What we bought, spent and ate this week

Hello Dear Reader,

And welcome to this weeks wrap up of what we bought, spent and ate at our place this week. I hope you still enjoy reading about this topic, it's no problem to do, it is such a part of our life now, we take photos of what we buy and eat and keep the receipts from the previous week and then, often on a Friday evening, I type the post up.

I find it interesting also to look back over the years to see what we were eating at different times of the year and stages of our life. For instance when my late In-Laws and Gran were with us, we always had a pizza night, it was always takeaway, as it was their shout, it gave me a night off cooking, which I was always grateful for. We now very rarely have any takeaway and my night off cooking is Friday and is leftovers or "On Toast" night. We are also eating a more varied diet as there were lots of foods that they wouldn't eat (vegetarian for one) and they also wouldn't eat leftovers, which always baffled me.

I am also looking forward to the near future when it will just be Lovely Hubby and I to cook for, as our Son and Partner are going to be moving in to the, now vacant, home next door. I think it will take a bit of adjustment, I've been cooking for a family for so long, there will be loads of leftovers eaten for sure.

Now on with the food-

What we bought

Shopping from Aldi

Shopping from Northside Discount Fruit Barn and Coles

What we spent

Aldi-$69.70 + $18.05 for baking paper and a few different cheeses for our Pizza night
Northside Discount Fruit Barn-$26.09
Coles-$12.05

TOTAL-$125.89

What we ate

Friday-Left overs from Lovely Hubby's Birthday Dinner-a bowl of Hot Sour Soup each

And this wonderful left over Duck and Bean Sprout Noodle Stir Fry

Saturday-Smoked Salmon Pasta

Sunday-Pizza Night

Monday-Honey Prawns, steamed Basmati rice and Choy Sum

Tuesday-Left overs from the freezer-Borsch

Wednesday-Pan Fried Red Emperor with Potato, Avocado and Watercress Salad. I had bought the Watercress earlier in the week reduced to clear

Thursday-The boys had Mexican Potatoes with Sausages and Wilted Spinach, I cooked this for them before going to the cooking class below

Thursday-I had Jamie's Malay Chicken Curry with Chapati, yoghurt and spinach, made at our last Jamie Oliver Ministry of Food, cooking class. The teacher/chef made enough for everyone to join in and have a delicious sit down dinner at the end of our class AND we made enough for 2  to 3 people to take home, we had it for dinner last night as well, totally and utterly delicious.

Well, that's a wrap from me, anyone else want to join in?

One Year Ago-This Weeks 5 Frugal Things on a Friday

Two Years Ago-Chicken and Sweet Corn Soup