What We Ate and Grocery Shopping This Past Week

Hi AD, this is Chris. I know I mentioned on one of my other comments that we picked up the beef from hubby's co worker last Fri and put it in our freezer and our daughter's freezer. I wanted to let you and the readers know about a new product we tried that makes really good fish tacos. It is called Slawsome and is in the bagged salad part of our Kroger. The Cilantro Lime flavor is really, really good to put on the tacos. We had this with some shrimp on Sunday for an easy fish taco supper. Kroger had the uncooked, but peeled and deveined kind on a 2 day sale last weekend so I bought a bag and hubby cooked them on the smoker. I am also trying to save a little bit of our grocery money each week so we can go to the farmer's market in town and get some good tomatoes. This past week we got them and also some pickles for hubby and some Belgian waffles to try. This is the first year for our town to have a farmer's market so we are trying to go so they will continue to offer it in the future.

I was wondering about the canned potatoes you bought? I have never bought these and was wondering what you use them for? Potatoes are something that we don't use very fast around here, so wonder if this would be more economical for us also? I have been mostly buying them on the marked down produce bags at Kroger for .99 as we need them. I don't buy the big bags much anymore since most of the time they go bad before we can use them all.

Frugal- We picked up our 1/2 pork (small one it was too) on Saturday. We didn't get anything cured, we are pretty picky about bacon & ham. We got the shoulder roasts, better pork chops, 2/3 breakfast sausage & 1/3 Italian sausage. We had just one large cooler full. 52lbs for 60cents on the hoof.
We had to get new tires on the pick up but the salesman gave Farmer a $20 p/tire rebate and bought back (pro-rated) 2 of the old tires. We brought home the other 2 instead of paying the recycle fee of $8 each.
Farmer also bought a used head trailer for his bean head. Saved over $200 from other prices he's dealt with.
On the way home we stopped by a farm stand selling melons. The muskmelon was too far along but the yellow seedless watermelon is very good. It really hit the spot tonight. Our heat index today was 110 degrees
We finally did a "big" shop (such as it was) Sunday evening for the week. My list was pretty small since we too are eating out of pantries & freezers. I don't have to buy meat so that helps alot. I also had gotten farm eggs at the butchers, they were only $1.50 p/doz. Block cheese was $1.88 each so I stocked up on Provolone. The Grands really like that. I noticed many other items I only buy once in a while have gone up in price at least by 20% Other things I got were organice romaine hearts, halfnhalf, potatoes-white & sweet, bread & buns for Farmer, applesauce in single serve containers for the babies and for if we get sick. I have some in the freezer for normal eating but it takes too long to thaw if we need a quick portion. Shampoo & conditioner were on sale. Sometimes it pays to look at all the departments in the grocery store.
Finally: I made a new W30 recipe: Salisbury Meatballs over mashed potatoes. I've been buying the W30 friendly dry ingredients little at a time for this round. Tapioca flour, almond flour, coconut aminos. I make my own bone broth. I purposely didn't tell Farmer it was "healthy." And he liked it well enough. Win!