#2 Goes Shopping

His money is dreamy.  And yes, I posed him in front of the flowers too.

Tonight went a little more quickly than last week and we got off to an earlier start.  We had leftovers for dinner and #2 had a snack since his dinner would be rather late.  We talked quite a bit about his list.  He wanted to have hamburgers, orange chicken, Eggo's with whipped cream and strawberries, Spaghetti, and more.  He can't eat breakfast at school two days a week because he has orchestra, so he had to plan four breakfasts.

Smelling the flowers.  This picture is so serene.

He thought he would buy some frozen hamburger patties, but that would be at least $8 and the chicken would be at least $7.  Sure enough, when we went shopping the hamburger patties were just too much, so I told him we could buy a pound of ground beef for less than half as much and make our own patties.  We'll probably look up a YouTube video on how to do it, mostly because I don't actually want to handle the meat.  I'm going to make him do it!  Bwah hahahahahaaaaa!!!!  I can't even stand molding ground beef with gloves on because the sound also disgusts me.  I've built a tolerance to touching steaks, roasts, chickens, etc., but just thinking about forming ground beef patties last night made me feel a little nauseated.  The thought of making an entire meatloaf was practically enough to induce vomiting.

I'm going to stop thinking about that now.

It was decided that he would have to do without orange chicken and eat more leftovers.  He should be able to make four large hamburgers and he wants tomatoes and onion on them. 

Broccoli was no longer on sale for 68 cents a pound.  That was pretty disappointing, so he bought cauliflower for 99 cents a pound.  One head should feed him for at least four nights.

Tomorrow is his dad's birthday, so he's contributing a baguette bread which he bought for $1.50.  I gave him the choice between making his own meal or joining us for ours.  I'm making "Duck Pasta".  Years ago my husband had a pasta dish with duck at a restaurant and he loved it.  Last year I made Spicy Duck Ragu which he liked, but it was different and rather spicy.  I found another one he might like better.  You cook some bacon and sautee sweet onion, garlic, portabello mushrooms, and the duck, which I will have to bone.  I couldn't find duck breasts for sale, so I'll just cook the whole duck.  You can find them at Cash and Carry for $2.33 a pound.  You can also buy a 3 pound package of bacon ends and pieces for a little over $4, which is a little more than a 1 pound package of regular bacon.  If you need pieces instead of bacon strips, it works out great!

#2 is commenting on how much spaghetti a pound makes now that it's done cooking.  He says it doesn't look like enough to feed even one person before you cook it.  #1 still had some tonight and I made him eat it so it wouldn't go to waste.  He didn't mind.

We talked about Eggo's at the store, but here he was buying a whole loaf of bread and only had a couple sandwiches planned.  I told him he could make french toast with strawberries and whipped cream.  We're going to slice up the strawberries and freeze them.  We also found half a pint of whipping cream for 99 cents.  We looked at the Eggo's and they had some for about $2 and you do think how it's really not that much money, but it's amazing how everything adds up.  He agreed to make french toast. 

He bought his own peanut butter and I told him he could use the blackberry jam I bought, but he wanted strawberry so he bought that too.  They also didn't have the 99 cent ketchup anymore, so he bought the Fred Meyer brand.  He doesn't like that one, but he said it was worth it to save money.

He also opted not to buy any juice.  He'll just have water and milk this week.  It will be interesting to see how fast his milk goes.  #1 still had a little left, but he also had two juices that he used up.  The strawberries were $3, so I guess that's the one thing he got to splurge on. 

His total came to $30.01 and the cashier didn't make him pay the penny.  He has $3 left!  I was very impressed when he said he wants to put it in the bank.  He also decided he wasn't going to eat sugar cereal.  He would have Cheerios with sliced banana. 

Here goes another week of adventure!