Yesterday, I blogged about being in a blogging funk. Today, I bring you randomness.
With our move quickly approaching (
eeek) I am trying to use up as much food in the house as possible. I am of the opinion that moving the contents of the fridge, freezer and pantry is just kind of annoying. Minus a few staples, I did not buy any groceries this week in an attempt empty said areas. I post this not because you are moving, but because I feel like this can maybe inspire you to use up some ingredients in your house and maybe save a couple of dollars on your grocery budget next week (wink).
Here is how dinner for the week turned out:
Monday night:
Thin spaghetti w/marinara and mozzarella. For the marinara I used a can of Hunt's tomato sauce and
Wildtree Spaghetti Sauce Blend. (*used up only the can of sauce, we will probably have spaghetti again next week, get excited*)
Tuesday night:
Seafood Stir-Fry. Shortly before Easter, I seriously botched up a simple recipe for making birds nest treats by buying the wrong type of Chow Mein noodle. So, I had two packages of stir-fry noodles in the house. I used one package of the noodles and in another pan I sauteed 1/2 bell pepper*, 1/2 red onion*, and broccoli in
Wildtree Butter Flavored Grapeseed Oil. To the vegetable mix I added two Tilapia fillets and frozen shrimp. Kept over medium heat until fish and shrimp were thoroughly cooked. Once served I added
Wildtree Pacific Fusion Sauce. Yum.
*We have been using E-Mealz lately. I may have blogged about this in the past, I don't remember. But I LOVE E-Mealz. I love that the meals are super easy and super yum. But mostly, I love that my grocery list prints out for me and gives me the total cost and that it stays in line with the cash in my grocery envelope. All that to say, all of the meals that come with the plan involve fresh produce. Most times I can use up the vegetables making the meals for that week. Usually, I chop up the vegetables and freeze the unused portion. In making the stir-fry, I was able to use chopped bell pepper and chopped red onion from the freezer. Such a time-saver! How does that old saying go? Chop once, cook many times? (Or maybe that was measure twice, cut once. Whatever.)
Wednesday night:
Buffalo Chicken Wings (left over in the freezer from the Superbowl, ha!) with noodles and broccoli. The noodles were left-over plain noodles from Tuesday night. Not my finest work of culinary art. But, the noodles are gone and so is the bag of wings in the freezer.
Thursday night:
Banana Oatmeal Hotcakes and Scrambled Eggs. It seems I buy bananas in bulk around here. Some weeks we run out immediately, other weeks a couple of them start to get soft and start to turn brown. When they do that, I peel the banana and put it in a ziploc in the freezer. We use them for multiple things. These hotcakes, banana bread or every once in a while we let one thaw slightly and put it in the food processor. Tastes like ice cream. Yum. Okay, back to the meal.
These hotcakes are actually slightly nutritious. I say this because they came from a Hilton Head Health recipe. Rather than re-type the H3 recipe, I found an identical one on the
Mayo Clinic Health website {see, I told you... healthy}. In the interest of using up ingredients already in the house, I replaced canola oil with Wildtree Butter Flavor Grapeseed Oil (mentioned above) and plain yogurt with strawberry Go-Gurt (ha!).
Also, I always double the recipe, I figure if I am going to spend time making pancakes from scratch, I am going to have some in the freezer for breakfast throughout the week.
For the scrambled eggs, I sort of create the smorgasbord of scrambled eggs. Thursday night I used six eggs, 1/4 cup of skim milk, 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese {approximate, I pretty much dumped what was left of the bag in the bowl}, and a few spoonfuls of light sour cream. I mix it all together and then fry it. I have been known to add other random items to scrambled eggs... cottage cheese, cream cheese, margarine. You know, whatever can make them tasty and less healthy (wink, wink).
Friday night: Well, don't let me knock your socks off with creativity. We are having chicken nuggets, mac 'n' cheese, and broccoli. I am broccoli'ed out.
Also, I started reading through the book of Deuteronomy yesterday, using an online study guide {for now} and did some journaling along with it. I am excited to share what is speaking to my heart.
