So, what did you eat this week?
I'm short on time today, but I know a lot of you love to share what you've had for dinner on the What I Spent, What We Ate posts.
So, even though I won't be able to type up a full post today, I at least wanted to put this up here for you guys.
(and Kristin, from Going Country, we expect to hear a report on how much elk you ate this week.;) )
The comment section is yours!
Monday: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn
Tuesday: pancake supper at church. All six grandkids went! They loved it.
Wednesday: takeout: hot wings for me, gyro pita for hubby
Thursday: Homemade vegetable beef soup with corn muffins, courtesy of my mom
Tonight: possibly Mexican
I am on Weight Watchers and this week was definitely a portion-control one! I managed to lose 3 pounds at weigh on Wednesday though.
Congratulations on your health goals! Do you have a recipe for your vegetable soup? I've tried several and have yet to find one that perfectly hits the spot.
We had food. Mostly good, some bummer, some eaten in great rapidity on our frantic way from place to place. No elk. lol. Love the plug for Kristin.
Haha! I love the elk reports, too!
Monday: Leftover pork chops with cabbage, sides of corn and rolls
Tuesday: Hot dogs and fried potatoes eaten in the van on the way to swim lessons. We spent too much time at the library after school.
Wednesday: Spaghetti, peas, and rolls
Thursday: Quesadillas
Friday: My oldest and my husband will be at a daddy/daughter dance that includes dinner, so I let my 3yo son pick what we eat. He chose a take and bake pizza from Aldi. Works for me!
I like your 3yo's style, Aldi pizzas are my favorite! They are large, cheap & tasty. Win-win-win!
Saturday: I made scalloped potatoes and ham and homemade applesauce
Sunday: A huge sub on loaf of Italian Bread that we cut into pieces with chips on the side
Monday: smoked sausage, steamed broccoli, macaroni and cheese
Tuesday: Grilled chicken tender pieces, corn, loaded mashed potatoes
Wednesday: BBQ pork chops/chicken, rice, green beans
Thursday: hamburgers and fries
Friday: tonight we are volunteering at my church to serve fish dinner. All the workers get to eat for free!
Proud of my family as we didn't eat out once this week! That's a huge accomplishment!
Definitely cannot remember what we ate last weekend for dinners. Although I'm pretty sure it may have involved eating out once.
Monday- Creamy beef and shells (dairy free), applesauce, broccoli
Tuesday- Planned on leftovers but there wasn't nearly enough. Hubby brought home Taco Tuesday tacos for us. The five of us can eat for $10.
Wednesday- baked chicken breasts, tater tots, broccoli
Thursday- I had to go out yesterday evening, but I made up hamburger patties for hubby to serve the kiddos. Plus whatever veggie side he gave them.
Friday- Pizza was the plan but I realized I'm out of cheese. I don't think I want to spend the money for takeout pizza, so we may just have soup and grilled cheese. We'll see what husband and kiddos are more in the mood for.
And now I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that I didn't cook any elk at all this week. Should I still bother listing what I DID cook? 🙂
Saturday: Homemade corn tortillas with either fried eggs or homemade refried beans, carrot and celery sticks with ranch dressing. I used to read about people--like the people who traditionally lived here in the New Mexico--who ate almost nothing but tortillas and beans on a daily basis and think, "How can you even do that?" Having now had the two foods in their homemade, purest form, I can see how that is possible. Kind of unbelievably good, actually.
Sunday: Potatoes with cheese sauce and bacon bits, frozen green beans, some microwaved mug cakes my eldest son wanted to make that are way more involved to make than they should be and not good enough for the time invested.
Monday: Stir-fry made with a couple of leftover hamburgers, some frozen stir-fry vegetables, and a sauce of soy sauce, vinegar, ginger, and peanut butter. Also scrambled eggs with cream cheese and bacon to bulk the meal up a bit.
Tuesday: Pulled pork that I cooked with some root beer that appeared in my house (do not recommend), mashed potatoes, green salad
Wednesday: Very rushed leftovers after a long day when we got home late.
Thursday: More leftovers. Not rushed this time, just needed to use some things up.
Tonight: Again with the homemade tortillas, refried beans and eggs. Meatless Fridays have begun.
I'll jump back into the elk fray next week . . .
Homemade beans and homemade tortillas def make up for lack of elk 🙂
Tomorrow the 29th is my birthday. I hope everyone has a good weekend. Remember, you waited four years for this extra day, so don't waste it. 🙂
Our menu this past week, what I can remember, in random order:
Kale, garlic and bacon saute plus some squash on the side, I think. I don't like kale, but this was young kale, so I could eat it. My husband ate one of his delivered meals.
Mardi Gras -- pancakes of course! I do use raw milk and an egg in my cassava/coconut pancakes, but so far, those two foods have not given me any problems any time I eat them.
Tacos, mine being AIP diet friendly
Stir fry for me, delivered meal for my husband
Burgers and something, maybe a salad
Chicken quesadillas and salad, mine being AIP-friendly again.
Tomorrow I'm not sure what we'll be doing for my birthday. I will spend the morning at a women's mini-retreat at church, so I will eat breakfast and lunch there. I'm hoping a sweet treat of some kind shows up before the day is over!
The happiest of birthdays to you!!!
A Leap Day baby! So you're, what? Twelve years old? 🙂 Happy Birthday!
