This Week on the Dining Table

The "Laid Up in Bed Edition" Edition..........

Wouldn't you know it, Sunday I tweeked my left knee(the good knee)on the way out the door to go to Rite-Aid and it just felt worse and worse over the course of the day.
I am on Day Two of staying upstairs in bed in hopes staying off it and not going up and down the stairs helps it feel better.
Otherwise it's off to the doctor. sigh

Moving On....

Onward to the meal planning-

This is what was planned.........

1. Sunday--No Clue
2. Monday--Steak, Asparagus, and?
3. Tuesday--Maybe Pizza? or Leftovers

4. Wednesday--No Clue
5. Thursday--No Clue

6. Friday--No Clue
7. Saturday--No Clue

And this is what really happened.......

1. Sunday--I had a big Salad
2. Monday--Steak, Asparagus, leftover Butternut Squash
3. Tuesday--Leftover Teriyaki Beef w/Bok Choy, Salad

4. Wednesday--Sweet and Sour Chicken take-out at son's
5. Thursday--a bowl of  Rice Krispy cereal

6. Friday--Hot and Sour Soup
7. Saturday--leftover Soup

Last week saw 2 nights of home cooked dinners, 3 night of leftovers/FFY, and 2 nights of Take-Out and no dinner for me on Sunday.

What got put into the freezer last week....
* 1 pack of thinly sliced chicken breast
* 6 tv dinners(Maybe this was a premonition that I wouldn't be able to cook for awhile?)

What got taken out of the freezer and used.....
* No clue what Hubs made at home except pork chops one night and steak another that he told me about on the phone.

Hubs spent a whole $26.02 on groceries while I was away.  He did eat a couple of "dogs" in the pantry-things that had been bought for him that he never got around to making. I pulled them out and put where he could find them yet he didn't go crazy on eating pasta and sauce which I assumed he would(since he loves it so and I just can't eat tomato based sauces much anymore).
I pillaged a could more R-As down in VA and hit a Sharp Shopper in VA and a Walmart in WV on the way home as well as went with sis in-law to Kroger twice which brings my June food spending to $405.55.

I am at $91.42 total earned in Ibotta rebates in June plus $1 in rebates on Saving Star for June which brings my actual June spending down to $313.13 after that's factored in.

My savings percentage the last 3 weeks was 50.58%(without "regular"Rite-Aid trips)for June and the monthly savings total comes in at 56.37%(w/out R-A).

I have 0 more food shopping/spending days in June as it's the last day of the month today. 8-)

Leftovers going into this week.......nothing really as Hubs hardly cooked while I was away.  With Ex-CB back at work as of last week Hubs just made something for himself.
Must be nice to do that and not have to meal plan. 8-(

Here is this week's "food plan".....my first full week back home.

1. Sunday--Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches
2. Monday--Salad and Pizza
3. Tuesday--FFY

4. Wednesday--Crab Cakes, Sweet Potato Wedges, Broccoli
5. Thursday--Mushroom Ravioli, more Broccoli

6. Friday--Caesar Salad w/Grilled Chicken
7. Saturday--Something Chicken-I have a roaster that needs to be cooked and ?

What needs buying for this menu? Nothing.  I might get fruit, deli meat and milk.  That's it.

What's left on my master list of meals we can make from what's at home...........
* Shrimp Tempura
* Tuna Casserole
* Roasted Chicken
* Shrimp/Crab Ravioli
* Cheese Ravioli

* Spaghetti and Meatballs

* Breakfast for Dinner

* Grilled Chicken  new

* Grilled Steak  new

* Haddock Fish Dinner  new
* Chicken Tenders  new

* Beef Liver  new
* Pork for Tenderloin Sammies  new

Plus lots of thinly sliced Chicken Breast, grass fed Ground Beef and Ground Turkey in the freezer.

What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?

Was last week's plan successful, did you go off plan or did you not even plan what was going to be eaten last week?

Any great deals on food at your stores this week?  

Sluggy

Frugal Friday......the June 26th Edition on June 29th

***It's the last day for the June Giveaway winner to contact me before I pick a new winner.  Come out, come out wherever you are LISA B.!  *And no, you have never been known as Lisa B. Dr. Spo. ;-)

I am still playing catch up on blog and home stuff here.  I tweeked my left leg yesterday(that's my GOOD leg! ugh)so am bedridden for now and typing from the bedroom as I am verboten from going down the stairs(at least until Hubs gets tired of going up and down the stairs to retrieve me drinks/meal/stuff/etc.). lol


Here is my half-assed attempt at Fridays' Frugal post...................I say half-assed since I am looped up on pain meds right now. ;-)

* While in VA last week we took care of some legal/builder business.  Met the builder at the house and handled the lawyer stuff via Zoom from my brother's house.  There are no bills attached to these initial consults so yay us!

*  While not pillaging Rite-Aids or going to the grocery store(Kroger)with sis in-law we did some reading, free entertaining things online, watched tv or sat outside in the mornings on the porch talking.  And I took a LOT of naps!

*  I sprang for dinner on Saturday and used another free Chili's gift card.  Two Chili's meals in as many weeks is my limit!

