Menu Monday

 

The next two weeks I am trying to clear a few things out of the fridge freezer and after moving things around yesterday in my meat freezer I think I better plan on eating that down a bit. I would like to have a January where we use very little of the grocery budget. I think I can manage to go with dairy, fruit, and veggies with the occasional stock pile item replacement. 

Most of the meals except for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be me using things up in the way of the many leftovers there still are in the freezer and the ready made meals in the larger freezer. 

I plan on shopping tomorrow so that I will not have to enter a store during the busy time leading up to Christmas. I am actually going to try and freeze milk in containers this time around. Should keep me out of the stores a bit longer.

So here are my menus for this week.

Monday

Leftover small sausage casserole.

Tuesday

Leftover pork made into a stir fry served over rice.

Wednesday

Lentil curry, over rice (I will make extra on Tuesday). Cooked frozen broccoli.

Thursday

Hot dogs, baked beans and perhaps the remainder of the mini hashbrowns.

Friday

Perogies, fried onions and sour cream.

Saturday

The last of the lentil curry or perhaps some pea soup and egg salad sandwiches.

Sunday

Chicken stuffed with broccoli and cheese, mashed potatoes, peas.

That will clear a bit out of the fridge freezer and make room for the leftovers from the upcoming week and Christmas. 

I asked Harvey if instead of a tossed salad I could make a coleslaw as the salad for Christmas dinner, mainly because the cabbage would last in the fridge from shopping this week until that meal. He said go for it. The sons should be quite okay with that as well. 

I have enough yogurt making supplies to make another batch of Greek style yogurt and when that runs out I will have toast, muffins, cinnamon buns, or oatmeal for my breakfasts. 

Pretty sure we will not starve if I keep out of the stores for the next while (would like to manage until after the new year). 

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Menu Monday

This week I am going to be trying to use up bits and bobs from the fridge and the freezer. We will be heading to Kris's place on Friday so things need to be cleared up. Of course I will take a meal or two with us so that he does not have to feed us for three days. Thinking two meals would be about perfect.

Monday

A kind of cottage pie using the leftover mashed potatoes, some gravy, and a bag of chicken meat from the freezer. I also added some frozen veggies, some onion, and the last of the frozen peppers. There will be enough left for another meal.

Tuesday

Soup and sandwiches. I will pull out a container of soup from the big chest freezer and make some grilled cheese sandwiches. 

Wednesday

Leftovers from Monday.

Thursday

Spaghetti and meat sauce. I will make some peas to eat with this.

I will also put together a Baked Spaghetti to take up to Kris's for one of our meals. 

Friday

Gone

Saturday

Gone

Sunday

Gone. 

We should be back on Monday and I will either head out shopping right after unpacking, or wait until Tuesday and get a few things done around the house. 

Everybody have a wonderful evening. 

God bless.

Midweek Ramblings

 It is very hot here again today. Right now it is 34C and feels like 42C. I am so glad I got outside to do my little bit of gardening today. Much too warm for man or beast to be outside. Our poor air conditioning is running pretty much constantly again today. 

I have been busy trying to get as much done as possible processing the garden before we leave next week. Also busy making lists of what I need to pack, and what I need to do to leave the house, fridge, and garden in good shape. 

Trying to eat down the fridge, or get things in the freezer is taking a bit of time. So much to use up or give away before we leave.

I have managed to get through all (or pretty much all the potatoes in the house), I made fries for the freezer and perogies. There is enough filling to make some lazy perogy casserole and I think that will be done tomorrow along with the Apple chutney. 

Tomatoes are ripening faster than we can eat them, so I think in a couple of days I will do some freezing of those. 

Picked two eggplant today so I will be able to make the eggplant parma on Friday. Also lots of green peppers to use up as well, what can't be used I will dice or cut in strips and freeze. 

Still not sure what to do with all the cucumbers when I don't need pickles or relish. Any ideas out there?

Off to make supper and get the table set.

Tonight will be spent getting things into the big freezers downstairs and working on those mittens.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Menu Monday

 The last partial week in the month of July. Time just seems to fly by when you are trying to slow down and enjoy the day.

