Week 12! Three months of meal prepping already!
Sunday morning I
reworked our menu to include some things I hadn't cooked in weeks before and to
better use what I already have on hand. It
didn't take long and I also didn't need to do much in the way of prep work.
I placed two cups of
chicken broth and two cups of water into my large pot I like to cook rice
in. I then added two teaspoons of Cajun
spice, a heaping teaspoon of garlic, a bay leaf, some chopped onion, two stalks
of chopped celery and half of a bell pepper chopped. Once that came to a boil I added two cups of
white rice, turned the heat to medium and let it simmer for 6 minutes with the
lid on loosely. Then I turned off the
heat and put the lid on tight and let it sit on the hot burner for 20 minutes.
I removed sausages
from the casings and browned them in the walk.
My youngest stepped in at this point to cook the sausage for me so I
could make a salad to go with it. Once
the sausage was cooked and the rice had finished I combined the two and it was
done.
Sunday - "Dirty
Rice" and a nice garden salad.
Monday - The oldest
had leftover Sunday breakfast, biscuits and gravy, then I dropped her off at a
meeting. The youngest and I went to Del Taco for our "date" night. I had planned to do this with her earlier in
the month but this was the first break in our schedule.
Tuesday - We
celebrated Halloween at the Olive Garden.
Wednesday - Super
easy!! We reheated our leftovers from
Olive Garden.
Thursday - Cheese
Omelets were on the plan, but I added some sauteed veggies and topped them with
salsa. Delicious!
Friday - The
youngest had a bowling party with her fellow cheerleaders and they all had
pizza. My oldest babysat and the mom
ordered in a pizza. I was left on my
own. I stopped in at Burger King for a
chicken sandwich (I had a coupon, of course).
Saturday - Saturday the
girls made the Chicken Pesto Pasta for a late lunch. The oldest was at a sleepover so the youngest
and I made a snack later in the evening and called it good as neither of us was
very hungry.
Hot cocoa |
I'd say I got off
pretty easy as far as my cooking duties were concerned, which was great as this
has been our busiest week by far with a
lot of stuff going on. I only made three of the five meals from the plan. My next meal
plan is going to be pretty interesting as we are doing a clean out the kitchen
freezer week. I'll let you know what we
come up with for meals next week.
You guys always have such a variety of meals. I seem to get stuck in a rut and make the same ole, same ole!
ReplyDeleteWe get stuck in a rut too, especially this past summer. Once we got back to meal planning it pulled us out of that. :0)
DeleteI'm not even hungry and I am drooling!
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