Friday SNAP Challenge

FRIDAY:

Breakfast consisted of Weetbix with milk and a dash of cream for me, toast with butter and jam for the girls and Hubby.  The girls had a glass of cold Milo each, I had two cups of instant coffee with milk and sugar (it's Friday...)
Lunch - Emily had a peanut butter sandwich with Cheese and Bacon Balls (chips) for snack, Sophie and I also had some Cheese and Bacon Balls as a snack and we had 2 minute noodles for lunch. Hubby didn't take lunch. I also had another instant coffee with milk and sugar.
Dinner was Beef Stroganoff made using approx. 200g of rump steak, an onion, a can of cream of mushroom soup, paprika, tomato paste and sliced mushrooms served with cream (which should have been sour cream, but we had cream on hand) and pasta.
Dessert was the last of the ice cream.

Running Food Tally:  Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd September 2012
Weetbix (14 bics)	Rice Cakes (8)	Tea Bags (12)	Apple (4)
Milk (5L)	Grain Waves chips	Instant Coffee	Strawbs (2 pt)
Cream (240ml)	Crispbreads (9)	Milo	Lettuce (1/2)
Butter (140g)	Lindt Choc (140g)	Mayonnaise	Tomato (1)
Ham (100g)	Tortillas (12)	White Sugar	Avocado (1)
Cheese slices (11)	Arborio Rice	Vanilla essence	Onion (3)
Cheese block(100g)	Corn kernels	Cordial	Carrot (4)
Ice cream (2L)	Cannalini beans	Mineral Water	Zucchini (1)
Yoghurt (500ml)	Taco seasoning	Ginger powder	Mushrooms (500g)
Mince beef (300g)	Tomato Passata	Chilli powder	Garlic (3 cloves)
Chicken (150g)	Soy Sauce	Chicken stock	Celery (1/4 bunch)
Rump Steak (200g)	Rice vermicelli	Nutella spread
	Sliced bread	C&B Balls
	Noodles (2 pkts)	Raspberry Jam
	Mushroom soup	Tomato Paste
	Spiral pasta	Paprika
Other: Lunch order for Emily - $4.30; Lunch order for Emily - $3.30;
Takeaway fish and chips - $20

I estimate I have used the equivalent of $65.25 in groceries, plus the others = $92.85 so far

Thursday SNAP Challenge

THURSDAY:

Breakfast consisted of toast all round with butter and jam.  The girls had a cold Milo each, I had a cup of tea with milk. Sophie and I also had a bowl of yoghurt each.
Lunch - Emily had a lunch order amounting to $3.30, Cheese and Bacon Balls (chips) and an apple for snack, Sophie had some Cheese and Bacon Balls, and a free meat pie that was left over when we were helping at the school. I had leftover Chicken soup from last night, a punnet of strawberries and a couple of squares of chocolate (and another 2 cups of tea with milk). Hubby took the last of the leftover taco mix for lunch.
Dinner was takeaway.  We ended up having dinner with friends and bought fish and chips.  They refused us paying for dinner (we alternate dinners at each other's house twice a month) but I will allow $20 because that is what the dinner would have cost us.
Dessert was nothing.

Running Food Tally:  Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd September 2012
Weetbix (11 bics)	Rice Cakes (8)	Tea Bags (12)	Apple (4)
Milk (5L)	Grain Waves chips	Instant Coffee	Strawbs (2 pt)
Cream (120ml)	Crispbreads (9)	Milo	Lettuce (1/2)
Butter (120g)	Lindt Choc (120g)	Mayonnaise	Tomato (1)
Ham (100g)	Tortillas (12)	White Sugar	Avocado (1)
Cheese slices (11)	Arborio Rice	Vanilla essence	Onion (2)
Cheese block(100g)	Corn kernels	Cordial	Carrot (4)
Ice cream (700ml)	Cannalini beans	Mineral Water	Zucchini (1)
Yoghurt (500ml)	Taco seasoning	Ginger powder	Mushrooms (100g)
Mince beef (300g)	Tomato Passata	Chilli powder	Garlic (3 cloves)
Chicken (150g)	Soy Sauce	Chicken stock	Celery (1/4 bunch)
	Rice vermicelli	Nutella spread
	Sliced bread	C&B Balls
		Raspberry Jam
Other: Lunch order for Emily - $4.30; Lunch order for Emily - $3.30;
Takeaway fish and chips - $20

I think the takeaway will push us over my target of $100 but it will be interesting to see when the week ends and I tally it up...

