Wow, I can’t believe the grocery challenge is already over! So how did everyone do? I can’t wait to submit my entry and hear about everyone else’s. In the mean time, here’s what we ate for the final weekend of the challenge:

Breakfast: I had a yogurt, Jai opted for leftovers.

Lunch: This may sound odd, but I was in the mood for a bowl of Rice Krispies, so that’s what I had! Jai had more leftover pork chops.

Dinner:

We tried the Gardein BBQ Skewers that I got for free, along with some curried rice that I made & salad. The skewers were pretty good – they’re an imitation meat that taste a bit like meatballs. I quite liked them!

Here’s our menu for Wednesday –

Breakfast: Cereal

Lunch: Leftover pork chops, French fries, and salad:

Dinner: Some friends of ours had a gift certificate to a local restaurant, and wanted to take us to dinner. So thank you to our friends for a lovely meal at The Silver Salmon!

Here’s Tuesday’s menu:

Breakfast: Cereal

Lunch: Monday’s birthday girl was our guest through Tuesday afternoon, so we all enjoyed lunch together –

Hamburgers and french fries, with a variety of toppings. We’ve also been drinking a lot of that Capri Sun from my stockpile!

Dinner: Leftover pork chops and salad:

I also had a few slices of homemade bread, but I didn’t get a picture of that! Or the candy bar I ate before dinner…

Here’s Monday’s menu:

Breakfast: Jai helped himself to the stockpile, while I ended up skipping breakfast – oops.

Lunch: Leftover spaghetti pie:

I went to the store that afternoon and bought flour, milk, half and half, butter, 2 packages of pork chops, and a head of lettuce for $17.99.

Dinner: It was my future sister-in-law’s birthday, so I held a little birthday dinner –

There were five of us altogether, and we had pork chops in Mesquite marinade, baked potatoes, 2 loaves of homemade bread (only one is pictured) and a salad made from red leaf lettuce, green onions, carrot and dried herbs.

After dinner, we had tea and cake:

Unfortunately, I ran out of pink icing halfway through the inscription and had to switch to black icing! Hey, it’s the thought that counts, right?!

This was a cake decorating kit that I won in a giveaway a while back. I substituted applesauce for the eggs and vegetable oil in the cake mix – I had vegetable oil on hand, but one of our guests has an allergy to it. I wasn’t sure how the cake would taste with so much applesauce, but it was good! If you like a really light, fluffy cake, you would probably want to stick with eggs and oil, but if you like dense cakes then you would enjoy this.

Here’s what we were eating last weekend:

Friday –

Breakfast: Cereal

Lunch:

Leftover pasta and salad – I was going to have this for dinner, but it smelled so good when I opened the fridge that I decided to have it for lunch instead!

Dinner: I made a chicken salad sandwich for myself before heading out the door to meet up with a friend. When I got home, I had a little more pasta, because it’s yummy!

Saturday –

Breakfast: Cereal

Lunch:

We had company over for lunch, and I used the rest of the leftover chicken meat to make more chicken salad – I mixed it with mayo, honey Dijon, 2 hard boiled eggs, mushrooms, cilantro, and green onions. It’s tasty, and a good way to use up leftovers! We also had the rest of the chocolate cake that I baked on Wednesday.

Dinner:

3 guesses!

Sunday –

Breakfast: Cereal

Lunch:

In addition to all the Alfredo pasta, I also had a bowl of cooked, unused noodles leftover from that night, because I made too many. I wanted to use these up, so I adapted a recipe for spaghetti pie from this page. First, I mixed the noodles with melted margarine and Parmesan cheese, and used them to form a crust in two pie pans. Then I layered slices of processed cheese on top.

Next, I cooked a package of ground pork with onion, cilantro, fresh garlic, and dried herbs, and then spooned the mixture into the pie.

Then I covered the pie with pasta sauce, more Parmesan cheese, and baked it.

We had company for lunch on Sunday also, and we enjoyed the spaghetti pie with some salad.

This was quite good – I’m not generally a fan of processed cheese slices, but when they melt into this pie, it tastes like regular cheese.

Dinner:

Finishing off the rest of the Alfredo pasta:

Yes, I know, pasta at every meal! I was just eager to use it up, since I had so much!