Close but No Cigars

Another week of meal planning and I actually came close to making what I had planned. As my cousin used to say "Well, pin a red rose on your ass." Yeah, compliments were not my family's thing.

What I planned:

1.Leftover spaghetti (TheHub) tossed salad

2. Cheeseburger salad

3. Egg roll in a bowl

4. White bbq chicken, caulitato salad, green beans

5. Greek chicken salad, asparagus, rolls or keto rolls

6. Grilled steak, grilled veggies, green beans, tossed salad

7. Grilled tuna steaks, coleslaw, cauliflower mashed potatoes or real mashed potatoes (TheHub)

What Really Happened:

Monday: I already had the chicken thawed and ready to cook when Mother Nature decided to send buckets of rain. So much for grilling. I decided to just roast the chicken and pour the white bbq sauce over it, but when I was gathering the ingredients from the fridge I noticed a partially filled bottle that was taking up space, would be just as tasty, and it would use the remainder of the bottle.

Buffalo ranch chicken, green beans, coleslaw

Tuesday: We have what we call ball game meals which are simple and easy foods to make and eat before we watch a game. Tuesday TheHub suggested we have a ball game meal before the boxing match  debate.

Cheeseburger Salad  (This tastes just like eating a bunless Whopper)

Wednesday: I felt icky all day and the one time I did eat, I paid for eating. It is so nice to have some leftovers

Spaghetti with meat sauce (TheHub) glass of ginger ale (me)

Thursday: The house was mostly ready for the movers on Friday. I spent the day getting places ready for everything that would not be going into the empty living room and forgot to take anything out of the freezer until early evening. Fortunately some things thaw quickly.

Grilled tuna steaks*, baked potato (TheHub) tossed salad

Friday: The movers came and I spent all day trying to integrate some of Mom's things into my house. I moved furniture from. here to there trying to come up with an arrangement I found pleasing. By the time TheHub came home, nothing was ready to eat, I was not going to cook, plus every thing in my body ached. Because he is a very smart man, he suggested we order some take out.

The Red Pearl basil chicken and pea leaves

Saturday:  Son2 and DIL2 came over to watch the game (Roll Tide) then ate dinner with us.

Grilled steak, mashed potatoes (them) caulimash (me) tomato cucumber onion salad, crescent rolls (them) zero carb bread toasted(me)

Sunday: We had a small hunk leftover from the Saturday night T-bones. Time for a little reformation movement.

Steak soup with onions, mushrooms, leftover pea leaves, and caulirice

And on to the new week: (TheHub is going to be working late most nights so I need meals that will hold well or cook in under 10 minutes) 

Chili, coleslaw, cornbread

Vegetable soup, cornbread

Carnitas, over rice or caulirice, tossed salad

Cajun chicken, stewed okra, tomatoes and onions, caulitato salad  garlic bread, 

Veggie meal: peas, okra, squash

Seared scallops, asparagus, mashed potatoes or caulirice

Take out

And now that I am doing keto again it means I have to do everything from scratch. This week I need to bake:

keto dinner rolls

keto corn bread 

keto butter cookies

keto chocolate chip cookies

          or

some type of keto cake

* If you have never tried the frozen bag of individually wrapped tuna steaks at Aldi, do yourself a favor and buy them immediately! They cook on the grill in about six minutes, thaw quickly,  and most importantly they are delicious! I keep them all the time. They come in a package of three so two packs gives the two of us 3 meals.