Meals

I have really enjoyed having people stop by to check out my recipes. I hope you’ll stick around awhile and learn more about the circus life here. It has also been a ton of fun for me to find new recipes to throw into the mix by visiting the other postings on Menu Plan Monday.

Here’s what’s cooking at my place this week!!

Monday: Another MOPS meeting for me which means Daddy and the kiddos are having pancakes again. (pancakes are one of my hubby’s specialties)

Tuesday: With spring weather here, we’ve got to enjoy life outdoors, so we’re having grilled hot dogs with a side home fries and baked beans.

Wednesday: We’re having some friends over for dinner tonight. I think I will make Mexican Lasagna.

Thursday: Double Peppy Pizza (after watching BOZ, my kids now call pizza Double Peppy pizza when we put any sort of veggie on it)

Friday: I didn’t have time to make the chilli last week, so we will give it a try tonight.

Saturday: We have a busy day here with a quick meal between activities. I plan to make up some pepperoni bread so it will be ready when ever. It is one of my husband’s favorites and the kids enjoy it as well. You just make the bread dough in the bread machine, then roll it out real thin and sprinkle cheese and pepperoni on it. Roll it up and pinch the sides. Bake for 20 min at 400 degrees. It tastes good warm or cold.

Sunday: Hopefully this week I will remember to get the frozen chicken out of my freezer ahead of time so we can finally have roasted chicken with stuffing and canned peas. I keep forgetting so it gets put off to the next weeks meal.

That’s the plan for the week. Often times it gets switched around a bit, but at least it is something to start with.

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If my geographic area is hit with a EMP, nuclear bomb, or a Katrina like natural disaster, I hope that it does not come at the end of the month. If we are left to fend for ourselves at the end of the month than my family’s future would be bleak, as you can see by this photo taken this morning of my refrigerator. How long can a sack of potatoes, 2 dozen eggs, a jar of spaghetti sauce and some American cheese really last you? And what yummy dish can I whip up with those ingredients? Mind you, we have no meat in our house whatsoever. At the beginning of each month I sit down and plan out our meals for the month. I then make 2 grocery lists, one for BJs and one for a normal grocery store (b/c some things you just can’t buy in bulk) I used to be able to make 2 grocery store trips at the beginning of the month and then another one mid one to restock up on milk and produce. Now that I have 3 kids, I have MUCH less room in my cart (b/c 2 of the kids take up the majority of the cart) so my BJs run now happens twice a month and with 4 of us drinking milk now, we head weekly to restock up on milk. The only reason you see milk in the fridge now is b/c we stopped on our way home from church yesterday so I could run in for milk and something to eat for the day. For some reason this month we used up a lot of our storage. Sometimes when the month ends, I say we have no food, but what I really mean is we don’t have the food we like or that I feel like cooking. This morning when I was packing my husbands lunch I made him a sandwich that consisted of half a flour tortilla with 2 slices of swiss cheese inside and a post it note which read, “Sorry ” Tonight I plan to go to BJ’s. I sure hope the end of the world holds off at least until tomorrow!

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My kids love kidney beans. When I was introducing solids to my first born I was very cautious. I was so afraid he would choke on things that I took it painfully slow. And he really wasn’t interested in meat for awhile. (the joys of chicken nuggets and hot dogs as staples in our diet, didn’t come until his was older) My pediatrician suggested I give him kidney beans. She said they were a great source of protein and they were soft and chewy so I didn’t have to freak out about him choking. He loved them! While the other kids at playgroup were snacking on normal finger foods like goldfish or PB&J, my son would sit with a container of kidney beans and eat them by the fistful. (Yes, I was mocked for this!) When my daughter came along I introduced them to her as well. If Daddy has to work late and isn’t home for dinner, they are quite content to split a can of kidney beans. As you can see in the picture, they eat them right out of the can! No prep work needed. How easy is that? At one of our playgroups when the kids were chowing down on kidney beans a friend of mine asked if I had taken any pictures of this phenomenon. She insisted that I had to document this! One night when I served pizza for dinner, which at the time my daughter did not eat, I gave her beans instead. When my son saw this, he begged to have beans too. Beans over pizza, are you serious? Are you really my children? As my son has gotten older, his love for the musical fruit has diminished some. He’ll eat them, but he’ll tell me first that they are not his favorite. My daughter however, still delights in them. When I announced their lunch today she exclaimed, “Yea, beans, yea!!”

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