I stepped in to Trader Joe's today. Oh my.
I have no idea what I am allowed to bring back, but I stocked up on sauces, spices and oil.

I put the BBQ sauce to use. The chicken was cooked earlier this week, so I couldn't quite cook it longer with the sauce.

I overbaked the kale, but like my mother, I welcomed the slight burnt flavour. Mmm. char.

What you see is yellow zucchini in the bunch. Yes, I splurged and ignored the common peoples' regular zucchini. A whole $0.10/lb difference. I was feeling crazy.

$3 meal made at home.
Rice noodles with an egg and pea sprouts.
Steamed dumplings on the side.

I treated myself to the new bowl and plate from Daiso. $2 shop!

Shannon eats a non greasy breakfast and lives to tell it.

One meal at a time. I was tempted for after game wings and beer. I don't know how I did it, but I found myself back at home baking chicken breasts for the week.

Tonight's meal. Plain baked chicken breast over sauteed quinoa (made last week), a bed of sauteed kale and pea shoots and a made up sauce.

Made up sauce: egg swirl in almond milk with garlic, soy sauce, siracha and thickened with corn starch.

It looked a bit curious, but the sauce worked.

Day 02, bring it on.

Also. That was my last of the 30 pack of eggs that I bought. There will be an egg drought after the streak of egg postings.

Came home from Penticton. Came home from a weekend of eating worry free. Homemade BBQ'd burgers, bacon, sausages, eggs, pasta, pancakes, chicken wings, grilled vegetables. I worry now.

I get to have fresh delicious salads all this week. I can do it!

Pork chop with roasted yellow pepper and garlic sauce.
Panfried radishes, broccoli and onions.
Quinoa.

Grumped my way through this meal. I was picturing myself sitting at the flying pig, ordering two appies and enjoying a glass of white wine.

I'm going to get a beer.

It's the same brunch meal, again. I can't help it, it's cheap to make.

I really need to take saving more seriously this time around. Over the past year, I've said I was saving, but in truth what I was doing were these penny pinching runs. When I had pushed myself as far as I could with the same bland meals, I would then spend no more than ten seconds convincing myself that I deserved to go all out for a night. So for six days, I would hit about $10-$15 for all meals/day. On the seventh, I'd spend $100 on one dinner and night out. That doesn't count my lunch for that day. I'd put myself through six days of food misery just to ruin it all in one night.

My goal is to master at least five different meals using the same main ingredients. Perhaps that will be easier to swallow than having baked chicken and baked potatoes every meal.

I'm going away this weekend, so I am forced to clean out my fridge. I'm struggling to find the right excuse for me to waste those groceries and have a quiet solo dinner at a restaurant.

Money Saving Goal: Machu Picchu