I spent my Sunday watching NASCAR and cooking up a storm, one of
my favorite pastimes ever! I made a
delicious veggie lasagna for our dinner (recipe coming) using a homemade
vegetable ragout. I cleaned out our
crisper drawer and used up a nice pile of extra vegetables we had accumulated
in the past two weeks.
Oh my gosh! This was so good! |
After school on Monday my oldest invited a friend over to make
chocolate chip cookies. She informed her
friend that we don't buy brown sugar, we make our own. Her friend was quite excited to learn how to
make brown sugar (1 cup granulated sugar + 1 Tbs molasses) and thought it was the neatest thing ever. J
Last week I shopped for fresh produce, milk and cream. I stocked up on pasta that was on sale for
69¢ a package- linguine, farfalle and penne.
Last month I stocked up on spaghetti so we are quite well stocked on
pasta and I didn’t use up the entire $5 I had allotted this week.
We enjoyed a musical week.
My oldest had her band's Pops concert Thursday evening and my youngest
had an honor orchestra concert on Saturday evening. Both concerts were fantastic. Those kids, I tell you, such talent. J
On the way home from the orchestra concert dress rehearsal
Saturday morning we stopped at Fred Meyer so I could buy a set of cotton sheets
on sale for a project I had in mind. While
there we went ahead and grabbed another six boxes of pasta they had for 69¢
each.
After that I took the girls out for lunch at a nearby restaurant. I had received a
gift certificate at work Friday, which was so nice. No money out of
pocket for our lunch. Nice!
I had an audience too. |
I completed a couple of fun sewing projects using items I already
had on hand. I'll be posting more about them
tomorrow.
I composted coffee grounds, tea bags, onion skins, garlic skins
and egg shells. We fed the chickens our
kitchen scraps and leftover rice, salad and cornbread. They ate very well and rewarded us with over
a dozen beautiful eggs.
How thrifty was your week?
Orange tabby's are my absolute favourite :). Adorable.
ReplyDeleteHe is HUGE too and a great big love. :)
DeleteYou had an industrious week and weekend! You put me to shame. I love your cats especially orange ones.
ReplyDeleteThey are a lovable bunch. He is especially. A real hugger and snuggler.
Deletethis will sound like a dumb question but hey! The molasses and sugar thing-what if a recipe calls for light brown sugar? Do you just add less?
ReplyDeleteI use the same. I haven't noticed a difference whether I use light brown sugar or dark, myself.
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