Go To Meals
One of the things that I’ve always wanted to do is write a cook book! I know that I must share that dream with millions of women–is that an exaggeration . . . probably not–leave a comment if you want to write your own cook book.
I digress.
On Thursday’s Life as Mom has the Ultimate Recipe Swap–I love linking up! It gives me a direction to take my recipe writing.
This week the topic is Emergency Meals. Sometimes I feel like each night is an emergency meal! I’ve written about how to meal plan, create a budget and save money on food . . . and I still have trouble at times getting it together. This is a real house with real people and sometimes I feel like when I write about meal planning and then it doesn’t happen I feel like a fraud–so let me be very clear–some days are better than others!
My emergency meals include:
- Pasta with red sauce and garlic bread
- Pasta with butter and hopefully something with color–I’d go with orange juice!
- My bread machine–bread and butter, not the healthiest but filling and good
- Sloppy Joes or Tacos–I make the meat up and freeze it. I love Taco Salad.
- Chicken noodle soup–chicken broth and frozen veggies–no real chicken required!
- Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese or if I run out of bread open face cheese sandwiches
- Frozen Macaroni and cheese–no boiling, no milk, no butter required–push buttons on the microwave and ring the bell for dinner.
- Bagel Bites–I embrace the fact that I want to eat whole foods and be crunchy . . . but the reality is when kids are sick–bagel bites help them get better! (goes against logical thinking I know)
- Beans and Rice with cheese (or without)
- Peanut butter sandwiches! My kids will ALWAYS eat a PB sandwich (no jelly for my kids)
I also try to keep 5 or 6 complete meals in the freezer–homemade lasagna, frozen fish and veggies, taco meat, sloppy joe meat, meatballs, the mac and cheese. I do try to keep up with my lists of lists–I think if I didn’t the house would be total disaster.
What are your Emergency Meals? or what is your cookbook dream?
Be Blessed.
I may end up linking to Many Little Blessing’s Top Ten Tuesday.
I giggled to myself when I saw your entry of “tomato soup and grilled cheese”, not that there is anything funny about that in itself, but because that too was always my emergency stand-by meal. My kids all loved it, never complained, often requested it. But their father, who was raised in the mountains of east KY on cornbread and anything fried, always turned up his nose and acted as though I had put a dead bug on the table! Anyhow, I thought it was nice to know that my stand-by, keep on hand just in case, meal was shared by someone else! :0)
I think that our “stand by meal” might be the everyday meal of many! We think alike Andrea, after all these years I think we have lived very similar trends . . . how does God do that? put people in your life, take them away, then add them back, only to find out the core of the friendship is still the same!
Be blessed and give that cutie baby a hug!