Adventures in Whole Foods 9/29
I have to admit, this is really fun for me. 
I wish I could find my camera cable. Its in a box somewhere I’m sure, but once I find it, I will post pics of my finds and creations in this journey.
Ok, so yesterday evening’s shopping trip almost broke the bank, but I needed some spendy essentials, like olive oil, butter, eggs, and cheese.
I came home with all of those things, (goat cheese spread and a 3 cheese blend of assiago, fontina, and regiano), 2 bottles of santa cruz organic lemonaid at dh’s request, and a couple other things, and my total was 42.19. This brings my weekly total to 64.10. I have four more days to go to mark my first week, and we’ll see if I can keep it under 100.00. I’m left with $35.90, and have no doubt I can do it.
Last nights dinner was so tasty! I made some pasta out of semolina and organic spelt flour, and it was devine. I doubled the batch, so we’ll be having some form of pasta for the next two nights at least LOL. I used my pasta “machine” to make angel hair pasta last night, and tossed it with olive oil, black garlic, roma tomatoes, fresh basil, and the three cheese blend I mentioned. It was SO good. The black garlic is really different. Not sure I would use it the way I did last night again, but it would be great in asian dishes. I served the pasta with the leftover sourdough from Sunday night, some olive oil and balsamic vinegar for dipping, and because dinner was running a little late, I spread some goat cheese on some ak-mak crackers as an appetizer. It was sooooo yummy!!
I’m really excited about tonights dinner too. I took some of my leftover pasta dough, and turned it into mini ravioli’s. I filled them with the left over goat cheese, a handful of the 3 cheese blend, and some egg to hold it all together. I went ahead and rolled them out and prepared them last night so that they’d be ready for today. I’m going to make a creamy basil sauce to serve them in, some crusty bread, and maybe some oven roasted asparagus. The only thing I need for tonight’s dinner is some garlic. While I’m at the store, I will likely pick up a basket of strawberries to juice for the kefir that I just finished, and the kids and I will have that with breakfast tomorrow. I will probably make the bread for dinner tonight, as I’m dying to try baking bread with the spelt flour I found at the store (finally!).
I have to admit, that there is something about Whole Foods that is incredibly intoxicating to me. Its difficult to have self control when shopping! I want almost everything I find, but I have to remind myself that we can have the “fun stuff”, just not all in one night. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s dinner, when I’m fixing another “wine and cheese” type tray. This time, I’m going to buy those fabulous looking fresh mozzarella mini balls, and the pomegranite wine that catches my eye every time I walk in there.
Another unexpected bonus: When your food costs more, you’re less likely to eat too much. LOL…
September 29th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Mmm sounds yummy. I keep intending to make pasta - must get around to actually doing it some time.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:05 am
I just ran across your blog searching for other Nourishing Traditions foodies…I have to agree with your last statement…
“Another unexpected bonus: When your food costs more, you’re less likely to eat too much. LOL…”
We were making green beans last night and I got out the butter (raw, homemade and 2x the price of buying it at the store) DH said to put about a 1/4 cup in there and I was like SURE we need THAT much? I put 2tbs in and it was just fine!