Month: March 2016

Mar 2: Slut Spaghetti; Grilled chicken, lentils and sweet potato

Lunch

For lunch we had the remains of the Slut’s Spaghetti from Monday night.

As it did then, lunch today cost $1.76 a serve.

Dinner

A quick dinner because we were heading out to the Home Owners Association annual meeting. We used the leg and thigh from our Whole Foods organic chicken, left over lentils from Saturday night, and some baked sweet potato.

  • 1/4 of the chicken is $3.50
  • The lentils work out to 75c per serve
  • The sweet potato was 99c and we shared half at this meal or 25c per serve.

Dinner tonight cost us $4.25

Mar 1: Lavash wrap; Sausage, Potato and Kale soup

Lunch

Back to our roast chicken pattern, except we experimented with our local Whole Foods: our $6.99 chicken is now a $13.99 chicken! It’s organic, but I’m not convinced organic is right for chicken because chickens can’t be free range (which they should be) and have their diet controlled to be organic.

  • 1/4 of the roast chicken – breast, divided between us is $1.75 per serve
  • Five Lavash sell for $3.99 or 80c per serve
  • We added left over lentils at about 70c per serve
  • Spinach from the garden rounded out the meal.

Lunch today was $3.25: much higher because of the chicken and lavash.

Dinner

For dinner tonight we had the Sausage, Potato and Kale soup we cooked on Sunday.

As it did on Sunday, dinner tonight cost $3.70 per serve.

Greg used the induction cooktop to cook originally on Sunday, but also to reheat because the induction cooktop can be set to a temperature, and won’t exceed it. When set to 195ºF it won’t ever get higher, so the soup won’t boil when being reheated.

Feb 29: Take out; Slut’s Spaghetti (pasta alla puttanesca)

Lunch

Monday’s finds The semiSerious Foodies in different locations: Philip in Burbank eating In-and-Out while Greg has leftover Indian at home.

Averaging the two meals (there was only Baingan Bharta and rice with peas (peas pull0) left) gives an approximate cost of $4.15 each.

Dinner

Tonight’s Slut’s Spaghetti is Nigella Lawson’s translation and interpretation of the classic pasta all puttanesca, or whore’s pasta. The name is thought to have come from ‘working girls’ who did not have time to shop or cook, throwing together a pasta dish from pantry items. How scandalous!

The recipe makes a generous four serves.

  • Anchovies are $1.59 a can, or 40c per serve
  • Garlic and seasonings add about 10c per serve
  • The pasta was $1.29 or 33c per serve
  • Canned tomatoes were $2.19 or 55c per serve
  • A jar of pitted olives is $2.99 but only half is used in the recipe or 38c per serve

Dinner tonight cost $1.76 a serve.