Food Boringest Food

Trust me when I say that no one is going to be singing accolades about the meals we are eating right now. Though I have a ton of food, when I don't look at the food ads and plan meals around what is on sale for the week, I have a tendency to just kind of wing it. I will snag something out of the freezer or pantry with no thought put into what it will become as a meal. It is definitely not what I should be doing. As you can see we are not going hungry at all, just eating kind of boring meals.

 The only upside is that I am pretty much staying out of the stores. I did buy 3 things I had given myself permission to buy, and it does make it easy to shop when the only aisles you walk down are produce and dairy.

Monday Meals

Breakfast: Toast with country gravy

Lunch: Huge green salad

Dinner: Sloppy Joe's on leftover white bread, broccoli, mandarin

Snack: Sugar free hot chocolate (no marshmallows this time)

Tuesday Meals

Breakfast: Coffee

Lunch: Last bit of meatball stew, crackers, mandarin

Dinner: Trader Joe's soup noodles, leftover broccoli, mandarin, lemon ginger tea (2 cups)

               (TheHub had a dinner meeting and I was not cooking just for me)

Snack: Graham crackers

Wednesday Meals

Breakfast: Coffee

Lunch: Fast food hamburger (was staying with my cousin at her rehab facility) diet Dr. Pepper

Dinner: Pork patties with leftover country gravy, green beans, potato pancakes

Snack: Mini twix, mandarin

Thursday Meals

Breakfast: Coffee, sausage links

Lunch: Not hungry, tea, mandarin

Dinner: Bbq chicken, collards, corn on the cob

Snack: crackers and cheese

Friday Meals

Breakfast: Coffee

Lunch: 1/2 leftover pork patty, leftover collards. crackers, mandarin, tea

Dinner: Vegetable soup, cheese toast, mandarin

Snack: Crackers and cheese

Saturday Meals

Breakfast: Dutch baby pancake with blueberries

Lunch: Out to eat, pork chops, slaw (me) Chicken and dumplings, mac and cheese (The Hub)

we both had stewed okra and tomatoes.

Dinner: Almost French onion soup

Sunday Meals

Breakfast: Coffee, TheHub had tea and a banana

Lunch: Leftover chicken pot pie

Dinner: Conecuh sausage, cooked cabbage

Snack: Graham cracker with peanut butter

Bought this week

5 bananas (TheHub's recreational shopping purchase)

bag of mandarins* ( ditto)

bag of broccoli and cauliflower (ditto)

2 bell peppers

1 carton cherry tomatoes

1 dozen eggs

Used this week

From The Freezer

1 pack browned ground chuck

1/2 bag frozen broccoli

1 box Trader Joe's soup noodles

1 pack ground pork

1 pack green beans

1 box sausage links

1 cooked chicken breast

1 pack cooked chicken

2 ears of corn

Quart bag of vegetable soup

1/4 bag frozen blueberries

small pack of conecuh sausage

From the Fridge

mustard

salad dressing

7 eggs

bbq sauce

cheddar slices

heavy cream

sourdough discard (product discarded after feeding the sourdough starter)

pepper sauce

Swiss cheese slices

butter

From the Pantry

remaining white bread  

whole wheat bread 2 slices

croutons

1 pack country gravy mix

1 can Manwich (how the heck did that ever get into my pantry)

graham crackers

5 quart size tea bags 

7 earl gray tea bags

2 lemon ginger tea bags

2 chai tea bags

1/2 box potato pancake mix

1 bag Cape Cod bbq chips (hub's snack over several nights)

flour (to feed sourdough starter)

1 can seasoned collard greens

1 pack hot chocolate mix

2 packs Knorr onion soup mix

honey

maple syrup

sugar

splenda

salt

pepper

hot sauce

sriracha

olive oil 

Produce used (on hand)

Lettuce

5 mandarins

4 onions

1/2 humongous cabbage

Weekly wrap up:

I find that even though I am using food storage, I don't like feeling bound to it. I think it is all about discovering things l am missing, like fresh ginger. I know I could go and buy it, but unless there is a true need for something I am not going to get it and  ginger is a want not a need.

I would like to bake cookies but I am saving my eggs. I did break down and buy more. I was about to run out anyway when a neighbor asked if she could borrow some, so I sent the ones I had to her. 

Lucky me, I found a box of graham crackers in the back of the pantry. It is not exactly what I wanted, but it is almost a substitute for a cookie.

Anyway, our meals have lacked a certain luster, but we are still eating and the meals are fine.

BTW when you see just one vegetable listed, it means we ate about 3 serving size portions. I learned long ago we do better eating a lot of one vegetable rather than regular portion sizes of three veggies. 

*I knew TheHub was going to stop at Publix for bananas but the mandarins and the broccoli and cauliflower were a surprise. I will use the broccoli and cauliflower, and have really enjoyed the mandarins (even though I did not request them)