Day 26, 27, 28 at Chateau Beck

Saturday was going to make me or break me and I MADE IT!

I was going shopping with Kathryn at the mall and it would have been easy to eat at the food court but we stuck to the challenge and came home for some frozen pizza and wings that Aaron had made.

Sunday night we had Aaron's mom and brother over for a roast chicken dinner which was as good as always, we bought two chickens at Walmart for $16 and they were really good. Moist, flavorful and the homemade stuffing was good the second and third helping.

Tonights dinner:

Chicken and Bacon Sacchini with Rose Sauce and caesar salad. This is a really quick meal, its the fresh Olivieri pasta that takes 3 minutes to cook once the water is boiling. Maybe not the most healthy but everyone likes it.

Jan. 27

Roasted red peppers. Grilled lemon chicken, and Greek salad. Yummo!!

Day 25 at Chateau Beck

 Spaghetti dinner with homemade meatballs. The sauce was store bought stuff. They had a great deal at Costco 4 jars of Paul Newman pasta sauce for $4.99 - $1.25 a jar is an awesome price! The meatballs were homemade - my secret recipe is one package of lean ground beef, one package of stove top stuffing and 2 beaten eggs. Mix it up, measure them out with a cookie scoop and broil for about 8 minutes flipping half way thru. Easy peasy and everyone loves them!

Day 24 Chateau Beck

I had big plans on making Tamara's zuchinni/tomato chicken and pasta dish and then realized I forgot to buy the Rose sauce.

Plan B was shake and bake chicken breasts with Four Cheese Rice a Roni (no one liked it), corn and diced beets. I am the only person in the family that likes beets, so I usually have leftovers the next day for my lunch.

Park House: 19, 20 and 21

I always find the mid point of the Eat at Home challenge the most challenging.  I miss the convenience of eating out and miss my Wendy's and Edo and some of the other fast food we do.  On Sunday we went to the Southland Leisure Centre and we were all starving when we left.  I did bring some snacks, although the kids eating two granola bars is not the most healthy either.

Jan :19 I worked, so the boys had their favorite Mom's gone dinner.  Salmon, with fettuccine Alfredo and peas.  I had some of the leftover roast beef.  The people at work were ordering Vietanemese, which I really enjoy, but I was good and ate my roast beef.

January 20th: Last night we had ham, scallop potatoes and peas.  We make our own scallop potatoes and use a mix of mushroom soup, cheese and sour cream and milk.  Auntie Karen joined us and she enjoyed it as well.

January 21st: Tonight we had another Rachael Ray recipe, which meets my goals for 3 of those recipes this week.  Tonight was Italian Sub Stoup.  Stoup is somewhere between soup and stew.  I was FANTASTIC.  Darryl and I really enjoyed it.  But Lucas was not so fond of it.  I think I'll try it again in a month or two and see if he changes his mind.  The only change I made was instead of green peppers and arugula I used spinach. 

January 22: Made the dumplings that Lori suggested.

January 23: Breakfast for dinner.

Home Stretch...

Jenn

Day 22, 23 at Chateau Beck

Last night was leftover night! Beef on a bun with some chicken chow mein on the side :o)

Tonight Aaron started back at his university night classes so the boys and I had an old family favourite. Lipton's Chicken Noodle Soup with eggs. So, when the soup is at a rolling boil I whisk up two eggs in a bowl and pour it in. It adds some "bulk" to the soup and takes on the soup flavour.

We'll be dining at Bolero Friday, Feb 1st! Something to look forward to, but the kids don't even seem to care much. I struggle with the lack of Tim Horton's. It's just a nice  treat after skating, swimming, a lazy Sunday afternoon......

Last night

Very healthy! Tator tots, green beans, and cucumbers. Son 2 had chicken fingers too and son 1 wanted his in a wrap aka McDonald's style.