spacegrandma | Recent Entries

For once, June is not the one who is elsewhere! (I'm not saying this is a part one, but it feels like a part one.)

2424 words

( 'Why are you calling me?' June demanded into the phone. 'You never call me.' )

This is tentatively, nebulously set sometime after the Nogitsune but before the Wild Hunt. Here, a thing in which I use fairies-are-trying-to-steal-June's-magic as a plot device!

:)

3894 words

( June jerks awake all at once. )

Y'all, the first fanfic I write in three years and half of them are my characters.

Here's a series I'm doing to explore June's character in different situations without messing with the novel too much. Let's start with The Raven Cycle.

2912 words

( June wakes up in a forest and her first thought is, Fuck me, I’ve landed in Fairy Land. )

* Qui ambulat inter se huc illuc. -- I put it into Google Translate as "She who walks in between here and there," and it spit this out at me. When I translated it back for funsies, it translated it back as, "He that goeth about hither and thither among themselves." I thought, hey, close enough, why the heck not?

In last week's post, I mentioned having a well-stocked pantry and after being asked how I keep my pantry stocked, I thought I'd share my process - stockpiling. That word is kind of scary when you picture extreme couponing and shelves packed with tons of products, but I'm not about that life. Here's what I do when I'm stockpiling (which is not all the time!): I put $5 of my grocery bill toward buying as many of one staple product I need per grocery trip.

The first step of this process is brainstorming a list of staples you use most often in your house. For me, my list looks something like this: flour, sugar, baking soda and powder, yeast, vegetable oil, cream of mushroom soup, rice, beans, canned veggies and fruit, canned tomatoes, salt, butter, pasta, spices, rice and pasta mixes.

It does take a bit of time to grow the stockpile, but the impact on my overall grocery budget was minimal. I try to shop sales when I'm stockpiling as well - I know that around Christmas, all the baking supplies are on sale so I try to stockpile baking supplies around that time. Every so often my grocery store will do a sale on beans, so I'll stock up on dried and canned beans then. Sometimes my store does a buy one, get one free sale on spices, so I'll stock up then on spices.

You also don't have to be stockpiling all the time. I tend to have a couple month's worth of stable food on me at a time and I - this is really important -- use it up before I stockpile more. You also have to be on top of expiry dates; when you bring home new food, place it toward the back and cycle up your items that need to be used soon.

For example, on one trip I'd buy as many bags of flour as I could for $5. The next trip, I'd buy as many cans of diced tomatoes as I could for $5, etc.

Next week's meal plan includes a meal prep recipe! I'll make this recipe on the weekend to use in a recipe during the week and freeze the rest of it in serving portions for when I don't want to cook.

Monday: Cheesy Baked Potato Soup, Arugula Salad
Tuesday: Loaded Mac & Cheese Muffins, Wedge Salad
Wednesday: Kale & Mushroom Alfredo Ravioli, Tomato & Red Onion Salad
Thursday: Easy Taco Bowls
Friday: Pizza Night ($5 Cheese Pizza from Papa Murphy's)

Meal Prep Recipe: Vegetarian Chili

( next week's meal plan - 10/29-11/4 )

Hello!

I wanted to preface what I'm tentatively calling Next Week's Meal Plan with a minor introduction so you can get a feel for what this is and how I actually meal plan. Have a bulleted list of factors that inform how I meal plan:

I'm on a vegetarian diet, but very occasionally I do eat shellfish. You can add meat to literally anything; live your best life.
I have the weirdest food allergies known to man and vegetarians, which means there are broad swathes of foods that will not appear in my meal plans: no latex-allergen foods (bananas, avocados, etc.), no walnuts, a bunch of fruits that I'm unwilling to name because it makes me sad, and many, many, many more.
I also have food texture issues and aversions, so you won't find anything with tofu, tempeh, seitan, etc. The only corn that will be featured is in corn tortillas and corn tortilla chips. I don't enjoy things that come in loaves, unless it's bread. There's more, but I'm drawing a blank.
My grocery budget per month is $180. I'm feeding two people (one who is not vegetarian) including myself. I tend to use full sized recipes and then freeze two-thirds if at all possible so that I have meals for when I don't feel like cooking.
I shop sales and use coupons. I have a well-stocked pantry, which also lessens my grocery bill.
I don't cook everyday. We usually have at least a pizza day during the week, because my local Papa Murphy's has a $5 cheese pizza deal every day of the week and a $10 large pizza deal on Tuesdays. Sometimes we eat out just because I don't want to cook. Eating out is covered under my budget.
I plan just for the weekdays, because I generally have enough leftovers to cover the weekends.
Lunches are nearly always leftovers. Breakfast is usually yogurt, snacks are yogurt and applesauce.

For transparency's sake, I do eat a lot of yogurt and unsweetened applesauce. These will be included in my grocery lists that I post; feel free to knock those right on out. Also included on the list are any items I get for my kiddo. I used to do grocery shopping by month, but I'm switching things up these days and generally try spend about $35-50 per week on groceries during the month. It just depends, y'all.

If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Monday: Greek Tortellini Salad
Tuesday: Grilled Cheddar-Mushroom Burgers, Sweet Potato Tater Tots
Wednesday: White Bean & Farro Salad, Sweet & Spicy Baked Peaches
Thursday: Black Bean Taco Mac, Arugula Salad with Honey-Lime Dressing
Friday: Pizza Night ($5.00 Cheese Pizza from Papa Murphy's)

( next week's meal plan - 10/22-10/28 )

Name/Nickname/Pronouns: Juniper Sage Larue, June, she/her
Magical Being Type: hereditary witch
Age: 38
Gender/Sexuality: Female, Pansexual, Polyamorous

( ... )

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

there has been a war here

Recent Entries

june elsewhere // mcu

june elsewhere // teen wolf

june elsewhere // the raven cycle

next week's meal plan + stockpiling

next week's meal plan + intro

Character Profile: June

Profile

January 2019

Syndicate

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags