Week 3, Day 5

Take a moment and sniff- are you doing it? If you smelled turkey, baked potatoes, and broccoli you'd be in my home right now. If you didn't, I bet you're wishing you had dinner here tonight.
Breakfast and lunch were boring affairs again. Paul works all day Thursday and Friday so he has to leave at the same time he leaves for his classes meaning there isn't time for something more than oatmeal. I finished off the blueberry bran muffins and I'm already looking forward to more of them.
After Paul left and I put Pearl down for her morning nap I put a turkey breast in our crock pot with some homemade onion soup mix- super simple and CHEAP- and left that to cook all day long. Even with my nose completely stuffed I caught the odd whiff of deliciousness here and there and it was divine! I couldn't wait to try some of the turkey tonight but then I remembered something awful. Today is the Thursday. I was living in some kind of fantasy land where it was Wednesday but I checked and my heart sank. Today was our ward's last day of fasting for 40 days and we were signed up to take today. I felt awful. I didn't want to blow it for us at the last minute so I thought for a few minutes. Sure we could fast tomorrow but that's day 41 not 40. I finally decided that since I can only fast for the equivalent of one meal plus sleeping time (my milk is very temperamental) I would fast for the second part of the day. So I made the necessary preparations and ended up not getting to try the turkey tonight. Paul said it was good but we'll probably use the oven from now on because he felt like it was a bit greasy. Turkey is pretty much his favorite meal so he's the one who gets to choose.
I'm excited to use the rest of the turkey for a lot more meals. Tomorrow I'll shred it and freeze it and use it for soups and casseroles and turkey pot pie! I love turkey. I find it really comforting when it starts to get chilly. I love the way it tastes, the way it makes my house smell, all the different things you can do with it. I like it so much better than I like chicken and it's fabulous that you can purchase just breasts because there's no need to worry about dark meat.
Because I cooked the whole turkey today and I don't really have an idea yet about how much of the turkey Paul ate, I'm going to charge the whole thing to today and then consider it free when I use the rest of it. So here's what the turkey works out to:

1 young turkey breast purchased on sale for $0.79/lb ($6.72)
1 oz home made onion mix ($0.20)
Turkey Total: $6.92
I think that is a fabulous price!

Here's today's total:

Breakfast ($0.38)
Lunch ($0.44)
Dinner ($7.27)

Day 5 Total: $8.09

I'm not freaking out this time. That extra is for a purpose and if we go over 30 this week we'll make it up by going under next week. That's okay.

End of Week 2

So for day 5 on of last week we were out of town. Paul took the FSOT in DC (we have to wait 4-6 weeks to find out whether he continues in the process or not- lame!) and so we spent Thursday driving, Friday hanging out at his cousin's house and Saturday driving.
On Thursday we had breakfast (oatmeal) and then we ate a total of 3 sandwiches on the way up- no extra snacks for us and then ate dinner at Paul's awesome cousin Charisse's house. Friday was all food provided to us by our gracious hosts and then (and this was a bummer) we remembered that we were signed up to fast on Saturday for our Ward (church)'s 40-day fast for missionary work. Let me tell you, fasting while on a car trip is HARD! My milk supply was pretty dismal so I didn't fast as long as I usually do and broke down and ate a banana I snagged from Charisse's house for Pearl. Is that pathetic? Taking fruit from a baby? I guess it's not like she didn't have other food and she doesn't even like bananas.

Day 5: Breakfast ($0.50)
Lunch ($0.90)
Dinner ($0.00)
Total: ($1.40)

Day 6 Total $0.00

Day 7 Total $0.00


WEEK 2 TOTAL: $19.30 or $2.76/day

I fully recognize that a lot of this was due to the fact that we had free food for a day and a half and didn't eat for another day. Does that make me feel less proud? No. That's because even if you only count us as eating 4.5 days last week, we still averaged $4.29 which is less than the $4.50 a day we need to maintain to only spend $30 a week- even with that horrendous day! Way to go, us!