Grocery Haul for Two and Lemon Butter Salmon

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It was good to get back to our normal grocery haul for the two of us. The first stop was Winco..



We still have a few oranges left from buying a large box at Costco a few weeks ago so we only needed to pick up some apples and bananas for fruit. I bought a jug of vinegar for making some more pickled veggies, mustard was on sale so I picked up a couple bottles for the pantry as well as 2 cans of evaporated milk. I like to have the milk on hand for cooking if I run out of milk in the fridge. I picked up 2 boxes of nut milk. One was almond coconut milk and the other was cashew milk. I had never tried cashew milk and I can say it's delicious! There is a bag of bbq chips, cookies and bagels too.



For veggies I bought romaine hearts, a small container of spring lettuce & spinach mix and a sesame Asian salad mix that was really good. I also picked up 3 ears of corn on the cob, tomatoes, mushrooms and cucumbers, and sweet mini peppers. For my dairy I have milk, half n half, a small container of plain greek yogurt, and while it's not dairy I also have a bottle of french vanilla creamer. I had used up all my hamburger for making lasagna a few weeks back so I got 3#'s which I divided up and it's in the freezer.



The hamburger was marked down because it was at it's date so I only paid $5.61 for my 3#'s.. a good deal!

The total for my Winco haul was: $49



Next stop was Costco..


I bought a bag of boneless, skinless chicken thighs and paid just under $2.00 a pound for it. I picked up a 3 pack of lunch meat, a bag of flour tortillas, cheese slices, ranch dressing and another box of 2.4oz hummus cups (20 in the box for $6.50).

The total for Costco this week was $50.00

Grand total for this weeks groceries was: $99
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Lemon Butter Salmon

We enjoyed this salmon quite a bit. I buy my salmon from Costco. I always get the wild caught salmon as I think it has a lot more flavor than the farm raised. It comes with several pieces of salmon that are individually wrapped making it easy to only use what you need. For this recipe I pulled out 2 salmon steaks.. 

 


I made a lemon butter sauce first thing and then set it aside..



Lemon Butter Sauce

1T butter, melted
½ t granulated garlic (could use garlic powder or fresh garlic)
1T lemon juice
¼ cup chicken broth
1t brown sugar

Whisk all ingredients together

 

Then I sliced a small sweet onion..



Heated up my skillet to medium high with a little avocado oil and added the onions and let them soften up a little...





Then I put my salmon steaks in the pan..




I let them cook for about 5 to 7 minutes until they were done, removed them from the pan and set them aside..




In the frying pan with the onions I poured in my lemon butter sauce and whisked it around and let it boil for a minute or so..




I spooned the finished sauce and onions over my salmon...




I served it with a green salad and macaroni salad..





That's all for this week's Grocery Haul!

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