Today the idea was to go to the store and pick out dinner and only use $15. Could it be done? I try to stick with the four items as always and work from there. Today I went into the Albertsons store.
First I had to figure out what would work together for tonight. I walked around the store and ended up in the meat section. In the meat section, at the end of the meat area, there is a small area that they will put meats on sale. I rummaged through what was there and they had a lot of pork today. I found one package of Ribeye Steak with bone in with two cuts inside. It was on sale with the price of $3 off of the original price so that made it $8.98 for two steaks. Now I needed to see what I could find to go with it.
I went to the end of the store and they have a sale rack of items that are being discontinued and I found a can of Corn that was $1.19. The date was good so no issues. Figured that would fit in as well.
I then went over to the vegetable/fruit area and picked up a package of Garden Salad that was on sale for .88 cents. Then I also picked up some Baby Bella Mushrooms for $2.29.
This meal for two was a total of $13.34. Looks like I made my amount by $1.70.
Now to get home and get ready to cook this meal. I started by letting the steaks sit out with seasoning on them to get to room temperature. At that point I put them into a 350 degree oven to get started. When they are about done I will turn on the broiler and let them put some color on the top. The corn was easy since I just put them into the small pan and let them heat up. The mushrooms I put a cube of salted butter in a pan and let the mushrooms sautee until ready to eat. I normally put grated parmasen on them but I forgot to get the cheese this time. The salad was put into the bowl and I put whole baby carrots with a hard boiled egg and some cheese sprinkled on top.
This was the meal. Not bad for trying to stay under a given amount. We will see what next week brings for the games I will play.
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