. And, even though I will never admit it, I am a closet lazy person. For reals!
Here is what I had for breakfast
Who wants to join me on their endeavor to eat well, eat healthy, eat cheaply, and take life back to the basics so we actually have time to enjoy it?!
Recipe of the week:
Chicken kale saute
You will need baked chicken, shredded kale salad mix, onions, diced red peppers, diced onions, shredded carrots, grated cauliflower, garlic, olive oil.
Saute onion, red pepper, garlic, cauliflower "rice", and carrots until soft. Add kale. Season with garam masala, turmeric, and salt. Add chicken. Cook until chicken is warm. Top with some chevre. yummy!
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