Thrifty Thursday Roundup

This week I…

• Food prepped. I’ve been wanting to keep things really easy and I don’t mind eating the same things on repeat, so I made another batch of sweet potato and pinto bean filling to eat with corn tortillas. I actually eat this for breakfast with a green vegetable (this week collard greens I’ve been stashing in the freezer), and I eat oatmeal for lunch. For me, eating some veggies first thing in the morning feels like the best start to the day, and then lunch feels like dessert which is also fun. People look at me like I’m a goddamn pervert when they see me doing this, though, which is wild. Anyway, I also made big batches of blueberry pancakes and quesadillas (potato, bell pepper, black bean and cheese) to keep in the freezer for the kid.

• Made another tamale pie to use up ingredients. When I made the first one last week I was left with half of several ingredients – cheese, sour cream, buttermilk and frozen corn. So I made another one this week to use everything up, and since we already had the dried beans and the canned tomatoes I hardly had to buy a thing and we ate it for three days.

• Moved our upcoming flight slightly later in the day (closer to the flight time we initially booked before they started adjusting it to be earlier and earlier in the day) and received $105 toward a future booking for our trouble. I remember when airlines offered hundreds for switching from an overbooked flight. So when I saw they were offering $35/person I laughed at how low the amount was, muttered “absolutely not” to myself, and then happened to see we could get a better flight out of it. That’s the real prize. Now we’ll have a more relaxed morning and we won’t need to wait around until we can check into our accommodations.
• I went somewhere free instead of the bakery for the kid’s preschool drop-off day this week. Mostly I did this because I’m going out for cake tomorrow, but saving a few dollars is nice too.

• Thrifted a sun hat and a new warm-weather sleep sack for my kid instead of new. The sun hat is a bit too big, so I’m going to try to sew a chin strap onto it so it doesn’t blow into the ocean next week. The real money-saver would be forcing him to learn to use a blanket instead of buying a new sleep sack, but here we are.