It is official. I have turned into my mother. I am meal-planning, and then grocery shopping. I do refuse though to calculate which store has the cheapest toilet paper on sale, and how much it is a roll. When I don’t meal plan, we spend more money, and don’t eat as healthy. Every week I sit down with 1 new recipe, and dream a little dream that I will come up with something wonderful that my children and husband will eat. To be clear I am not talking about Kale chips, quinoa, chick peas, or couscous. I would be happy if they would eat quiche, shepherd’s pie, or stew. Below is a sample of 1 week.
I try to make something 1 day, that can be used again the following day
if leftovers.
Sat
L- Burgers/fries/veggies &dip
D-Spag(with puree veggies/cut up burgers)
Sun(no naps)
L-skiing Bento boxes
D-Baked chicken and
veggies
Mon(no naps)
L-cheese
quesadilla& chicken
D-Pork chops/cauliflower with cheese sauce
& rice
Tues
L-grilled
cheese& tom soup/cucumbers
D-chicken meatball
chili
Wed (no naps)
L-tacos
D-Kids-cheesy pasta (leftover cheese sauce)
Us- Stirfry
Thurs (no naps)
L-daycare
D-leftovers/ or Hamburg
soup
Fri
L-tuna melts
D salmon/rice/veg
So the other thing that is something that would make my mother cringe..is to have white with white on the plate. Growing up
as farmers meant we had lots of meat/potato/veggies on our plate. However to have fish, cauliflower, and rice all on the plate was never seen.
I also try to write what is going on that week. Swim times, ski times, if the children will have a nap. The reason for this is it changes what we have. If the children don’t have a nap, it means they go to bed extremely early (5:15/5:30). Often there isn’t time for me to prepare a big dinner, so they will eat bento boxes with cut up veggies/ fruit/ little bites of dinner.
I have to feed my youngest at 4ish, otherwise she does the 100 mile stare, and at the same time stating don’t look at me. As a side note (when your parents state..I hope you have children just like you were..their wish comes true). If you follow me on twitter you will see I follow a couple of people that are fab at bento boxes (make them into pirates/angry birds/etc etc.) Mine are nothing like that, though I do sometimes make gingerbread men out of sandwiches.
Bento box tweeters:
Bentoriffic
April_Stacey
I try to make something 1 day, that can be used again the following day
if leftovers.
Sat
L- Burgers/fries/veggies &dip
D-Spag(with puree veggies/cut up burgers)
Sun(no naps)
L-skiing Bento boxes
D-Baked chicken and
veggies
Mon(no naps)
L-cheese
quesadilla& chicken
D-Pork chops/cauliflower with cheese sauce
& rice
Tues
L-grilled
cheese& tom soup/cucumbers
D-chicken meatball
chili
Wed (no naps)
L-tacos
D-Kids-cheesy pasta (leftover cheese sauce)
Us- Stirfry
Thurs (no naps)
L-daycare
D-leftovers/ or Hamburg
soup
Fri
L-tuna melts
D salmon/rice/veg
So the other thing that is something that would make my mother cringe..is to have white with white on the plate. Growing up
as farmers meant we had lots of meat/potato/veggies on our plate. However to have fish, cauliflower, and rice all on the plate was never seen.
I also try to write what is going on that week. Swim times, ski times, if the children will have a nap. The reason for this is it changes what we have. If the children don’t have a nap, it means they go to bed extremely early (5:15/5:30). Often there isn’t time for me to prepare a big dinner, so they will eat bento boxes with cut up veggies/ fruit/ little bites of dinner.
I have to feed my youngest at 4ish, otherwise she does the 100 mile stare, and at the same time stating don’t look at me. As a side note (when your parents state..I hope you have children just like you were..their wish comes true). If you follow me on twitter you will see I follow a couple of people that are fab at bento boxes (make them into pirates/angry birds/etc etc.) Mine are nothing like that, though I do sometimes make gingerbread men out of sandwiches.
Bento box tweeters:
Bentoriffic
April_Stacey
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