Pennywise Challenge, Day 1 (Wednesday)

I went shopping earlier this week, including a trip to Portland. I won't waste my time and gas that way again...not a special trip. Only when it is a side trip on a drive I have to do anyway.

Keeping track: I set up a spreadsheet. I'll save to it to Google documents and make it public for you, if you want details or just to see how I'm doing it. Many items I will not calculate the cost daily--things like milk and butter and blocks of cheese, I have written down the cost of gallon, or a pound. I'm estimating how much of it I will use (so it shows in my running total as if I have used a week's supply already).

Is this obsessive or what?

Breakfast:
Hot chocolate. Milk; 2 scoops mint hot chocolate mix

Lunch:
3 scrambled eggs with cheese, salt, pepper

Dinner:

2 10-inch pizzas, one with tomato sauce, chicken Italian sausage, Mozarella cheese, some leftover olives, and one with roasted beets and leeks, sausage, cheese, grapeseed oil.

Rhubarb crumble with ice cream.

Total for week so far:
$81.00

Note that includes estimates items that I have on hand and expect to use during the coming week, including a lot of cheese, some of it expensive. I doubt if I will use it all--I might save some of it without opening it at all.

Recipes today:
Rhubarb Crumble
Beet Pizza (subsituted mozzarella cheese & leeks, added sausage)
Cornmeal Pizza Dough

Teenage Reaction: "It's Okay" to sausage pizza, rhubarb crumble. Ate two bites of beet pizza and handed it back to me. Ate non-local exception snacks (included in costs).

Local today:
Milk, butter, eggs, cheese, beets, leeks, sausage, grapeseed oil, rhubarb, ice cream

Exceptions today:
Yeast, sugar, baking powder, corn starch, salt, pepper, olive oil, cinnamon, coffee, half and half.