Post fumigation I had to do a big shop to restock us with fish, chicken, vegetables, and some pantry items. Living with young adults, I'm finding it difficult to plan the proteins for dinners, as sometimes they say they will be here but change their minds, and sometimes they have extra guests. Cooking fish or boneless/skinless chicken breast from frozen is working to eliminate food waste, even though the chicken is more expensive than buying whole chickens or fresh chicken on sale. I double check with the young adults about 90 minutes before we plan to eat, and pull the meat down accordingly.
We're getting through the 15# of potatoes purchased 7/2. I made a 5# potato salad for the 4th of July that we ate for several days afterward. We've had baked potatoes twice, and there are about 3.5# left. Usually potatoes soften and sprout quickly this time of year for us, but we've gotten lucky. I plan to cook the rest of the potatoes Saturday as a big batch of Batata Bhaji. I have a bag of sweet potatoes to cook tonight -- I scrub them then cut them in half and cook as much as I can fit in the Instant Pot, then puree the leftovers to have with breakfast.
I finished off some leftover cooked broccoli last night, and DH made a green salad as we bought lots of salad makings and then he fell off on it. We had that with baked potatoes and chicken cooked from frozen. I had purchased bell peppers to add to salads, and it turns out he adds the tiniest amount (I'll add half a bell pepper but he says that's too much). So I've been pulling out the cleaned bell pepper pieces he doesn't put in the salad and setting them in front of my son as a snack.
I froze 12 ripe bananas this week, as it's hot and I'd rather not bake muffins. They're nice in smoothies. All of the apples got eaten, as did the 8# box of honey mangoes I bought. We also finished off the two seedless watermelons I bought 7/1. This week there wasn't much fruit on sale, so I bought bananas again and we'll eat frozen fruit.
The lesson I learned today is that Sprouts no longer has good produce prices, or at least isn't putting much on a really good sale. I had wanted to switch back to doing my weekly shopping there unless the regional chain had a good produce sale, and then just hitting Costco once a month. I'm trying to simplify and not end up at more than one store per week and definitely not go more than one day per week, even if it costs a little more, but those prices weren't just a "little more".
Topic: Eat All The Food In Your House - Take 2 (Read 1198648 times)