Monday

Shrimp Pasta Salad. I was going to make cheese biscuits to go with, but have decided to make some garlic bread instead.

Tuesday

Baked Spaghetti, which is leftovers from before we went to visit Kris. I will probably make a coleslaw to go with.

Wednesday

Either leftover Shrimp Pasta Salad, or leftover Baked Spaghetti and coleslaw.

Thursday

Hamburgers, onion rings, and salad. 

Friday

Pancakes, in other words breakfast for supper. 

Saturday

The last of the Broccoli & Cheese stuffed Chicken, salad, and corn.

Sunday

Pork chops, potatoes and carrots done in tinfoil. The last of the salad or a new one will be made. Could be a cuke salad as those are coming in hot and heavy.

We are getting a great deal of rain this last while. Poor Harvey is worried he will never get in to weed his garden, and I am wondering when I will be able to weed the perennial garden. Still rain means we have a full water barrel, and we don't have to water plants. There is always a plus side to everything.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Tuesday Tidbits and Stuff

 Another rainy day, and another day sticking close to home and trying to get things done. Problem is that this weather is not very nice on my aches and pains. They really aren't that bad, probably because it is still fairly warm and humid out and I have been working my way through the pain. Tonight however I will be using one of my salves, more than likely the mint to get the one tin used up before the next batch is ready. 

I am going through cupboards and using up items that are over or close to being over their best before or use by dates. My next shopping trips will be more a stocking up of fresh veggies to hold us until the garden produces more, as well as replacement items for the pantry and cupboards. 

Some of the items I have managed to clear out, or at least transform into something else are the leftover chicken from Sunday, some chicken bone broth from the freezer downstairs, some broccoli that was starting to soften, the last package of frozen carrots, the remains of three types of pasta and a jar of Alfredo sauce. I think that the salad leftover will be cleared out at supper tonight. 

Now of course using those items up meant that I now have new meals to put in the freezer for use later. Tomorrow I hope to add to this collection of fine foods (kidding, mostly soups and the leftovers from supper tonight and tomorrow). 

As I looked through my yarn stash, I could not find another bulky yarn to use on the rug that would coordinate with the green. I did however find many shades of green in a thinner yarn which I can use on the rug for Kris. Bonus will be clearing out even more yarn from my stash. I may be able to bring up another tote from the basement very soon and restock the sewing/craft room. 

This year I have really been trying very hard not to waste anything. This is partially because of what is happening in the world, and partially because I would prefer to have a lifestyle that isn't wasteful. We all definitely have to become better stewards of our little portions of the environment. We need to all realize that what we do not only affects us but others as well. 

Simple living means keeping waste to a minimum and using what we have to the greatest advantage. 

Everybody have a wonderful evening. 

God bless.

Tuesday Tidbits

 

After a night of tossing and turning due to back pain, I have been taking it a bit easier today. I did get all the tasks done, but made sure I had plenty of rest between each. Since I can't sit for long, I made sure to do some walking around the house as well. My thoughts are another weather change is coming up (looked a bit ago and we are forecast to get some rain). 

Sky was dark and overcast today, so no embroidery was done. Having to get up and down often, kind of makes that difficult. I did manage to get some rows of knitting done, and a bit of extra cleaning (where I did not have to bend over). Dang back pain!!!

A list of items has been made and will be added to as things we will need to stock up on when I can find them on sale. Now if I can just get Harvey to mark off when he takes something out of the pantry to snack on I will be extremely happy. Right now I am going through and removing things for him. Bad Jackie, he is never going to learn if I keep doing this.

I was going to make the leftover pork into hash for supper tonight, but I found some frozen stir fry veggies that need to be used so I will be making that instead. There is always enough left over for a second meal. 

Bread crumbs were made from the bits and bobs of leftover bread, and I even cubed up the last bit of the loaf that was getting a bit dry and made croutons. Pulled the leftover rice out of the fridge and made rice pudding for our desserts the next little while. 

I am getting much better at using things up that are taking up room in my fridge. Still have to amalgamate a few things into one jar, but there has been some forward movement on that as well. 

Hmmm, wonder if one can amalgamate jars of peanut butter as for some reason two jars of smooth are open. Guess I could make peanut butter cookies to use up one of the jars.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.