I love it when Mal cooks dinner for us! 
Usually, we cook together, but sometimes we alternate taking on the whole meal ourselves, so the other person can relax. It’s the best when you can sit on your behind and chill while dinner cooks. The only work you have to do is lift your fork and chew! 
Mal made a wonderful pad thai meal for us… with a little help from Trader Joe’s. TJ’s sells a box of Pad Thai Noodles and Sauce that takes just 15 minutes to prepare. The only ingredients that you need to add yourself are olive oil, an egg, and your choice of veggies. The box includes rice noodles and some special sauce.
Mal got to test our new wok tonight!
To the pad thai, Mal added sliced red peppers and snap peas to give the meal some addition nutrients and pizazz!
As always, the pad thai turned out excellent! (We’re big fans of this easy-to-prepare meal!) You would have never guessed that it was from a box!
Weekly Grocery Shopping
Where: Stop & Shop
When: Sunday, January 19
Budget: $9 below! (Wahoo!)
The List:
- BBQ chicken breast (deli)
- Sliced cheddar cheese (deli)
- Tortillas
- Bagels
- Apples
- Bananas
- Blood oranges (3 for $2)
- Grape tomatoes
- Spinach
- Red pepper
- Cucumber
- Snap peas
- Red grapes
- KIND bars (2 for $3)
- Hand soap
- Vanilla extract
- Beans (2 cans)
- Cooking spray (2)
- Frozen waffles (2)
- Chobani Greek yogurt ($1 each)
- Quaker granola bars
- Kettle chips
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Yummy, the pad thai looks great!
Just wanted to wish you the best of luck tomorrow!
Yum, that Pad Thai looks great! I love simple meals like that! Way to stay under budget on groceries.
Mmmmm…pad thai. Now I have a hankerin’ for Thai food!
GOOD LUCK TOMORROW!!!!
That pad thai looks fantastic!
Delish!!
Best of luck tomorrow!!
**Don’t eat any PB Cookie Larabars or Jamfrakas bars – they were recalled!!:
https://www.larabar.com/secure/recall/LARABAR_JAMFRAKAS_FAQ.pdf
Looks amazing! do you belong to costco? because they have a pad thai there that is SO good! it tastes like its from a restaurant. You cook it for 8 minutes and its done! SOO GOOD!!!!
Yum yum, must be nice to have a good meal cooked just for you!! good luck tomorrow!
Awesome groceries!
I wish I had seen this post before I went to Trader Joe’s today, I want that pad Thai now!
Your pad thai looks amazing!
Good luck tomorrow!
That looks so good! I wish we had a TJs close to us! I will have to look for it next time Josh and I go to visit his parents. Glad you got a lot of your to-do’s done!!
i have to teach my husband how to cook dinner for me! he hasn’t learned where the kitchen is yet so it might take some time… the pad thai looks delish!
Yum! I love pad thai and that one looks really good.
i love pad thai! its pretty easy to make w/o relying on a box too – just grab the noodles, make up a sauce, and add all the extras
I looove tofu in mine!
Oooh! The paid thai looks great!
I looove pad thai! I will definitely have to give that a try! I love finding good prepared stuff and then adding all of your own stuff to it! yum!
when i’ve tried to make pad thai from scratch, it has never matched up to restaurant pad thai. maybe i’ve been using a bad recipe … or maybe i need to try this tj’s box!
*Alert: CLIF Bar (Luna, Mojo) has recalled many products, as well! Too bad I just ate one of these literally 20 minutes ago!!
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/clif-bar–company-announces/story.aspx?guid=%7BED2D113B-5937-4F48-A693-37BC0FA0A5D0%7D&dist=msr_2
Ahh, I’m not sure that above link still works:
http://www.clifbar.com/voluntary-recall/
Good luck tomorrow Tina! You’ll be FANTASTIC!!
Sooo sweet of Mal to prepare dinner… my fiance used to grill dinner a couple of times a week, but alas there is no room for the grill at our new apartment! I’ll have to check out the pad thai – looks yummy.
What a great dinner! Those tortillas are seriously.so.good! I’m obsessed with them right now
BEST OF LUCK TOMORROW!
Your dinner looks great! I need to pick up a box of that when at TJs next.
YUMMY!!!!!
Way to go on the budget for this week too!
Wishing you the best tomorrow girl
What a fun fast meal, I wish we had a Trader Joes around here so badly.
And congrats on staying under budget.
The Pad Thai looks delicious! How are the nutrition facts on that? I may have to go buy some!
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Yummy pad thai! Looks great! Wonderful groceries too!
ohhh…that looks really really good! i need to try that!
Yum!
That Pad Thai looks and sounds delicious. I love stuff like that. Too bad we don’t have any Trader Joe’s around here.
Now I want Chobani AND Pad thai
Sounds like a great dinner!
The pad thai looks great. Good job Mel!
The chobani is still $1 – this is like 3 weeks in a ro. Also, I got those chips, too.Are yours BBQ?
That Pad Thai looks awesome. Unfortunately, I don’t have a TJ’s here!
When does Trader J’s not come through!? Glad to be back and catch up on your blog!
Product recall on my favorite flavor of larabars? Lame!
The pad and the haul both look awesome. I’ll keep that TJ’s box kind in mind for the future (though my homemade is pretty easy too…)
My guy never cooks, but trust me, its best that way. Glad you got to put your feet up!
I really enjoy your blog! Do you mind letting us know what your weekly budget is for groceries? I can’t seem to stick to mine!
@HangryPants: I don’t think Mal bought BBQ this week. I think they were just salted.
@Jessica: We try to stay under $75 for both Mal and I.
Its a good thing you didn’t get any PB Larabars –
Check out their new RECALL due to salmonella!
https://www.larabar.com/
Yum that pad thai looks amazingly good!
wait…you actually spent $9 on all of that??? how how how???
Kate, I think she spent $9 below what she was planning on!
Tina, that’s so cool that Mal cooked for you guys, and that mix looks awesome. I tried making pad thai from scratch once and it tasted nice but not as good as the stuff in a restaurant. This could be a good way to satisfy a pad thai craving without blowing my diet. I’m adding it to our grocery list!!
ha. gotcha. thanks elina!
Were all those groceries REALLY only $9??? can’t be true!