Yay, a fresh month for a fresh start on the food budget!
It has been an interesting week since our cooktop decided to spontaneously explode while I was boiling some water last Friday. While I have been able to get a service person out to look at it, he had no idea what was wrong, and has decided to replace the burner in question. Of course this means ordering parts that could take weeks, and no idea when we may have an operational cooktop again. I would not recommend Dacor appliances to anyone! We have been really unhappy with the Dacor fridge and dishwasher from the start (very poor layouts in both), and now, I am not really thrilled with the combustible cooktop!
In actual food budget news, here is where I netted out:
Trader Joes: $29.33
Whole Foods: $57.90
Total: $87.23
Whole foods had organic grapes on sale for $1.99 a pound. I couldn’t resist! Otherwise, just some simple staples this week – lots of fruits, nut butters, seitan, tempeh, chia seeds, and importantly, shredded coconut for the coconut energy bites.
Menu for the week:
The broken cooktop has kind of put a damper on my meal creation, but I have been able to cobble together a few things by using the hotplate. It’s time to get creative for next week!
- Seitan meatballs and spaghetti
- Veggie burgers with oven roasted potatoes
- Steamed broccoli with rice and hummus with sweet potatoes
- Dinner out twice (with a coupon!)
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Last year, my husband cracked our ceramic glass stovetop. For a couple of days, we cooked at my ILs thinking we would be able to find a replacement stovetop, but when we had no luck, I had to avoid the one affected burner while we saved up for a whole new stove. So stressful! At some point, the oven was going, too, so it was probably for the best, but definitely inconvenient.
It’s funny how much you want to use a cooktop when you can’t! Sadly these are only 6-month old appliances, so I am more than a little disappointed. I had heard such good things about Dacor, but have not been impressed.
Thank goodness for little electric hotplates. We are sort of living like college students for a while, which is a bit of an adventure, I guess! And also thankfully we don’t have kids – I can only imagine how your stove outage impacted feeding a family!
what a total bummer!! i don’t know what i would do with myself if our cooktop went out. we seriously use it 4 times a day.
can you get an electric skillet of some sort? that might help take some of the burden off the electric burner…
Yeah, I am trying to make lemonade from lemons with the little electric burner, but you don’t really realize how much you need a cooktop until you don’t have it! We looked at electric skillets when we bought the burner but they were somewhat expensive (okay, not really, but $40 we didn’t want to spend), and we didn’t know at the time that this would drag on for days and potentially weeks! Luckily the oven is separate and in the wall, so I’m not totally out of commission!