The winner of the LC Foods Thanksgiving Package Giveaway is...

ALEX'S PRIZE PACKAGE

Alex Ott from Vienna, Virginia!!! Congratulations, Alex.

Thanks everyone for participating in this fun event. LC Foods is planning another giveaway for Christmas in a couple of weeks so be sure to watch for the announcement here and on my website.

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LC Foods Thanksgiving Package Giveaway!

LC Foods Thanksgiving Package Giveaway!

The LC Foods company is giving visitors to my website and blog a chance to win a 12-Piece Low Carb Thanksgiving Kit valued at $87. 

The kit includes:

• Low Carb Bread Stuffing Mix
• Low Carb Mashed Potato Mix
• Low Carb Gravy (Thick n Saucy)
• Low Carb Cranberry Sauce Mix
• Low Carb Fresh Baked Dinner Rolls
• Low Carb Pie Crust Mix
• Low Carb Sweet White
• Low Carb Sweet Brown
• Low Carb Coconut Cream
• Low Carb Pumpkin Bread Mix
• Low Carb Vanilla Frosting Mix

To enter the contest, click one of the entry buttons on the banner to the right of this post. You can enter by either logging in with Facebook or by email. You can enter up to four times by doing any or all of the following:

• Visit the LC Foods Facebook Page
• Subscribe to the  LC Foods Newsletter
• Visit the Updates page of my website
• Visit my "In the Kitchen with Linda" blog and leave a comment in my post about the giveaway

Subscribing to the LC Foods Newsletter will actually give you two entries for a total of five. The contest runs from noon (EST) Thursday, November 13th through noon on Wednesday, November 19th so enter soon! 

THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED 

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Shopping List - Week of November 9 - November 15

TUESDAY'S SHOPPING

KROGER (Tuesday):
2 Ice cream @ 2.98 each (minus 10% discount/.40 coupon) - $4.96
Peanut butter @ 1.79 (FREE coupon) - $.00
1 can tuna @ .69 (minus 10% discount) - $.62
1 can great northern beans @ .69 (minus 10% discount) - $.62
Parmesan cheese @ 2.97 (minus 10% discount) - $2.67
2 pounds dark brown sugar @ 1.50 (minus 10% discount) - $1.35

TOTAL - $10.22

WALMART (Tuesday):
4 ounce can green chiles - $.58
Distilled water - $.88 (for ironing)

TOTAL - $1.46

ALDI (Tuesday):
Flour - $1.19
Sugar - $1.39
Decaf coffee - $2.69
Coffee $2.79
1 pound baby carrots - $.69
5 8-ounce packages cheese @ 1.89 each - $9.45
1 pound butter - $2.29
1 pound jalapeños - $.70
Pork rinds - $.99
Brown & serve rolls - $.59
Bread - $.99
2 dozen eggs @ .99 each - $1.98

TOTAL - $25.74

GRAND TOTAL FOR THE WEEK - $37.42

It's supposed to turn really cold here on Thursday and there were some things on sale at Aldi that I wanted to get before their sale from last week ended. So, I went ahead and did all of my shopping for the week today. I got a few more items for the Thanksgiving dinner and also some ingredients for Christmas baking. I will make a few Christmas cookies for my husband and son.

The strawberry ice cream and the rolls are for Thanksgiving. Aldi had the rolls marked down to 59-cents. Since they're about to expire, I stuck them in the freezer for now. I will be making a strawberry jello salad for the guys which calls for strawberry jello, strawberry ice cream, frozen strawberries and Cool Whip. Too bad that it's not low carb because it's delicious.

The only things left to buy for Thanksgiving dinner are the celery, a few potatoes, 2 pounds of mushrooms and maybe a frozen fruit pie for the guys. I will also make a homemade high carb pumpkin pie for them so perhaps they don't need a second pie. I'll wait and see if Food Town has a good sale on pies just before Thanksgiving. They sometimes have them super cheap. If not, the guys will have to be content with pumpkin pie.

I bought the great northern beans and the carrots to make a pot of White Bean Soup this coming weekend. I'm not sure yet if I will eat any of it but the carbs aren't too terribly high for a small serving. The recipe is an old family favorite. I was going to buy two carrots but Aldi had a pound of the baby ones for only 68-cents. I figured that I'd spend at least that much for two large carrots by the pound and Jerry can snack on the leftover carrots.

