WIS, WWA | $45
What I Spent
I built some meals around what was in my freezer this week, so my spending wasn't super high.
I spent:
- $30 on a Hungry Harvest box
- $15 at Safeway
I also spent $20 at Harris Teeter, but I had a gift card (I'd earned it for filling a prescription), so that cost me nothing out of pocket.
So...$45 out of pocket. Some of my previous weeks were artificially high, but this one is definitely artificially low!
What We Ate
Saturday
I made BLTs + sauteed Hungry Harvest broccoli.
Sunday
Lisey and Zoe took a day beach trip with friends, so I was on my own. I sauteed the rest of the broccoli, fried some eggs, and toasted a bagel for my meal.
Monday
Lisey was out with a friend, and I made a French toast breakfast for dinner for Zoe and me.
Tuesday
I made pulled pork sandwiches, which we ate with watermelon and cucumber slices. Sonia joined us. 🙂
Wednesday
I got my Hungry Harvest box and I saw that it included peppers and asparagus.
And then I remembered that I had this chicken broth in the freezer along with a half-pound of Italian sausage, so I decided to make this veggie, sausage, and orzo dish.
It's such a handy recipe because you can use a number of different veggies; I've used broccoli, kale, peppers, and asparagus, alone or in combo with each other.
Sonia was over for dinner again and requested leftovers to take home, but she was nervous she might forget them when she left.
So, I told her a trick I often use: put your keys in the fridge by the food you need to remember! That way you can't possibly leave without the food. 🙂
Thursday
The girls ate leftovers, and I made myself a plate with asparagus, a sweet potato, and some ham from the freezer (asparagus and sweet potato are both from Hungry Harvest).
Friday
I'm going out with my mom, my sister, and two sisters-in-law for a belated Mother's Day meal for my mom...it just took us this long to find a day that worked for all of us.
And...my mom kindly spent her actual Mother's Day helping me move into my rental. As Richard Scarry says, "A mother's work is never done." And that seems to be true even if your kid is 44 years old, as I am!
Your keys in the fridge trick is genius!
Saturday: Pork chops with asparagus, peas, and chips and dip
Sunday: Grilled pizza
Monday: I went out to dinner with a bunch of moms from church but made a quick dinner for my family before I left since I knew my husband would have a full night with hooking up our new oven and getting all of the kids to bed. They had paninis, grapes, and chips.
Tuesday: One-Pot Ham and Veggie Pasta
Wednesday: My 8yo wanted to cook and she made quesadillas that we had with grapes and veggies
Thursday: Chili and cornbread
Friday: Cheesy scalloped potatoes with ham plus asparagus and maybe some fruit. (Though this will be the third time this week that this meal is on the menu plan, so we will see if it actually works out tonight. Ha!)
@Ruth T,
Cheesy scalloped potatoes w/ ham and asparagus sounds so good. I have ham in the freezer and may need to plan that for next week!
Hi Ruth - what vegetables and sauce do you use in your one-pot ham and pasta dish?
@BJS, The recipe is from Allrecipes and it uses a sauce of chicken broth, half and half, and parmesan cheese and the vegetables are peas. I was a little skeptical at first but my family really likes it and it's nice to find a way to use up leftover ham other than always pairing it with potatoes.
We were a little discombobulated this week.
Sunday: We had some frozen appetizers that I wanted to use up with cut up veggies
Monday: The kids wanted ramen and I had some leftovers and husband was travelling for work
Tuesday: Rotisserie chicken with a salad and used the rest of the chicken to make chicken salad for lunches
Wednesday: Lemon chicken with angel hair to celebrate my daughter who won an award at school
Thursday: Quick pizza before graduation ceremony (no one is graduating, but both daughters performed)
Friday: One daughter will eat some leftovers before her 8th grade dance. The rest of us, I don't know.
WIS: 30.14 (hungry harvest)
WWA:
Fri: salad, asparagus and focaccia
Sat: assorted leftovers: dorowat, greens, hardboiled eggs and rice.
Sun: mango, brussel sprouts, sun-roasted beets and leftover focaccia.
