Meals When I Am Under the Weather

 

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     I'm still feeling about the same, but happy to share I had an email notification this morning of negative test! I’m very relieved, though will continue to be cautious. All the crowds celebrating standing so close, some unmasked, made me edgy. It’s likely allergies/cold, but I’m prone to bronchitis so will monitor and not declare all’s great yet. I'm not coughing a lot, but when I do, it is long and deep, and feels down to my chest. Then, I stop and feel OK again. I don't want DH running around to stores either after making a stop after work yesterday. I'll think about meal options from what we have on hand. First though, here's a recap of what we had last week:

• Sunday:  Aldi red bag chicken and onion rings
• Monday: Mushroom ravioli with tomatoes and zucchini
• Tuesday: Chicken Kiev or cordon bleu, rice pilaf
• Wednesday: DH had soup and grilled cheese-I ate lunch very late so wasn't hungry and "just grabbed a snack later" (remember the turned into our parents commercial)
• Thursday: Cottage Pie
• Friday: Goulash
• Saturday: Chicken Tortellini soup, baguette

     I  haven't grocery shopped in the last week including no stops at Kwik Trip. Last Sunday DHS picked up a few things when he needed some bathroom supplies for himself like razors and deodorant. He stopped for  the sandwich bread for his lunches, bananas, baguette, hotdog buns, and hamburger buns cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese after work yesterday, plus some ginger ale for me-and popsicles. Between that and my shops on  October 30, 31, and the pantry, here are options to keep us out of stores until I feel better, even without COVID.   

• Sausage, cheddar apple meatballs, with some sort of sides
• Homemade pizza flat breads with olives, onions, and pepperoni
• Cheddar broccoli  soup 
• Carnitas (still have the pork roast for this) with tortillas, rice, and cheese
• Tuna hotdish with vegetables
• Chicken skewers with vegetables and rice pilaf
• Chicken broccoli cheese and rice hotdish
• Brats (maybe on the grill) with onions, sweet potato wedges
• Rice Hotdish with carrots and celery
• Sloppy Joe's and some sort of potato-probably wedges
• Pasta Bolognese
• Crockpot pasta
• Mandarin Orange Chicken, rice and steamed veg
• Hamburgers with the fixings, tots, fries
• Tika Masala Curry for me-leftovers for DH (he doesn't like the flavors)

      It's all pretty easy stuff, but will yield lunch leftovers and maybe a leftover night or two as well. There is about 1/2 of the cottage pie and a good two bowls of soup left already, likely lunch today. There's also frozen football foods-Lottsa mozza pizza, egg rolls, jalapeno poppers and boxed shells and cheese which DH loves. I could get creative and stretch meals until the weekend before Thanksgiving with no one feeling deprived. I don’t know yet what DH spent yesterday but we were already at $205 for household and groceries and Take Out in a single week. I’d love to keep to $400, but with Thanksgiving roughly estimated to be $75 or so, not likely. It’s my game though. How about your menu? Any favorites for when you are feeling under the weather but not too sick?