So we spent the week at the cabin last week, and did pretty well on groceries. $158 fed two adults and four teens for the week, not counting extra milk runs, and ice cream from the ice cream shop. We had baked beans ( a hit), Pizza (frozen), coffee cake for breakfasts, Apple Pie ( a disaster) pasta w/ meat sauce ( a hit) Cupcakes ( both a hit and a disaster- the dog ate EIGHT....) Here is how the week went.
- Monday Morning: Coffee Cake, Juice
- Monday Night: Pot roast (a hit), Ice Cream for desert ($2.69/ 1.75 quart container from Piggly wiggly - a steal!)
- Tuesday Morning: toast, eggs, Snausages**
- Tuesday evening Planned Baked beans- HAD Pasta w/ meat sauce (forgot to soak the beans overnight on Monday)
- Wed. mornning toast, eggs Snausages
- Wed Evening: Baked beans w/ cornbread. Cupcakes in afternoon- lost 1/3 of batch to dog. Went to see BRAVE $36 on popcorn and other treats.
- Thursday- Toast for breakfast for those that could wake up enough to eat before heading out the door to paddle a Voyager canoe all morning.
- Thursday evening- Frozen pizza, chocolate cupcakes- NONE for dogs........
- Friday morning- eggs toast etc
- Friday evening- "Poison Chicken*" and rice ( a disaster), and apple pie.
- Sat morning, coffee cake for breakfast. home for lunch.
Discovered something about my rice cooker: it's little rice scoop is NOT a full cup of rice. Need to find its original scoop, or order one from the company. Rice was NOT fully cooked. Added more water and thought I had re-started the cycle- Rice cooker did not re start. Kids ate dinner around 10 pm. Relented and had apple pie around eight. Pie was only ok- Bottom crust not done well enough, apples not cooked through- despite 45 minutes in a 375 oven. Everything else we baked this week came out well. don't understand the pie....... top crust was lovely, bottom was like paste. I've never had this happen with a pie in the past. just weird. Friday was also a volume disaster(not enough food), but I don't count that as my fault- was feeding three teens who had not been accounted for in the original plan- they were supposed to leave around supper time, but their pick up had car issues.
Farm fresh eggs do not make good hard boiled eggs, unless they are 2+ weeks old We lost most of the whites to peeling eggs. Farm fresh eggs make GREAT breakfasts though!
All in all, despite low water (less than a foot deep at the end of the new 40 foot dock extension) a pontoon that seems to be cursed ( launched and pulled three times in one week,for three different engine issues)and early morning cranky kids- we had a good time, thanks to the very generous friend who invites us up annually.
*Poison Chicken is a corruption of Hoison Chicken- a misunderstanding when my son was little has led to this family joke. No teen or adult died in the eating of this meal- there was not even mild gastric distress.
**Another family joke- I did not feed the kids dog treats.