Mon: salad and sun-cooked egg casserole. This was good. The sun oven cooked the eggs low and slow so they were like a soft pudding. There are already some dessert-type ideas in the works!
Tue: strawberries, leftover sun-roasted beets and pasta with marinara sauce. It was a very red meal!
Wed: grapes and 4 frozen pizzas (This included the cauliflower ones. The verdict was that we actually liked them better than the regular frozen pizzas but I didn't like how small they were for the price. I think we will stick to homemade or the take and bakes, but it was convenient to have a few frozen on hand for a quick dinner, so perhaps I'll watch for sales.)
Thu: salad, peppers, avocados, nachos with cheese and salsa
Tonight: salad and focaccia
Have a great weekend, everyone!
@Becca,
I’m curious about the “sun-roasted”. Years ago I read about DIY sun ovens with glass and aluminum foil, but I’d like to know the system you use.
@Debbie,
My husband bought one online from this guy who makes them. It's made out of like the kind of plastic that is used for roadside signs and then coated in shiny aluminum. The way it works is that it focuses the sun into the center of the box shape and you have to put your food in a sealed container that is dark colored-we've used a lidded cast iron pan and my husband also bought a small black camping pot because he said thinner cooks faster. I definitely think it would be very possible to make one at home, but we wanted to just try something tried and tested first. The one we got is called "sol cook" and I think it cost about 100.00, so not too terribly expensive. There are apparently more expensive options available, but I don't know much about them. It's more my husband's project and I just happily eat his creations! I'm also super happy about the fact that he can "bake" without using the oven on those super hot days. 😉
WWS: $30 (plus $70 for 2 mystery grocery shops for which I will be reimbursed), $9 from our new MUSHROOM SHOP!!!:
WWA:
Sat: We went out for a late shore-food lunch (fish & chips for me, fried clams & chowder for him) so we ate the leftovers for dinner.
Sun: Grilled miso-ginger marinaded chicken thighs, grilled broccoli, zucchini & hen-of-the-wood mushrooms (from the mushroom shop!), rice
Mon: beef tacos with all the fixings
Tues: Serious Eats Greens Pie (an easier spanakopita), made with spinach, arugula & purslane from the garden & zucchini (I needed more greens!)
Wedn: out to picnic in the park with a friend. Mexican salad, take out.
Thurs: see Tuesday
Today: tofu and Chinese broccoli something - a friend dropped off an extra CSA box and it is is full of Asian greens.
@BettafmdaVille,
We just got a new mushroom shop too! I haven't been over there to it yet. I wonder if its possible we live near each other (which now I'm thinking its quite possible considering your name on here) or if mushroom shops are popping up all over now (which I am in full support of since there is so much more than the typical button and shitakes that you get at the grocery store). I love mushrooms!
@Jaime and @BettafmdaVille - A mushroom shop sounds awesome for my mushroom-loving husband! I wonder how I can get one here....
@Jaime, I'm in Somerville, MA. Let me know if we are neighbors!
@BettafmdaVille,
We are indeed neighbors!
Jaime and BettafmdaVille, Our son and his family just moved from Somerville to Medford. But they (and we, as visitors) still enjoy many of the shops and restaurants in Somerville, a wonderful place.
@Jaime, a small, frugal world indeed!
Ha. Sonia's leftovers container looks like mine. My husband has more than once been excited to see we have cottage cheese (something we only have rarely when we go to the "big" store that has the good Daisy brand whole milk kind), only to open the container and be confronted with leftover split peas or something. 🙂
Saturday: Top sirloin steaks, fried bread, green salad with vinaigrette. I took out two packages of the steaks, with two steaks in each package, and really, I only needed a single steak. This allowed me to do my magic all week of re-using leftovers in ways that don't feel like just leftovers . . .
