Some Catching Up

This is Pork Tenderloin in a healthy(for real) cream sauce. Recipe posted.

Taco Soup....recipe to come later. It is very good. Very vegetarian & very high in fibre. Not Jon's fav.

Other items on the menu have been:

Saturday night we had BBQ Ribs, Rice, Carrots

Sunday we had a delicious brunch for my mom's birthday and it included sausage/bacon/hashbrown casserole/sticky pull apart cinnamon buns/fruit salad & for dessert snickerdoodle cupcakes.

Blackened Steak Salad for dinner(it was okay)

Monday night was Fajita's

Tuesday was the Pork Tenderloin dish(recipe below)

Tonight....Pyrogy's

Cream Sauce(you can make this and add whatever meat you like or another thing that is tasty in it is spaghetti squash)

One can of fat free evaporated milk

4 cloves of garlic pressed

1 green pepper diced

1 red pepper diced

1 onion diced

Lot's of fresh ground pepper. When you think it's enough put more.

Dash of salt

I used Pork Tenderloin but you can use chicken too.

Fry the meat, peppers, onion in a bit of olive oil and the garlic. Add the milk when all of that is cooked. Let it thicken up a bit and serve hot over noodles. We have used linquini & rice fettucine before. Both are good.

Day 10 and holding!

I've been terrible at posting - I tried posting on Monday but coincidentally someone else was posting at the same time so when I hit publish it lost my whole post and said to try again later. Obviously it wasn't a huge priority to re-cap...

We've been successful at not eating out although that will change on Saturday when we go to Banff.

What have we been eating?

Hmm...sandwiches Friday night before going to Mom's, Beef Rouladen Saturday at Mom's, BBQ steak Sunday night, I can't remember what Monday's dinner was... and of course Taco Tuesday last night.

Cabbage rolls and perogies were Monday night -just had to open the fridge and look for leftovers, ha ha.

Aaron has salmon on the menu tonight.

Weekend at the Parks

Hi Everyone,

Well I had a day last week where I ate out. Everything was paid for me, so I saved money that way, but I still failed on this month's challenge. ALthough I'm glad I haven't gone to McDonalds or Wendy's. On a good note I have a couple of pictures and cool ideas.


Tonight for dinner we had Spanish Rice, which I know is also a Campbell favorite. It's Spanish rice a roni and you add ground beef to it. Put a little cheese on top and eat it with nacho chips. It's fast and good. The hardest part is finding the spanish rice a roni.

Last night it was nice enough to barbeque

So we had hamburgers with my favorite flat buns from superstore. (and they are whole wheat). We also had some beets with it, homemade from the garden last summer and some cauliflower. The cool park about the cauliflower is that I had some pesto in the fridge from a meal a week ago and put a dollop of that on. It was delicious.

We also had fish and chips last week.

They are also an easy favorite and the kids eat them and it's a good way to get fish in the diet (even if it is batter coated) My favorite fish brand is haddock and hops from superstore.

How is everyone else doing?

Jenn

Day 5

Success again......taco's(a.k.a. rollies the kids call them). I had mine as a taco salad with avocado. Bad photo since I forgot to take one when the food was hot.

March 4, 2010

Day 1.....Smokies and Tortellini(Connor & Jon's fav)
Day2...yahoo! It's grocery buying day today....and failed tonight. I got taken hostage by the rest of the fam including the grandparents because we were out for Connor's hockey game and they wanted Pizza. Jon says it's eat out month next month..."a couple of him and his guy friends decided" is what he told me.
Day 3..success, roast beast/potatoes/carrots/yorkshire puddings...no photo's.

Day 3 and so far so good

I honestly think my body and taste buds were looking forward to this challenge! We did eat out 3 times this weekend, Jack Astor's for a lovely sit down dinner and then 1 trip through McDonald's drive thru and 1 trip through the Wendy's drive thru. I didn't even enjoy the Wendy's -that's got to be a sure sign of too much take out.

Day 1 we had BBQ chicken, rice-a-roni and salad. Nothing fancy but tasty and zero leftovers. Day 2 was BBQ pork cutlets, rice vermicelli and vegetables. I'm the only one who'll eat cooked veggies so I had steamed broccoli and the boys had raw broccoli and carrots. No leftovers! I'm not a huge fan of leftovers, unless it's pasta, that doesn't seem to lose any flavour or get a weird texture after being refrigerated unlike some other stuff...like steamed broccoli - not so good the second day.

Tonight it's soup and grilled cheese.

First Post for March 2010

SO how is everyone doing on your first couple of days? Mine have been okay. Yesterday was a bit of a challenge as I was away from home. When you are close to home you can always come back home for food, but when you are far it takes some good planning in advance.

The other part I forgot was a challenge was remember to take pictures of the food before I eat it. Last night was a classic spagetti and tonight was pork chops. One thing I have been doing more of is baking. Our favorites have been chocolate chip cookies. We just use the recipie on the back of Chipits bag, but with a couple of modifications.

Here's our recipie:

1/2 cup of butter
1/2 cup of shortening
1 c. of brown sugar
1/2 c. of white sugar
2 eggs
splash of vanilla
Mix all of this together

2 cups of flour
a couple of shakes of salt
1 tsp of baking soda

Mix that in. Then add 2 cups of chocolate chips.

Bake in oven at 375 for 10 minutes for the first batch and 9 minutes for each batch after.
Makes about 4 dozen and they are delicious.

Any other updates?

Jenn