and spaghetti ( homemade sauce that I love)
P. S. major complaining from the other Kinghorn's at my house about eat at home challenge, ugh!
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Jan. 3 & 4
Chicken curry
and spaghetti ( homemade sauce that I love)
P. S. major complaining from the other Kinghorn's at my house about eat at home challenge, ugh!
and spaghetti ( homemade sauce that I love)
P. S. major complaining from the other Kinghorn's at my house about eat at home challenge, ugh!
I Have A Confession To Make...
I love the Eat At Home Challenge. I've always been a lover of grocery stores, grocery shopping, meal planning, pouring over the weekly flyers to see how little I can spend on great meals and I love to cook but I have to confess...this is tough this time around.
Ever since my childhood sweetheart, Paul came back into my life...it's been a whirlwind ride of splitting our time between each of our households, juggling his work schedule with mine, fitting Mackenzie's scheduling needs into the picture and many, many outings spending time with his family and friends. It has been SO...MUCH...FUN!!! The only teeny, tiny downside is that the routine lifestyle that I was so used to simply doesn't exist any more and that makes grocery shopping/meal planning really tough now.
January 1st went well. We were invited to Paul's parents for pork wellington, roasted potatoes, mashed cauliflower, broccoli and "Eton Mess" for dessert. It was DELICIOUS!! His mom is a great cook. Just like Jenn, she loves to have a house full of people which makes me admire her so much as I'm only starting to learn how to be a comfortable hostess. I'll have more info about Eton Mess later in the month.
January 2nd...we blew it, though I think it was for a good reason! Paul's buddy from high school and his girlfriend and 2 wee ones (20 months & 2 months old!) were in town from Australia for 4 weeks over the holidays. We got a chance to meet them at their high school hangout, The Runt Club pub for a few pints and the best thin crust pizza I've EVER had. I had pesto for the sauce, baby mozzarella, grilled chicken, smoked tomatoes and broccoli on mine. YUM!!! So it wasn't home made but it was hand made with my favourite healthy ingredients. Does that absolve me of some of my guilt?
January 3rd, we ate leftovers from the 2nd and 3rd. January 4th we did chores around my house (installing some curtain rods, laundry and we got the Christmas tree & decorations put away...YAY!). We stopped just long enough to eat some leftover homemade enchiladas cooked up with sautéed potatoes and broccoli.
In the evening on January 5th we were in the mood to watch a movie so we queued one up on the computer and made some home made nachos for dinner. I love anything "tex mex" so this is always a favourite option for me. Plus, to make it quick and easy when I want a tex mex fix, I keep cooked, seasoned taco meat (ground beef or shredded turkey or chicken) in the freezer so I can pull it out on a whim.
I haven't yet figured out what we're making for dinner today but once I do, I'll try to remember to take a picture this time so I can add it to the next post.
Happy 2013 everyone!!
Lori
Ever since my childhood sweetheart, Paul came back into my life...it's been a whirlwind ride of splitting our time between each of our households, juggling his work schedule with mine, fitting Mackenzie's scheduling needs into the picture and many, many outings spending time with his family and friends. It has been SO...MUCH...FUN!!! The only teeny, tiny downside is that the routine lifestyle that I was so used to simply doesn't exist any more and that makes grocery shopping/meal planning really tough now.
January 1st went well. We were invited to Paul's parents for pork wellington, roasted potatoes, mashed cauliflower, broccoli and "Eton Mess" for dessert. It was DELICIOUS!! His mom is a great cook. Just like Jenn, she loves to have a house full of people which makes me admire her so much as I'm only starting to learn how to be a comfortable hostess. I'll have more info about Eton Mess later in the month.
January 2nd...we blew it, though I think it was for a good reason! Paul's buddy from high school and his girlfriend and 2 wee ones (20 months & 2 months old!) were in town from Australia for 4 weeks over the holidays. We got a chance to meet them at their high school hangout, The Runt Club pub for a few pints and the best thin crust pizza I've EVER had. I had pesto for the sauce, baby mozzarella, grilled chicken, smoked tomatoes and broccoli on mine. YUM!!! So it wasn't home made but it was hand made with my favourite healthy ingredients. Does that absolve me of some of my guilt?
January 3rd, we ate leftovers from the 2nd and 3rd. January 4th we did chores around my house (installing some curtain rods, laundry and we got the Christmas tree & decorations put away...YAY!). We stopped just long enough to eat some leftover homemade enchiladas cooked up with sautéed potatoes and broccoli.
In the evening on January 5th we were in the mood to watch a movie so we queued one up on the computer and made some home made nachos for dinner. I love anything "tex mex" so this is always a favourite option for me. Plus, to make it quick and easy when I want a tex mex fix, I keep cooked, seasoned taco meat (ground beef or shredded turkey or chicken) in the freezer so I can pull it out on a whim.
I haven't yet figured out what we're making for dinner today but once I do, I'll try to remember to take a picture this time so I can add it to the next post.
Happy 2013 everyone!!
Lori
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Day 5 at Chateau Beck
Tonight was a last minute kind of dinner. Buffalo Chicken Bites, Vegetable Spring Rolls, Sweet Potato Fries, Pickles, Pickled Beets and an assortment of cheese.