Wednesday SNAP Challenge

WEDNESDAY:

Breakfast consisted of Weetbix for me with milk and a dash of cream, the girls had a slice of toast with jam and a cold Milo each, I had a cup of tea with milk.  Hubby bought a coffee on his way to work, but this comes out of his spending money for the month - not my food budget so I'm not counting his purchase. (As a side point, Hubby doesn't normally buy coffee but a friend was driving him to work the last 3 days so he bought coffees for them both in return for the transportation).
Lunch - Emily had a lunch order amounting to $4.30, Grain Waves chips and an apple for snack, Sophie had some Grain Waves chips, a Nutella sandwich and some squares of chocolate.  I had leftover taco mix with lettuce for lunch and a couple of squares of chocolate (and another 2 cups of tea with milk). Hubby didn't take lunch again - his work provides crispbreads in the tea room, so the days he doesn't take lunch he has these for lunch.
Dinner was Asian Chicken noodle soup. This consisted of onion, celery, carrot, zucchini, mushroom, chicken stock powder, a small portion of chicken breast meat, soy sauce, ginger, chilli and garlic with rice vermicelli noodles.  This was accompanied by 4 slices of toast with butter.  The original soup recipe that I altered is found here: Taste
Dessert was nothing for the kids, leftover rice pudding for Hubby and a scoop of ice cream for me plus 2 instant coffees with milk and sugar.

* I omitted the cheese from last nights' dinner which has now been added to the tally.

Running Food Tally:  Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd September 2012
Weetbix (11 bics)	Rice Cakes (4)	Tea Bags (9)	Apple (3)
Milk (4L)	Grain Waves chips	Instant Coffee	Strawbs (1 pt)
Cream (120ml)	Crispbreads (9)	Milo	Lettuce (1/2)
Butter (80g)	Lindt Choc (120g)	Mayonnaise	Tomato (1)
Ham (100g)	Tortillas (12)	White Sugar	Avocado (1)
Cheese slices (11)	Arborio Rice	Vanilla essence	Onion (2)
Cheese block(100g)	Corn kernels	Cordial	Carrot (4)
Ice cream (700ml)	Cannalini beans	Mineral Water	Zucchini (1)
Yoghurt (100ml)	Taco seasoning	Ginger powder	Mushrooms (100g)
Mince beef (300g)	Tomato Passata	Chilli powder	Garlic (3 cloves)
Chicken (150g)	Soy Sauce	Chicken stock	Celery (1/4 bunch)
	Rice vermicelli	Nutella spread
	Sliced bread
Other: Lunch order for Emily - $4.30;

Tuesday SNAP challenge

TUESDAY:  

Breakfast consisted of Weetbix all round, with milk and a dash of cream, the girls had a warm Milo, I had a cup of tea with milk.  Hubby bought a coffee on his way to work, but this comes out of his spending money for the month - not my food budget so I'm not counting his purchase. Sophie also had a small bowl of yoghurt.
Lunch - Emily took rice cakes with butter, Grain Waves chips and an apple to school, Sophie had some Grain Waves chips, crispbread biscuits with butter and ham.  I had crispbread biscuits with butter, ham and cheese too and a couple of squares of chocolate (and another 2 cups of tea with milk).
Dinner was bumped to taco wraps.  To make these I used 300g mince beef, 1 jar Tomato Passata, 1 can corn kernels, 1 can cannalini(?) beans, 1 packet taco seasoning, 1 onion finely chopped.  This mix was then wrapped in the left-over tortillas from the previous night with shredded lettuce, a fresh tomato, chopped avocado and grated cheese.  The girls had a cordial to drink and I had a glass of mineral water.
Dessert was rice pudding (3/4c arborio rice, 1L milk, 2tbsp sugar, 1tsp vanilla essence), 2 glasses of cold Milo and 2 instant coffees with milk and sugar.

Running Food Tally:  Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd September 2012
Weetbix (8 bics)	Rice Cakes (4)	Tea Bags (6)	Apple (2)
Milk (3L)	Grain Waves chips	Instant Coffee	Strawbs (1 pt)
Cream (100ml)	Crispbreads (9)	Milo	Lettuce (1/2)
Butter (60g)	Lindt Choc (80g)	Mayonnaise	Tomato (1)
Ham (100g)	Tortillas (12)	White Sugar	Avocado (1)
Cheese slices (11)	Arborio Rice	Vanilla essence	Onion (1)
Ice cream (500ml)	Corn kernels	Cordial
Yoghurt (100ml)	Cannalini beans	Mineral Water
Mince beef (300g)	Taco seasoning
	Tomato Passata