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What’s for supper at your house?   Here’s a peek into my weekly meal plan.

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Hello!  It’s been TWO months since I’ve updated the What’s for Supper part of my week.  But, I promise that no one has starved at my house.  We have been eating, I just have been terrible at documenting it.  Which is a bad, bad thing at my house.  Because when I don’t keep a detailed list of what we are consuming on a day to day basis, we end up eating the same thing again and again.  That’s not necessarily a travesty, but it also let’s me slide when we eat out more than once a week, which is unfortunate for the budget.  If it’s not written down in black and white, it didn’t happen, right?

I went through my photos and cobbled together the few that I had of what we ate during the last couple of months and hopefully this will spark my memory to write it all down in the future.  Here’s what we have been eating:

Soup beans with salmon, mac and cheese and all the roasted veggies.  My happy place.

Taco Pie.  Sometimes I just crave this stuff….

Burgers, chips and pickles with raw onions and tomatoes.   Yum.

A giant salad.  My favorite.

Fried kielbasa with buttered potatoes, roasted onions, and steamed veggie medley.

Hot dogs, chips and coleslaw.  I didn’t take the time to make my homemade chili and it was a sad day.Popcorn shrimp, mashed potatoes, steamed veggie medley and hush puppies.

Pan fried chicken with buttered rice and garlic bread.

Roast with potatoes, carrots and onions, and green beans with roasted broccoli and corn muffins.

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, roasted carrots and onions with biscuits.Pork chops, mashed potatoes, with roasted asparagus, yellow tomatoes and biscuits.Pan fried chicken, baked potatoes, mac and cheese, roasted onions and cucumbers. Puff pastry pizza and baby roasted potatoes.  We love this. Pigs in the blanket, fried potatoes and mac and cheese.And last but not least, pasta bake or “Fake Lasagna” with garlic bread.

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What’s for supper at your house?   Here’s a peek into my weekly meal plan.

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Hey guys, I feel like I am finally getting back into my “normal” groove.  It’s one of my happy places, routines.  Everyone is sleeping through the night again, Denton is healing and resting, and I’m not clenching all of my muscles in terror that something terrible would go wrong with his surgery. Now I can focus on setting my world back to it’s proper place.  Yes, I know very well that I’m a control freak.  Thanks for noticing.

I had to look back to see how long it’s been since I updated my What’s for Supper posts.  It’s been almost a month!  And since we’ve had such a crazy month, I checked and sure enough, I was hit and miss on whether or not I wrote down each day what we were actually eating for the entire month of August.  So I am going to give you a rundown of what I actually KNOW we ate since I have photographic proof.

Pigs in the blanket, fried potatoes and mac & cheese.  Pure comfort food.

Roast, potatoes, carrots, onions, green beans, roasted onions and broccoli, coleslaw and cornbread muffins.

Pan fried chicken, baked potatoes, mac & cheese, roasted onions and cucumbers.

Pork chops, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus with biscuits and yellow tomatoes.

Sometimes you just want what you want, right?  Yellow tomatoes, pistatios, crackers, strawberries and cold leftover roasted asparagus.  YUM.

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, roasted carrots and onions, and biscuits.

Obviously, we ate a lot more than those things, but that’s it for my photographic evidence.  We also ate a lot of soups, sandwiches, taco pie, quesadillas, hamburgers, alfredo with garlic bread and spaghetti, and my favorite soup beans and everything that goes with that.

I hope to be back to absolute normal next week!

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Hey guys.  What’s for supper at your house?  I am constantly on the lookout for yummy looking recipes.  But, then we so often eat the same things week in and week out.   I need to seriously step it up and get out of my comfort zone.  It didn’t happen this past week, but I have high hopes that I can accomplish it by this fall.

We have settled into an uncomfortable routine here at our house.  Basically we are just in a holding pattern, waiting for Denton’s surgery, so that he can have some relief.  For all of you out there who are dealing with debilitating, unrelenting, ongoing pain – you have my prayers and compassion.  It is unbearable to watch someone be in pain and not be able to do anything about it.  Am I repeating myself?  It bears repeating and I’m too weary at this point to go back and look it up for myself.  Please be patient with me for the next few weeks, if you will.

Now onto the food – Let’s see what we ate last week:

Subway/Wendy’s.  Surprise, but not a surprise.  I’ve taken the easy way out more than I want to think about right now.  But I do love a good subway sandwich.

Soup and sandwiches.  It’s comforting to eat canned soup for me.  It doesn’t take any time at all to grill a cheese sandwich, and they go so well with chicken noodle, potato or tomato!

