I did a larger than intended shop on Friday afternoon, but I'm ready for the week and Easter weekend. While it's still plan, eat, repeat, I'm feeling less glum about my kitchen when I actually still have light while making dinner. I like to have YouTube streaming while I get things done and I feel like I have company. I'm still trying to plan meals, which greatly helps waste, which greatly helps out budget. I was on plan until Thursday, not counting eating out, but ended with Saturday as planned, though DH had fish instead of chicken.
Meals last week:
- Sunday: Eggs and muffins, brunch. Ate out after movie.
- Monday: Spaghetti Bolognese, garlic bread
- Tuesday: Chicken stir fry, rice egg rolls
- Wednesday: Homemade pizza with remainder of Bolognese
- Thursday: Grilled cheese
- Friday: Burrito lasagna
- Saturday: Sweet potato hippie bowls with wild rice, fish for DH
My hippie bowl.
I ended up buying two half hams as still am not sure how much we'll need. Under $24 for both, so even less than I was under budget for March. I'll freeze and send leftovers home with family. No one will mind leftover ham in the spring. I'm already thinking ham, cheese, and sweet pea salad. Delicious! Bonus, two ham bones for soup later. With a holiday weekend coming plus people coming and going here's sort of a thought.
- Sunday: Cheeseburger sliders on small brioche buns and potato wedges ( I grabbed the brioche buns intending to buy red bag chicken but none to be found. The green bag, garlic parmesan, was plentiful but I've hear mixed reviews. Thoughts if you've bought it at Aldi?)
- Monday: Carnitas with rice and beans
- Tuesday: Greek chicken, tomato, artichoke,and olive pasta salad
- Wednesday: Crockpot lasagna
- Thursday: Pasta fagiole soup, crescent rolls ( weather looked coolish and I have a live work event so needing easy, plus it will be hot and ready when my daughter gets home if she comes today)
- Friday: We have reservations for a fish fry
- Saturday: Roast potatoes, veggie tray bake with meatballs
Yes, again, the Greek Chicken is on for looks. Will it ever get made? Who knows, but I'll not lose the idea. I'll probably make chickpea and veggie masala for my daughter on Saturday and send her back with leftovers. She'll go back Monday then just has two weeks left of school before summer break. Busy week ahead, but I feel on top of things in the kitchen at least. What's your plan for the week? If you celebrate Easter or Passover, are you hosting meals or bringing food items?
Sounds like a good menu Sam.
ReplyDeleteSaturday we're picking up a rack of lamb for Easter dinner. I'm still trying to figure out what to make for dessert. It's a toss between Pineapple upside down cake and a creamy delicious dessert my grandmother always made.
Other than Gyros and once at a Lebanese restaurant, I've never had lamb. Either dessert sounds like a winner.
DeleteThis is the first time in a long time that we are having guests for Easter, because my parents happen to be staying with us. We're having beef kebabs & rice, plus cupcakes. Oh, and an egg hunt with champagne. The teen still enjoy an egg hunt! :-)
ReplyDeleteI like the champagne egg hunt. My kids still participated in egg hunts as teens.
DeleteLast night was a three-peat: Reheated cottage pie which I had made with last Sunday's leftover carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy. It was a pretty busy week for all it was spring break, so I really don't remember the meals--I know we had baked tilapia one night, Friday was popcorn shrimp, steak fries (freezer find) and homemade coleslaw with the half a head of cabbage left from St. Patrick's Day. I know we ate the other nights, but not sure what. Tonight is a slow cooked pork with apples and sauerkraut. (Will that freezer ever get cleaned out?)
ReplyDeleteI will bake a ham with various sides on Easter. We have two birthdays coming up this week as well. (One of them mine, one is tomorrow!)
We ended up skipping potatoes tonight and had salad with sliders. It's been a while since I bought french fries or steak fries.
DeleteI have no idea *what* we're doing. We're an interfaith family (or, uh, religion/no religion, really), so if we end up anywhere, it would likely be my MIL's, but I don't really know how comfortable we feel with even that right now. I'm going to look into possibly attending a virtual seder (what I did last year; it was actually pretty fun!), but otherwise, I don't know. COVID screws everything up!
ReplyDeleteI'm like you; I like having something playing in the kitchen when I'm working in there. My usual go-to is local radio stations, but sometimes it's music or a podcast. :)
I'm on the fence about a lot, but slowly moving on while watching case counts and hospitalizations. That's the key number for me.
DeleteFunny about the Greek Chicken. I still have the chicken yakisoba on my meal plan. It might get made this week or it might not.
ReplyDeleteIf Easter is just going to be the two of us we might just have ham sandwiches. I guess the jury is still out on anyone coming or not.
I have everything too- just seems to get pushed aside. Poor Greece and Japan.
DeleteCookiing dinner while it is still light is a plus. What is red bag and green bag chicken at Aldi? I hear about it but am not sure what the appeal is.
ReplyDeleteThe red bag check-in is an easy fake take out- I'm told it tastes like chic fil a but I'd have to take their word for that. I like to have ready to go chicken sandwiches, but get bored with plain chicken so the Aldi is a nice to have in the freezer.
Deletealas with dietary restrictions happening there won't be anything special for Easter, again.
ReplyDeleteMaybe just a nice place setting, a few healthy options. My daughter's bringing a quinoa salad and I may be slain for this, but I'm healthying up the green bean casserole by making my own sauce and leaving salty cream soups aside. Ham is enough salt.
Deleteoh! How I lovely a honey-baked ham at Easter time!
DeleteI haven't had any in ages.