It's the little things that are big things when you don't have access to many things. Right?
I was so pleased today to find onions at Tedeschi! I had run out of wheat bread and since I knew they had the best selection of bread of any of the stores I've visited so far, I went there for a resupply, and lo and behold - they had a red onion and a 2 lb bag of yellow onions! Can I tell you, that made my day? It did. It made my day. I cook with onions all the time - sometimes twice a day. I love onions. I especially love them caramelized. Which is what I did as soon as I got these bad boys home.
Caramelized onions are such a divine pleasure. For dinner I mixed them in with some of the Hunt's spaghetti sauce and served it over macaroni. What a treat! I was so happy.
(that's the text book I'm using for my Health Econ class in the background).
So dinner was
| Dinner | Quantity | Cost | Calories |
| macaroni | 3.00 | $0.47 | 310 |
| sauce | 1.00 | $0.34 | 60 |
| onion | 5.00 | $0.39 | 32 |
| olive oil | 1/3 | $0.12 | 40 |
| $1.31 | 442 |
Of course dinner was the end of the day, as it usually is.
Breakfast was corn bread muffin and cottage cheese, which I was pleased to have found at the Circle K, as I mentioned yesterday. These things keep popping up here and there. Finding good food in the Desert is a bit like playing Whack-a-mole. One store has one thing, another store has something else. I suppose that's why grocery stores are "supermarkets".
| Breakfast | Quantity | Cost | Calories | |
| corn bread | 1.00 | $0.16 | 170 | |
| egg (in corn bread) | 1/6 | $0.05 | 13 | |
| milk (in corn bread) | 0 | $0.02 | 5 | |
| cottage cheese | 1.00 | $1.75 | 220 | |
| coffee | 3.00 | $0.28 | 4 | |
| $2.25 | 412 |
It's nice to have cottage cheese, but as with anything that is too close to "prepared", it's pricey.
Lunch was my standby - the PB & Banana sandwich! With a side of raisins.
| Lunch | Quantity | Cost | Calories |
| bread, wheat | 2.00 | $0.20 | 160 |
| peanut butter | 1.00 | $0.42 | 180 |
| banana | 1.00 | $0.19 | 90 |
| raisins | 0.70 | $0.30 | 90 |
| $1.11 | 520 |
I had a couple more cups of coffee ($0.28; 4 calories) through the course of the day, a bag of peanuts ($0.50; 260 calories) before my afternoon class, and a serving of raisins ($0.43; 120) while I was making dinner. And that was pretty much the day.
Day totals:
Cost: $5.45
Calories: 1,758
Exercise: 680 calories from 18,022 steps.
Net calories: 1,078
weight: 170.2
No comments:
Post a Comment