Grass popsicle

So I got the $2.50 popsicle.  I chose a rice one.  Yes, a rice popsicle.  It tasted like rice pudding and was delicious.  However, a third of the way into it, I handed it to my son, who was very mad he didn’t get his own to hold, but who would get a 19-month-old his own $2.50 popsicle?!  He would just drop it, right?  Well, as it turned out, not so much drop it as throw it.  Yes, throw it.  When I gave him mine to hold, he shrieked and threw it in the grass.  My rice popsicle.  The one I just paid about one-eighth of my whole week’s food budget for.  So you know what I did?  Yep.  I picked that thing up out of the grass, picked the grass off and ate it. 

I couldn’t throw $2.50 in the trash like that.  (Those who know me, though, know that I would have probably done this regardless of my weekly budget!) 

Tonight, we had pasta with braised broccoli and olives.  At first I thought there’s no way I can eat anything with olives in it because those are so expensive.  But it was just two tablespoons of olives in 10 servings, and after some calculations, each serving turned out to cost $0.74 total.  I did not, however, get to indulge as I would have liked in the massive pile of pecorino Romano cheese that you see in the picture below . . .

So the day (including the popsicle!) ended up at $3.99.  I have $4.18 left for the last day tomorrow, and at this point, I am feeling home free.