Welcome to the weekend!
School was cancelled on Friday, so we ended up running some errands instead. I'm so glad we did as we ended up at Walmart where they had hams marked down.
We picked up four hams, which were marked down from Thanksgiving. We picked up three hams for 83¢ a pound and one priced at $1.25 per pound. The savings were incredible.
Now we have our ham for Christmas, New Years, and whenever else we want ham.
We also visited the Freeosk while we were there and were able to get four individually wrapped Rice Krispie treats.
If you have a Panera Bread rewards card, be sure to check yours and see if you received the free bagel every day in December.
My daughter and I both received this reward and picked up our first bagel yesterday. She picked out a chocolate chip bagel and I picked the cinnamon crunch bagel.
Gas was down to $1.91 here yesterday, which will really make it easier on my budget this month.
Here is what we ate for dinners this week:
Friday
Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans with Onions
Sweet Iced Tea
Saturday
Vegan Chick Patties
Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans with Onions
Sunday
Baked Chicken
Scalloped Potatoes
Steamed Broccoli
Monday
Bratwurst
Baked Beans
Green Peas
Tuesday
Chinese Food
Wednesday & Thursday
White Chicken Enchiladas
Friday
Pizza
That's all the news from here this week. How was your week?
Belinda
~ Living within our Means ~
Thank You!
Today is Veterans Day, so I would like to take a minute and say thank you to all those who have served. And to my niece who is currently serving our country in the Air Force.
Our can opener is going on the fritz, so I've been looking for a new one. As luck would have it, we found an old Swingway, made in the USA, last weekend at a yard sale for 25¢.
It works so great, it's like slicing through warm butter. Needless to say this made me a very happy camper.
This Saturday morning was cold and frosty, so we had to salt our steps. Reason was we wanted to get to Chattanooga for a consignment store sale where everything was 25¢.
The owner is going out of business and wanted to get rid of as much as possible before donating the rest of her inventory.
My daughter ended up with 108 pieces for her reselling business paying only $27 for the whole lot. I found a couple of Christmas ornaments.
This past week I was able to work three days as we were off Tuesday, so schools could be used for voting. As usual I packed my lunch and drinks.
This coming week will be the last week of school as students are off all next week for Thanksgiving Break.
We found some great markdowns in the crash & burn section a few weeks ago on birdseed.
Yesterday we stopped in at Walmart and Fresh & Low to pick up a few things. I needed some salt and ginger and found some pizzas on markdown at Walmart.
These were the BIG pizzas, so I made one for dinner on Saturday night. We saved the other one for another time.
At Fresh and Low they had Tennessee Pride sausage on sale for $1.79 and cole slaw mix on sale for 88¢. Perfect for making Deconstructed Egg Rolls for dinner and at a great price.
They also had sugar for $1.50 and the three pound bag of onions for $1.29, so we picked up those too.
There was a black walnut tree close to the consignment store we went to on Saturday.
There were dozens of them on the ground in a bank parking lot. I was surprised no one had picked them up already.
Also this week I picked up a free copy of our hometown newspaper thanks to working for the school system.
That's all the news from here this week. I hope you've had a great week!
Belinda
~ Living within our Means ~
