Oh my I want to eat that
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The “soup” recipe is from an Irish cookbook and also called for gelatin leaves which I can’t get at my grocery store. And wetting then squeezing out the extra water from powdered gelatin was really confusing and difficult.
America needs to get its act together on gelatin leaves
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For that recipe I used the packets and just bloomed the gelatin as per other recipes, and skipped the squeezing step. The shadowy one doesn’t consume alcohol, so I haven’t made it again, but it was very yummy that time.
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Update for the week…one grocery delivery and one cidery stock up (+a couple sandwiches and jar of aioli for upcoming sweet potato fries from their partner deli), also delivery since I’m on week 1 of post-holiday-quarantine.
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I’ve just put in an order with an new to me online grocery service. They have oat milk ice cream!
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Week 1 Update:
$42.10 spent on groceries ($150 budget).
$0 spent on restaurants ($50 budget).
I stuck to my grocery list except for I replaced pizza dough with a loaf of bread because I couldn’t find pizza dough at the grocery store.
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I 
Aldi. I will miss Aldi after we move.
We just did a big stockup and only spent $87.07! Here’s what we got:
groceries
- 2 packs chicken breasts
- cherry tomatoes
- baking soda
- flour tortillas
- 1 gallon milk
- 2 blocks of cheddar cheese
- raisin bran
- almond milk
- coconut milk
- peanut butter
- parmesan cheese wedge
- cranberry white cheddar cheese
- wheat bread
- garlic in a jar
- bag of frozen blueberries
- brown rice pasta
- vegetable stock
- hamburger buns
- bananas
- 2 packs pork chops
- 5 lb bag of potatoes
- bag of onions (LAST ONE IN THE STORE, wut, is this the new shortage item? Last time it was greens.)
- 3 pack of sweet peppers
- 2 packs of mushrooms
- lettuce
- peanuts
- spinach
That feels like we got a lot for our money!
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So, until yesterday I did great on the budget thingy.
Today I went to the Asian grocery store just to buy 1 thing which regular supermarkets here don’t have (paneer). Somehow, I came back with €40 of stuff I didn’t know I urgently needed. Now I have spicy kroepoek, fancy coconut ice cream and way more of all the spices than I’ll use in years. Turns out I’m incapable of entering this store without buying half the inventory :’)
Now I’m off to cooking some Asian buffet that’ll feed this 1 person household all week. Maybe I should invite friends.
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Sounds delicious, can I come? 
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Zero work snacks purchased!
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Spent $54 today. Good deals on bell peppers, and green chilies. Splurged the olives.
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Sure! You just gotta fly over to Northern Europe, low effort 
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I’m sitting on an awful lot of airline points, it’s a very reasonable trip for dinner.
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I’ve figured out I can make really garlicy cooked greens from frozen spinach! And those are pretty tasty to throw on something. It takes an extra burner, but that’s fine, probably
No progress on beef cubes or instapot.
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Okay, first week.
Bought meet and Cheese also for the next week, should be less next week.
It was an easy week regarding the baking goods, the nice smal bakery across the street was closed for holidays and open again tomorrow morning. It is way to easy to go there (literally 30 steps) and get some cream cake etc.
It is Euro
| January | Week 01 |
|---|---|
| Produce & fruit | 29,01 |
| Meat & processed meat | 17,37 |
| Dairy & cheese | 15,87 |
| Bakery | 3,22 |
| Snacks | 1,80 |
| Chips | 1,99 |
| Dry goods | 1,49 |
| Beverage (incl. Coffee) | 0,00 |
| Eating Out | 21,90 |
| Total | 92,65 |
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technique? tips?
First check-in:
I didn’t really meal plan for the first week of January when I shopped New Year’s Eve and spent around 60€ for some veggies and a metric ton of deli cheese.
Dinners were Chinese delivery (dumplings, bao “burgers”, noodle soup), Pasta with Radiccio & gorgonzola, deli cheese & bread, salmon with roasted pumpkin & potatoes, Arabic meatballs, tacos with tofu&beans.
I made a meal plan starting Saturday for dinners incorporating things in the pantry, fridge and freezer:
Sat: Red bean salad with feta and pomegrenate, homemade flatbread
Sun: Rice noodle salad with lamb and lime and mint dressing
Mon: Quesadillas with bean&tofu taco filling leftover from Friday’s dinner
Tue: Pasta with beets, spinach & gorgonzola
Wed: Pizza
Thu: Lentil salad with goat cheese and mango
Fri: Veggie cheeseburgers
On my shopping trip on Saturday I mostly got fruit and vegetables (bananas, lime, oranges, litchis, tomato’s, bell pepper, scallions, onion), milk & cream, burger patties, mozzarella and some ham and canned fish for quick lunches during the week.
I made some wholegrain bread (which I didn’t do the last few months but had all ingredients on hand) and some oatmeal cookies to use up some random ingredients. Overall I spent a little over 70 € for two people.
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- Heat up pan to medium heat, cover liberally with olive oil
- Dump in however much frozen spinach you want
- Chop up an obscene amount of garlic while you wait for the spinach to dethaw and start cooking (I used like 4 big cloves and it tasted like the greens equivalent of garlic bread)
- Once the greens look thawed, dump in that sweet, sweet garlic, cook until it makes your kitchen smell like garlic
- Serve! (I had it with beef-broth enhanced rice and some vension sausage) (You and your kitchen may smell like garlic for a while)
If you have an instant pot tips, oh god, let me know
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I live somewhere without Aldi right now and I soooo miss it!
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At least I’ll be able to get to a TJ’s still (though it’s a bit of a drive), so all is not lost! But, yeah. SO cheap. Sometimes shitty produce, though.
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