{"id":5611,"date":"2022-08-19T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/mid-august-grocery-order\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T01:46:01","slug":"mid-august-grocery-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/mid-august-grocery-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-August grocery order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I put in my grocery order and while there&#8217;s some things I had to put back, I kept things within my $200 budget.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I got for $200:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better Than Bouillon: base chicken, 8 ounce<\/li>\n<li>Litehouse Freeze Dried Chives, 0.25 ounce<\/li>\n<li>tortilla chips, 11 ounce<\/li>\n<li>complete buttermilk pancake, 32 ounce<\/li>\n<li>dehydrated potato slices, 17 ounces<\/li>\n<li>soft flour tortillas, 10 count<\/li>\n<li>deli seafood salad, 8 ounce<\/li>\n<li>deli Greek salad, 8 ounce<\/li>\n<li>diced boneless skinless chicken breast, 2 pounds<\/li>\n<li>ground beef: 80\/20, 20 ounce<\/li>\n<li>chicken breast for stir-fry, 2 pounds<\/li>\n<li>lunch meat, 16 ounce<\/li>\n<li>frozen broccoli, 12 ounce<\/li>\n<li>frozen regular cut french fries, 32 ounce<\/li>\n<li>salad mix: garden, 12 ounce<\/li>\n<li>salad mix: lettuce shreds, 8 ounce<\/li>\n<li>finely shredded mozzarella, 8 ounce<\/li>\n<li>finely shredded fiesta blend cheese, 8 ounce<\/li>\n<li>low fat small curd cottage cheese, 24 ounce<\/li>\n<li>squeezable jelly, 20 ounce<\/li>\n<li>can sliced stewed tomatoes, 14.5 ounce<\/li>\n<li>4 cans tuna fish in water<\/li>\n<li>shells pasta, 16 ounce<\/li>\n<li>rotini pasta, 16 ounce<\/li>\n<li>dry minced onion, 2.35 ounce<\/li>\n<li>dry basil leaves, 0.8 ounce<\/li>\n<li>dry parsley flakes, 0.4 ounce<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Dash: salt free table blend, 2.5 ounce<\/li>\n<li>sandwich crackers, 8 packs<\/li>\n<li>can coffee, 33.7 ounces<\/li>\n<li>Sheba wet cat food pate variety pack, 12 sets<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Bronner&#8217;s Pure-Castile Liquid Soap: baby, 32 ounce<\/li>\n<li>Dawn Powerwash spray refill: apple scent, 16 ounce<\/li>\n<li>12-quart bucket<\/li>\n<li>non-scratch scrub sponges, 4 pack<\/li>\n<li>2 rolls of paper towels<\/li>\n<li>toilet paper: 12 mega rolls<\/li>\n<li>heat-resistant nylon slotted turner<\/li>\n<li>5-quart covered saucepan<\/li>\n<li>commercial quality stainless-steel meat thermometer<\/li>\n<li>unbleached compostable parchment paper, 50 square feet<\/li>\n<li>drawstring trash bags: 13 gallons, 20 bags<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All those &quot;2 pounds&quot; of whatever meat are due to BOGO specials. Plus there were a few free things that I didn&#8217;t include in the list of stuff. And of course, we don&#8217;t have a completely bare refrigerator\/pantry situation happening, so don&#8217;t freak out about the lack of vegetables and fruits. It&#8217;s not that dire in the household.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a carton of liquid eggs, so I&#8217;m planning on making some frittatas and to use for the eggs in my stir-fry.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the new pan because I&#8217;ve been doing all my cooking in like a 2-quart saucepan. (I was super paranoid about some of my older pans due to scratches (added by other people!) so I gave them away to the junk man to recycle.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning on making my dad his beloved meatloaf, as well as some meatballs for spaghetti. And I&#8217;ve got some dry black beans, so I&#8217;ll make some black bean burgers for myself (I&#8217;m not sure how the fam can handle non-meat foods) and there will be meat as a back-up in case of whiners.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a bread machine, so I&#8217;m pretty sure I can make my own hamburger buns. Or if that&#8217;s too hard, I can use the tortillas and mix the black beans up as crumbles for tacos.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to get a turkey loin, but I had to cut it from my order. My plan was to bake it up, cool it down, then slice it for sandwiches and dice it for omelet or fried rice. Next month maybe.<\/p>\n<p>I got the pancake mix because I wanted it. My plans are for pancakes smeared with plant butter and topped with strawberry jelly. Plus I&#8217;ve seen that there&#8217;s recipes where people use pancake mix as the base for muffins and cookies and other things. So, hopefully I didn&#8217;t just waste $2.50 on pancake mix.<\/p>\n<p>~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\">https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harperkingsley0\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/harperkingsley0<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimichee.com\">https:\/\/kimichee.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\">https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to share some of the recipes I find. But this was just me sharing a list of what $200 can get you. ($300 would have been a lot less stressful lol.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I put in my grocery order and while there&#8217;s some things I had to put back, I kept things within my $200 budget. This is what I got for $200: Better Than Bouillon: base chicken, 8 ounce Litehouse Freeze Dried Chives, 0.25 ounce tortilla chips, 11 ounce complete buttermilk pancake, 32 ounce dehydrated potato&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/mid-august-grocery-order\/\" title=\"Mid-August grocery order\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid-August grocery order<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1sv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5603,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/cheap-food-instant-oatmeal-rotisserie-chicken\/","url_meta":{"origin":5611,"position":0},"title":"Cheap Food: Instant oatmeal; Rotisserie chicken","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CHEAP FOOD pt 2 I guess I'm a very simple person. 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