At the beginning of each week, I decide what our meals will be for the week. During the middle of the week (or sometimes even on Monday) I decide I did not want to cook/eat what I had planned or we decide t say to heck with it all and do something totally different . (Can you say take out?) I might count this as a failure on my part, but I am only claiming it is life, or at least my life, where things rarely go as planned.
This is what I originally planned for the week:
1. Crack chicken over rice or cauli rice, coleslaw
2. Keto burger fat bombs, lettuce, pickles and tomatoes, cauliflower potato salad
3. White bbq chicken , green beans, cauli mash or regular mashed potatoes
4. Fathead Pizza (TheHub has a business dinner and this is easy)
5. Mandarin class (take out)
6. Cauliflower bread ham sandwich, coleslaw
7. Ground beef and zucchini, tossed salad
And this is what really happened:*
Monday: Crack chicken over rice or cauli rice, tossed salad
Tuesday: Cheese stuffed mini burgers on lettuce with pickles and tomatoes
Wednesday: Pizza on frozen grilled pizza crust (or keto flatbread)
Thursday: Out to eat after Mandarin class
Friday: Leftover BBQ , cucumbers, leftover baked beans (or not)
Saturday: Takeout spinach pie (TheHub) or chicken kubidah (me) tossed salad
Sunday: Pork tenderloin in dragon sauce, Tyrion's mushrooms. Night's Watch bitter salad. Yes this was our Game of Thrones meal.
And now I am planning for this week,** which as usual may or may not (probably not) happen.
1. White bbq chicken, cauliflower "potato" salad. something green (asparagus, green beans, broccoli?)
2. Grilled burgers and burger fixings, coleslaw, chips or not
3. Cauliflower bread ham and cheese sandwich
4. Keto sloppy Joe's, tater tots or radish "hash browns", broccoli
5. Spanish pulled pork, sautéed cabbage, dinner roll or keto roll
6. Kraut and sausage, cooked carrots, cucumber slices
7. Cauliflower au gratin, green beans, apple carrot and raisin salad
8. Grilled steak, cauli mash or mashed potatoes, green salad
* Stuff happened all week, but I forgot to note it and I am not inclined to try and remember details right now. I promise to do better next week
** Since this is Memorial Day week I am extending the meal possibilities through Monday. Weather cooperating we are headed to the lake for a long weekend.
This is what I originally planned for the week:
1. Crack chicken over rice or cauli rice, coleslaw
2. Keto burger fat bombs, lettuce, pickles and tomatoes, cauliflower potato salad
3. White bbq chicken , green beans, cauli mash or regular mashed potatoes
4. Fathead Pizza (TheHub has a business dinner and this is easy)
5. Mandarin class (take out)
6. Cauliflower bread ham sandwich, coleslaw
7. Ground beef and zucchini, tossed salad
And this is what really happened:*
Monday: Crack chicken over rice or cauli rice, tossed salad
Tuesday: Cheese stuffed mini burgers on lettuce with pickles and tomatoes
Wednesday: Pizza on frozen grilled pizza crust (or keto flatbread)
Thursday: Out to eat after Mandarin class
Friday: Leftover BBQ , cucumbers, leftover baked beans (or not)
Saturday: Takeout spinach pie (TheHub) or chicken kubidah (me) tossed salad
Sunday: Pork tenderloin in dragon sauce, Tyrion's mushrooms. Night's Watch bitter salad. Yes this was our Game of Thrones meal.
And now I am planning for this week,** which as usual may or may not (probably not) happen.
1. White bbq chicken, cauliflower "potato" salad. something green (asparagus, green beans, broccoli?)
2. Grilled burgers and burger fixings, coleslaw, chips or not
3. Cauliflower bread ham and cheese sandwich
4. Keto sloppy Joe's, tater tots or radish "hash browns", broccoli
5. Spanish pulled pork, sautéed cabbage, dinner roll or keto roll
6. Kraut and sausage, cooked carrots, cucumber slices
7. Cauliflower au gratin, green beans, apple carrot and raisin salad
8. Grilled steak, cauli mash or mashed potatoes, green salad
* Stuff happened all week, but I forgot to note it and I am not inclined to try and remember details right now. I promise to do better next week
** Since this is Memorial Day week I am extending the meal possibilities through Monday. Weather cooperating we are headed to the lake for a long weekend.
Love the game of thrones meal.
ReplyDeleteIt was as delicious as the final episode was disappointing!
DeleteRadish hash browns? Can you post that recipe? I am making cole slaw tomorrow, and this post makes me want to make it right now.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that there is really a recipe. Just dice the radishes (smallish). Heat a bacon grease/cooking oil mixture ( couple of tablespoons total) in a small pan add the radishes and cook until they are soft and tender on the inside and the outside is a little crispy. I use the largest red radishes I can find but I am sure a daikon radish would work as well.
DeleteGood luck - and enjoy your time at the lake.
ReplyDeleteThanks. We plan on enjoying it even though I have gotten a little afraid to make a plan.
DeleteIt's already Monday so I hope you had a wonderful long weekend!
ReplyDeleteThe long weekend begins for us this coming Friday. Fingers crossed things work so we can go!
DeleteRadish hashbrowns. Now that's an interesting concept.
ReplyDeleteKeto is the "It's almost like the real thing, but not quite diet"
DeleteI like all your menu suggestions. :) I think this is going to be a leftovers week for me, with, perhaps, a batch of homemade tomato soup to keep things interesting.
ReplyDeleteSuggestions is the right word for it. It is only Monday and I have already veered off the plan. Homemade tomato soup sounds wonderful.
DeleteI planned, but already see things going south. Take out might end up factoring into the line up one night.
ReplyDeleteIt is just Tuesday and I am abandoning my plan already. Such is life I guess
DeleteSounds like a great plan to me! I just went off plan the last couple of days, just wanted something different and hoping for weather to get better soon for grilling!!! Take care, Anne!
ReplyDeleteIt is already grilling and swimming weather here so I imagine grilling is what I will wind up doing most of this week.
DeleteLove your GOT menu. We are grilling a lot too. Trying to make it through new carpet in the bedrooms/office week (total chaos in the house right now as almost everything has been taken apart/moved to our living room). I think a costco cooked chicken and salad kit counts as groceries versus eating out so we will go with that, tonight tuna melts and soup. Last night I cooked for real - beef with brocolli and cauliflower soup with biscuits homemade. Perhaps instant pizza for Friday night (Delissio kind). Easy meals is the name of the game this week
ReplyDeleteI hear you! When things are in chaos even doing true take out is friendlier to the budget than eating out. Costco chicken? I count is as a grocery item.
DeleteI want to try white barbequed chicken. It all sounds so good.
ReplyDeleteIt is a fast easy way to eat chicken that is a tad different. Here is a link for the how to's.
DeleteIt helps to actually post the link. https://newhappeningsatthetable.blogspot.com/2014/06/white-b-b-q-chickenits-southern-thing.html
DeleteGood plan. Yup, we know what tends to happen to plans, but so what? This way we get the pleasure of thinking about dinner twice -- once when we plan, then when we actually make what we feel like making in the moment. :-)
ReplyDeleteOr thrice: the plan, the making, or the menu when we decide to chuck everything and just go out!
ReplyDelete