I've officially eaten my own food for every meal since lunch last Wednesday except for a $6 lunch at Chili's on Monday (I had already made lunch plans before we decide not to eat out anymore).
It's not as hard as I thought it would be. I brought cinnamon raisin bread and peanut butter for breakfast all last week, and had a combination of leftovers and ham sandwiches on Deli Thins with carrots and grapes and yogurt-covered raisins. Saturday I made a frittata and bacon and hubby made pancakes (I don't really like pancakes) and grilled ham and cheese sandwiches with apple slices for lunch, and Sunday I made scrambled eggs and berry muffins for breakfast and chicken nachos for lunch. I've had to be more creative to keep us interested in eating at home, but it's also helped in using the stuff in the pantry. The only regret I have is that I had to miss a dear friend's 30th birthday because she was having a dinner at Carrabba's and I just couldn't justify that expense to myself.
I'm excited about Thanksgiving, but mostly I'm excited just to have more time home with family. I'm making stuffing and I'm trying to decide if I should make regular or sausage stuffing (or both, ha!) and I'm thinking about making cranberry sauce too. I love fresh cranberry sauce but I'm in the minority in the crowd that I eat with. I'm also in charge of brining the turkey, so Hubby is picking it up from the in-law's house on Tuesday night and I'll put it in the brine on Wednesday.
Anyhow, onto the menu:
Last week:
Monday: baked spaghetti and garlic bread
Tuesday: pan-fried tilapia, balsalmic asparagus and four-cheese risotto
Wednesday: Burrito bake - very tasty, very easy
Thursday: beef lo mien frozen skillet meal
Friday: Southwest chicken and corn chowder
Saturday: grilled chicken and baked mac & cheese
Sunday: ham sandwiches (I totally phoned it in)
This week:
Monday: spinach and noodle casserole
Tuesday: chicken Bryan and roasted veggies
Wednesday: shrimp and tortellini in creamy pesto
Thursday: Thanksgiving!!!!!!! there will be no weight loss this week.
Friday: frozen pizza (or leftovers if there are some)
Saturday: pulled pork sandwiches
2 comments:
You have to bring the turkey, but you can't host Thanksgiving? That is ludicrous. Seriously. I am sitting here completely baffled by reading this.
I vote for sausage stuffing, but then, I love sausage stuffing.
I didn't bother to menu plan this week. Our week looks like this:
Monday: Softball game - eating out so as to have a little time w/ the husband (he's working 7-7 this week)
Tuesday: Traveling to Orlando. I believe my SIL wants to go to Rainforest Cafe for dinner
Wednesday: Disney. Enough said.
Thursday: Low country boil, cooked by my BIL.
Friday: Probably either left overs or Jotos to satisfy my SIL's craving for "home"
Saturday: Leftovers.
We'll be eating out more this week than we have recently because of traveling and family in town. I didn't even bother going to the grocery store this weekend.
Well, my MIL makes a very dry bird every year, so we finally brought up brining for her last year. She buys the bird, Christen picks it up from her house, we brine it and then drop it back off at her house early Thursday morning so she can throw it in the oven. Worked out great last year so we're doing it again this year.
Honestly it's not that I'm not "allowed" to host, it's mostly that there's most room at my in-laws house and it's more central to all family. It's nice, I just love to cook all foods associated with Thanksgiving :)
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