Grocery Bargains (last NC edition for awhile) and menu plan!

I am cleaning out my cupboards because on Friday we're flying to Indy and then heading back to WA! We've been here almost 3 1/2 months already...hard to believe!

I spent about $11 on groceries this week and HT and Food Lion.

We only needed one bottle of dressing, but the deal at Food lion ended up making the dressing free plus several dollars of produce free too. We just needed a little produce, peanut butter, butter, salsa, cheese and eggs to make it through the rest of our time here.

Here's our menu plan to finish out our time here plus clean out those pantries and freezer!

Breakfasts: lemon poppyseed muffins & eggs, cold cereal & bacon, fruit, cream of wheat, toast & eggs

Lunches: leftovers or sandwiches, smoothies

Dinners:
Today: Homemade chicken noodle soup, leftover homemade biscuits
Tues: Sausage/broccoli/onion skillet meal over egg noodles (making this up)
Wed: Marinated Steak, mashed potatoes, broccoli
Thurs: Burritoes (using whatever leftover meat we have from the week), peas
Friday: (the girls and I will be gone but Daniel will be here and need to eat!) Homemade pizza (will prepare before hand to throw in the oven after he takes us to airport)
Sat/Sun: Daniel will eat leftover pizza, PB&J, Chicken and Brown Rice in the crockpot, and the last frozen pizza

What will you be eating this week?

Visit from the Aunties and "Mr. Bob"

We spent the last week with Daniel's youngest sister, Karol and then the weekend with Karol and his other sister, Beverly and her boyfriend Bob. M took to calling Bob "Mr. Bob". They left early this morning and we miss them all already!!


Thankfully I am going to Indiana to visit them and Daniel's parents, family and home church in just a few days.

I have the BEST family (in-laws too!) I could ever ask for by the way!

The sad goodbyes of an MK

These pictures show lots of fun in the sand, but the next day or so was the last time we got to see this group of kids. The family of 7 lived next to us for 3 months and are headed to PNG soon. Our girls and their middle three boys and oldest girl spend a ton of time playing on our deck together. Everytime we pass their door we are a little sad. Ahh...its already starting, the constant goodbyes of missionaries and their kids. I am tearing up as I write this! And then miss Gracie...only a week left with their family!

I don't like it at all! But the Lord knows why and has good purposes for all of it.



Liv and her big standing up skills

M and Si-Si, doing some intense construction. They were the best of friends, the worst of enemies somedays. But they always wanted to play together.

Maybe they'll all see eachother at some MK convention in the future and thankfully Gracie's family will be stationed near us (most likely).

Liv's 1st birthday bash

In no particular order, here is a recap of Liv's first bday bash.


Two of our distinguished party guests, Mrs. W and her lovely baby, A

The dinner: taco bar w/ rice on the side

The adorable Auntie Karol, also celebrating her birthday!

Big sis and G, eating and socializing

Vanilla cupcakes w/chocolate frosting were enjoyed by all

Birthday girl and Mommy

Nom nom nom nom....

Daniel getting into the birthday groove

Livvie going in for a birthday hug and snuggle with J

The cute birthday girl enjoying her first ever cupcake (yes, she enjoyed it!)

Menu Plan for the week of 5/24/10

Here's what we'll be eating this week (trying to clean out those pantries since I am leaving in two weeks!):

Breakfasts: M: toast w/ PB T: coffee cake & fruit W: cold cereal Th: French Toast Fri: zucchini muffins Sat: cinnamon rolls Sun: lemon poppyseed muffins & eggs

Lunches/snacks: leftovers, green smoothies, fruit, cereal, granola or trail mix

Dinners:

Monday: BBQ/Picnic at the Hangar with all the JAARS aviation peeps (bringing large pasta salad, condiments, and a lettuce, tomato and onion tray)

Tuesday: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Peas, & Oreos (I finally got an idea from my sis-in-law what she might like for a late birthday dinner:)

Wednesday: Meatballs, Saffron Rice, Mixed Veggies from Freezer

Thursday: Spagetti w/leftover meatballs, Garlic Biscuits, Broccoli

Friday: Homemade Easy Pizza and veggie sticks/dip

Saturday: Baked Chimichangas, rice, raw veggie sticks

Sunday: Whole Chicken in the crockpot(didn't do last week), mashed potatoes, broccoli, biscuits (for after church lunch with Daniel's two sisters and Beverly's dude:) Dinner: Maybe pasta Carbonara and broccoli?

What's on your menu this week?

Harris Teeter Super Doubles #2 5/23/10

$15.85

A little regular shopping (eggs, fruit, veggies, milk, icecream for Liv's party) plus some super doubles bargains.
Free:
2 Tornados (frozen roll things...haven't tried yet)
6 Vitamin Waters
Van Camp Pork N Beans
Ideal Sweetener
2 Yakisoba meals
Butterfinger (free after mailed coupon)

Cheap:
Tony's pizza ($0.17/ea)
Yoplait Yogurt
Fiber One Yogurt (both yogurt were less than $0.30)
Feta Cheese
Vanilla Almond Milk (we use for creamer and in the girls cereal sometimes) $0.49/ea
Chocolate Soy Milk...mochas..yum
Spot Shot (for a little toddler accident on the bed!)
Kashi Puffs $0.49

Happy 1st Birthday Liv!

We have lots more pictures to share, a bunch from her birthday party yesterday. Right now we're off to get the toddlers(Livvie took her first steps this weekend!) ready for church!