Sunday: Steak re-heated with tomato/pesto sauce and asadero cheese (like mozzarella), bread and butter, raw snap peas (from the garden, yay!), pots de creme
Monday: Leftover steak re-heated in bacon fat. Also instant mashed potatoes. This was a commodities thing. I'd never made them, but I was out of real potatoes and it was hot and I didn't want to boil pasta or something. They were okay. Very reminiscent of my memories of school cafeteria mashed potatoes. Should have served them with an ice cream scoop for that perfect cafeteria potato mound. 🙂 We also had tuna salad, since there wasn't quite enough steak for everyone, and bread and butter, and raw snap peas and radishes
Tuesday: Steak fajitas made with the one steak I hadn't cooked on Saturday, plus frozen peas
Wednesday: Pizzas--one cheese, one bacon and onion--and coleslaw made with one of the garden cabbages that split and needed to be used.
Thursday: Spanish tortilla, leftover coleslaw
Tonight: We're leaving in a couple of hours to drive to Tucson, and will be camping in the mountains tonight. Our dinner had to be something that could be eaten cold, as we're not sure if we'll be able to have a fire due to drought conditions everywhere. So I made meatloaf and dill potato salad (the dressing is a vinaigrette, which travels much better than a mayonnaise-heavy one). The kids will eat carrot sticks and snap peas all day in the car, so I don't worry much about an actual vegetable at dinner when we're on the road.
The leftovers container was actually from when my neighbor brought me lasagna and tomato sauce when I moved in! I saved it for such a purpose as this, when I wanted to send something but didn't want to need the container back!
I hope your camping trip in Tucson is a delight. 🙂
This week, we ate (in no particular order)
1 Tofu Nuggets w/Slaw and FF.
2. Shrimp/Zucchini Stir Fry & Rice
3. Spaghetti w/Marinara Sauce
4. Beyond Beef Burgers + Salad
5. Qdoba Burritos/Bowls
6. Stir Fry Tofu/Veggies w/ Peanut Sauce
7. Leftovers (probably) for Friday
I like the keys in the fridge idea. I pile everything in my lunchbox. Problem is if I forget my lunch, I forget everything!
Yes, and that is why the keys make such a difference for me. I can't go anywhere without my keys!
@Kristen, my husband went through a spell of being quite forgetful about his stuff after he bought a car that didn't use a key, so I used to stand at the front door and ask him, "Do you have your wallet, your glasses, your phone?" His method of remembering those things was to put them with his keys.
@Kristen, I do the key-in-the-fridge trick sometimes, too! My go-to, though, is multiple notes on the door where we leave. Usually have many there by the time we leave for Church, especially! 🙂
At our old house we had a designated key bowl by the front door, and my husband and I always put our keys there. Our older sons, when they got house keys of their own (not driving yet), would put their keys in their rooms and not in the key bowl, which I never understood.
One day, near when we we getting ready to move, my middle son came to me in a panic, because he couldn't find his house key to give it back to the landlord. We hunted in all the places he used to put it--on his bureau, in his pockets; we even searched the floor to see if it fell down off the bureau. Finally I said, "We're going to take a break from looking, ask Saint Anthony to pray for us to find it, and just relax." (This seems to always work for us!)
Then after a little while I remembered the last time I saw him come in to the house, and I remembered him putting the key in the key bowl, where he NEVER puts it. Lo and behold, it was there. We thought it was funny, the key being where keys are supposed to go.
I have to always put my keys in the same place, or I will forget where they are. So for me, putting the keys in the fridge would just cause me to panic! Ha.
@Karen, I'm touched and amused by the appeal to St. Anthony. My MIL referred to St. Tony for every emergency large or small, and even named her oldest son (DH's older brother) for him. After the crazy cat lady torched the house next door (see my Meet a Reader interview), and DH and I were negotiating difficulties in acquiring the property, MIL said, "I'll pray to St. Anthony." We replied, "Mom, if we get it, we'll put up a statue of him." Well, we got it, and a promise is a promise--so the statue of St. Tony is still keeping an eye on things. (We also bought the corresponding statue of St. Francis of Assisi, which is the grumpiest St. Frank I've ever seen. I think he's still PO'd at what happened to the cats.)
@A. Marie, dunno why this posted twice. Sorry.