Hamburgers, chips and pickles.  One of Hayden’s favorites.  He is always up for burgers.  Too bad that I’ve run out propane for the grill and have no idea where to go get it filled.  Do they still do this at Walmart?  We have four of the tanks in our garage, because every time it’s gotten low our grill has died and the new one came with a tank, so we’ve never had to fill one.  I need to check into this in my tiny town…..

Soup beans, salmon, roasted veggies, and mac and cheese.  The ultimate comfort food.  The only thing that would make this meal better, would be if my Mama made it.

Chinese!  More comfort food.  For me anyway.

Leftovers.  Yay!

Soup and sandwiches.  Again.  No-one at my house minded at all.  I’m so glad!

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Hello again!  Another week has flown by.  Can you believe that we are almost into August?  I don’t want to wish time away, but I will be so glad to see summer end this year.  It has been unbearable on some days.  Taking Oreo out for his regular walks has been a challenge.  Every time we would open our front door for the past two weeks, it was quite literally like walking into an oven.  Poor Oreo would just stagger and look back at me like – Are you kidding me?

It has cooled off slightly here, and I am so, so thankful.  Waking up at 7:00 AM with temps already well into the 80’s and topping out at 101* was seriously not fun.

Tuesday’s low is going to be 55*!!!  Yay!  I can’t wait.  We may even jog around the neighborhood in celebration.  Hahaha, you know I’m just joking.  That’s not going to happen with me or Oreo.  Poor guy.  He is definitely showing his age in this heat.  When we finally trudge our way home from our very, very abbreviated walks, we are lucky to have a lovely home with cool AC and soft fluffy beds.  He is loving his golden years…..

Now onto the food – Let’s see what we ate last week:

Polish sausage dogs with chips and pickles.  I was craving a hot dog and much to my surprise when I opened my giant friend in the garage, I had NO hot dogs.  So I improvised and used a package of polish sausages that I had and they turned out delicious!

Taco Pie/Quesadillas. If you haven’t tried my taco pie recipe you need to!  It’s a different take on taco’s and I love it.

Soup beans, roasted veggies, Mac and cheese, and salmon

Chili and grits.  Yum.  I’m already missing it and want to make it again.  

Papa Johns pizza.  Denton and I had to go into the city to see his Neurosurgeon, and we have to drive by a Papa Johns to get home…….And we don’t have a Papa Johns any where near our tiny town…….We ate Papa Johns for supper.

Pulled pork sandwiches, chips and pickles. The Boston butt that I bought from the clearance section at Food Lion was absolutely delicious.  Hayden asked for leftovers multiple times until it was all gone.  That is something I will put on repeat!

Leftovers, Yay!

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Hello again!  It’s a good thing I’m a control freak who writes everything down.  It’s been a long two weeks and I just sat down and ate supper; but I couldn’t remember what we ate until I actually sat and thought about it.  But never fear!  I am a control freak and I do write everything down, so I don’t have to have total recall to tell you all about what we ate for the last two weeks.  Did any of that make any sense to anyone but me?

Our lives are in a holding pattern.  Denton is still in pain, we are still waiting to see the neurosurgeon so that someone more qualified than we are can tell us what we are going to do, but life still has to go about its normal routines.  People need to grocery shop, go to the DMV, find a UPS drop-off, go to work, return items that aren’t what you thought they were, deal with insurance companies, and still remember to feed people – all while trying to remember what normal felt like.  But things.are.not.normal……

In the meantime, the staff in radiology has started recognizing me by sight.

Let’s see what we ate for the last two weeks, since I wrote it down:

Monday, July 1 –  Roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions; green beans, cornbread and roasted asparagus

Tuesday, July 2 – Roast beef sandwiches on garlic bread with pickles and chips

Wednesday, July 3 – Spaghetti, Fettuccine Alfredo, and garlic bread

Thursday, July 4 – Wendy’s

Friday, July 5 – Chicken wings, cauliflower “wings” with a giant salad

Saturday, July 6 – Grilled hot dogs, chips and giant salads

Sunday, July 7 – Soup beans, roasted veggies, salmon and Mac and cheese

Monday, July 8 – Leftovers

Tuesday, July 9 – Hamburgers, chips and raw veggies

Wednesday, July 10 – Tuna sandwiches for me and Denton and frozen pizza for the kids

Thursday, July 11 – Shrimp, baked potatoes, giant salad, and butter bread

Friday, July 12 – Sausage, biscuits, gravy, hash browns and eggs over easy

Saturday, July 13 – Chinese!

Sunday, July 14 – Leftovers, YUM

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That’s how the last two weeks have played out at our house.  What’s for supper at your house?  What are you going to eat this week?