*  I didn't want to make more work for my sis in-law so I bought about half of my own food at the grocery store so she didn't have to cook(plus she pays for all the groceries for the household out of her income)--stuff like salad fixings or frozen foods I could heat up when I got hungry.  Plus they eat dinner so late(7-9pm)and I just can't do that.  The money spent while down there that I ate down there I'll take out of the eating-out funds and not our grocery budget.
I went with her twice to Kroger where they shop so that was exciting. I had an old Kroger card Hubs and I picked up in our travels in TN or KY or somewhere but I used her card so she got the points which they use on gas there.  We don't have Kroger anywhere near here in PA so better for her to benefit from my points, right?

* I found money!

This .11¢ was found by my sister in-law's car in the driveway.  I am thinking it fell out of the trash pile that is her car's backseat. lol

This penny was found on the floor at Lidl when we went for asparagus and beer(to bring home to Hubs).

These two nickels were found under the floor mats in sis in-law's car.  I spied them while getting into her car and offered them to her but she said keep them.  She probably would have just thrown them into the back of the car's trash pile anyway. lol

This penny was found at an R-A sis in-law took me to to return an item.  It was on the sidewalk outside when I was walking into the store.

Total Change Found this Week....... .23¢
Total Change Found this Year so far...$46.42

*  Most of the Rite-Aid trips the second week in Va was returning an item and going back to stores to get a refund because two store cashiers didn't deduct R-A peelie Qs on products...........

This $1 on a box of cereal.

And this $2.15(taxable item)on a bottle of vitamins I bought for Hubs.

$3.15 cash back in my pocket and $3.15 less in Bonus Cash to have to roll.

* There were two Ibotta Bonuses worth doing that overlapped a bit over the course of the 2 weeks I was gone.  I ended up getting them both so $15 extra on that platform............

Everything pictured here(plus 2 x Arnicare leg cramp items on clearance at R-A that I gave to sis in-law, a coffee drink Ex-CB drank before I took this photo, plus two small Noosa yogurts I left with eldest son, a large Fage Greek yogurt I didn't finish and left w/brother and wife and maybe something else I can't recall as my paperwork for it all is downstairs right now)gave me an extra $16.50 in Bonus(the 2 big Bonuses, a .50¢ June Level 1 Bonus and a $1.00 for buying 2 or more Nuun items(the small canisters in the photo).

I'll do a post later this week about how all this was an $11+ moneymaker after rebates.
Oh, and I had two people sign up under my Ibotta referral link and buy something using the app before June ended(one of those folks being sis in-law)so I also got an extra $20 on my Ibotta account in June.
I earned $91.42 in June Ibotta rebates.....woohoo!!!

*  Not much Rite-Aid pillaging since a week ago Friday.
We did get this..........

The  previous week's Bic In-Ad $3/1 Q is valid until July 1 so I took a number of extra ads that first week to cut those out to use last week and this current week.
That Arnicare had a $3 peelie Q on it and was $2.99 on clearance and there's a $3 Ibotta rebate so a $3.01, the Compeed was $7 and gave back $3 in BC plus sis in-law got a $2/1 Compeed Q in her RMN insert and there is a $4 Ibotta on this so it was a $2 moneymaker.
The razors, while they didn't give $1 in BC back(that was the previous week's ad)after 20% Wellness Discount were $9.47 total, then I used a $2/1 Soleil ManQ sis in-law had and 2 x $3/1 RA In-Ad Qs.

Altogether this was $19.46, $6.46 after Qs and the purchase gave back $3 in BC and $7 in Ibotta rebates so even with whatever the sales tax was(again, I don't have the receipt in front of me)this was still a moneymaker.  I gave all these items to sis in-law too.

I also got these razors at the store where I went for the $2.15 peelie Q snafu(the original trip there when the Bic razors was giving $1BC wyb2).  With Wellness Discount the razors were $3.99 per package.  They each had a $1 peelie Q in them so I had to add a cheap item so all my $8 in Qs would come off even though the razors only cost $7.98 after discount.  The Cella cherry was .31¢ after 20% disc. so I paid .29¢ plus sales tax on the razors(.02¢?)and earned $1 in BC so better than free.

And I hit another R-A on the way up to Fredericksburg and got this.....
A different variety of Compeed so free after BC and Ibotta rebate.
And I found two Nexxus items on the clearance area for $2.49 each.  Last week when you bought two Nexxus items you got $10 in BC back so this was a $12 or so moneymaker($8 back in BC and $4 in Ibotta).

That's it from me on my latest vacation edition of Frugal Friday......

What frugal wins did y'all have this past week or so?

Sluggy

Still Waiting on the June Giveaway Winner to Step Forward!

I don't want to post anything new until the Winner comes forward.
So if you are out there Lisa B., please email me to claim your prize before time runs out.

thanks,

Sluggy

Belatedly, Here's the June Giveaway Winner Announcement

I finally had time to go through all the Giveaway Entries(root out the invalid ones too)and pick a winner.
And the winner is the 43rd valid comment on your hit parade(wow! That's an old person reference. lol)........

Lisa B!