That's a great trick to remember leftovers - I'm totally stealing that one. This week:
Monday - Grilled Pork Chop, garlicky rice, broccoli {The Girl comes to pick up Teddy}
Tuesday - Chicken Thighs, mini potatoes, carrots
Wednesday - Out - I had a burger and fries {Beer Necessities Club meets up at Adelbert's}
Thursday - Beef tips with O&P, baked potato, rest of the broccoli
Friday - Might make some salmon - I need to use it up
Saturday - Shrimp Tacos
Sunday - Dinner with The Girl, I'm taking dessert
This is going to be a weird Father's Day for a lot of us...better days are coming.
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WIS: $93.55
WWA: I cooked spaghetti for my husband. The jar of marinara sauce was jazzed up with mild Italian sausage (bought on sale a few weeks ago and frozen), sweet peppers (from the freezer), canned organic mushrooms and a can of petite diced tomatoes (from the pantry). Added some dried Italian herbs. Yum! Dessert was an apple crisp that used up about a dozen slightly past their prime apples.
Last Friday, I plated up and frozen leftover pulled pork barbecue to use in my brown bag lunches. Added some frozen vegetables and it was good. For a light supper, I had cottage cheese with canteloupe, or tomato sandwiches with a slice of cheese, or one night I cooked the whites of two eggs and had an egg and tomato sandwich.
Ah, love the Richard Scarry reference!
We were camping part of this week so...let's see
Sunday I made a light pasta with cherry tomatoes and feta. We had it with some roasted cauliflower and mushrooms that I tossed in breadcrumbs and parm before roasting.
Monday we had pizza at our favorite pizza place near our favorite campground.
Tuesday we had jambalaya from the freezer that I brought with us (still camping), salad, and some baguette from the freezer as well.
Wednesday we were back home and had leftover pizza and salad.
Thursday we had the leftover pasta. This time I grilled some shrimp and zucchini to go with it.
Tonight I think will be fish and chips in the oven...though I hate to turn on the oven because it's 100 degrees (or will be) outside...so we'll see!
WWS:$106 @ Kroger, $8 @ Publix
WWA:
Saturday: We did an insane amount of yardwork so we all ate leftover dutch oven lasagna and treated ourselves to an ice cream cone at a local spot after dinner.
Sunday: Braised pork chops, rice, and okra & tomatoes with the last of the okra from our garden two years ago!
Monday: Breakfast for dinner - creamy grits, eggs over medium and kielbasa sausages
Tuesday: Little one had a swimming lesson so he and Dad grabbed dinner out, I had some errands to run so I picked up Chipotle while we were out. Holy crow....take out is SO expensive!
Wednesday: I roasted the last turkey from the freezer and we had that with gravy, mashed potatoes, and string beans
Thursday: Leftovers with he addition of some cranberry sauce I found lurking in the pantry
Friday: I have absolutely no plan which means that we will probably eat turkey sandwiches or the last of the leftovers to avoid waste
Happy weekend everyone!
I loved Richard Scarry's books when I was a kid, and my own kids loved his stuff as well. They're entertaining when you're the adult reading the book to kids too!
Sunday: chicken quesadillas
Monday: steak 'n' roasted potatoes
Tuesday: penne vodka
Wednesday: steak fajitas
Thursday: coronation chicken
Friday: hopefully more coronation chicken because it turned out great
Coronation chicken! I googled it and it looks like a curried chicken salad. Is that what you made?
@Kristen, the coronation chicken I know is a curried chicken salad. I believe the recipe was developed in honor of QEII's coronation in 1953. Its quality can vary considerably, but my fellow travelers and I had a *really* good one on a stop in the Cotswolds during our JASNA 2009 tour of England.
@Kristen, Yup. Recipe was developed back in 1953. Curried chicken salad with chopped apricots, almonds, etc. I lighten the mayo with some greek yogurt, add a little chopped onion, and the sauce includes a dab of Worcestershire and a good helping of mango chutney. Yummy.
Wouldn't work for me, my car and house don't use keys.
Sat- ate out first time since lockdown. Sat outside by the lake and watched the fire and water show. It was nice but felt weird.
