Well here it is the third day of the year and every food site I look at or every Facebook post from a food place is about eating in the new year of 2012. Eat smarter they say. Save money with healthy choices. Eating Organic is expensive. Eat local. (Yeah, that's a good one here in Ohio in January). We can eat well and eat right so here is Lesson 1.....Eat what you want to eat!
Today was our first trip to the grocery since December 23. We had gone 12 days without going to the grocery. We ate 2 times. One time was at Dewey's Pizza here in Dayton. (Not wanting to plug anything, but Dewey's has the best salads of ANY restaurant around and the pizza we brought home, we ate for lunch the next day). The 2nd place we ate was Frisch's. I had to have a Big Boy with extra sauce. That's it. We had gone to Frisch's after we had gone to Big Lots, because I needed Olive Oil. Yes, you heard me. Olive Oil.
Big Lots is one of my favorite places for food stuff. Love the different pastas, cookies, snacks, sauces, ethnic stuff, you name it, they got it. But a word of warning....don't fall in love with anything you buy there. You may not find it again. I go there about every 6 weeks to stroll down the aisles.
The 2nd place that you have to go to is GFS Marketplace. I buy certain things here, I get no where else. With this cold month and hearty soups on our menus, I always buy their chicken and beef base. I also use their roasted garlic puree, vegetable base for vegetarian soups, and Pesto. That's what I buy there.
Where are your favorite places to shop? Do you shop a certain place every time? Well I've shared with you 2 and if you know me, you know I love my Krogers! We spent $137 today. For $.79, I got a one pound bag of Pinto Beans. If you know my husband, than you know one pound will not be enough, so I got two pounds. I had purchased a spiral sliced ham for other holidays from Krogers and I had a ham bone left. That ham had feed us all week and I also had made a big batch of ham salad which I gave to the ex-husband and family with soup once they arrived home from driving from Florida.
As I write this, the beans are soaking in water overnight. I will cook them all day tomorrrow. We won't eat them because I have a Standing Rib Roast that I bought at scary Krogers at $6.99/lb. It's just over 5 pounds and I will cook it for my oldest son's last dinner at home before he leaves for the Navy the next day. Just wait for my blog on the leftover meals from the Roast beast!
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