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

Chicken Pasta "Bake"

For those of you who have ever cooked with me, you know I like to "smorgy" my food. I take a recipie and kind of modify it to my own preferences. That's what I did with this recipie. Orginally from the Kraft website, it is meant to be put together and then baked in the oven. I tried that and I didn't think it really made a difference and just dirtier another dish and made me wait longer. If you'd like to use the orignal recipie here it is. And here is what I do again I kind of smorgy it, so if you want to use 3 chicken breasts rather then 2, it won't really matter. Or the brocolli if you use whatever you have is fine (brocolli wasn't in the orginal recipie)

1/2 package multigrain penne pasta( or rotini or any sort of noodle that size)

1/2 c. of frozen spinach
1/2 c. of brocolli

2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces

1-1/2 cups (1/2 of 700-mL jar) pasta sauce

1 tablesppon PHILADELPHIA Light Cream Cheese Spread

1 cup KRAFT Part Skim Mozzarella Shredded ( or marble or cheddar, whatever you may have)

Cook pasta as directed on package, adding spinach to the boiling water for the last 1 min.

Meanwhile, heat large nonstick skillet sprayed with cooking spray on medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook.until chicken is no longer pink, stirring frequently. Cook brocolli. Add pasta sauce ; bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer 3 min. or until chicken is cooked through.

Drain pasta and spinach; return to same saucepan. Add chicken mixture; mix lightly. Stir in cream cheese spread and mozzarella cheese until melted.

I surprisingly don't have a picture of this meal, so I'll have to add one once we have it as leftovers.

Jenn