My Simple Wyoming Life

So not everything goes to plan I have been unfortunately suffering from anxiety attacks since my last post and it has done a number on me mentally,emotionall and physically. If you suffer from anxiety or depression etc please get support whether it’s family,friends of even medical professionals (if you can) do not wait to reach out for help!

Now with that said we were supposed to go shopping this past Friday however all of us were not feeling well for one reason or another so we did not go on Friday. We did go on Saturday though, sadly I was not able to get a majority of the things I wanted they were either sold out/ not delivery or the stuff was just not prepared (I had a offer for our safeway for a “free” roasted whole chicken and no chickens). I will be honest this week there was not much of anything that we really wanted or needed this week, which is suprising as up until this weeks sale papers there was more often than not something we wanted or really needed.

So I did only a small amount of winter prepping this week as again there was not much on offer. Safeway are currently doing a mix and match 10 for $10 on some products though including their own store brand of 1lb bags of select types of beans like kidney,black bean, pinto garbanzo (chickpea), small white, navy and they have 1lb bags of brown rice in that offer as well. Pasta roni, rice a roni, their own store brand canned beans to name a few items. I did spend some time trying to find kosher parve plant based dairy products I did find a cheddar cheese which I think tastes pretty darn good if I’m telling the truth. I did try to see if there were any lunch meats that were kosher certified had no luck whatsoever and lets face it unless I have a kosher meat shop I am not going to easily find kosher beef,chicken, turkey etc. I did get some silk organic unsweetened soy milk and while I don’t mind the kind of beany/nutty taste of it I don’t like the consistancy of it. It reminds me of the consistancy of some liquid medicine I had as a kid and ya just thinking of if makes me gag.

Safeway also has a 4 for $19.99 deal on select meats I really wanted some cubed steak and they had it so got two packs of those (around rought 2lbs in weight in total) some top round steaks (close to 1lb, and the last pack I had was so darn good and tender its not even funny!) and some I think cross rib cut? I hate those on Sunday and they were tough so maybe I just did not cook it in the best way for that cut.

Ridleys had 25lbs of sugar for $13.99 with digital coupon thankfully we are 2 seperate houses techically so that works in our favor. they had some canned veggies on digital coupon for $0.79 I think those are not limited as I bought 4 cans of white sweet corn and got them for $0.79 each. Ridleys also did not have any kosher lunch meat did not expect them too but hey you never know! They did not have most of the fresh produce we were after which sucked as I really wanted some mini sweet peppers. they did have a load of cilantro for $0.68 per bunch and I think I left with like 4 bunches that came in to almost 2lbs in weight I did blend and freeze the cilantro as I do use cilantro in a few dishes I make.

We finally make it to walmart after safeway and ridleys did not have a lot of the stuff we were hoping for oh well maybe next time. But I did find some bits on clearance I found a nice almost twin size fluffy blanket for my son who loves soft fuzzy things for only $4.50 (it was also about this time he was done with shopping and he spent the rest of the time cuddling his new blanket), I found some really cute trollz dolls they had 2 little mini packs one of poppy and one of branch? They were only $5 so I thought Hanukkah gifts so far I have a few bits for my daughter for Hanukkah from just the walmart clearance section! I did find a parve vegan butter it taste good although it is a bit grainy but once you put it on something hot/warm and it melts your not going to be able to tell. I got some more school supplies for my daughter! I also got some hole punchers and one binder that holds between 300-375 sheets of paper for myself and I am using that for printed out recipes that I have found or come across in ebooks,books etc. Again no kosher lunch meat and again was not expecting to find any although it would have been nice but I will most likely have to find a online kosher butcher/deli that ships what I am looking for to me.

We are going to try and get back to ridleys and safeway to hopefully get anything we could not get the first time around however I believe our ridleys sale changes on Tuesdays while safeway changes on Wednesdays. So we will have one new sale and one old sale going on when we go back to Laramie on Tuesday which this post should be out on Tuesday morning and I might do a short blog post update if there was anything good at any of the places we go to.

If you have read this far thank you for reading my randomness. I am still trying to get the hang of blogging specially with this new platform so please bear with me and thank you again for reading I hope you have a blessed day/week/month and nothing but good things come your way! Until next time!