I posted a McLinky this morning so that if you’d like to share a final post about your progress with the $75 Grocery Spending Challenge, you can go ahead and link directly to your post there. I’m going to give myself a couple more days with the challenge because of our weekend, and will post a final update on Friday.

It’s supposed to freeze around here tonight, so this afternoon we went through the garden and picked anything that looked useful. We got a huge haul.

• 1/2 bushel of red/orange tomatoes
• 2 bushels green tomatoes (see what we do with them here!)
• 3 watermelons
• 2 cantaloupes
• a dozen beets (and their greens– useful for stir fries)
• 7 cabbages– some red, some green
• 4 dozen or so green and hot peppers
• 10 cucumbers (lots more in the garden are too big for us, and will go to cows)
• 6 pumpkins

MEALS TODAY

Breakfast: Yogurt, apples, OJ, and toast

Lunch:  Leftover pasta with chicken, cabbage salad with tomatoes, pumpkin pie

Dinner: Lasagna ( no cottage cheese– ah well– and pepperoni along with a bit of ground beef- we’ll see how that all turns out), spinach salad, watermelon