Last Week's food plan

I started posting a weekly meal plan a while back, mainly to help me use the meats and various proteins I had frozen. I found it really does help me to use the things I have, but I still tend to over buy when I go to the store. At least now when I do buy too much it seems to be fresh produce and I am finding a lot of ways to salvage it and, except for the occasional cucumber half, I am using it all. I would like to be all noble and say the menu plan keeps me from freestylin' but that would be a big fat lie. It does give me a starting point  some days, but there are some where time or attitude or wants get in the way of the plan. I feel no regret as long as I don't let food go to waste.so here is a brief recap of this past week .

The Plan:

✓.  Baked chicken, mashed potatoes or cauli mash, spinach salad, steamed cauliflower and broccoli

✓. Corned beef and cabbage, new potatoes or cauli mash. 

x .  Spaghetti or zoodles with meat or marinara sauce, tossed salad, garlic toast or keto roll

x . Pizza, tomato, onion and cucumber salad 

✓. Grilled steak, tossed salad, baked potato or cauli mash, bread sticks or keto roll

 x. Cheeseburger casserole, brussels sprouts, cauliflower "potato" salad

✓* Chicken enchiladas, coleslaw, green beans  (kinda happened)

What really happened:

Monday: Heard from Son3 that his band was coming to the deep south in June for a few shows, and he asked if I would open the home "hotel" for them. Of course I said yes, so  I began deep cleaning the upstairs. My time is not my own and I thought as long as I had a free day I might as well get crackin'. I had taken some pre-baked chicken out of the freezer on Sunday so it became dinner in a hurry and I needed a quick meal because I stayed upstairs working pretty late.

Baked chicken with sautéed mushrooms, mashed potatoes (or not), steamed broccoli, spinach salad

Tuesday: Sunday afternoon TheHub and I stopped by Publix on the way home from church. I routinely look at the meat counter for any unadvertised discounts and found 1 corned beef seriously discounted (last sell by date). Of course I picked it up, popped it in the crockpot as soon as we got home, then stuck it in the fridge that night for a meal during the week. Tuesday became that day. When TheHub asked if we were celebrating St. Patrick's day again, I had to tell him no. We were celebrating cheap corned beef with cabbage that was already in the fridge.

Corned beef, cabbage, new potatoes or no potatoes, toast or grilled keto bread, strawberries and stevia sweetened mini chocolate chips

Wednesday: I am not exactly sure what has been going on with TheHubs job but I do know he has been working on one project since before Thanksgiving and he thinks it is coming to an end. I hope so since he has not taken but 1 full weekend off since then. 

I was out buying groceries when he called to see if I had started dinner. No, I was still in the car on the way home from the store. He decided he wanted to go out to eat to celebrate the end of it. (I have serious doubts if it is actually the end, but for once I held my snarky tongue and just agreed to go out to eat anywhere but Italian (Southern not Northern Italy) or Chinese because both are virtually impossible to eat and remain keto compliant. 

Jubilee Joe's grilled grouper, mixed veggies, coleslaw

Thursday: It was a day filled with upsetting things and I really needed some calmness. I had planned on grilling steaks and having a glass (or 2) of wine, but the weather changed and I did not want to cook in the cold. (And yes, I understand cold is  relative term and it would have felt like spring to most of you). 
I grabbed chicken from the freezer to thaw quickly and had to rethink dinner. I still could have had the wine, but opted to save the carbs for a square of stevia sweetened chocolate, which I promptly forgot to eat. I should have had the wine!
Chicken enchilada casserole, tomato cucumber  and onion salad.

Friday: More blooming rain was forecast so I thought about just sticking the steaks in the freezer, but the skies cleared and it was perfect for grilling (except for the bloomin pollen ).
Steak, baked potato (or not) tossed salad, radishes, garlic bread or keto toast 

Saturday: TheHub and I attacked the screened porch and deck. He rinsed while I scrubbed and we got rid of winter grime and about an inch of pollen. I am exaggerating of course, but the runoff did look like a thick yellow river (or stream). After doing that and working in the yard a bit it was game time and we were eating game food.
Sloppy Joe's on bread (or not) spinach salad, chips (or not).

Sunday: Difficult Mom day and that is all I am saying. TheHub ran to Publix and snagged a rotisserie chicken and I made a couple of things I had on hand thats all.
Chicken, tater tots or cauli mash, asparagus, raspberries

And the plan for this week in no particular order:

1. Spaghetti (or zoodles) with meat sauce, tossed salad garlic bread (real or keto)
2. Cheeseburger casserole over lettuce with tomatoes and pickles
3. Mac (or cauliflower)  and cheese, coleslaw, and green beans
4. Egg rolls in a bowl with a side of fried rice (or not)
5. Grilled chicken in white bbq sauce, potato or fake cauli salad, baked beans (or not)
6. Something (unsure what) mashed rutabaga (I bought this and have no idea what it tastes like. It might have been a bad idea but it is something new to try), green beans or possibly broccoli.
7. Out to eat. Will be in Nashville for a couple of days.