meal plan #6

Since my boyfriend has been eating a lot of my food lately, he agreed to take me down south to stock up my pantry. I now have cans of tuna, canned tomatoes, three kinds of pasta, udon, coconut milk, tortilla wraps, a huge bag of cereal, canned clams, taco seasoning, frozen pizza, cream soda, soy milk, and ground beef. For me, free :) For him, $44.

Now all I need to take care of is the cooking and the fruits & veggies! Last week's meal plan:

Meal Plan #5

Here I am, home on a Friday night. Skipping a girl's night out and a birthday party to meal plan. Not nerdy or loserish at all.

Lo and Behold, last week's meal plan.

What I have: Chick Peas Rice Coconut Milk Wheat Torillas Garlic Cucumbers Chicken Breast Lemon Tomatoes Mayonaise

What I bought:  Mushrooms Frozen Chopped Spinach Nectarines Soy Milk Tahini Grape Tomatoes Green Pepper White & Purple Onions French bread Jalapeno Pepper = $18.62

What I'll make: Egg Salad Sandwich Greek Salad Creamy Mediterranean Linguine Tum Yum Chicken Chicken Salad Sandwich Paprika Chicken Breasts & Salad

meal planning with chicken!

I was accompanying my friend at Costco with a friend. It's a dangerous place if you don't have a shopping list, or even intend on buying anything at all. 

Long story short, I now have two chickens. I'm going to cut one up and stick it in my freezer. As for the other one? I boiled it with a bunch of leftover veggies. So with this new fancy ingredient (you roll your eyes, but little do you know how much I'm not spoiling myself in the kitchen!) I'm going to complete this month's challenge. 

Meal Planning #4

Hmm, I definitely did'nt consume enough vegetables last week. I feel like crap.
This week, I'm going for some Korean cuisine!

What I have:    Ground Pork Rice Noodles Pancake Mix Tuna Mandu Skin Oatmeal

Grocery list:     Tofu Mushrooms Green Onions Strawberries Carrots Yogurt Bag of onions French Bread ~20 000 won

Meals to make:     Bokumbap Kimbap Mother's Asian Soup Korean Pancake Pan-fried Mandu Mandu soup

Meal Planning #3

This week, I'm going to take it easy and try to use mostly what I have at home. (I know I keep saying that, but THIS time, I'm doing it for real!) My boss is taking me out for dinner on Tuesday, so that means at the most, six days of cooking.

What I have:    Bacon Rice Tuna Seaweed Sour Cream Curry Powder Ground Pork Eggs

Grocery list:     Bag of Potatoes 2 Cucumbers 1 Carrots ~5000 won

Meals to make:     Wannabe Greek Platter Kimbap Fried Rice Pork Sour Cream Curry Mushroom Congee

Meal Plan #2

A sequel to my first meal plan! The more I spend time at home, get creative with food, and save - the more I wouldn't mind being a house wife slash full-time volunteer. A big change from last year when I sought out to be a career woman. Whoops! Went off topic.

"my first meal plan" outcome

I'm surprised that in 7 days I only spent 15 dollars on extra food! Meal planning is fun!

my first meal plan

I usually do some sort of meal planning - inside my head. But as I understand from reading around, meal planning has a number of benefits:

1. You will EAT OUT LESS
2. You will have a plan so you will be eating LESS PREPACKAGED MEALS

Getting creative with two weeks of Bulgogi.

You live with your boyfriend for now, and find that Costco is selling 2 kg of meat for 20 000 won (~$18). If you proportion it carefully, you could probably make the meat last two weeks and a bit between two people. But how on earth could you eat the same thing, and not go crazy?

In my case, I learned how to cook Korean! Check out some of the food I made with the same stock of beef, for 16 days. 

Bulgogi and Pajeon 

Bok Choy, Mushroom and Beef Soup

Stove Top Tortilla Pizza

Kimchi Beef Fried Rice

Beef Mandu (I ate most of it before I realized I should have taken a picture)

If my math is right, each of these meals turn out to be a little more than $1 CAD a person. Except for the tortilla pizza; it's $2 CAD. 

I think I'm great with groceries. Horrible with wasteful spending though. Blah.