As a result, in an attempt to go meatless, here's the plan for the week, in no particular order:
- Pasta Shells with Cauliflower, Canadian Bacon and Spinach
- Winter Fruit Salad with Parmesan-Puff Pastry Croutons
- Sausage-Apple Sweet Potato Topper
- Roasted Beet Salad with Spiced Pecans and Champagne Vinaigrette
- Linguine with Artichoke Hearts and Prosciutto
- Spinach Salad with Warm Maple-Mustard Dressing
- Quick Minestrone
- Wilted Spinach Salad and some crusty bread
- Warm Tuscan White Beans with Roasted Butternut Squash and Sage
- Italian Basil, Tomato and Pasta Salad
- Shrimp Creole Couscous
I'm off to do my shopping... ...................................................................................
Costco:
- tortilla chips: $3.09
- TOTAL: $3.09
- grape tomatoes: 1.49/pint
- zucchini: $0.65/0.68 lb
- red bell pepper: $0.68/0.4 lb
- green beans: $1.29/0.72 lb
- beets: $1.89/bunch
- red cabbage: $0.91/1.55 lb
- carrots: $0.46/1.19 lb
- celery: $0.79/bunch
- watercress: $1.49/bunch
- yams: $1.98/2.51 lb
- baby greens: $1.99/6.4 oz
- baby spinach: $3.18/20 oz
- chives: $1.29
- sage: $1.29
- TOTAL: $19.27
- small shells: $1/lb
- large shells: $1/lb
- wheat flour: $3.99/5 lb
- white flour: $3.29/5 lb
- milk: $1.50/half-gallon
- apple cider vinegar: $1.29
- artichoke hearts in water: $6/28 oz
- great northern beans: $2.67/45 oz
- diced tomatoes with garlic, oregano: $2.4
- cream cheese: $1.50/8 oz
- Gruyere cheese: $9.69/8 oz
- cauliflower: $1.93/1.95 lb
- mushrooms: $2.49/8 oz
- bananas: $1.31/.052 lb
- Bartlett pear: $1.03/0.52 lb
- Braeburn apples: $1.53/0.77 lb
- fresh thyme: $1.99
- plain yogurt: $1.50
- Canadian bacon: $7.39/8 oz
- sausage: $4.99/12 oz
- prosciutto: $3.50/3 oz
- french bread: $2.49
- TOTAL: $64.98
Isn't going meatless supposed to be less expensive? Ok, ok, so I did buy meat, less than 1.5 pounds of meat, I might add, at a cost of $15.88. For 23 ounces of meat. That is completely messed up. Sixteen dollars would buy a whole lot of chicken, or a few slabs of ribs or a couple of really nicely marbled steaks. Really nice steaks we never have because I don't typically buy meat at $14.78 a pound like I did Canadian bacon today. These 23 ounces better be the tastiest I've ever had.
Looking at it, I realized half of the meat is pork. I'm a die-hard pork lover. It took a lot of doing to buy the chicken sausage. Have no fear, I bought the stuff that didn't include "mechanically separated chicken". There is some hope that the chicken in the sausage is chicken meat, not chicken marrow. Some things from my meat-packing plant days are helpful.
Note that I bought Gruyere cheese. We haven't had any of that delicious yumminess in quite some time. I hid it in the fridge. Don't tell Rodney that only half is for a recipe. The other half is all mine as well as that extra 4 ounces of canook bacon.
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021510 Rodney went to the store for a couple things:
- powdered sugar: $1.79/2 lbs
- unseasoned dry bread crumbs: $4/30 oz
- TOTAL: $5.79
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