So is she a pilot or a pirate?
I got that reference! 🙂 Pirates of Penzance was probably my first exposure to the concept of leap year.
Saturday: Mac and Cheese, fruit
Sunday: Mac and Cheese (him) and Caesar salad (me)
Monday: Mac and Cheese (him) and Caesar salad (me) Finally, the mac and cheese was done!
Tuesday: French toasted cheese sandwiches. The boarding high school I went to served French toast one day for breakfast and the next day they used the leftover French toast to make toasted cheese sandwiches. It is one of my favorite meals and I like it more than regular French toast. (Fr. toast made with no sugar or vanilla, just eggs and milk, or it is too sweet to become toasted cheese.)
Wednesday: Mushroom omelets and grilled asparagus.
Thursday: Tuna sandwiches (him) and sardine sandwiches (me).
Today: Gave up restaurants, including fast food places, for Lent. (Along with chocolate. That is a bigger sacrifice!). So, no filet of fish until after Easter. I am making homemade pizza.
I was raised on cheese toasties ... an english thing (I believe) but as I got older I started to throw deli turkey or chicken in with the cheese and I found that the meat was exactly what I needed to balance out the sweetness and make an awesome dinner!
p.s. Have you considered beans on toast (you could put an egg on there too) ... its a good no meat dinner option for friday's in lent.
We lived in Scotland for some time and, in fact, were married in Castle Douglas. I have never liked beans of any sort, so soon lost any inclination to order the English breakfast with baked beans. But I love egg islands, where you punch out a hole in the center of a slice of buttered bread, and then fry it on both sides. Yum.
We called the egg island toad in a hole when I was a kid! Loved them.
Someone else who likes sardines! I like so many things that others always say they hate. Sardines are one of them! Lol It's definitely something I inherited from my dad.
I am in week 2 of a rather intense 3 week training, so meals and have been catch-as-catch-can. I remember:
- sous vide pork chops
- smorgesborg (twice! I hang my head in shame)
- reverse sear steak
- Thai restaurant with my niece, who misses Thai food in college
- Chinese restaurant with my niece, who misses Chinese food in college
- Here's the interesting one. I made my grandmother's meatballs recipe. They were noticably sweeter than her's, but I followed her recipe, in which most of the flavor comes from crushed ginger snaps. This means that ginger snaps are a lot sweeter, and a lot less sharp-gingery than they were when Grandma made them.
Gotta admit, I love those elk reports too!
Elk rules!!!
Gosh, what a week it's been at work, plus the kids started school soccer. We had more evening conflicts than usual
Monday - egg roll in a bowl
Tuesday - grilled chicken & rice
Wednesday - more egg roll in a bowl
Thursday - we had burgers (from the freezer)
Friday - TBD. I'm thinking adults will have chicken over salad. We have 12 kids at our house, so they are having: wings, mozzarella sticks, cheese pizza, & ice cream
Saturday - tacos
Sunday - ?
I always say I will remember but never do.. Lets try reverse order and see...
Friday- I KNOW we had homemade chili and baked potatoes. That was an easy supper after we got back from the girls volleyball match..
Thursday- I had pulled leftover cooked chicken from the freezer- Made my oldest bbqchicken and bacon pizza on Naan bread and a handfull of steak fries before he went to work... The rest of us had naan pizza or tortilla wraps of bbq or buffalo chicken..
Wednesday- Sheet pan supper- broccoli, cauliflower, carrot and garlic, beef keilbasa and gnocchi all tossed in italian dressing and baked..(new recipe.. 1/3 of the kids liked)
Tuesday- Taco Tuesday! Seasoned beef, tortillas, beef, veggies and queso.. create your own mess..
Monday- Beef ramen stirfry- used ground beef, loads of veggies and 3 packages of ramen noodles.. I would definitely tweak the sauce more... but filling and a new recipe that all 5 of us were good with.
I almost always write mine in reverse order, filling in the last slots first! Otherwise I just cannot remember.
Spring sport practices are starting up so I need to start planning a bit more for logistical and frugal reasons.
Monday: I think it was chicken... too long ago.
Tuesday: On your own... mac/cheese, omelettes and no clue what the 4th one ate.
Wednesday: Logistic- we went out - If the kids wanted to see their dad at all this day, we had to meet him near his work for an early dinner before we went four ways.
Thursday: BBQ pulled pork in the crock pot
Friday: Tacos- that some how always end up as burritos since I buy the wrong size tortilla everytime....
Saturday- Breakfast for dinner- french toast with sausage. This was planned on Tuesday before everything went down hill
Lots of planned leftovers. The first part of the week I made vegetarian chili that lasted three days and supplemented it with boiled eggs, tangelos and granola bars. The last half, I made a big chicken casserole with lots of veggies and the sides were some apples and good cheese.
Monday - Philly Cheesesteaks
Tuesday - Tacos
Wendesday - Hamburgers
Thursday - Chicken Pot Pie
Friday - Spaghetti & Meatballs
Saturday - Pot Roast
Sunday - eating out
It’s all about comfort food
I made hassle back potatoes with pesto and garlic stuffed inside the slices
Steamed garlic in olive oil
And turkey cutlets with a big wedge of lemon to squirt on top of each bite
My partner insisted on taking a photo to send to his foodie friend
Gigi