On Tuesday we will have chicken with brussels sprouts - probably using the Neil Sedaka recipe.
After that we have planned three things that can be easily pulled off the shelf or out of the freezer, pierogies, pasta, & pea soup that I froze the last time I made it.
What do you have planned? Do you plan? Do you stick to the plan?
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Fantastic. I'm just sitting here with my back pain, which I shouldn't be doing but I'm OCD about getting behind blogging. So I like your plan. I want to read your keeping Kosher post but I didn't get to that yet. You can see that for yourself! hee. Okay so what do I have planned, do I plan and do I stick to a plan?
Yes, I have a plan, I stick to it and here's what it is. (keep in mind it's just feeding for 1 here) I do fruit, egg and coffee for breakfast daily (5-6am). No changes? Nope. Very rigid I tell you! 10:30 an apple or banana then I'm usually good until I wake up from my nap between 1-2. Then I have coffee and another apple or if I'm ravenous I'll have my lunch (try to have it at 3pm if I can wait). For lunch it's steamed veges or, if I'm ravenous, I'll have a Healthy Choice. Then later I'll have another apple or a couple rice cakes with peanut butter. Then around 6-7 (try to be flexible on time) I have Salad. Sometimes with a bit of grilled frozen chicken, sometimes note. Then around now or a bit later I'll have some yogurt. I have to stock up on that!
There is no excitement in food world around here. Being a home person with limited mobile action I have to make some addt'l lifestyle sacrifices else I'll be fatter than, well, let's just say I can't afford to eat like I used to.
But come Thanksgiving, I'll be throwin' down!!!!
(OMG Amy this is really long - sorry)
there was a recipe for Cincinnati Chile in the latest Cooking Light magazine and that is what we had on Halloween. I have made chili for many years on the day - first when we had a little one out trick or treating and now just because......... I tried the Cincinatti Chile - different with the spagetti noodles at the bottom, but good none the less. Leftover frozen for when I'm not home for dinner and someone can take out a single serving and have his own - don't think he will make the pasta, tho!!!!!!
we plan, and usually stick to it for atleast the first part of the week.
C goes grocery shopping on Saturday and if I'm lucky, he'll cook (Food & Wine mag recipes) Sat & Sunday. Monday - THursday we have 4 recipes planned out, but we may switch days or sides at the last minute due to the amount of left overs from a previous night. (i.e. Tomorrow i'm making farfalle with salmon, Tuesday- greek lentils. if there's enough pasta left for a second dinner then lentils will get moved to thursday).
by friday i'm usually sick of cooking and pooped from trying to keep up with the week. he'll suggest omlets, i won't argue.
but my point-- we shop once a week based on a menu plan. If the plan changes we have to find some way to accomodate the purchased ingredients, you know?
Let's see...Monday is chicken marsala, Tuesday is chicken in wine/dijon sauce, Wednesday is meatloaf. Yes we plan our menus, and we go to the market twice a week. I keep the notes to remind me what the HECK I'm supposed to do with the food, that the green beans go wth the meatloaf. So yes, I stick to it. But breakfast and lunch are ad hoc every day.
I'm planning to start planning... LOL Seriously I do need to get into a routine of cooking and freezing some of those meals for other dinners and for some lunches for DH. I plan to get several soups cooked this week so that I can get ahead and have things in the freezer.
I try to write out a menu for the whole week on the weekend and shop for it. When I manage we have a great week but lately I haven't got that far and each morning is the same question "Whats for dinner?" followed by a trip to the supermarket after work!!!!
Plan? Well, we tried. We would menu-plan and then shop and then both decide that the menu for dinner that night didn't sound appealling to us and make something else! So I gave up. I stock the freezer with meats and keep staples on hand so we can wing it. Also, being retired, I have time for a quick grocery run if we need fresh veggies at the last minute.
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