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Hello again!  How is it JULY already?

This week has been a mishmash of trying to get back into the normal routine of life after vacation, trying to manage Denton’s pain on a day to day basis – which has been horrendous- and sitting and looking at my planner and having no idea where to start.

I have so many projects and tasks that need to be dealt with.  I just need to do a major brain dump; get everything down on paper and then list things out in some haphazard fashion.  Maybe then my brain will stop feeling like it’s going to implode.  Or explode.  I don’t know which.

I miss the beach.  I thought you might need to know this information.  I have a screensaver on my computer that switches from beach scene to mountains to waving grains to…. you get the point.  And every time it shows the beach, I long to just go and sit at the edge of the surf and let the waves wash over my feet.

Maybe I need to move to the beach.  It’s a conundrum.  My Mama does not share this longing for the waves like I do, but I already have it worked out in my mind.  She has the perfect place to live in the mountains, and I will live at the beach and we can just go back and forth from each others houses and we will all be content.  Easy peasy, right?

Okay, I’ll stop whining about the beach for now and talk about food.  The real reason you are here right?  Right.

Let’s see what we ate last week:

Monday, June 23 –  Hamburgers, chips and pickles

Tuesday, June 25 – Denton’s parents were still with us and it was their Anniversary so we took them to our favorite French restaurant.  This is a once or twice a year place for us, but it is SO worth it.  Denton’s Mama said it was the best steak she can remember eating.  She’s exactly right.  Denton told the owner/chef that he could kiss the cook and he let him!   He is so fun.  Hahahaha!  We LOVE that place.

Wednesday, June 26 – Frozen pizza.  Which Denton declared was the worst he had ever eaten.  Maybe it was because we had just had the best steaks on planet earth, though.

Thursday, June 27 – Taco’s, salsa and chips and quesadillas.  YUM

Friday, June 28 – Soup beans, roasted veggies, Mac and cheese with cornbread and salmon.  I had been craving this for a couple of weeks.  I can only go so long without it you know.

Saturday, June 29 –  Chinese, my favorite!  Liva and I did grocery shopping which makes me question humanity in general, so takeout it was.  I had already used up all of my brain power trying to resist murdering all the people who were wandering around in Walmart like zombies blocking all of the aisles.  Why?!

Sunday, June 30 – Leftovers, my other favorite!

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That’s how our week played out.  What’s for supper at your house?  What are you going to eat this week?  Desperate, beach deprived people need to know…..

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Hello again!  How was your week?  Is it raining where you are?  It’s pouring here…..and I love it.  As always.  We haven’t had any humidity until this week.  If I have to have humidity, I’m glad its rain.  There is nothing better than a soft farmers rain in the evening. Unless it’s a soft farmers rain in the morning.  You know me, I’ll take a soft farmers rain anytime.  The deluges, no. They don’t do anyone any good, including the neighbor up the hill who has to have spent at least a million dollars on gravel.  It all ends up down our entire street every time it comes a deluge.  Anyway.

We are gearing up for more family time, which makes me very happy.  It feels like we go loooong stretches of time without seeing our families and then summer comes and woohoo!  It will be good to spend time with the people we love most.  And eat all the yummy foods.

Anywho, here’s what we ate last week:

Monday, June 3 –  Soup beans, salmon, cornbread, rice, roasted veggies, Mac & cheese and kraut & weenies

Tuesday, June 4 – Taco’s with salsa and chips, bean burritos

Wednesday, June 5 –  Spaghetti, Alfredo and garlic bread

Thursday, June 6 – Leftovers.  One of my favorite days

Friday, June 7 – Chinese/Pizza/ and a Cuban sandwich.  Hayden, Liva and I went into the city and brought food home with us.  Everyone wanted something different, which is the nice thing about takeout!

Saturday, June 8 –  Leftovers.  Hey, it’s my favorite day again!

Sunday, June 9 – Breakfast for supper.  Eggs, bacon, hash browns, toast and a couple of Everything Bagels.  Delicious!

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Hello again!  How was your week?  In my typical weather update….it has been glorious here.  I can totally get behind summer if it stayed like this all summer long.  Cool mornings in the low 50’s or 60’s, with highs in the very low 80’s with almost no perceptible humidity.  Yes, please.  I love it.  It still feels like spring to me.

I feel like I am slowly getting into a new groove now that school is over.  Yay!  Next up will be vacation – sand, the ocean, me with a book in my hand at least 23 hours a day and my umbrella.  Heaven, for at least a week.  I’ll try to take pictures of everything we eat.  Do you eat out the entire time or do you cook at your vacation rental?  Denton and I were talking about this the other night.  We usually do a mix of both, leaning more heavily on the eating at home side.  He would rather eat out every.single.day.  At home?  No way, he wants to eat at home, but on vacation, he’s all for going out to eat.  He’s weird like that.  Which side do you fall on?

