Breakfast: breakfast burritos for all except me. I had scrambled eggs since I am now actually trying to control my eating. Roma with cream.
Lunch: Cress took leftover beaker soup and the other two took leftover taco coup. Cress wants taco soup tomorrow.
Dinner: Chipotle sausages with grilled onions and peppers on hot dogs buns - old ones from the freezer. Use what you have right? Jason was going to make fresh buns but that didn't make more sense than using what we had - though it would surely have been tastier. Jason was very helpful. He sliced the sausages (even though I said I needed them sliced evenly for purposes of food tracking) and browned them for me. I sauteed the onions and peppers in water - no oil - but of course when we added the sausage, while some grease stayed in the pan, not all of it did.
Technically I had mine over brown rice because I wanted to minimize refined carbs. I didn't actually compare white hot dog buns to brown rice but assume the former would be higher.
We also had a salad with toasted pine nuts. Phyllis loved her food. Jason thought the buns were too small but he still had seconds. Cress though the sausages were a bit spicy but she just had two glasses of lemonade to offset it. Dai was using a knife and fork rather than eating hers like a hot dog and didn't really care for the soggy bread. Dai and Jason don't like toasted pine nuts but they are like crack to the other three of us - we all want to finish them off when eating is done.
Cress dished herself salad, then Jason asked her to pass the salad. When I started to hand it over, she complained because she only had a little salad. It was probably a reasonable portion for most kids. Then she had a second helping even after I gave her more before passing it to Jason. I sure love that they eat salad well. And, they don't drown it in dressing either. Phyllis actually passed because we don't have any vinaigrette made up right now. I made a smoothie for Phyllis and Cress with berries, milk, a chard leaf and a spoon of sugar. Clearly dessert but healthy-ish?
Shopping at FoodMaxx
4.74 bell peppers
0.80 yellow onions
total $5.54
I had to do a little shopping. I got three onions and six bell peppers. I only ended up using two onions (but those are good to have on hand) and four and a half peppers - which means each girl can have a half a pepper in her lunch tomorrow. They will be very glad.
I recall that Penny once told me how Dai ate a whole bell pepper for snack and how it just stunk up the whole cafeteria - her words. No doubt they have a distinct smell but I wouldn't call it stinky. She didn't know me well back then and thought it was a most bizarre food choice. She wondered what kind of parent did that to a kid.
Lunch: Cress took leftover beaker soup and the other two took leftover taco coup. Cress wants taco soup tomorrow.
Dinner: Chipotle sausages with grilled onions and peppers on hot dogs buns - old ones from the freezer. Use what you have right? Jason was going to make fresh buns but that didn't make more sense than using what we had - though it would surely have been tastier. Jason was very helpful. He sliced the sausages (even though I said I needed them sliced evenly for purposes of food tracking) and browned them for me. I sauteed the onions and peppers in water - no oil - but of course when we added the sausage, while some grease stayed in the pan, not all of it did.
Technically I had mine over brown rice because I wanted to minimize refined carbs. I didn't actually compare white hot dog buns to brown rice but assume the former would be higher.
We also had a salad with toasted pine nuts. Phyllis loved her food. Jason thought the buns were too small but he still had seconds. Cress though the sausages were a bit spicy but she just had two glasses of lemonade to offset it. Dai was using a knife and fork rather than eating hers like a hot dog and didn't really care for the soggy bread. Dai and Jason don't like toasted pine nuts but they are like crack to the other three of us - we all want to finish them off when eating is done.
Cress dished herself salad, then Jason asked her to pass the salad. When I started to hand it over, she complained because she only had a little salad. It was probably a reasonable portion for most kids. Then she had a second helping even after I gave her more before passing it to Jason. I sure love that they eat salad well. And, they don't drown it in dressing either. Phyllis actually passed because we don't have any vinaigrette made up right now. I made a smoothie for Phyllis and Cress with berries, milk, a chard leaf and a spoon of sugar. Clearly dessert but healthy-ish?
Shopping at FoodMaxx
4.74 bell peppers
0.80 yellow onions
total $5.54
I had to do a little shopping. I got three onions and six bell peppers. I only ended up using two onions (but those are good to have on hand) and four and a half peppers - which means each girl can have a half a pepper in her lunch tomorrow. They will be very glad.
I recall that Penny once told me how Dai ate a whole bell pepper for snack and how it just stunk up the whole cafeteria - her words. No doubt they have a distinct smell but I wouldn't call it stinky. She didn't know me well back then and thought it was a most bizarre food choice. She wondered what kind of parent did that to a kid.
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