Meal Planning... part 2....

I made this last night:

Click on the image to go to the site. I used rotel instead of diced peppers and macaroni instead of noyolks because that's what I had on hand. I also threw it all into the crock pot, adding the cheeses just before serving. I'm still not a good crock pot cook, but Chris really liked it. I even liked it and I didn't think I would.

This successful creation found on pinterest has made me decide to try an all pinterest meal plan again. Last time I did this, it was a failure. There was only one recipe I would repeat, the rest were bland or just flat not good.

This morning I started with this:

They are pretty good. Tamarin likes them. I was trying to convince Lemur to try them and Tamarin chimed in, "I tried them. They're goooood." I didn't have any self rising flour so I added 1/2 tsp baking soda and baking powder. I was lazy and didn't look up the exact amounts I needed to add for 1 cup of homemade self rising flour. The little ones turned out good, the big ones didn't. Turns out it's 1 1/4 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt per cup of flour. Oops..... If you ever need bisquick or self rising flour just google homemade with it and it'll show you what proportions to mix to have the same thing as the premade stuff.

This was a win for me. A shot or two of Louisiana Sauce and it was good. Chris said it tasted okay, there's some heat, but not a lot of taste. I think he just didn't like the fact most of the taste is in the veggies :p

OMG - I don't care that it took an hour to make. This is a repeat. In fact this may become a weekly staple.

Chris didn't believe me when I told him these were whole wheat. These were very good.

 



This was okay. Not bad for a really fast dessert.

It took me ten days since my original post to get this far. This is why meal planning just doesn't work for me.

Here's the half a plan for the rest of the week:

We have leftovers from last night's meal. I picked up steak at the meat market plus the three entrees above and resulting leftovers. I think that should be plenty to get us to next Monday and maybe even beyond. I was hoping to get out to the grocery store today, but I'll probably resort to sending Chris when he gets off work.

The Cozi app has been tremendously useful. I don't remember how I came across this app to begin with. We have it on my computer, kindle, and Chris' phone. I like it. I can write up the list at home and Chris can look at it on his phone. No phone calls, repeating my whole list, him writing it down, then forgetting to bring in that list, another phone call asking me to repeat, him trying to do it from memory and the end result - not having what I need for dinner. Also as long as I open my list on the kindle before leaving the house (or any wifi spot) I can then go to the grocery store and use it instead of a hand written list. You used to be able to organize the list, but since they updated I've not been able to figure out how to rearrange items. Chris finds that annoying. I don't mind as much. There's also a calender, to do list, and recipes, but I've not explored the recipes, don't know if they are any good.

I'll update this post after I make the meals to share my opinion on them.