If money were not a factor at all, oh yeah, it’s much easier to have someone else hunt, gather, and prepare a delicious meal.  But with just a family of four like our family you’re talking about a couple of grand for food.  For a week.  That gives me physical pain, you guys.  So if I have my way, we’ll be eating most of our meals in our beach house while we are away…..

Anywho, here’s what we ate last week:

Monday – 27th   Leftovers.  One of my favorite days…..

Tuesday  – 28th  Hamburgers, dill pickle chips – a new love of mine and Olivia’s.  It’s her Nana and Papa’s fault.  They brought them to our house……

Wednesday  – 29th   Tuna sandwiches, chips, and pickles

Thursday  – 30th  Shrimp, onion rings, and corn on the cob, YUM

Friday – 31st   Pork tenderloin, rice, baked beans, roasted veggies, coleslaw and Naan

Saturday –  1st   Chinese food!  My favorite

Sunday – 2nd   Leftovers, another favorite

We have finally devoured all of the desserts from graduation!

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Hello again!  How are you this week?  I am still recovering from the last weekend.  Liv’s graduation happened, we had a houseful of our people and I discovered that I am too old to sit for two hours in the broiling sun…..Especially if there isn’t an ocean four feet away from my feet.

The graduation was lovely; I truly enjoyed the principles speech, the Valedictorians speech was awesome, but I have to actually say that the rest of it I could have happily done without.  At the beginning of the Salutatorians speech, she said “We all know that the real reason you are here is to watch someone walk across this stage”.  And she was exactly right.  I don’t think there was one single person in that crowd who was there to listen to the Superintendent of Schools talk for fifteen minutes….. 🙂

Anywho, here’s what we ate for the last two weeks:

Monday – 13th  Hamburgers, chips, and pickles

Tuesday  – 14th  Wendy’s to save my sanity

Wednesday  – 15th  Chicken enchilada’s with Mexican rice

Thursday  – 16th  Leftovers, yum

Friday – 17th   Stouffer’s Lasagna, salad, garlic bread, and dessert, dessert, dessert

Saturday – 18th  Grilled chicken, baked potatoes, broccoli with lemon and garlic, garlic bread and more desserts

Sunday – 19th   We made a giant breakfast Sunday morning – gravy and biscuits, sausage, eggs, fruit, and homemade cherry/guava jelly and cane syrup from Denton’s daddy.  Also, when your Mama makes her delicious homemade biscuits, it’s important to tell her that your flour is AP flour and not Self-rising flour.  It makes a difference in how high her biscuits will rise….They were awesome anyway and we all loved them, but I still felt terrible.  We had leftovers for supper that night.

Monday – 20th  Our favorite Italian restaurant.  Liv stayed home and we brought her food back.  It was her party, so she could do what she wanted, hahahaha.

Tuesday – 21st  Potato soup, bacon in the oven and biscuits

Wednesday – 22nd  Taco’s, chips and salsa and burritos

Thursday – 23rd  Leftovers, yay!

Friday – 24th  Soup beans, roasted veggies, Mac and cheese, salmon and rice

Saturday – 25th Chicken wings, raw veggies and dip and chips

Sunday – 26th  Papa John’s pizza, yum!

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How did your week go last week?  As you’ll see below, our week was a train wreck where nutrition is concerned.  We had appointments, commitments and just places that we had to be other than home and our eating habits reflect that.  Planning didn’t even enter my orbit last week.   And it didn’t help that Denton was gone most of the week for work two states away.  I’ll be glad to be back to a slightly more normal schedule this coming week.

Wait.  Liv’s graduation is this weekend, so scratch that.  Maybe by the end of summer, I can heel our boat back on track.  Does a boat track?  I’ll have to check on this and report back to you….

Anywho, here’s what we ate last week:

Monday   Papa John’s pizza.  Everyone’s favorite.  Unless we are in New York and that’s a whole different animal.

Tuesday  Leftovers, yum!

Wednesday  Soup beans, cornbread, mac and cheese, roasted veggies and salmon

Thursday  Chicken nuggets.  Hey, it’s not eating out again, right?  Right?

Friday  Chinese, my favorite.  Aaannnddd, we are eating out again.  Life it just hard some weeks, isn’t it?

Saturday  Leftovers, yay.  Seriously, YAY.

Sunday  Breakfast for supper – Toast, eggs over easy, hashbrowns, bacon and fruit. 

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