Posted on 01/24/2023 7:19:20 AM PST by grundle
Hi! I'm Sydney, a stay-at-home mom of three, and I make homemade meals for my Colorado family every week.
Each weekend — with that budget in mind — I plan all my family's meals for the upcoming week. This includes choosing the recipes I will make, plus the actual shopping. I cook pretty much every meal every day due to a severe peanut allergy in my household. We don't rely on much takeout for this reason.
(Produce: Garlic, bok choy, green onions, cilantro, ginger, red bell pepper, green beans, carrots, lime, avocado, oranges, lettuce, tomato, bananas, parsley. Dairy: Ricotta, parmesan, mozzarella, cream cheese, cheddar, colby jack, sour cream, milk Meat: Chicken, ground beef, breakfast sausage, hot dogs. Pantry: Marinara, lasagna noodles, artichoke hearts, chicken broth, ramen, soy sauce, taco seasoning, refried beans, salsa, coconut milk, basmati rice, taco shells, black beans, tortillas, cheddar cheese soup, oats, brown sugar. Misc: Mini muffins, crescent rolls, frozen hash browns, frozen spinach. (**Not pictured: Costco eggs.)
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Disagree. It takes about two cans of tomatoes and a can of tomato paste, plus onion, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, parmesan cheese and herbs to make a quart of bottled sauce.
Agree. Bagged hash browns? No vitamins remain. Ramen noodles? Salt and preservatives. Mini muffins? White flour, sugar, dried egg product, dried berries and preservatives...
The kids are not getting the protein they need.
Wonder what the parents really eat?
The bottom line is....she doesn't really cook...Opening a jar of sauce is not cooking...Tacos is not cooking...2 lbs of rice a week??
IMO, it is far past time for the inventor of the Crock Pot to be beatified. There should be a national holiday in his honor as well as whoever came up with tupperware...and the nuke!
“...for every uneaten meal my children have left...”
A-a-a-a, that falls directly on you, the parents! That should never be tolerated.
LOL! Same here.
My three sons can pound down the food.
Happy to see I’m not the only one requiring manners from my kids. Not enough parents do nowadays.
Now here's what I do...I don't put leftovers in containers....I put the pan in the fridge. It makes me use the leftovers...and eliminates the container. My greatest and latest cooking invention!!!
My other snack goodie is sauteed tomatoes, a couple strips of bacon cut up, 1/2 bag fresh spinach, scallions...top off with couple slices of cheese for protein and slide unto a plate. Really...Pizza without the crust.
I make a huge batch...and freeze portions in baggies. Flat and stack.
Sounds good!
“I practically live on left-overs. Doncha hate it when they run out? Not fun when there’s nothing to eat....just ingredients.”
The head chef in our home is my 62 year bride. She tries to have a main meal or two and lunch for a couple of days and another dinner QSed with some other ingredients. Leftovers are an important part of our weekly eating.
Her best efforts are with the $5 Costco Chicken. We get the 2 hour delivery and one chicken with each order about once a month. We have the wings and maybe thigh/drumstick for the first lunch. Next, she prepares polenta and a slice or two of chicken for a lunch or dinner. Then, she makes a stew with some of the left over chicken and often QSes her stew with a can of good Progresso soup. I will add my share of tbe salad to my stew/soup in a bowl.
A pound of ground beef becomes hamburgers and left overs are used with Tacos or spaghetti . She does something similar with Jimmy Dean sausage.
We are both depression and WWII kids, and our mothers in spite of the rationing and other limits kept us fed and growing with their creativity in their kitchens. My wife inherited those skills.
She scans the weekly ads of our small local chain store and often has me buy the good priced items for present and future meals like the Jimmy Dean Sausage and one or two good frozen piazza’s. 1/3 to half of my weekly grocery shopping bill is fresh produce.
She is a firm believer in the Mediterranean way of what to buy, how to prepare and enjoy. Our family doc is amazed at how good our lab values are for 80 year old+ patients.
Married people tend to vote Republican across all groups.
Probably why they have been working so hard to get rid of marriage.
When our kids were younger, my wife got in the habit of planning dinner a month out. She did big shopping once a month with a small fill in every week.
Kids are out but she still does that.
“What do you mean you scheduled a work trip next Tuesday. We’re having chicken that night!”
Tolerated?
I am not going to force a child to clean their plate. They wish not to eat that’s their prerogative but what is served is all they are getting
If I had the cash back for every uneaten meal my CATS have left... :-)
I baked.
And then I taught the teens to bake
Bread, cakes, muffins, pancakes,
Brownies, cookies
They had 50 lbs flour and the fixings.
Rotisserie chicken = shwarma. Yum.
The Wegmans Barbecue chicken went from $5 to $10 all of a sudden. Like you guys....I got about 5 meals out of that bird.
Could not live without my Instapot....more multi use, and quicker than crockpot.
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