More Food Please

As usual I make a plan for our meals each week. Most weeks I pretty much ignore the plan, but this week I did a much better job staying at least very close to what I intended. I think it is a first for me. Our garden is beginning to produce. We got it planted late, but I had a few things that were more important than gardening until late spring, so from here on out I will have to make my plan based on what is growing. Right now things are blooming and just beginning to produce, so I am adding a little garden harvest when I recount what we ate for dinner. Unless it is really germane to our meal I am not counting herb harvest though. It gets picked and dried throughout the growing season.

This was my original  meal plan:
1 BLT salad✓
2 Spaghetti or zoodles with meat sauce, tossed salad, garlic bread ✓
3 Grilled lamb chops, grilled asparagus, sliced tomatoes,  new potatoes (or none)✓
4 Vegetarian stuffed poblanos, coleslaw
5 Chicken sandwiches, corn on the cob, coleslaw ✓
6 Takeout ✓
7 Ham Slice, leftover lady peas,  coleslaw, tomatoes and cucumbers ✓

Planted this summer: zucchini, radish, romaine lettuce, butter leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, carrots, green beans, okra, cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, cantaloupe. yellow squash, butternut squash, potato, basil, rosemary, lavender, mint, dill, lemon basil, 

Monday: I wanted to try the air fryer again and had some breaded chicken patties (Red bag chicken from Aldi that tastes remarkably like the original chicken sandwiches from Chic Fil A) to test, just to see if they would crisp. They did with no additional oil, so I am calling it a serious win. I wonder what I can try in it tomorrow night?
Harvest: 1 zucchini, 5 radishes
Chicken sandwich, corn on the cob, coleslaw with lime yogurt dressing 

Tuesday: My sister and I spent the day at Mom's. There is just so much to sort through, and honestly, after I come home from there and unload whatever stuff I am bringing home, the last thing I want to do is think about dinner. I had a half of a ham steak in the fridge, some cooked cauliflower, and leftover lady peas. Dinner pretty much made itself!
Ham leftover peas tomato slices caulitato salad

Wednesday. I had taken a pack of ground chuck out of the freezer on Monday, so it needed to be cooked. TheHub (who really never requests much) asked for his favorite meal. It was nice to be able to cook without having to think "What's for dinner"
Spaghetti with veggie dense meat sauce, garlic toast

Thursday:  We spent another day at Mom's digging through more stuff. Just exactly how many vases exceed the legal limit for one household?  We tackled the kitchen and have it about 3/4 finished. Yay us!  We both found a couple of really cool items to bring home with us. They were things neither of us remember not being at Mom's and were part of daily meal prep when we were very young kids. I am glad we took them instead of selling, even though they are quite collectible.
Take out Thai

Friday: TheHub came home a little early and we worked some in the yard. Afterward I did not want to cook, plus we were hot. Supper was a no-brainer.
BLT salad and glasses of iced tea.
Harvest: 5 zucchini, 4 radishes, radish leaves to add to our salad

Saturday: We headed to the lake to do some chores, then headed home late. Since it was the summer solstice it was the perfect day to leave late, and did not become completely dark until we were in line picking up our food (about 2 miles from home)
Smoked chicken wings and coleslaw or bbq sandwich and baked beans

Sunday:  Our Sunday was hot and a little brutal. After the church service online we worked in the yard until about 5, came in and showered, then we visited with Son2and DIL2. Though we had enough and asked them to stay for dinner, they wanted to get home. Son2's work opens back Monday and he wanted to be rested and ready, but they really did miss a good meal.
Grilled lamb chops, tossed salad, new potatoes (or none)  toast.
Harvest: 5 zucchini, 9 radishes

So hooray for me. With the exception of an unplanned takeout meal, we actually ate what I had planned with a few minor variations. I think this is the first time I actually did it. Usually I am batting about 3 out of 7.

Now on to this week's possibilities:
1. Grilled chicken, grilled pineapple, zucchini fries, coleslaw
2. Mediterranean salad, rolls or keto rolls
3. Grilled steak, tossed salad, rolls or keto rolls
4. Zucchini gratin, sliced tomatoes, coleslaw
5. Seared scallops, asparagus, onion cucumber tomato salad, toast
6. Takeout
7. Greek chicken salad on lettuce leaves, toast or rolls

Hope everyone has a wonderful week either on plan, off plan or no plan.