Food Plan and Grocery List, 013110

Over the holidays (and since), we've been eating a lot of chicken, pork and beef with a lot of red potatoes. I've been hearing from the peanut gallery that all of this is starting to, uh, shall we say, clog the plumbing.This week I'm making it a point to incorporate a ton more vegetables and have a new granola recipe to try out too. To off-set extra cost, I'll be focusing on using the meat from the freezer.

I browsed my Cooking Club magazines (including the latest one, received yesterday!) as well as allrecipes.com to come up with this line-up: 

• Spaghetti with Roasted Tomato Sauce
• Spinach Salad with Warm Maple-Mustard Dressing
• Vietnamese Chicken
• Black Bean and Corn Chili
• Slow-Cooker Roast Beef with Red Wine
• Winter Fruit Salad with Parmesan Puff Pastry
• Oven-Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes and carrots or something
• Crispy-Topped Herbed Orange Roughy Fillets
• Seared Autumn Vegetables
• Honey Nut Granola with Dried Fruit

All of this, except the Vietnamese Chicken is brand-spankin' new for us. Certainly, if I follow through on everything, there will be plenty for lunch this week.

I'm off to the stores.

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HMart:

• Samyang Ramen: $12.99/20

Grower's Direct:

• dried figs: $1.59
• bananas: $1.14/1.93 lb
• lemon: $0.44/0.49 lb
• red onion: $0.51/0.74 lb
• red bell pepper $0.79/0.57 lb
• Bartlett Pear: $0.51/0.52 lb
• brussel sprouts: $0.92/0.93 lb
• red cabbage: $1.01/1.71 lb
• romaine lettuce: $0.79/head
• jalapeno peppers: $0.11/0.11 lb
• butternut squash: $1.78/2 lb
• parsley: $0.39/bunch
• baby spinach: $5.97/18 oz
• baby greens: $3.98/12.8 oz
• dried apricots: $2.49
• TOTAL: $22.42

Ralph's:

• frozen corn: $1.76/24 oz
• frozen pearl onions: $1.76/24 oz
• milk: $1.99/ half-gallon
• oats: $2.50
• sunflower seeds: $4.29
• slivered almonds: $7.99
• Israeli couscous: $2.29
• parmesan cheese: $4.29/8oz
• whole tomatoes: $1.98/56 oz
• black beans: $1.79/ 30 oz
• Better Than Bouillon Beef base: $5.99
• black olives: $5/60 oz
• large eggs: $2.59/18
• Gallo merlot wine: $4.49/750 mL
• apples: $1.44/2
• mushrooms: $4.98/1 lb
• flax seeds: $3.49
• boneless skinless chicken thighs: $4.98
• French wheat bread: $1.47
• TOTAL: $67.28

GRAND TOTAL: $102.69. 

Hmm.  That's better than what I thought it would be, what with all the nuts and seeds and dried fruit. Ralph's was out of the puff pastry, so I might stop for that later this week or we'll just have the salad with regular croutons.

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