Breakfast: oatmeal
Lunch: soup or sandwiches for the kids, Jason and I did Jack in the Box (he worked from home due to the heavy rain and our pending dinner party)
Dinner: Beaker soup - I made two full batches between yesterday and today because we are expecting 15 people for dinner. We are having the Tervalons and the Buchanans over. We also made greens - including two heads of kale from this week and lasts's CSA, last week's beet greens and this weeks arugula. Jason did his sesame oil and garlic and soy sauce - I just love it! I also made a salad - I used three heads of lettuce (two of which were CSA) but then we had a lot leftover. We used leftover cooked beets, the rest of the grape tomatoes, an English cucumber and, of course, toasted pine nuts - had way too many of those but people nibbled them up and we have a few for tomorrow. Nicole added some to her soup. Jason also made two batches of cream biscuits - that makes 16 total. One fell on the floor, so he and I split that.
Nicole was so proud of her kids for eating salad and greens without being made to. Kahlan is just a soup kinda girl and she liked the soup. It turned out Christi Buchanan got stuck in SoCal so she wasn't here. Chris ate the soup but his kids maybe had a bite and only then in some cases. They also didn't eat the greens or salad. I couldn't imagine such picky kids. Some like the biscuit though - Ty compared it to KFC biscuits which is pretty high praise, I think.
I did some grocery shopping earlier in the day.
I was going to get garbanzo beans - they are up to 1.69 per one pound bag. But in the Indian food section you could get a four pound bag for $5.48, or $1.37 per pound, so I did that. Then I noticed kala chana nearby for $4.28 for four pounds, or $1.07 per pound. It is a different variety of garbanzo bean and higher fiber, possibly coarser outside and darker color. So we will give that a try. That being said, my kids are done with beaker soup for awhile - though maybe not Phyllis. She was practically weaned on the stuff and she is just always hungry.
Prep Ahead - Broccoli steamed from CSA
Lunch: soup or sandwiches for the kids, Jason and I did Jack in the Box (he worked from home due to the heavy rain and our pending dinner party)
Dinner: Beaker soup - I made two full batches between yesterday and today because we are expecting 15 people for dinner. We are having the Tervalons and the Buchanans over. We also made greens - including two heads of kale from this week and lasts's CSA, last week's beet greens and this weeks arugula. Jason did his sesame oil and garlic and soy sauce - I just love it! I also made a salad - I used three heads of lettuce (two of which were CSA) but then we had a lot leftover. We used leftover cooked beets, the rest of the grape tomatoes, an English cucumber and, of course, toasted pine nuts - had way too many of those but people nibbled them up and we have a few for tomorrow. Nicole added some to her soup. Jason also made two batches of cream biscuits - that makes 16 total. One fell on the floor, so he and I split that.
Nicole was so proud of her kids for eating salad and greens without being made to. Kahlan is just a soup kinda girl and she liked the soup. It turned out Christi Buchanan got stuck in SoCal so she wasn't here. Chris ate the soup but his kids maybe had a bite and only then in some cases. They also didn't eat the greens or salad. I couldn't imagine such picky kids. Some like the biscuit though - Ty compared it to KFC biscuits which is pretty high praise, I think.
I did some grocery shopping earlier in the day.
| Foodmaxx | |
| Penne (4 lbs) | $3.96 |
| Cake | $2.49 |
| Pickles | $2.78 |
| Canned Green Beans (2) | $1.18 |
| Microwave Popcorn | $5.19 |
| Honeycomb Cereal | $1.89 |
| Kala Chana (4 lbs) | $4.28 |
| Dishwashewr detergent | $2.98 |
| Diced Tomatoes (12 cans) | $9.36 |
| Olives (2) | $1.98 |
| Popcorn | $1.94 |
| Carrots (5 lbs) | $1.99 |
| Celery (2 stalks) | $1.78 |
| Cuties | $4.99 |
| Romaine )6 heads) | $3.38 |
| Pineapple | $1.99 |
| Coupon | -$10.00 |
| $42.16 | |
| Jack in the Box | $10.50 |
| Heather Castro | $6.00 |
| $58.66 |
I was going to get garbanzo beans - they are up to 1.69 per one pound bag. But in the Indian food section you could get a four pound bag for $5.48, or $1.37 per pound, so I did that. Then I noticed kala chana nearby for $4.28 for four pounds, or $1.07 per pound. It is a different variety of garbanzo bean and higher fiber, possibly coarser outside and darker color. So we will give that a try. That being said, my kids are done with beaker soup for awhile - though maybe not Phyllis. She was practically weaned on the stuff and she is just always hungry.
Prep Ahead - Broccoli steamed from CSA
