This vacation I organized my pantry. I became apparent to me from the six jars of various tomato sauces, four jars of peanut butter and 1,871 boxes of carb-based sides that I need to start meal planning from what is in my house, rather than buying what's on sale and THEN meal planning. Unfortunately a lot of what's in my pantry is not particularly healthy. See the 1,871 boxes of carbs. I've resolved this by having a small portion of the pasta side with a portion of protein and a lot of veggies.
So behold dinner: Half a chicken mignon from the local meat market (I split my meat with the boys), some pasta and lots of asparagus. And one glass of wine. Man, that was good wine. Ps- Henry ate FOUR helpings of that pasta, with some chicken and asparagus mixed in.
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We meal-planned from our pantry, too, this week. I don't think it went really well. I mean, we used up a bunch of pantry stuff, but we always ended up running to the store for 1 thing to go with the 2 or 3 things from the pantry. While at the store we splurged on the one thing AND grabbed several other things. Oops.
We've been going out to eat for birthdays so much that I only got to twice, but I found that if I send my husband to the store we end with less impulse buys. I really need fruits and veggies but I'm thinking about stopping at a farmers market on the way home to see if that curbs it a little :)
Looks yummy!
I've been trying to get away from pasta sides, but that's pretty much what my husband will eat. He turns his nose up at couscous, much less anything whole grain. But I do make myself peas or beans on the side. Thankfully frozen veggies are easy to add a little spice to and microwave.
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