Sun- bought 1.39 corn tortillas and used half to make chicken flautas and guacamole.
Mon-bought 4.00 smoked deli turkey.....made a turkey provolone sandwich.
Tue- made beef tacos with remaining tortillas
Wed- turkey provolone sandwich
THUR- Chipotle bowl to go, this makes 2 lunches and one dinner
Friday- ? Maybe another sandwich, or I bought a Costco chicken 4.99 and kids staying over bought a ton of food at Costco so who know what is in store.
That's funny; my house AND my car both still need keys. I'm less updated than you!
@Kristen, lol it gets forced on you. Me:Where's my gas cap? Them: you don't have a gas cap. Me: I want a gas cap.
I'm curious as to how you're handling the stuff part of your kitchen - the pots, the pans, the baking equipment - were you able to bring from your old house? Scavenge from the treasure house? Thrift store? I'm also curious as to what all you decided was important for your kitchen in this temporary space. Thanks!
Yes to all of those things! I took some things from my house, I'm using lots of things from the treasure house, I've bought a number of things on eBay, I've gotten some things from friends and from Buy Nothing groups, and I've bought some things new.
I'm trying to keep my purchasing to a minimum, and luckily, I am a little bit of a minimalist when it comes to kitchen stuff anyway. If I have the basics, I'm able to make most stuff that I want to make.
I left my menu at home today, so let's see what I remember...
Oh, I spent about $125 last week for two weeks. Not too great but better than last time.
I know I ate burgers with slaw or jicama sticks two nights with gluten-free "buns".
I had meatloaf with broccoli and watermelon.
I cooked 8 boneless/skinless chicken thighs in the Dutch oven, removed them and cooked broccoli and cauliflower in the pan juices. I had that twice, plus the thighs made a couple of lunches.
A friend helped me bring home the Habitat store cabinets, so I treated her to Firehouse for lunch, where I can get gluten-free buns for me. I ate half of mine for lunch, half for dinner.
Tonight is TBD.
@JD, I like the idea of cooking vegetables in a Dutch oven in the pan juices from chicken. Nothing will ever take the curse off broccoli for me, but I might try doing cauliflower that way.
@A. Marie, I'm not sure why people always serve vegetables plain these days. I guess it saves time and calories, but back in the day there were all kinds of recipes for interesting side veg dishes, braised, cooked in stock, with white sauce, all kinds of yummy things.
@Rose, Calories. I blame Weight Watchers, because when my mom was on that, we always got plain steamed vegetables. And once...*shudder* lasagna made with eggplant slices instead of noodles. Not lasagna with eggplant...Eggplant Lasagna. Not fried eggplant, either! Plain. Steamed. Eggplant.
Sat - Arroz Con Pollo
Sun - Family Night - so I made some (frozen) Mozzarella Cheese Sticks in the air fryer, a Caesar salad and a few take and bake pizzas from Walmart
Mon - We ordered out (Chicken Sandwiches)
Tues - I had leftovers and my hubby had a headache so he just had a sandwich
Wed - We grilled Cheeseburgers and had fries
Thurs - Beef Quesadillas with chips and salsa
Fri - Date night @ Cheesecake Factory
I cannot wait for watermelon...its still early here
Let's see...this week we had:
Sat: I can never remember Saturday. Either because the plan always changes or thinking 6 days back is my limit apparently.
Sun: visited family before their move and we didn't want to cook when we got home so we got take-out burritos and chips & queso from grocery store
Mon: Lobster (first of the season!!! but pricey 🙁 ), cherry tomatoes, corn, in a cream sauce w/ rigatoni
Tues: Leftover pasta but w/ shrimp instead of lobster
Wed: Stir-fry w/ vegetables that needed using up (asparagus, bok choy, carrots, korean radish), rice, and salmon from the farmers market
Thurs: Dinner out w/ sister and friend before Rocky Horror Show- We had fried pickles, parm & pea risotto fritters, and artichoke & burrata pizza
Fri: Rainbow sausage w/ probably asparagus that needs to be used up
@Jaime, we just paid $30 for a SMALL fried clams in Essex. Well, partner did, because I got the bargain-priced haddock bits.