Not the healthiest meal I admit but no one was especially hungry or had any brilliant dinner ideas so I just looked for whatever pub style food I could find in the freezer.
Jenn's comment about her expensive dinner really stuck in my head and I'm going to try and make an effort to plan meals better so maybe we can cut down on the grocery bills a bit. Tonights dinner was probably about $30 and wasn't really healthy at all, for the same money I could have bought a nice roast and all the fixings for 10 people...if I shopped at Costco that is, lol.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Day 4 at Chateau Beck
Dinner totally didn't look like this but it wasn't visually appealing in my opinion so I saved you the image.
Baked salmon with chicken rice-a-roni.
I don't experiment much with fish/seafood as I don't eat them but I try.
Day #3 Carriere House
fail..........
After a genourous gift certificate and an offer to babysit, Shane and I went to Famoso Restaurant for dinner ... and let me tell you, if I HAD to choose a place to fail this challenge it would be this place. Pizza was awesome....and I may have had some gelato for desert ;)
Day # 4 Carriere House
Yummy chicken ceasar salad, I've been doing alot of BBQ'ing lately with this warm weather so I grilled up 5 chicken breasts at once, possibly have some chicken wraps for lunch tommorow. If I am already preparing something I don't mind cooking a little extra to use the next day, makes it that much easier :)
**for some reason it will not let me upload pictures tonight.....however I'm sure we've all seen pizza and ceasar salad**
fail..........
After a genourous gift certificate and an offer to babysit, Shane and I went to Famoso Restaurant for dinner ... and let me tell you, if I HAD to choose a place to fail this challenge it would be this place. Pizza was awesome....and I may have had some gelato for desert ;)
Day # 4 Carriere House
Yummy chicken ceasar salad, I've been doing alot of BBQ'ing lately with this warm weather so I grilled up 5 chicken breasts at once, possibly have some chicken wraps for lunch tommorow. If I am already preparing something I don't mind cooking a little extra to use the next day, makes it that much easier :)
**for some reason it will not let me upload pictures tonight.....however I'm sure we've all seen pizza and ceasar salad**
Days, 1,2 and 3 at the Park Household
Glad to hear that everyone is so excited about the Eat at Home Challenge. I see we didn't do it in 2012 so I'm glad it's back for 2013. One person who was not excited was Nathan. When I told him we couldn't go to Tim Hortons he started to cry big alligator tears. "I love Tim Horton's" he said through his tears. Which honestly made me laugh even harder. I admit it I'm not a very good mom. But sometimes it's so hard not to laugh.
Anyway onto what we ate this week so far!
Jan 1 was peanut butter chicken. I know been there done that. But on a side note the Fetzer wine we had with it was really good. Sweet and then dinner was sweet, worked well.
Jan 2 was a recipe I had pinned. But honestly it wasn't that great. It was good, but one of my criteria for dinner is the amount of mess it makes and this one made 4 pans dirty. Too many in my dislike of doing the dishes opinion.
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Jan 3 we ate one of my favorite easy, delicious, albeit expensive meals at 15$ Not quite as much as going out and it does usually give us a lunch after too, but now it just sounds like I'm validating my reasons for spending more then 8 dollars on a dinner, which I would say is about average. Okay now that I've built it up... it's Vodka Scallop Pasta. So the scallops, 7$ a bag and then the sauce is the PC black menus sauce 6$ (which is a lot for a can of sauce). I usually add some mushrooms and parm cheese on top. So a more expensive meal, but it's a crowd pleaser. And both kids like scallop, which we also refer as marshmallows of the sea, which may be another reason we like them... =)
Anyway onto what we ate this week so far!
Jan 1 was peanut butter chicken. I know been there done that. But on a side note the Fetzer wine we had with it was really good. Sweet and then dinner was sweet, worked well.
Jan 2 was a recipe I had pinned. But honestly it wasn't that great. It was good, but one of my criteria for dinner is the amount of mess it makes and this one made 4 pans dirty. Too many in my dislike of doing the dishes opinion.
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Jan 3 we ate one of my favorite easy, delicious, albeit expensive meals at 15$ Not quite as much as going out and it does usually give us a lunch after too, but now it just sounds like I'm validating my reasons for spending more then 8 dollars on a dinner, which I would say is about average. Okay now that I've built it up... it's Vodka Scallop Pasta. So the scallops, 7$ a bag and then the sauce is the PC black menus sauce 6$ (which is a lot for a can of sauce). I usually add some mushrooms and parm cheese on top. So a more expensive meal, but it's a crowd pleaser. And both kids like scallop, which we also refer as marshmallows of the sea, which may be another reason we like them... =)
Jan 4: Tonight is pizza. I'm hoping to do homemade, but it might be from a box. If we make our own I'll add a picture.
Jenn
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Day 3 at Chateau Beck
Tonight I made eggplant for dinner. Kind of like Eggplant Parmigan but without the breadcrumbs stuck to the egg coating and with havarti cheese. So really it's just eggplant, havarti and store bought spaghetti sauce with italian spice sprinkled over. It is tasty, quick and relatively cheap.
The grownups like it -the boys have 3 bites than fill up on veggies.
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