Breakfast - Dai and Phyllis fried their own eggs and toasted frozen hamburger buns to go with. They had to go to volleyball this morning - but then it turned out only Dai was invited. Jason made the rest of us breakfast burritos.
Lunch: the girls are out of school this week and went to school with me - they hung out outside my class and I bought Jack in the Box for lunch. Value menu stuff usually, but today they got that and I got a burger combo and it was blech! And $6 or something!
Dinner: Taco salad. Again, I had started black beans this morning with the intention of maybe doing black bean layers for lunch and butter chicken for dinner - but the afternoon didn't quite go as planned so we did taco salads. Cress complained that she doesn't like taco salad - but seemed much happier once I moved it to a bowl from the plate.
That salad got wolfed down along with most of the beans. Sometimes I make a two head salad and we have leftovers, like yesterday, and sometime, I think probably one person at least would have had more salad if we had not run out.
Tonight, I reminded Jason that he used to say soups and salads didn't really make dinner. He recalled. I asked if this salad would have been okay back then or if he had adjusted. He said this reminded him a bit of haystacks which was a lunch food (and not a favorite) and he probably would have groused about it not being a proper dinner. He thinks he has adjusted. Now soups and salads are very common dinners in our house. The girls looked at him like he was crazy when they heard me recall how he thought soups and salads weren't proper dinners.
Prep ahead: Started butter chicken in the crock pot. I have a butter chicken recipe that I really like but it isn't a crock pot meal - so I am trying this new one. I am so pleased that we have a timer for the outlet so the crock pot will turn off in the middle of the night. I also got such joy when I was preparing fresh ginger. I asked Jason if he thought that was a tablespoon's worth, knowing I would need to chop it finer and he said that he would do a little more. It pleases me so much it is almost laughable that we eat real ginger in our house. I am sure it was never in my house as a kid. This is not to say my mother was a bad cook - she wasn't but the staples back then were different - and we were tighter in the food budget, I think. Though I recall and awful lot of food when we did pour monthly shopping.
Shopping today:
Coconut milk - 0.99
Cauliflower - 3
Greek yogurt - 4
Frozen Parathas - $8
Jack in the Box - 11.81
But to be honest - I am planning to pull a bit out of saving - Dai needed shoes, we drove to Larry's. lunch with Jason and the kids tomorrow, etc. Lunch with Jason during school breaks is almost a thing now - we have done dim sum a few times when he worked at NetApp but we are trying an Indian buffet near his new work this time. Kids under 10 eat free!
Lunch: the girls are out of school this week and went to school with me - they hung out outside my class and I bought Jack in the Box for lunch. Value menu stuff usually, but today they got that and I got a burger combo and it was blech! And $6 or something!
Dinner: Taco salad. Again, I had started black beans this morning with the intention of maybe doing black bean layers for lunch and butter chicken for dinner - but the afternoon didn't quite go as planned so we did taco salads. Cress complained that she doesn't like taco salad - but seemed much happier once I moved it to a bowl from the plate.
That salad got wolfed down along with most of the beans. Sometimes I make a two head salad and we have leftovers, like yesterday, and sometime, I think probably one person at least would have had more salad if we had not run out.
Tonight, I reminded Jason that he used to say soups and salads didn't really make dinner. He recalled. I asked if this salad would have been okay back then or if he had adjusted. He said this reminded him a bit of haystacks which was a lunch food (and not a favorite) and he probably would have groused about it not being a proper dinner. He thinks he has adjusted. Now soups and salads are very common dinners in our house. The girls looked at him like he was crazy when they heard me recall how he thought soups and salads weren't proper dinners.
Prep ahead: Started butter chicken in the crock pot. I have a butter chicken recipe that I really like but it isn't a crock pot meal - so I am trying this new one. I am so pleased that we have a timer for the outlet so the crock pot will turn off in the middle of the night. I also got such joy when I was preparing fresh ginger. I asked Jason if he thought that was a tablespoon's worth, knowing I would need to chop it finer and he said that he would do a little more. It pleases me so much it is almost laughable that we eat real ginger in our house. I am sure it was never in my house as a kid. This is not to say my mother was a bad cook - she wasn't but the staples back then were different - and we were tighter in the food budget, I think. Though I recall and awful lot of food when we did pour monthly shopping.
Shopping today:
Coconut milk - 0.99
Cauliflower - 3
Greek yogurt - 4
Frozen Parathas - $8
Jack in the Box - 11.81
But to be honest - I am planning to pull a bit out of saving - Dai needed shoes, we drove to Larry's. lunch with Jason and the kids tomorrow, etc. Lunch with Jason during school breaks is almost a thing now - we have done dim sum a few times when he worked at NetApp but we are trying an Indian buffet near his new work this time. Kids under 10 eat free!
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