Revamping our Habits: July's Menu

The month of June went well and as soon as June officially ends I will post about that in more detail. I have planned out July's menu. July is tough as we needed to go to Costco. We don't have to go to Costco every month it is more like 2 months and with this trip, hopefully more like every 3 months. We save in the long run a lot of money shopping at Costco but it is a lot of money up front.

So without further delay, the menu:

Friday, July 1^st: Chicken Paprikas and oven rice, use thighs

Saturday, July 2^nd: Out

Sunday, July 3^rd: Fend, RAH @ Carolines

Monday, July 4^th: Chicken Parmesan, use breasts

Tuesday, July 5^th: Mom's Penne Rigate, double Mom's tomato sauce recipe and freeze half

Wednesday, July 6^th: Fend

Thursday, July 7^th: Garlic Lemon Mahi Mahi

Friday, July 8^th: Curry Chicken Pot Pie, use breasts

Saturday, July 9^th: Out

Sunday, July 10^th: Fend, RAH @ Carolines

Monday, July 11^th: Oven Honey Chicken, use breasts

Tuesday, July 12^th: Mom's Chicken Sausage Tortellini, use breasts

Wednesday, July 13^th: Fend

Thursday, July 14^th: Mom's Mac and Cheese, buy real milk

Friday, July 15^th: Garlic Roast Chicken with Rosemary and lemon, use thighs

Saturday, July 16^th: Out

Sunday, July 17^th:Fend, RAH @ Carolines

Monday, July 18^th: Slow Cooker, upside down chicken pot pie, use thighs

Tuesday, July 19^th: Ravioli with creamy tomato sauce

Wednesday, July 20^th: Fend

Thursday, July 21^st: BMC's Curry Chicken, use breasts

Friday, July 22^nd: Chicken Bog, use breasts

Saturday, July 23^rd: Out

Sunday, July 24^th:Fend, RAH @ Carolines

Monday, July 25^th: Roasted Chicken with Balsamic Vinaigrette (use thighs)

Tuesday, July 26^th: BMC's Mahi Mahi recipe

Wednesday, July 27^th: Fend

Thursday, July 28^th: Mom's Tetrazzini

Friday, July 29^th: BMC Pizza

Saturday, July 30^th: Out

Sunday, July 31^st:Fend, RAH @ Carolines

We eat a lot of chicken....

Our grocery list:

Produce:

6 onions

Celery

Garlic

Lemon

Carrots

Mushrooms

Aisles:

Lemon Juice

Curry for curry chicken

White rice

Dijon Mustard

Spices:

Dried Basil

Rosemary

Paprika

Yeast

Canned:

4 28 oz cans of diced tomatoes

1 jar chicken gravy

Spaghetti Sauce

Baking:

Canola oil

Breadcrumbs

2 8 inch cake pans

Flour

Dairy:

Sour Cream

Butter

4 cups Mozzarella

Parmesan Cheese

2 cups cheddar cheese

2 ½ cups milk

Ricotta cheese

Whipping Cream

Frozen:

Puff Pastry

Tortellini

Spinach Ravioli

We spent about $178 at Costco already. We went in with 5 things on the menu and ended up with more but the "extra's" are things we could use and give us more variety. 

Costco list:

1 package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Each package has 6 pouches with 2 breasts per pouch. (planned)

1 package of boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Each package has 6 pouches with 5 thighs per pouch. (planned)

Tide-180 wash box (planned)

1 package of ground turkey. Each package has 4 2lb containers of ground turkey. (planned)

1 package of paper towels. Each package has 12 paper towels. (planned)

1 package of Mahi Mahi. It has 3 lbs of fish..we are hoping that it is an even number of fillets.

1 package of sausage. Each package has 3 sleeves of 8 sausages.

1 package of Nutri Grain Bars. Each package has 1 box of each: Blueberry, strawberry and apple

1 package of pasta. a total of 6 boxes, 2 boxes each of Penne, Shells, and Rotini

1 package of rolls. These rolls usually come in a pan and you have to make a whole pan to eat 2, these come in a bag where you can pull out as many as you want and put the rest back.

1 package of my breakfast sandwiches. This includes 12 sandwiches

1 package of Lipton tea. This includes 3 large boxes of tea. We use this for sweet tea.

It will be interesting on when we will need to go to Costco again and what we will need to buy again. I know we wont need Tide, tea or pasta for awhile. Depending on when we go to Costco we may not need paper towels. We will go back to Costco when we run out of meat and at that time refill what wont last another month. I will also update how much the grocery list will cost. This month I have about $13 cash to go towards it from cab rides and we found a $25 Visa gift card so that will help lower the "out of checking account" expense since we had to hit Costco this month.