It Was a Busy Wednesday - Cooking and Computer Work
I didn't get around to doing anything except grocery shopping and working in the house yesterday, so no keyboard shopping or other errands. But I did get a lot done. In the USA, it's generally best to shop for groceries on Wednesdays. Why? Because most grocery stores have their next sales beginning on Thursday, but the computer work to put everything new on sale usually already applies on a Wednesday. So, in essence, you can take advantage of overlapping bargain days.
BOGO, when it's on a product that I actually can use, is a wonderful thing. I've been able to take full advantage of this one with chicken at the start and again at the end of the sale. I ended up saving more than $30 on chicken between the two days.
I took full advantage of that over the past two weeks. I have a particular brand of chicken pieces that I prefer to buy. I like their quality and the taste better than other brands. They were on BOGO (Buy One, Get One for free) over this past week. I jumped in early last Wednesday, buying two for one, and picked up another two yesterday on the final day of the sale.
My homemade Bar-BQ sauce is very tomato based, and I like it. I find it quite taste. It uses coconut aminos for the sweetener, along with tomato sauce and tomato paste and other seasonings.
So, I cooked a double-portion of chicken yesterday. I knew I wanted to make this second batch with Bar-B-Q sauce, but I was running low on mine (I make my own sauce that fits into my food plan). So yesterday's cook consisted of (1) make new Worcestershire sauce for myself, (2) make new Bar-B-Q sauce for myself using the new Worcestershire sauce, (3) bake one batch of chicken with the new sauce, pack separately and put into the freezer, and (4) bake the usual seasoning-coated chicken for dinner.
I bake three chicken breasts every Wednesday night for dinner. That makes enough for two meals for DH and myself. It's one of my favorite meals of the week, and it's so easy to do.
With all of that, I also had the time to arrange a separate folder for DH marked "AFS Photos to Send" with his product photos that he's been riding me on. So that's one more thing done. But, I'm stressed, and I can tell. I had some "free time" yesterday, so had a bowl of chili for lunch, and then settled down for a bit and munched - something I know I shouldn't do. My favorite munchie is nuts - nutritious, but not in the portion size of what I eat. Nuts are NOT a good food for me, they're a "trigger" food. I'm up a pound today, and I know that's exactly why. So, I'm off to the pool to get that pound back off. Have an excellent day and I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini and חיים למען ישראל.