Meals and Such Before a Holiday

   

  How are you all this morning? Dang if I didn't over exert my knee on Friday, up and down hard concrete stairs at the new office building. It's still confusing so I used the route I know, which is the hardest route on bad knees. While only three floors, it's high ceilings so a lot of steps if you need to move between floors and my knee is in rough shape. I feel it the day and two after. It's not the steps alone, but standing still for long periods of time. Let me walk and talk and I'm good, but standing for more than a few minutes the muscles supporting my knee strain. It'll be fine, but made getting things done yesterday unpleasant. I understand those that share the pain they feel going shopping, (hard floors), standing at the stove making dinner or washing dishes, and other tasks that put weight on joints for long periods of time without a lot of motion. 

     I'm at my daughter's today until late afternoon. We enjoyed our night and I'm looking forward to the three of us spending time throughout the week before we immerse with extended family. We'll eat for sure as we did the past week. No plan, but here it was.

• Sunday: Red bag chicken, leftover from freezer cheesy potatoes 
• Monday: Crockpot  mock lasagna
• Tuesday: Roasted veggies, cous cous, biscuits and gravy, daughter was here after puppy class and she had a veggie burger
• Wednesday: DH didn't feel well when he came home and just had some meet and cheese on crackers, I had a late lunch of leftover biscuits and gravy, then friend brought nibbles for trivia 
• Thursday: leftover crockpot lasagna and pepperoni mini pizzas on bread. I had made tortilla soup too, some for freezer, and for lunches. 
• Friday: Cheeseburger and steak fries
• Saturday: Bruschetta and homemade bread and chips and guacamole at my daughter's, leftover soup and hamburger for DH

This week will be busy, and DH is taking a lot of his remaining vacation time, so I imagine he'll meet up with people throughout the week. I thought I might plan a bit better for the week too.

• Sunday: Any soup leftover, plus grilled or broiled sandwich of some sort 
• Monday: Stir fry over rice, egg or spring rolls
• Tuesday: Pork loin, baked apples, mashed potatoes ( puppy class so nice to have crockpot meal ready) 
• Wednesday: I'll have leftovers for DH, but he also can join trivia where we're planning a little appetizer spread 
• Thursday: BBQ pulled pork sandwich and steak fries
• Friday: Likely take out of some sort, or go out with DD1 to dinner. With just the three of us, this'll be our little Christmas night. 
• Saturday: Christmas Eve spread at sister's. I'm bringing ham and an appetizer.

     Sunday, the next day being Christmas we'll eat well again at his mom's. We've got her convinced she doesn't need to provide a thing, and each family shares the menu. It's always delicious as is the array of variety on Christmas Eve. I hope you have a good week, and avoid the viruses floating around, and cold temperatures. What's on your table?