All right. Time to play some catch-up! Sorry for the posting delay-- this last 4 days have been pretty non-stop. No grocery shopping, though, so it's just a dinner report.
Thursday:
It was a kid birthday, and they wanted pizza and ice cream, so we went to Costco for a birthday dinner. Cost = $13.03
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Friday:
We did dinner at a fancy restaurant. Above my pay grade, but this dinner was actually not for us, per se. I've known and worked for an older couple (i.e., a bit older than my parents) for the last two years, and they've been
inordinately helpful and have become friends and mentors. They've pushed me to expand my perspectives and raise my goals higher than I would have ever thought to. So now that my basement remodel is pretty much finished, I invited them over to see what I did with the skills they taught me, and then I took them out to a nice dinner as a way to say "thank you". Cost = $130
I don't count this as part of "food expenses" in my budget-- for two reasons. First, it's a thank you gift, rather than a grocery/cooking substitute (e.g., I could have bought them a restaurant gift card, or a quality household item/tool, and it'd have been the same-- a way to say thank you, and not a way to get out of buying groceries); and second, "eating out" counts as Entertainment. But I list it here, because it is in fact food, and it's what we did. I'm not trying to hide anything here-- you all get to see everything relevant to how my food situation works.
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Saturday:
Sandwiches for dinner. I worked late, and SO put dinner together. I know she pulled some leftover cold cuts from the freezer for it, so based on past sandwich nights, I'd put the cost at ~$5.
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Sunday:
Leftovers! We have SO. MANY. LEFTOVERS. in the fridge right now. Lentil soup (I ate the last of this), stir-fry, mashed potatoes, rice....