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YahooHow was your first week of 2012? We did really well with our meal plan until Friday. You see, we decided to redo our master bedroom. I wouldn't say it was on a whim, exactly, but not on all that much more than that. We started at about 3pm on Friday (we both work flexible schedules and odd hours) with depocorning the ceiling and pretty much worked straight through the weekend, ending at about 8pm Sunday night when we finally finished cleaning up the bedroom after painting the walls. Well, finished is a relative term. We haven't moved all the furniture back in yet. Our planned meals for the weekend? Didn't happen.
Friday night was still pizza night but it was takeout. Yummy, yummy takeout. Bonus? Leftovers for lunch Saturday afternoon. Saturday I didn't want to do takeout again and we hadn't taken anything out of the freezer so we hopped over the grocery store where roasts were on sale and threw a roast in the crockpot. Crockpot meals are perfect for home improvement weekends. Again, leftovers fueled us on Sunday. Sunday night I was so tired the thought of cooking made me weep. Chinese food take-out to the rescue. It was one of those weekends I was really happy about takeout. (There might have, maybe, been a poutine grabbed at one point from the chip truck in the Canadian Tire parking lot because I needed food right that minute. Mmmm poutine.)
This week we ARE going to stick to our meal plan. Probably. Maybe. Assuming I remember to take the roast chicken out of the darned freezer.
Monday: Pasta with ground beef. Vaguely Hamburger Helper-ish. We need to move the rest of the furniture back into the bedroom tonight so quick and easy it the way to go.
Tuesday: Chicken with peanut noodles and broccoli and snow peas. Pasta two days in a row and twice in one week is not ideal but we'll survive. (Actually, this makes me quite happy. I love me some pasta.)
Wednesday: Spicy Bean burritos with rice and ummm something. Preferably something green.
Thursday: Soup night! Lentil soup for me!
Friday: Pizza night. Or maybe sub night? Pizza subs? Meatball subs? Hmmm....
Saturday: Ribs! We were busy with home improvement-y things this past weekend and didn't get to make ribs. With cucumber tomato salad. Or maybe our chickpea salad (which happens to have cucumbers and tomatoes in it).
Sunday: Roast chicken. Fact - I put roast chicken on the menu almost every Sunday night. Fact - I hardly ever remember to take the chicken out of the freezer and cook it. Oops? Assuming I really do remember to cook it, we will use the leftovers for burritos bowls on Monday (note to self).
I have been very good at eating lunch (and breakfast!) so far in 2012. Go me!
What's on your plate this week?
BlogHer Book Club Host Karen Ballum also blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
Yeah... so... after WEEKS of getting off with small grocery store bills (even our Christmas dinner stuff didn't cost very much) we shall NOT discuss how much we spent on groceries this week. Please. *ouch*
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