Week 9 Meals - $21 Grocery Budget Challenge & Pantry Build

[@pennynickels5216]

Love the knowmen plate! And pulled pork. And pizza. Have you trief half wheat half white flors for bread? Thats what i do. No knead, with oats, nuts and or sun seeds. I top with oats then bake. I make rolls the same way. 😋

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@@pennynickels5216 I've never had whole wheat flour before. This is all new for me. The bread is tasty. ❤️

[@barbarawalker3366]

Glad you and the handsome one are feeling better. 😁 Great job this week!

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@barbarawalker3366 Thanks, Barbara. I was really tired this week so the meals were the easiest of easy! 🤩

[@LauraNadig]

Good morning! Enjoying your series and channel. 😊 An idea for the bbq pulled pork leftovers: bbq potato stacks. A baked potato cooked through. Remove. Cut in half lengthwise. Top with pulled pork. Cheese (a blend of cheddar & mozzarella…. Or ANY of those combo cheeses you have available!). Put in the broiler until the cheese melts. Top with sliced green onions. A tip…. If on sale, green onions sliced freezes nicely. Then you always have it on hand. My daughter taught me that! Although FRESH for this particular application (the bbq potato stacks WOULD be better). And a suggestion, if you prefer your cream cheese pasta a little “creamier), save a little of your pasta water to thin out the cream cheese. Perhaps you already know that? Maybe the tips will be useful for someone in your viewing audience!? Look forward to see all what you have in store for the future…. ❤

[@adventuresingroceryland]

All great tips, Laura. I love baked potatoes. The idea of stacking pulled pork on top and toppi g that with cheese sounds very delicious! ❤️

[@deedream10]

I am so glad the bread turned out!!! Yay! I like it half n half but good to know 100% worked out! Glad you are feeling better too. I’m going to make those pickle dogs. Lol

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@deedream10 We really enjoy pickle dogs. They are so fun and also delicious. Family favourite.

[@dsc1970]

Hi Mel, some very creative ideas in this video! Going to make my own pickles dogs sometime. Fusili was interesting too. I like experimenting in the kitchen as well. Pizza and pulled pork I was drooling, haha.. You're using lots of your cheese stockpile up too. Cheers.

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@@dsc1970 I feel like I am being very judicious with my cheese usage. I'm going through it too fast by going crazy and adding excess. I'm using just enough! Ha. That balance between enjoying the precious cheese and making it last!

[@Girl_on_the_rock]

Watching from Vancouver Island BC

[@adventuresingroceryland]

From coast to coast! 🤩

[@MySecondhandLife]

We're eating pulled pork this week. I got a 10 pound pork butt or picnic out what ever is called for 99cents a pound. I cooked it fairly plain, just some salt, pepper, and garlic powder. This week i have used it to make cuban sandwiches, bbq pulled pork, pork fried rice, a pork enchilada casserole. We're having hamburgers tonight, but they will be topped with leftover pulled pork. Now I still have some vacuum sealed in my freezer. I'll break it out in a couple of weeks. Also, because I insist on getting every bit of my monies worth on anything- after I had taken all the pork off the bone, I boiled the bones for a while, and gave the broth to my barn cats. They loved it!

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@@MySecondhandLife Phenomenal. I love it. Waste not, want not!

[@michellesmith9662]

Yum! Great job!! Glad you’re feeling better!! ❤️

[@adventuresingroceryland]

Thanks, Michelle.

[@michellesmith9662]

@ you’re welcome!! ❤️

[@tracyq989]

Another great video! Looking forward to Monday. Sorry you weren't feeling well.

[@adventuresingroceryland]

I feel a little bit of a flu bug is going around. The handsome one and I are both just kind of off. Nothing horrible but just not 100%. Then there was the day I slept for 14 hours.

[@darleneprice6467]

Good morning! I’m making spaghetti for supper tonight and English muffin pizzas tomorrow. We king of had the same ideas, I guess. Have a super weekend!

[@adventuresingroceryland]

Good meal plan according to me. Ha. Both of my favourite things. Any week that has spagetti and pizza is a fabulous week

[@pennynickels5216]

$.99??? I just had THE most awesome pulled pork EVER!

[@adventuresingroceryland]

Pulled pork is tasty. Isn't it,?

[@cyclingonplants7444]

Hi Melanie 🤗 Glad you are feeling better! We need to make pizza, I also have some frozen pineapple from when I bought some and never ended up making pizza!LOL I got some avocados at No Frills for $1.88 a bag of 5(bought 2 bags) - yes, they are small but they are good. I let them ripen on the counter next to the bananas or apples and once they are ripe I put them in a plastic bag in the fridge and use them as needed which is usually in my lunch salads. We are going to try using the dehydrator tonight - My Handsome One has some Manwich (Sloppy Joe mix) that he wants to try dehydrating and I will so some pinto beans and quinoa. I will let you know what happens. We won't be eating it until later this month though.

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@cyclingonplants7444 I'm looking forward to hearing about the dehydrating, success or fail. Either outcome will be equally interesting to me.

[@choward8444]

your pickle dogs look delicious. Could you pls let us know the timing of these in your air fryer...thx

[@adventuresingroceryland]

We had them in for 20 minutes utes and then put them back in longer because the bacon wasn't crispy enough for us.

[@kathryndockrey1477]

Glad you are feeling better. I think you should stop trying to eat breakfast, when it is something you normally don't do. For us, we have a larger breakfast, but a really small lunch, then early supper. Just film what you normally would eat. Great video, as always

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@kathryndockrey1477 It probably felt like such an additional struggle this week because we both were feeling just a bit off. I was just so tired.

[@deedream10]

I agree. I mean everyone eats different. With all the fasting that’s popular these days many people do not eat breakfast. When I was young it was considered very important but has been discovered it’s not necessary at all. I d just explain you eat two meals or whatever and not even bother with it. I personally blend my first meal of the day into my lunch so I just eat 2 meals , big one at supper time.

[@Smooshes786]

Check CBC news: The National, yesterday- they have a story about a large firm in Canada caught with packaging being charged as the meat weight! They blame it on a few locations, ‘new packaging” and a need to refresh training…..blaming their workers! Ugh.

[@adventuresingroceryland]

It makes me so annoyed on the random times I weigh, and the packages are underweight.

[@Smooshes786]

@ the reporter went to several stores and the issue was everywhere. The woman that alerted the news was saying her cost for the packaging was equal to one portion! I remembered you mentioned it in a video. You are on one side of the country and me on the other, the corporation needs to be better.

[@adventuresingroceryland]

@Smooshes786 Yes. Agreed.

[@BreeSB]

I'm curious what your regular budget usually is if you have one?

[@adventuresingroceryland]

Mmm, between $50-75ish weekly. Every once in a while, adding in a Costco run.

[@BreeSB]

@adventuresingroceryland thanks!

[@christinesimmons3313]

Wait! You were sick and slept straight through, i will give you that but what happened to the Handsome One! You just left him....what a cliff hanger.

[@adventuresingroceryland]

I know he ate, but I'm not sure what. I went to just lie down for a couple of minutes around 5pm and boom, out like a light. I got up the next morning at 7am.