As for Menu Planning, I was a hundred percent successful, but made it closer than I have before. Monday and Wednesday I actually cooked. Tuesday was a very last minute trip to Red Robin and Thursday I ended up taking all the kids to Olive Garden. Friday was as planned, the meal was a hit with the group. Saturday was just a crazy kind of day so we ended up just eating what ever at home. Sunday we made the Beer Butt chicken, had hubby cook two of them so that I have chicken cooked to make some casseroles and such this next week and then some for the freezer for later. He was about to throw away the carcasses after cutting the chickens apart and I grabbed them and bagged them for the freezer to use making some chicken noodle soup later in September. Nothing goes to waste any more around here. I also made some Garlic Red Ranch Potato, my own recipe, and you know it is good when hubby makes the effort to walk down the hall to tell me, and I quote, "those are the best potatoes I have ever had by far".
Menu planning! Once again I will link up with Organized Junkie to link to her post for Meal Plan Monday. Looking through my pantry, I see that I am LOADED down with tortillas, corn and flour. I am not sure how this happens, but ever so often it does. Part of this overload of tortillas is from going on vacation though as we seem to brought home more than we took. At any rate, I told hubby that we will have to have lots of Enchiladas and casseroles with tortillas in them. Knowing that the flavors of Tex-Mex food will get old quick, I will probably just try to freeze some of them for later on.
On the Menu this Week.
M - Bacon Cheeseburger Pasta Casserole
T - Baked Chicken Chimichangas
W - Easy Western Meal
T - Seafood Enchiladas
F - Indiana Chowder
S - French Bread Pizza - Stouffer's brand bought at Costco, because I want it out of the freezer.
S - C.O.R.N. smorgasbord
We also hosted the Dinner for 8 group we belong to from our church. This is a group of four couples, ranging in age, and we meet once a month to socialize. Each couple takes a turn hosting. I am hoping that this is also the before and after view for my kitchen with them as the plan is to have the new kitchen done by the time we host again. PRAYING that it happens any way.
Have also put on my budgeting hat. I am going to cut the obscene amount of frivolous spending I do down as much as possible. To do that, on Monday I am starting a spending and food journal, writing each every thing I buy and eat. One, it will make me accountable for both. Another reason, I feel that some of my physical issues may be due to food allergies or sensitivity. When I have really bad days and especially nights, I can go back and look to see if I ate anything that was in common for those days. You know, did I load up on wheat products, milk maybe, or processed foods or sugars. I need to loose weight and am paying for a gym membership for my daughter and I that we aren't using and that needs to change.
Hubby and I wanted to help out our kids a little bit, so we went to Costco, had a coupon for Huggies brand diapers, good for $6 a box off, up to 2 boxes, and bought a box of size 1 and 5 for the grand babies. The coupon is good to the end of the month, so am going to go back and get two more boxes while I can still get the savings. Only, this next time will get a box of size 2 and 5. Little Miss C is growing and will be going in to the next size very soon. Her last doctor visit they switched her over to soy based formula, going to buy some of that tomorrow to give to them tomorrow as well.
I cleaned like crazy Friday, guess what I found...a bedroom in all of that mess. A really nice large bedroom. Still have a ton of clothes to put away, two tons of wash to do, but it is getting there. I should have gone to the grocery store and to the farmer's market on Saturday, but I just stayed home and lazed out. I must be really out of shape because two days of cleaning, one evening of hosting a party completely wore me out. Also, my pantry, fridge and freezer are so loaded that I would not be able to get anything new in it. On the good side of that, I have plenty of food to work with.
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