@BettafmdaVille,
Yeah the prices are crazy now... but I love seafood. The lobster was $14.99/lb and she only had 1 left (that's how few they are catching right now). So we bought the 1 and stretched it with the pasta.
I'll still end up buying it here or there (I'd pay $30 for the clams once for the season) but I think it might be more of a once a month/special occasion type of thing. The high prices make it somewhat unfortunate for the sellers because I'd buy much more from them if it was more affordable.
During the first year of the pandemic we got lobster for $7.99/lb that summer...we had it weekly.
Sunday: I don't remember, but I suspect it was something simple like miso soup and hard-boiled eggs.
Monday: I roasted some chicken breasts, which we ate with spaghetti with zucchini. I was kind of tired of rice as a side and wanted to try something else, but it was too much work, so next time it's back to rice!
Tuesday: Chicken wraps, made with leftover chicken. The baby enjoyed the chicken, which was delightful to watch.
Wednesday: I had two friends over, so we ordered pizza. I also served chopped vegetables, grapes, and a homemade blueberry cake.
Thursday: My mom was with us, so I made us miso soup (still professing my love for dashi packets), a mushroom and cheese omelette, and green beans with sesame dressing. Thank you to the person who suggested omelettes as baby food. She LOVED it.
Friday: I'm meeting my cousins for dinner at a restaurant.
I cannot remember Monday or Tuesday! I think we did rice and beans one of the days--But we have been having a lot of green smoothies so dinners have been less grand affairs! Cause I am on a mission to use up all the greens --
Wednesday: leftover pasta and a salad with poppy seed dressing
Thursday: I made chicken meatballs (with linguini for me) and in a meatball sandwich for my husband (baked bread and used homemade sauce so the meal was cheap cheap)
Friday: I will make BBQ ribs with homemade potato salad for my husband (I have a nice 1/2 rack ready to heat and serve) and for me? I will have boiled shrimp and spinach.
Saturday - we were at a wedding so had the dinner provided there
Sunday - takeout from a taqueria
Monday - homemade pizza with mushrooms and pepperoni
Tuesday - tomato and sausage risotto
Wednesday - coconut rice pilaf and Trader Joe’s orange chicken
Thursday - leftover coconut rice pilaf which I refried in a pan and vegetable egg rolls from the freezer
Friday - easy chicken Parmesan (frozen chicken patty, with marinara and mozzarella melted on top), butter pasta, steamed vegetables
My husband was just diagnosed with diabetes but thankfully, no medication yet. They want him to treat it by "correcting" his diet. As the cook, I am having a hard time trying to come up with food that includes no bread, pasta, rice, potatoes or dessert. He's still eating one serving of fruit a day & ketchup/salad dressings which may have to be cut later.
I've only been doing this a week and I am already repeating the foods I make. Does anyone out there have any experience or ideas to help out? Thanks!
@Susan,
So diabetes (and kidney disease) is a condition where seeing a Registered Dietitian is required to be covered by insurance. I would suggest trying to find one in your area and going at least once to get some things clarified and maybe some ideas. For instance, having diabetes does not mean that you can't have bread, pasta, rice, etc. The key is to be consistent and have the same amount at each meal (so not having none at breakfast and lunch and then a ton at dinner which will raise blood sugar a bunch---it's better to spread them evenly through the day). It's a common misconception that you would need to cut out all carbs. Ones that are whole grains (wheat bread, brown rice, oatmeal, etc.) actually are good for helping to manage blood sugar. So making swaps to whole grains, might be an easy switch that could be made to help.
*This is for general information purposes. It is best to consult w/ your own professional for advice tailored to your own situation.
Those keys are a great idea! My husband is notorious for leaving leftovers in the fridge, but I think I might have to warn him where I put his keys or he might think he is going senile.
