Frugal Friday

Welcome to Friday! 
Quote of the Week

Sometimes we can spend years searching for something that we had all along just because it didn't come in the package we expected.         Thelma Harper

My Frugal Week
We had a lot of rain from Tropical Storm Fred on Tuesday. 

We picked mint from our mint plant and have it drying on the counter. 
We’ve been grocery shopping this week...
Kroger $41.67Kroger $138.69Ingles $48.69Total: $229.05
On Saturday we went grocery shopping at Ingles and Kroger's. We went to get stocked back up on meat. We didn’t find any beef on markdown, but did find pork, chicken, and Italian Sausage all on mark down. We were able to get over thirty packages of meat, some of them marked down to under $2.00 each. 
The reason we have two Kroger orders is because we couldn’t get the sale on cheese online. So, we went into the store and bought that along with some other items. 

We bought a gallon of marked down milk for 97 cents, which we wouldn’t have found if we hadn’t gone inside the store for the cheese. 

Bailey picked these tomatoes hoping for them to ripen in the house. Some animal has been eating the tomatoes and we are not getting any of the beefsteak ones she planted. Hoping this will help. 
Earning Money
Rakuten sent me $5.23 in cash back this week. I also made one sale on eBay and one sale on Etsy (thank you, Kathy) this week. 
Ford Marsh sent me an email survey for a $10 gift card, the survey was short and sweet. My $10 Amazon card came on Wednesday. 
Saving Money in my Frugal Kitchen

I needed taco sauce this week for a new recipe, but also knew I had enough Taco Bell sauces to make up a jar of my own without having to buy a jar. So, I cut open two packages at a time and placed them in this 12 ounce jar, which filled the jar and was more than enough for the recipe and I still had taco sauce packets left. 
Meals This Week
Friday: Chicken Casserole, Green Beans with Onions
Saturday: Homemade Pizza, Green Salad, Celery Sticks with Ranch for dipping
Sunday: Fiesta Chicken, Mexican Rice, Pickled Beets, Chopped Tomatoes
Monday: Boar’s Head Smoked Sausage, Mac & Cheese, Green Beans
Tuesday: Italian Sausage, Mac and Cheese, Broccoli
Wednesday: Hot Ham & Cheese Sandwiches, Baked Chips 
Thursday: Dirty Rice with Smoked Sausage, 

Recipe of the Week
Chicken Casserole
Ingredients;
5 to 6 cups Chicken35 to 40 Ritz crackers3 Tablespoons Poppy Seeds 1 can cream of mushroom soup8 ounce sour cream1 stick butter
Directions:
Cut up chicken into bite sized pieces.Mix chicken, sour cream and soup.Place in a greased casserole dish. Melt butter, add crushed crackers and poppy seeds. Spread over chicken.Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes.

Saving on Entertainment
This week I we watched Uncle Frank on Amazon Prime.  It was an excellent film.

From Rotten Tomatoes:  In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor. She soon discovers that Frank is gay, and living with his longtime partner Walid “Wally” Nadeem (Peter Macdissi) -- an arrangement that he has kept secret for years. After the sudden death of Frank's father -- Beth’s grandfather -- Frank is forced to reluctantly return home for the funeral with Beth in tow, and to finally face a long-buried trauma that he has spent his entire adult life running away from.

Freebies
More Ibotta freebies this week ... peanut butter, jelly, yogurt. cereal and bread. 
How was your week?
Belinda~ Living within our Means ~My Linktree

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