Lisa BJune 14, 2020 at 4:20 PM

I havent been shopping too much. Some pastas have been low but i have enough stockpiled. Not much selection in canned goods but I rarely use them. Thanks for the giveaway.

Congratulations Lisa B!

You have 48 hours from the time stamp when this post went live on the blog to email me your full mailing address to claim your prize.

After that I'll pick another winner from whomever is left on this list of 109 valid entries.

Thanks to all for reading and entering these little Sluggy Boring Box Giveaways.

There were 117 entries(and a couple who didn't want to enter but wanted to comment)out of which only 109 were valid, which leads me to say this...........

I implore you, if you enter and don't send me your email addy privately, have it linked from your Blogger profile(please check it to make sure it's there)or leave it in your  giveaway entry/comment(if I don't already have you on the master list of email addys for giveaways), GIVE ME YOUR EMAIL ADDY!  

The following folks entered this go around but were invalid--Nancy x 2 comments(blogger profile is blank), D Fuller(again blogger profile is blank), Anonymous(with no link to anywhere!), Mrs. Shriver(again, blogger profile is blank).  I don't put this out there except to make these folks aware that they need to take action to have their entries counted, not to embarrass anyone.

If one of these folks have sent me contact info, it was not received yet and not put on the master list and for that I apologize, so send it to me again.  I just hate having to disqualify entries for no contact info. and it wastes both your time entering and my time having to weed through comments too.

Ok, I am off to get unpacked fully and get my usual life going again.

It's been two jam packed weeks and a LOT of driving(which made my knee very unhappy!) and I'll talk about some of it at a later time.

Sluggy

This Week on the Dining Table--On Tuesday

* Please Note-I don't have time to pick the June giveaway winner until I get home so that won't be until Friday.  There is just so much going on here, plus my internet connection and my computer set up(a rickety tv tray w/no room for my mouse/mouse pad, and bad lighting)is less than optimal so I can't get much done until I get home to PA.  Sorry but life sometimes gets in the way, ya know? ;-)

The "Peony" Edition..........

My peony finally bloomed right before I left town.  I think I'll have Hubs dig it up in the Fall and relocate it to a different spot in the flower bed not so close to the house and front porch.

Moving On....

Onward to the meal planning-

This is what was planned.........

1. Sunday--Didn't eat Dinner(Had a big salad for lunch and applesauce later.)
2. Monday--Taco Salad
3. Tuesday--No Clue

4. Wednesday--No Clue
5. Thursday--No Clue

6. Friday--No Clue
7. Saturday--No Clue

And this is what really happened.......

1. Sunday--Didn't eat Dinner(Had a big salad for lunch and applesauce later.)
2. Monday--Taco Salad
3. Tuesday--Teriyaki Beef with Bok Choy in a Ginger Garlic Sauce, Rice

4. Wednesday--Chopped Salad w/Tangerine Viniagarette, Pizza
5. Thursday--Grilled Chicken, Corn on Cob

6. Friday--Leftovers(I had Pizza, Salad)
7. Saturday--I treated us to Chili's takeout

Last week saw 3 nights of home cooked dinners, 1 night of leftovers/FFY, and 2 nights of Take-Out and no dinner for me on Sunday.

What got put into the freezer last week....
* I doubt Hubs put anything in the freezer last week.

What got taken out of the freezer and used.....
* No clue what Hubs made at home except chicken tikka masala using chicken out of the freezer.

1 pillaged a few R-As down here and sister in-law took me to Kroger twice and I'll tally up spending when I get back so my total so far s $149.61+ whatever I spent at Sharp Shopper on the way to VA, a bit at Ollies, Kroger and Rite-Aids down here

I am at $38.30 total earned in Ibotta rebates in June so far.

My savings percentage last week was ?%(without "regular"Rite-Aid trips)for June and the monthly savings total comes in at ?%(w/out R-A).

I have 8 more food shopping/spending days in June.

Leftovers going into this week.......no clue what they ate or didn't at home and frankly I don't care right now. lol

Here is this week's "food plan".....my Sister in-law is in charge this week. ;-)

1. Sunday--Steak, Asparagus,
2. Monday--Steak, Asparagus(plus Salad for me)
3. Tuesday--Maybe Pizza? or Leftovers

4. Wednesday--No Clue
5. Thursday--No Clue

6. Friday--No Clue
7. Saturday--No Clue

What needs buying for this menu? Don't know the menu so don't known what needs buying.  I'll throw my sister in-law some cash toward whatever.

What's left on my master list of meals Hubs can make from what's at home...........
* Shrimp Tempura
* Tuna Casserole
* Roasted Chicken
* Shrimp/Crab Ravioli
* Cheese Ravioli

* Spaghetti and Meatballs

* Breakfast for Dinner

* Grilled Chicken  new

* Grilled Steak  new

* Haddock Fish Dinner  new
* Chicken Tenders  new

* Beef Liver  new

Plus lots of thinly sliced Chicken Breast, grass fed Ground Beef and Ground Turkey in the freezer.

What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?

Was last week's plan successful, did you go off plan or did you not even plan what was going to be eaten last week?

Any great deals on food at your stores this week?  

Sluggy