Tuesday, September 28th--Day 2

Today I spent approximatley $6.22 on today's meals.

Breakfast--$.57
My Breakfast: Mini Whole Wheat Bagel with peanut butter
Shelby's Breakfst: Cereal with milk

Mid Morning Snack: $.60
Apple--my one apple cost as much as our breakfasts put together---argh!

Lunch--$.35
Our lunches: Leftover spaghetii
                        Small salad--$.35
Shelby: ate a school

Dinner--$4.70
Homemade baked chicken nuggets
Rice
Baby Carrots, cucumbers
Tomatoes and bell pepper (from garden)

All in all today went pretty good.  I ate my breakfast and headed off to work.  During my weekly staff meeting my stomach started growling for all to hear.  Embarrassing! Went back and ate my apple.  As I sit here typing, I can not believe that one tiny apple cost as much as all we had for breakfast! I did not purchase a lot of fresh fruit and veggies like I usually do but thought we needed some during the week.  It is no wonder, those on food stamps are unable to purchase nutritious items at the store.

Now most of the time I purchase these items from ALDI's as they are much cheaper than your big chain stores.  Becuase of this, the quality is not always there so I passed on the apples there and picked them up at Kroger instead. 

At work, we made cinnamon church pound cake as an activity with our seniors.  I always look forward to cooking activities because of all the yummy things we make.  It smelled so wonderfully delicious as it was cooking and our ladies sure seemed to enjoy eating it when it was done. How I wish I could have had a bite, or two, or three...

Left work, picked up my daughter, and headed home.  I was waiting for her to ask for a snack as she does before she sets foot in the door. She surprised me a did not ask for a thing.  I would like to say that my talk with her yesterday sank in and she learned something.  Most likely, she was distracted by getting to play on the computer.

Started making dinner.  I typically buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts but at $6.99 per pound this week, it was not in the budget.  I purchase bone in, skin on chicken breasts.  And if anyone has ever tried to take the bone and ribs out, it is not easy! I cut my finger--on a chicken bone!  Who does something like that? I do! Nuggets turned out good depsite my injury.

As I was get the food on the plates, my 4 month old German Shepherd decided it would be time to get on the counter.  As his front paws hit the edge of my plate just enough to flip it up a little, my food started sliding off.  I went into panic mode.  What would I do if it landed on the floor? Thankfully I caught it in time...dinner saved!