Posts Tagged ‘Lunch’

Even though I don’t love super doubles as much as triple coupon events, I still enjoy getting such good deals. There are a lot of them this week.

My total today was $10.83. That included buying chicken breast (bone in) for dinner tonight (on sale for $0.87/lb.), some pears, and lunch from the deli (two cooked leg-quarters, normally $3.99 marked down by $3, so only 99¢).

Anyway, enough jabbering… here’s the picture:

$10.83 for all of this! I'll be going back to Harris Teeter at least a few more times this week.

Networking meeting day again, so I bought lunch out: $8.72 (for the buffet, water & tip)

Even though we had a cream sauce dish last night, I went ahead and made Chicken Fettucine Alfredo for dinner tonight. Mike LOVES it. He’s been working especially hard on the workshop, so I want to make him nice meals.

The recipe I use for Fettucine Alfredo is from The Pioneer Woman website. If you haven’t visited her site, check it out. She won all sorts of Bloggie awards and even has a cookbook coming out soon. She’s a wonderful writer, photographer, and I haven’t tried a single recipe from her site that I don’t absolutely love.

I brined the chicken breasts while it was defrosting. I’ve been whittling down my stockpile of boneless, skinless breasts. I stock up when the price drops to $1.80 or less a pound, usually buying 20-30 pounds and bagging it up into 1-1/2 pound portions (about what most of my recipes call for). Once the chicken came out of the brine I sliced it into thin strips and tossed it on a hot skillet with just a little bit of olive oil. I toss it with the sauced pasta just before serving. With our pasta entree we had a side of celery sticks. Sort of weak, I know, but I really needed to use the celery up.

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Ah… the trip home. I knew I wasn’t gonna get off scott free!

We made a pit stop on the way to the freeway and picked up snacks: over-priced chips, donuts and ice (we still had soft drinks left over from my previous shopping trip and the ones in the van we brought for the trip up). I spent $7.67. I’d have preferred to just get ice, but I think having the snacks kept up from having to stop for both lunch and dinner. 10-hour drive.

We did stop for lunch at Taco Bell (my all-time favorite fast-food restaurant). Andy wasn’t hungry, so he didn’t eat. Just Mike and I, cost $6.88.

We didn’t stop again for food. We got home about 9:30 and munched on snacks already available. Glad there was food in the house!

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