It Was A Week

The past week was one of those weeks where the wheels fall off the bus and not much goes according to plan, at least where meals are concerned. Our meals were not really weird, but definitely not what I planned  At least we did not resort to  eating the flora in the yard, so daisies were marked safe.**** 

What was planned:

1. Mississippi pot roast, potatoes, coleslaw, dinner rolls

2. Leftover crack chicken, rice, tossed salad, coleslaw, green beans

3. We have another club minimum to use before the 31st

4. Out to eat (going to Nashville for the day)

5. Veggie meal TBD

6. Big salad meal TBD

7. BBQ ribs, baked beans, caulitato salad

Days and Dinners:

Monday: This was mainly a home day, where nothing exciting happened, though My Beloved Sister did run by the house while she was out and about. She had a couple of business questions she needed to ask TheHub, plus she needed a restroom break. We visited for a little bit before she had to be on her way

Monday dinner: Last week's food ads had a chuck roast at a price I was willing to pay, though the prices of beef and chicken astound me now.

Mississippi pot roast potatoes and onions, coleslaw, dinner rolls

Tuesday: I let the days slip up on me and this was the last day for the sale prices at our nearby grocery stores. I shop by cherry picking the various store ads, and almost missed tne items I either needed or wanted because the sale price was too good to not buy for the future. 

I rounded up my cooler bags, and general store bags and headed out to not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 stores to snag their weekly bargains. I can hit Sprouts, Aldi, and Publix easily for they are literally 3 traffic lights apart on the same road. I have a list and pretty much stick to it, so each stop takes me anywhere from 10-15 minutes. I can take the backroads and pass ThePig for one more stop before heading home. 

This day became the perfect shopping trip for the weather was sunny and I arrived home about 5 minutes after TheHub. He was able to help me unload the car and put the groceries away. 

Tuesday dinner: After getting all the groceries bought and in their proper place, I didn't feel like cooking.

Big vegetable salad,  dinner roll

Wednesday: It was a day without anything spectacular, but was a gorgeous non spectacular day. I'll take a day like that anytime!

Wednesday dinner: We had a club food minimum that needed to be used by the 31st. Their Wednesday special was a good time to use it, and was sort of an homage to a Labor Day meal.

BBQ pork steak, coleslaw, mashed sweet potatoes, roll, red velvet cake*

Thursday: This was a mess around the house doing little other than reading. I did talk with Sluggy which was a fun thing to do

Thursday dinner: Planned overs day!

Leftover crack chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw

Friday: We drove to Nashville for the day to see DIL3's and Son3's new house. But we also wanted to go see DIL3's parents who were in Nashville for a bit. They live in Switzerland and we have only seen them a handful of times. Since they were so close we wanted to make sure we got to visit with them for a bit. 

After touring the house we all went to a Japanese inspired pizza restaurant. I know it sounds odd, but it was delicious.

The day was pleasant and we were able to dine outside in the shade. There were no other customers on the patio and we were ale to eat and visit without bothering anyone else, and we lingered quite a while. 

We left Nashville about 30 minutes before the afternoon traffic really backed up and made it home just a bit after dark. We only got stuck in slow/stalled traffic for about 15 minutes, which might have been our record for the least amount of time we have been at a virtual standstill on 65 since Son3 and DIl3 moved to Tennessee.

Friday dinner: We both decided to just pick something up on the way home. Waldo's chicken had a decent sandwich option and I had some leftovers in the fridge

The Roost**, coleslaw, potatoes

Saturday: This was ball game day and we spent the day watching various teams play. We also watched the Alabama game and though there was an official game, I am pretty sure the Alabama players did not play. There seems to be no discipline and no intensity to this team. It's gonna be a long season I'm afraid.

Saturday dinner: Son2 and DIL2 came over to watch the game they stayed for a pre-Labor Day bbq meal. My Beloved sister joined us also.

BBQ ribs, corn on the cob, coleslaw, potato salad, baked beans, key lime pie

Sunday: For Labor Day weekend our church had only one service and no Sunday school. We opted to stay home and watch it streaming. I know, bad me! 

I have no idea what TheHub did, but I did a boatload of laundry, and packed up some of the clothes I will not wear agin until next spring. I obey the fashion laws and will not wear white (except for a blouse or sweater) after labor Day, and all pastels or summer florals are put away in one of the upstairs closets. Since Monday is Labor Day the packing away had to begin. Even though I was putting things away, no fall clothes were brought down. I will still be wearing shorts and flip flops, just the darker colored ones.

Sunday dinner: We still had a decent amount of the minimum for meals we needed to use. We ordered 2 meals for take out and split them at home.

Shrimp bowl, Mediterranean chicken bowl***

What's planned for this week's meals maybe:

1. Chicken bog, tossed salad

2. French dip, coleslaw

3. Grilled fish, baked potato, salad

4. Out to eat

5. Veggie meal, cornbread

6. Salad meal, rolls (?)

7. Skillet ratatouille, tossed salad, rolls

Books read in August

Fly Away

The Noticer

Odd Thomas

The Noticer Returns

Rum, A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails*****

The Names

The Christmas Box

Jill Is Not Happy

Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan, or with no plan at all

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Anne

* Bummer, the meal only used a little over half of our minimum. It was huge and we each only ate half of our food. The rest, along with a huge tossed salad which neither of us touched was put in the fridge to be eaten later for a couple of day's lunches.

** The Roost is a shredded roasted chicken sandwich with white BBQ sauce

*** We split the shrimp bowl and both ate a bit of the chicken bowl, but 3/4 of it went back in the fridge for lunches this week

**** Weird segue I know, but I just finished a book where the antagonist used flowers from her garden as murder devices and I have edible and not so edible flowers on the brain right now.