Not feeling so hot.

There are five days until I leave for my trip. Five days of only eating what is left in my fridge, freezer and pantry. In order to save money for my trip, money will have to take an upper hand to food.

No fresh produce and a couple bags of instant noodles. It can be done, but it won't feel great.

Lunch today was an omelette (gouda, cilantro, corn, chili pepper, oregano) and baked salmon (lemon juice, pepper). Mayo, mustard and dill sauce (lemon juice, dill pickles, cilantro) on the side.

Found frozen beef in my freezer.
Stir fry.

The plan was to eat half tonight and half for tomorrow's lunch. Plans sometimes do not pan out.

Plan B lunch...

Today is a sad day. I reached the end of the bag of tots.

I tried to make honey garlic wings, but that failed. Charmaine showed up with a spicy chopped scallop cone for me and that more than made up for it.

I'm proud to say I only ate out once all weekend. The only time was fast food for lunch at the wedding. The rest of my meals were BBQ leftovers and freezer food.

I had ground beef for too many meals, but it had to be done. I'd like to say I'll be off beef for a bit, but I still have about twelve patties left.

Thankfully, the leftovers included vegetables.

Always dependable and always satisfying.
Steak and eggs.

Did a quick dry rub: oregano and cinnamon.

So my goal to eat $6 per meal wasn't too successful last week. Breakfast and lunch won, but the dinners were bad examples of will power. My excuse is that we had beautiful patio beers weather and I believe I would have regretted it if I did not live out the day like it was meant to be spent.

Rain all week. I should be able to reach my goal...

More leftovers from the BBQ lingering in the work kitchen. Chris fired up the grill and rounded out the big bowl of beef in to patties. We all flocked to the grilled chucks.

What you see here is a mound of beef, pickles, mixed greens, ketchup, mayo, relish and mustard.

No one can tell you what tastes good to you.

We bought too much for our work BBQ, so I took home some of the leftovers and made dinner.

The ground beef was for the slider patties, instead, I cooked it with the leftover lentils from the veggie patties. Globbed in sweet chili sauce and I am just fiiine.

And what you see there is half a plate of tater tots. You be jealous.

Salmon, shrimp, corn and cilantro pan fried with bottled vegetable curry.

I wasn't too sure what I was doing that night. It was really apparent when I decided to wrap the non stuffing like stirfry above in phyllo sheets. As expected, zero hold.

It was food.

This week, I realized I don't need to eat shit to save money.

I bought a large pack of chicken thighs to put in my freezer and decided to spend most of the money on fresh vegetables.

It's panfried kale, bacon, onion and garlic as a side all week.

Lemon and rosemary chicken for this week's lunches.

A hard boiled egg for breakfast.

Today was a fatty moment. Baked salmon topped with mayo, siracha, horse radish, dill, lemon juice and onion.

And still able to come under $5 per meal.

I had to buy a new laptop recently and that put a few planned purchases in the back burner. I still want to redo my flooring, so changes need to be made to my fridge.

My goal was to have $5 meals, so all last week, I survived off of discount T&T food and instant noodles.

I haven't eaten like that in a while, and I could feel it. Cheapness comes with a price.