Breakfast: breakfast burritos. Today Jason had to coach volleyball and we had Chinese, so Cress had to go to Chinese. Jason actually wrapped Cressida's and mine to go because we were a little behind.
Lunch: Taco Bell - totally guilty - used Jason's gas money. Phyllis eats four items usually - but because I was walking home, she only ate three so she could leave with me. Dai usually eats one taco - she ate two today. Cress ate two tacos also and Jason and I ate two items. A little more restrain than we sometimes show, he and I. Our kids could easily wipe out the 12 pack on their own. We had waters - so that was a little less splurgy.
Snack: Abuela brought Krispy Kreme donuts. We each had one before the hike and one after.
Dinner: Abuela had two quesadillas. Cress had leftover pasta but didn't finish it - so we tossed what was in her bowl and now it is all gone. I had salad. Cress and Phyllis had meatballs (made at Activity Days) and turkey gravy leftover from just before Christmas and freshly made rice. They also both had salads - freshly made tonight. Jason had a burritos right after the hike and the same food Dai and Phyllis had. Jason said our hamburger is definitely better. Heather had bought pounds in tubes for the Activity Days activity. We ate in the living room watching "Croods" as a family. I think if we had eaten dinner at the table, Cress would have finished her bowl of pasta and more of the salad would have been eaten.
Food prep: I ground wheat for cracked wheat tomorrow. It is soaking. After I grind the wheat, I usually sift off the fine stuff. It is too fine for cracked wheat cereal but not fine enough for cookies as we learned when Phyllis made cookies. So I reground it and then we made chocolate chip cookies. You really cannot tell the cookies are made with whole wheat flour. I used a pretty fine grind. We use a recipe from one of the cookbooks Abuela got for Dai a long time ago. That is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever. You start with melting the butter and it makes a huge difference, if you ask me. Maybe I should put that recipe in this journal somewhere?
I made some new dressing using a recipe Lisa Rotter (Abuela) gave me ages and ages ago. It was so tasty when I made it so long ago, but I added too much citrus this time. It calls for juice from 1-2 lemons. I used lemons from Lisa's tree and they had a lot of juice - so too much juice - note for future - use like a tablespoon only. Maybe also do a little less mayo. The dressing is in a jar in the fridge. Jason and I both had it today on our salad (Jason said it tasted like eggs and citrus.) The girls didn't have dressing on their salad.
I peeled and steamed our last pumpkin but we didn't eat it today - so tomorrow for that. Those pumpkins were free so I am very pleased to be eating them.
We had a bunch of lemons from Dad and Susan's lemon tree. Abuela was bringing us more today. So, we juiced the old ones. I made lemonade and we put the other juice in the fridge - oh how I wish I had a gallon pitcher! My recipe makes 5 cups worth - but I put it in my two quart pitcher. I can't double it in the two quart pitcher but it isn't really quite enough otherwise.
Also, I bought $2 in turkey lunch meat from Heather today. She got it in a triple pack with two hams and one turkey - but she doesn't love turkey.
I did this journal because I know that we go through phases in our home about what we eat and i think it will be fascinating to review. But, I also think it would be a fascinating bit of lore to have from 200 or even 100 years ago, too. I am unsure if anyone will ever marvel over this, but I do find I don't like writing down everything I eat - lunch is what gets me because I can't just write what the family ate - as it were because we all eat separately. Like, I had popcorn between breakfast and lunch. It could have been my lunch if my family didn't also need feeding a bit later.
It makes me want to generalize, but then I think about the integrity of the document. To be honest if I was reading my ancestors' info, I doubt I would care - just be interested in food types and food prep styles, I guess. Technically, we have access to old recipe and cookbooks, but I have loads of recipe books I rarely use and those that I do use regularly - I only use a select few recipes from them. In 100 years will they be stunned that we ate so much meat or allowed so much processed food into our diet (in which case the joke is on them because I think we eat way less than the average American)? Or that we ate cows now that they are Buddhist? Who knows, right?
