At the beginning of the week this is what I thought might happen
1. Stuffed baked potatoes with various veggie toppings, coleslaw
2. DIL3 plans to make a Swedish meal
3. Steak, baked potato. salad
4. Roast chicken, dressing, green beans, tossed salad
5. Sloppy Joe's, coleslaw
6. Coconut Soup
7. Take Out
Yeah, it didn't! This happened instead!
Monday: Dil3 had to fly back to NYC for a quick visit to have her Green Card Biometrics appointment. (fingerprints and a photo) I had a small lamb roast I had bought and was about to put in the the freezer when I remembered she does not like lamb and would not be here for dinner. (Son3 loves lamb)
Lamb roast, brown rice, salad.
Tuesday: I had decided to make something in the crock pot that would hold until DIL3's flight got arrived. I knew at least TheHub and I would go ahead and eat, but I figured Son3 would probably wait for her. Then I completely forgot to take anything out of the freezer to put in the crock pot. I am very thankful I always keep packages of browned ground chuck in the freezer. It makes quick cooking possible!
Sloppy Joe's on brioche buns, coleslaw
Wednesday: In an attempt to have some traditional southern foods I decided we would have an almost Thanksgiving dinner. Never mind that the dressing was from the frozen section at The Pig. It really is almost as good as mine and infinitely easier.
Chicken (not turkey) and dressing with gravy, broccoli
Thursday; Once again the day got away from me while I was doing little to nothing. I could be whiny about cooking, but I am doing such a poor job of it that I feel like I have no whine platform available to me at this time..
Sautéed peppers. onions, tomatoes and sausage over couscous.
Friday: There is no reason why, but it was Friday and I decided I was not going to cook. We had already ordered when Son2 and DIl2 said they were coming over and would eat with us. Fortunately we had ordered ziti for 2 from Costa's. We knew it would be plenty for 4 but in reality it was more than enough for 6. I even had to insist they eat a little more just to get rid of it all.
Baked ziti, tossed salad, bread sticks, red velvet cake, salted caramel cake (cakes from Publix bakery)
Saturday: We decided to do take out one more night because nothing sounded really good except___
Pizza
Sunday: I was busy gathering up the fragments of dinners past so I made 2 pots of soup which I intended to have for dinner. (Garbage soup, made from bits of this and that, and coconut soup using the remaining chicken from Wednesday's meal ) They smelled so good though that both were hit for lunch. In the process of cleaning out I took a container of left over pot roast from the freezer and it became the headliner in our dinner.
Beef Stoup (Thicker than soup but not quite stew) coleslaw, pickles (pickled radishes, okra, green beans, and regular dills)
Now on to the new week
1 Smoked chicken wings, baked beans, coleslaw
2 Chili, cornbread, crudité
3 Mac and cheese, peas and coleslaw
4 Grilled fish, green beans, baked potatoes, rolls
5. Take out
6 Steak, baked potato, salad
7 Soup and sandwich
As usual this is completely subject to whim and mood!
Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan, or with no plan at all!
Your meal plans are great. It is difficult, however, for one person.
ReplyDeleteIf I were planning dinner for just me I would have cereal or popcorn every night!
DeleteYes, I'd have toast
DeleteIt all sounds delicious to me! I put in an order for groceries, yesterday, and will pick it up, this afternoon. Depending on what I receive (I won't know if I'll get everything I ordered until a few minutes before pick up), I will be making a menu plan for the week. :)
ReplyDeleteI went to Aldi today and there were not more than 10 people in the entire store. I have figured out the best times to go when there are the fewest possible people.
DeleteI saw your title but read, "Hong Kong Phooey" in my head. https://youtu.be/6dum1WJXJMA So not PC nowadays. lol
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking the chicken wings will be a football night meal?
Actually it will not. The football meal tonight is chili, coleslaw and cornbread. The chili is done and simmering, the slaw is made so all I have to do is make the cornbread.
DeleteSon3 is planning on doing some smoking tomorrow when the weather is supposed to be better.
I hear you on not feeling like cooking-even less with just the two of us. I'm feeling blah, so don't even wan tot run to the C store/bakery but suppose I'll need to, but will try to stretch another week for a real grocery shop. Chili sounds good, but hubs thinks mine is too salty-but really it is too spicy for him, and I on;y like it spicy.
ReplyDeleteI just needed something easy to make that could simmer until game time. Chili worked perfectly for that__spicy chili!
DeleteIt all sounds perfect to me! I love making almost Thanksgiving dinner a few times a year using chicken too :)
ReplyDeleteMe too, Martha. I really prefer chicken over turkey anyway!
Delete"no whine platform available." hilarious!
ReplyDeleteTruth hurts sometimes!
DeleteI don't even pretend to make a meal plan so I never have to worry about whether I followed it. :)
ReplyDeleteI think it is something I do to amuse myself. I post possibilities based on what is available, but the I just punt and make whatever!
DeleteIt is really hard for me to stick to any plan so I just go day by day and now I need to go search the freezer for some meat!
ReplyDeleteI make a plan so I can later ignore it, I guess!
DeleteIt all sounds good to me! Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteThank you, you have a great week also!
Deletesausage and peppers over cous cous is something i used to do years ago. I had forgotten it but it was a handy, easy kind of thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder why you make plans and don't seem to use them at all (i dont even make the plans) but it probably helps you to at least know what you want to buy and what is available for cooking?
It helps me keep up with what is on hand, but sometimes what I thought would be tasty just sounds horrid.
DeleteI love Jennifer. How nice it would be to have someone cook for me for a few days.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
It is lovely to have someone else do the cooking even if it is just warming up soup for lunch!
DeleteYour plan sounds great, Anne! Never thought of freezing bags of cooked ground beef, perfect for a last minute meal! #3 sounds great for me, but Bill doesn't think it's a meal without a serving or 2 of meat. Love Jennifer's voice, great video! She can sing like no one else! Have a good rest of the week!
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DeleteShe does have a remarkable set of pipes!
I freeze both cooked ground chuck and cooked cubed chicken to have on hand for quick meals. Often I forget to take things out of the freezer in time to thaw and those bags mean even with my forgetfulness, dinner can be ready in a snap.
We're ordering all our groceries from a shopping service, so I've gotten much better at meal planning. Well, better at ingredient planning -- often I use the ingredients to make something totally different from what I originally envisioned. :-)
ReplyDeleteI use what is here, just not necessarily like I think I will at the beginning of the week when I plan.
DeleteCrikey things have changed since I got my green card a million years ago. When I got to the Embassy at Berne they didn't like my photo (neither did I but that's irrelevant) because my ear had to be visible. Caught a taxi into town and got more photos. Again they didn't like them. Another taxi and third time lucky. When I got to the States (D.C.) they again didn't like my photo so I had to get another one. When my green card came a couple of months later they had used my original photo from Berne!
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha, of course they did. When she called to see if she would be able to defer the appointment until after they returned to NYC she was told yes, but she would be put back at the end of the biometric appointments which would be another 6 month delay. No point in doing that when she could fly and be back here in 36 hours. She said she felt like a space alien on the flight. She wore gloves, a shield and a mask, but said people did not look at her too unkindly.
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