I am back from my first rotation as a flight nurse, so I figure this week won't always be normal since there is a lot of adjustment. One thing I have discovered is that is pretty usual to grab a meal while on shift at whatever city you are in. Our calls are a minimum of four hours, there is not a lot of space on the plane to bring food and the timing can be all over the place. While I don't love the expenditure, I am going to try and look at this as an opportunity to try a lot local places in cities I wouldn't normally travel to.
Saturday- on shift, I made a salad of avocado, romaine and broccoli I brought with me at the crew house during down time for lunch and grabbed a poke bowl in Reno after a call.
Sunday- off day, made a rice bowl with kimchi, avocado and chili crisp (HIGHLY recommend getting a jar of chili crisp from an Asian market. It's not overly spicy and is insane on fried eggs)
Monday- on shift, ate some dried fruit and crackers I brought. We had an all night call and got breakfast in Vegas at 5am at a local diner.
Tuesday- off shift, my parents are retired and semi-live out of an RV. They happened to be in the same town I am based in and took me to dinner. Shrimp, salad and a baked potato
Wednesday- on shift, we got rocked hard and took calls for 18 hours straight. I started eating a scone on base at 8am and I finally finished eating it at 3am. We got Cuban food outside of Stanford but I was honestly too tired/wired to eat anything else.
Thursday- I get to go home!!! I am off rotation and drove home from base (about 4 hrs) and my sweet husband picked up dinner since I was absolutely wiped.
Friday- I can finally cook some real food. We have a lot of zucchini to use up and I am trying to go through last year's tomato sauce before this season gets going, so some kind of pasta.
I have no idea what my husband ate while I was gone but I did spy a new box of Hagen-Das ice cream bars in the fridge.
My sister & I took our mom to Hawaii for her 70th birthday, so we ate a lot of amazing meals, none cooked by us.
I had: fish tacos, baked mahi mahi, calimari, coconut shrimp, pizza & several of the meals finished off with hula pie. Yum.
For my flight home on Wednesday, I made do with leftover snacks from my flight out, plus some leftover snacks we had from the room that didn't get eaten.
Thursday - my husband was out of town, and one teen was at the movies with a friend, so the 16 y.o. & I had an easy meal of orange chicken & fried rice (from the freezer section at Trader Joes). I made smoothies for everyone, as a treat.
Friday - I defrosted a small container of prepped taco meat, so we will have that and/or quesadillas.
Sunday: Dinner with neighbors
Monday: Baked potatoes. A local potato restaurant (sounds odd, I know) has a special with ham, broccoli, cheese, and honey mustard. We like it, and it's easy enough to recreate at home.
Tuesday: A pork and leek recipe (We call it Leek'n Pork to amuse ourselves) that was previously cooked and frozen.
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Chicken strips, carrots, and bell peppers, all served with ranch.
Friday: Maybe pizza? I have a hankering.
Saturday: Date night! We're going to see a play at 2, and go to dinner afterwards. Restaurant still undecided.
keys in the fridge, what a great idea; but how do remember where the keys are?
Well, once I go to unlock my car, it does always occur to me that my keys are in the fridge! 🙂
M Chicken, broccoli, salad and roasted potatoes
T Sausage, potato, mushroom, onion and green pepper sheet pan dinner
W Dinner out due to dusty drywall work
T Steak, twice baked potatoes, stir fried baby book choi and Thai cucumber salad
F Pizza, salad
S Leftovers
That orzo dish is a dream - I've made it almost weekly since you originally posted the recipe! #grateful
Oh wow, you really have been making good use of that recipe!
Salmon patties with spicy mayo, lettuce, shrimp salad, green beans, and mushrooms
Sloppy joes with roasted sweet potatoes and fruit
Buddha bowls with roasted carrots, sweet and sour kale, pickled asparagus, a fried egg and garlic aioli
Frozen chicken cordon bleu with bechamel sauce, roasted carrots, garlic cream spaghetti squash, rice
Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and chives, sautéed mushrooms and zucchini, and cut fruit.
Grilled chicken, pasta salad, baked beans, salad, fruit, chips, and rhubarb coffee cake for dessert. We had a cookout with some friends at our house.