Lunch: Taco Bell - totally guilty - used Jason's gas money. Phyllis eats four items usually - but because I was walking home, she only ate three so she could leave with me. Dai usually eats one taco - she ate two today. Cress ate two tacos also and Jason and I ate two items. A little more restrain than we sometimes show, he and I. Our kids could easily wipe out the 12 pack on their own. We had waters - so that was a little less splurgy.
Snack: Abuela brought Krispy Kreme donuts. We each had one before the hike and one after.
Dinner: Abuela had two quesadillas. Cress had leftover pasta but didn't finish it - so we tossed what was in her bowl and now it is all gone. I had salad. Cress and Phyllis had meatballs (made at Activity Days) and turkey gravy leftover from just before Christmas and freshly made rice. They also both had salads - freshly made tonight. Jason had a burritos right after the hike and the same food Dai and Phyllis had. Jason said our hamburger is definitely better. Heather had bought pounds in tubes for the Activity Days activity. We ate in the living room watching "Croods" as a family. I think if we had eaten dinner at the table, Cress would have finished her bowl of pasta and more of the salad would have been eaten.
Food prep: I ground wheat for cracked wheat tomorrow. It is soaking. After I grind the wheat, I usually sift off the fine stuff. It is too fine for cracked wheat cereal but not fine enough for cookies as we learned when Phyllis made cookies. So I reground it and then we made chocolate chip cookies. You really cannot tell the cookies are made with whole wheat flour. I used a pretty fine grind. We use a recipe from one of the cookbooks Abuela got for Dai a long time ago. That is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever. You start with melting the butter and it makes a huge difference, if you ask me. Maybe I should put that recipe in this journal somewhere?
I made some new dressing using a recipe Lisa Rotter (Abuela) gave me ages and ages ago. It was so tasty when I made it so long ago, but I added too much citrus this time. It calls for juice from 1-2 lemons. I used lemons from Lisa's tree and they had a lot of juice - so too much juice - note for future - use like a tablespoon only. Maybe also do a little less mayo. The dressing is in a jar in the fridge. Jason and I both had it today on our salad (Jason said it tasted like eggs and citrus.) The girls didn't have dressing on their salad.
I peeled and steamed our last pumpkin but we didn't eat it today - so tomorrow for that. Those pumpkins were free so I am very pleased to be eating them.
We had a bunch of lemons from Dad and Susan's lemon tree. Abuela was bringing us more today. So, we juiced the old ones. I made lemonade and we put the other juice in the fridge - oh how I wish I had a gallon pitcher! My recipe makes 5 cups worth - but I put it in my two quart pitcher. I can't double it in the two quart pitcher but it isn't really quite enough otherwise.
Also, I bought $2 in turkey lunch meat from Heather today. She got it in a triple pack with two hams and one turkey - but she doesn't love turkey.
I did this journal because I know that we go through phases in our home about what we eat and i think it will be fascinating to review. But, I also think it would be a fascinating bit of lore to have from 200 or even 100 years ago, too. I am unsure if anyone will ever marvel over this, but I do find I don't like writing down everything I eat - lunch is what gets me because I can't just write what the family ate - as it were because we all eat separately. Like, I had popcorn between breakfast and lunch. It could have been my lunch if my family didn't also need feeding a bit later.
It makes me want to generalize, but then I think about the integrity of the document. To be honest if I was reading my ancestors' info, I doubt I would care - just be interested in food types and food prep styles, I guess. Technically, we have access to old recipe and cookbooks, but I have loads of recipe books I rarely use and those that I do use regularly - I only use a select few recipes from them. In 100 years will they be stunned that we ate so much meat or allowed so much processed food into our diet (in which case the joke is on them because I think we eat way less than the average American)? Or that we ate cows now that they are Buddhist? Who knows, right?
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