So we've almost made it all the way through week three. Its been tough. Co-workers had fried food at their desk this week... it smelled soooooo good.... So far I want KFC (we stopped eating there a looong time ago but this week it sounds so good), goat cheese ice cream and the ability for my husband to eat dinner without me cooking. Which he could do now, if he would stop being lazy.... Dinner is hard enough to make every night and it's even harder when I have to stay late at work. Sigh, the conveniences of fast processed foods. Its not like we ate poorly before. He would get fast food more often than I would like him too, but that also meant I only had to make dinner for me which could be a can of Amy's organic soup. Other than that, I did try to cook a lot. And we didn't keep fast pre-packaged meals in the freezer for dinner. I had some for lunches but that was about it. Oh I guess sometimes I would get the chicken and pasta stirfry frozen bagged meals and add extra frozen veggies to them.
The up side is that we cut out sugar. For him that doesn't really mean anything except that he misses ketchup. For me, and I've been trying to cut sugar for a while, it means that I have the will power to do that. And it also means that i'm down 5lbs. Which is just an added bonus to our healthy eating.
So... what did we have this week? Thats a good question.. let me think... Ohh It started with Monday night.
We each took a half day off of work to go out to the Woodlands to pick up more bread (did I mention we love Great Harvest Bread co and the fact that the honey whole wheat bread only has 5 ingredients! Think about that the next time you pick up your whole grain bread in the store and start reading the 30+ ingredient list...), shop at the nice mall and see Matt and Kim ( a nice surprise opening act) My Chemical Romance and Blink 182. That was a lot of fun. Might have been even better had the mall not been full of food we couldn't eat and surouned by delicious restaurants. We each managed to consume our pre-packed pb and honey sandwiches. See the down side of real food is that most of it needs refrigeration and in this 100 degree weather even coolers are not great choices.
Tuesday night was glop. :) This started out as a recipe and has become the everything but the kitchen sink noodle bake. Without the baking part. I get lazy.
See you cook up some ground meat, we always use turkey, and drain. Put that in a side bowl while you use the same pan to saute some onions and garlic. Start some pasta cooking. Then maybe add some some carrots and squash to the onions and garlic. Oh and a green pepper, I've learned to like those in this dish. Then you add in some tomato sauce or paste, or pasta sauce, or tomato soup and paste... This time I had a large can of crushed tomatoes, some frozen chicken broth and a partial can of tomato paste left over from the sheppards pie. How about some more veggies... looks like I had frozen corn, peas, broccoli and spinach. Cook on med heat for a while (covered). Mix this with the pasta and ground meat. Wanting this to last for lunches and a few dinners, (which worked out well because I worked late the rest of the week) i made a lot of pasta and sauce mix, and put it all in a 9*13 pan. At this point I could have baked it, but I didn't have as much sauce as I wanted and didn't want to dry out the dish. Just one more way to get the husband to eat more veggies!!
Unfortunately ricotta cheese has too many ingredients in it so this was my lasagna substitute for the week.
Thursday night I discovered that my raviolis were a disaster! They were completely in-edible since I made the dough too thick. Good thing I used the cheese filling (thinking the husband would eat some) and saved the squash filling for later. I mad just eat that plain!
So at about 8:30 i made chicken from a good recipe that my cousin provided for me.
Its an orange teriyaki chicken recipe with sweet potatoes. I added in some onions but I think I have to pre-cook them a bit next time, they came out a bit crunchy. The whole thing turned out quite tasty. Even when I added peanut butter to some of the sauce, then added rice and cooked spinach and the chicken and potatoes.
Since we finished off the chicken for lunch today.. I am a bit stumped for dinner. I don't want to go to the store but I may have to... we seem to be out of food. Well..."real" food anyway...
One more week to go.... OMG I want Halloween OREOS!!!
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