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Menu for the week of 11/9 thru 11/15

TUNA QUICHE WITH DILL

 
SUNDAY:
Leftover Spaghetti (not low carb)
Leftover Salsa Sausage Quiche

MONDAY:
Leftovers
Burgers

TUESDAY:
Mushroom, Chicken and Sausage Casserole

WEDNESDAY:
Mushroom Chicken and Sausage Casserole

THURSDAY:
Tuna Quiche with Dill
Chile Relleno Casserole

FRIDAY:
Leftovers
Quick Asian Pork Stir-Fry

SATURDAY:
Leftovers

MUSHROOM CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE CASSEROLE

I'm making the spaghetti, with real pasta, at Jerry's request. I won't eat it. I froze some of the Mushroom Chicken and Sausage Casserole the last time I made it so I just need to defrost it to serve on Tuesday.

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Shopping List - Week of November 2 - November 8

TUESDAY'S SHOPPING

HEB (Tuesday):
Quart heavy cream - $3.56
Nonstick skillet - $9.97

TOTAL - $14.35

FOOD TOWN (Tuesday):
Ground beef @ 1.49lb (marked down) - $7.69
Boneless chicken thighs @ 1.88lb - $5.62
Onions @ .39lb - $1.00
12 pack diet soda - $2.99

TOTAL - $17.52

KROGER (Thursday):
Ice cream @ 2.98 (minus 10% discount) - $2.68
Frozen corn @ 1.00 (minus 10% discount) - $.90
12 pack diet soda @ 2.39 (minus 10% discount) - $2.15
2 liter soda @ .89 (minus 10% discount) - $.80
American cheese @ 3.88 (minus 10% discount) - $3.49
3 16-ounce shredded cheese @ 3.79 each (minus 10% discount) - $10.23
Evaporated milk @ .88 (minus 10% discount) - $.79
2 packages gelatin @ .37 each (minus 10% discount) - $.66
Stuffing - $2.50
Whipped topping @ 1.00 (minus 10% discount) - $.90
Frozen corn @ 1.00 (minus 10% discount) - $.90
Pork sausage @ 3.49 (minus 10% discount) - $2.99
15 pound turkey @ .59lb (minus $2.00 coupon) - $6.86

TOTAL - $35.34

WALMART (Thursday):
Liquid soap - $3.97
Night light bulbs - $1.97
Hairspray - $1.24
Canned whole chiles - $1.25
Maybelline cover stick @ 4.94 (minus $2.00 coupon) - $2.94

TOTAL - $11.88

SPROUTS (Thursday):
Apples @ .88lb - $3.75

TOTAL - $3.75

GRAND TOTAL FOR THE WEEK - $82.84 (over budget by $22.84 or $12.09 if I don't count the skillet)

THURSDAY'S SHOPPING

I decided to go ahead and get my Thanksgiving turkey today at Kroger while they were on sale and while they had a some smallish turkeys. To get the sale price, I had to buy at least a 15-pound turkey and spend at least $20 on other items so I also picked up most of the other non-perishable foods for Thanksgiving today. So, I was over budget by quite a bit but then I won't have much to buy the week of Thanksgiving other than some potatoes, mushrooms, celery and a few other items.

Sprouts was featuring all kinds of apples this week for 88-cents pound so I bought a few different kinds for my husband to snack on and also enough mackintosh apples to make a pie for him. He has a thing about pie and he was feeling deprived on his "low carb" diet. I made the pie this afternoon and it turned out great. I took a photo of it at Jerry's request. I think he's going to post it on Facebook or something. Here's a photo of the pie but Blogger is changing the color and making it look very dark and burnt. It doesn't look at all like that.

DUTCH APPLE PIE (NOT LOW CARB)

 
Just this morning I read a post on Low Carb Friends about some sugar free barbecue sauce at Walmart so I looked to see if my store had it. They do. The brand is "G Hughes Smokehouse Sugar Free BBQ Sauce". My store had the hickory flavor for $3.28. HERE is the link to the website. The label on their site is different than the bottles at Walmart, which look like this:

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Tuesday's Shopping

 
I couldn't resist the meat prices this morning so I got one package of boneless chicken thighs to replace the one that I took out of the freezer this morning. I also bought about six pounds of marked down ground beef and browned it before freezing it in three containers. I kept a fourth container in the fridge to use now.

I needed a new medium-size nonstick skillet and got the one in the photo for just under $10 at HEB. You'll probably tell me that I shouldn't count that into my grocery budget but we'll see how well I do with the rest of my shopping on Thursday. I just might be able to squeeze it in.
 

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New Recipe: Sloppy Dog Casserole

SLOPPY DOG CASSEROLE

Now that I've got my computer back from the repair shop, I was finally able to post the Sloppy Dog Casserole recipe on my main site HERE. It tastes a lot better than it looks.

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