100 DOLLARS A WEEK PT.2 - Day 23 (Saturday) & Something About HAPPY NEW YEAR & Google...

It's been a little over a month since my last post and while I can attribute some of my delinquency to morningmorelikeallday sickness and fatigue and some work on the cookbook, if I am to be truthful, I think the biggest reason I haven't written here is because I've been writing there (and learning how very limited is my capacity to generate unique content in both places in the process).

And the instant gratification junkie in me finds it infinitely more instantly gratifying to download my scattered thoughts to immediate response and feedback there than here.

And yet there seems not to serve the sake of posterity as does here...

G+ scares me a bit with all its brilliant integration and amazingly intuitive grasp of the mind of its end user and how it almost makes me want to shelf all other social media (including this Google blog). I'm kind of afraid one day we're all going to find out who really runs Google is a crazy little bald dude with a hairless cat wearing a Chairman Mao getup who will sell all our search information to the Feds for *ONE GAZEEEEELLIONN DOLLERRZZZ* ^-, but at the moment, I find everything they do simply too crackalicious to resist.

That said, on Saturday, December 10th of 2011, we ate...

BREAKFAST

Some soupy steel cut oats with dried cranberries, brown sugar, and a little cinnamon for the adults. The kids were wrapping up an overnight camping trip with their dad.

Steel cut oats and milk for 2 $1.25

+ some dried cranberries, brown sugar and cinnamon $0.25

= $1.50 FOR BREAKFAST FOR 2

LUNCH

was chicken and dumplings. And because I hadn't had it in ages, it was extra delicious. :)

Specially with a splash of heavy cream in it. :)

All the dark meat from one chicken $3.00
+ some carrot, onion, peas, garlic, leeks $1.50
+ flour, water, sugar, salt, butter, and milk for dumplings $0.75

= $5.25 FOR LUNCH FOR 4

DESSERT

For an after lunch treat, we each had one of those iced Lofthouse cookies. I don't know why I like them because they taste about as real as a Twinkie, but they're oddly satisfying in that way that makes your teeth want to fall out...

$1.00 FOR FOUR COOKIES

SNACK

Never one to go long without a snack, Mads asked for apples and cinnamon. Which is a good thing because it gets us all eating a little more fresh produce along with her.

$0.50 FOR SNACK

DINNER

was a Caramelized Onion & Bacon Mac (or cavatappi in this instance) N' Cheese.

And some so-so watermelon that was refreshing nonetheless.

Cavatappi $1.00
+ cheese $1.50
+ some flour, butter, milk $0.75
+ 3 strips of bacon and some caramelized onions $2.00
+ half of a miniature watermelon $0.75

= $6.00 FOR DINNER FOR 4

After dinner treat was a visit from this groovy full moon as we watched X-Files. So apropos...

$14.25 spent on the second day of the last week of the project.

Friday 12/09 - $8.30
Saturday 12/10 - $14.25

$22.55 spent with five days left to account for. Having to pick up this PAIN IN MY ASS project after having dropped it for so long, I think I can safely say it's going to be a LONG time before I do another 100 Dollars A Week installment.

Back in a bit with the last shopping trip!

shinae