Day 135: More Groceries

Posted on | January 14, 2008 |

The Son and I have been experimenting with recipes from his new cookbook: 
The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook*.  [By the way, every recipe we've tried has been great.]  We wanted to make the chicken pot pie but we didn’t have any chicken stock and, due to my allergies, I can’t use any of the commerical stock products.  So first we made some chicken stock, then the pot pie, and we topped it off with a very yummy apple cake with caramel icing.

All of that cooking — and the shopping for necessary ingredients, plus my other mom, work, homeschooling, scheduling duties – in one day was a little too much for this poor mom.  Luckily, there were enough pot pie leftovers to send some to school with The Daughter, feed The Son, and maybe even have a little dinner tomorrow.  And we’ll be eating apple cake all week.  On top of it all, I have two containers of chicken stock in the freezer.  I’m tired, but well fed and contented. 

Vitamin Cottage — $25.95

• 2 bags Barbara’s cheese puffs (diff varieties) — $1.55/ea.
• Kettle potato chips — $2.19
• DeBoles organic pasta — $1.85/ea.
• bay leaves — $4.89
• 15oz Muir tomato sauce (no salt) — $1.55
• 8oz Muir tomato sauce — $0.75
• gallon of Horizon 2% milk — $4.95
• two onions — $0.81
• 2 pkgs free-range chicken legs — $5.36
• 2 pkgs free-range chicken thighs — $6.04

Kroger — $50.34

• 2 gallons distilled water (for CPAP machine) — $0.69/ea.
• organic red bell pepper — $1.99
• green leaf lettuce — $1.99
• cucumber — $1.29
• green onions — $0.89
• bunch radish — $1.29
• organic carrots — $1.29
• garlic — $0.69
• Mariani dried mango — $2.59
• Sunsweet prunes — $2.99
• Cascadian Farm grape fruit spread — $2.50 (saved $0.69)
• 2 boxes Nature Path toaster pastries — $2.50 (saved $0.99)
• two 1/2-gallons Horizon chocolate milk — $2.99/ea. (saved $0.50/ea)
• Meadow Gold whipping cream — $1.79
• 80 load box of Tide Free — $10.00 (saved $6.79)
• The Works toilet cleaner — $2.50 (saved $0.29)
• Lysol wipes refill — $5.99

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