Days 3-5: Barely Any Dinner at All
I didn’t realize how much we do not eat meals on the weekends if we don’t eat out. But it’s true, rather than eat “meals” as such, we snack all day long. Items that may or may not have been eaten over the past two days include: yogurt, ramen, canned peaches, granola bars, graham crackers, apples, string cheese, tortilla chips and seven layer dip, bell pepper strips, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and/or baby carrots.
We did eat breakfast on Sunday morning because there was a package of breakfast sausage in the fridge that needed to get eaten, and I’ve been trying to find clever ways to disguise these unpleasant frozen mini pancakes I bought a while back in order to offer some variety to my kids’ breakfasts, so I sauteed some apples with sugar and cinnamon and dumped them on top. Sadly, the pancakes were still terrible, but my five year old is a complete sucker for the apple topping, so he downed quite a few.
And then I made mulligatawny for dinner (only for myself, of course — both boys tried it and pronounced it yucky). I used this recipe and it was quite good but maybe a little too sweet. Next time I might use a little less of the chutney or use potato instead of the apple. With the addition of cream at the end, it becomes quite rich and tasty. I also made a big pot of rice and look forward to enjoying them both in my lunch this week (indeed, the soup is even better the second day).
Today I stayed home from work and after meeting with the principal at my son’s school regarding the website I was very hungry so I treated myself to donuts but otherwise we haven’t eaten out today. Let me tell you though, it was a struggle. If it wasn’t for the fact that I knew I’d have to report back to my blog, I would have gotten fast food this evening for sure. So yay for internet accountability.
Rather than nutritionless fast food (but french fries!) and a cheap plastic toy, my boys ate fettuccine alfredo, apple chips and baby carrots. The fettuccine was the frozen kind (although really quite tasty, considering), and apple chips are merely raw apples cut in thinnish slices. What can I say, the boys like a little variety in their raw apples.