The Happy Housewife – Where Martha Meets Real Life

May 10, 2008

My meals from the past two days are not creative, healthy, or exciting. They are, however, thrifty.

Yesterday we had leftover waffles for breakfast, for lunch we had leftover “everything in the fridge.” We had applesauce, yogurt, smoothies, grapes, crackers, cheese, and lunch meat without bread because that was all gone. For dinner we had tacos. My friends ended up not being able to come, so I am glad I didn’t run to the store and purchase a lot of extra food that would have gone to waste since we are leaving for vacation tomorrow.

Today for breakfast we had Kate’s cinnamon rolls. The kids love these and couldn’t wait for them to come out of the oven.

Lunch was another round of leftovers, tacos, chips and cheese, cantaloupe, grapes, applesauce, lunch meat, and cheese. Dinner was leftover tacos, yogurt, lunch meat, apple sauce. A few kids made quesadillas with the leftover tortillas and cheese. I made our sandwiches for our trip tomorrow and our toddler had a peanut butter sandwich with the bread that was leftover. Even though our last few meals were not my favorite, I feel good because we are not leaving much in our fridge to go to waste while we are gone.

The loaf of bread is actually our sandwiches for the trip tomorrow. We plan on stopping somewhere for breakfast (the kids are begging for Shoney’s) and the eating lunch on the road.

I was tempted tonight to send my husband out for burgers, because I was tired and didn’t feel like trying to make a meal out of a few tortillas and yogurt. I am so glad I didn’t because now our fridge is almost empty and we didn’t spend a dime.

Thanks to those of you who tuned in to our radio show. We were very excited to answer questions and talk about our adventure with each other and some fellow bloggers. We decided to have another radio show next Friday at 10pm. You can find out all the details here, or leave me a comment and I will email you the information for the next show.

Don’t forget to stop by Joy and Kate’s blogs. Kate made crepes last week and they look delicious! Joy is cooking up a storm and is trying all sorts of new foods from scratch.

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3 Moms’ Meals Day 8 and a Change of Plans

May 9, 2008

I have a change of plans tonight. My friend called me yesterday and asked if she and her four boys could come to my kids’ play tonight. They will spend the night and then head out in the morning. I am excited to see my friend again, but how does this impact my menu? Tonight we are scheduled to have tacos. I don’t have enough meat to feed 5 extra people. As I see it I have a few choices. I could make wet burritos, using beans and rice in the burrito to stretch my meat. I could go to the store and by more meat or I could make Mexican lasagna and purchase 2 cans of tomato sauce. The most frugal choice would be the wet burritos, so I am going to make those. The only problem is that my sauce is really spicy and not all of the kids love spicy foods. I usually have my kids eat whatever I make, but I am a bit more lenient when it comes to “hot” foods. So I will make wet burritos for the people who can handle the heat, and bean tacos for the rest. I will try and post recipes and pictures later today.

Yesterday I wanted to start the day off right with some whole wheat waffles. When I woke up I realized that my blog had lost all of its links and photos. I was in a bit of a panic, but tried to not think about it as I was making the waffles. I didn’t do a good job focusing on the waffles because the first batch was way too thin and cooked to the waffle iron!

The kids’ first reaction was, “Mom you should put this on your blog!”

So here it is, the waffle mess. It took me about 15 minutes to scrape all the waffle off the iron. I added some more flour to my mix and the rest of the waffles turned out great.

I was supposed to make the kids pizza for dinner, but when my dough was done at 11:30 am I decided that we would have pizza for lunch and the sandwiches for dinner.

The pizza was excellent, and I always wonder why we ever order pizza when the homemade stuff tastes so good and is healthy!

The kids had sandwiches, orange slices, pineapple, and canteloupe for dinner and we ate with friends before our bible study.

Don’t forget to tune it tonight!

Please join Toni , The Happy Housewife, Joy, of FiveJs, and Kate, of A simple Walk, on Friday, at 10 pm EST, as we take our 3 Moms ~ 3 Kitchens ~ 31 Days series live on air at TalkShoe. We will be discussing our adventures during the first week of the series, as well as delving even deeper into our kitchen budgets and methods. This will be a perfect opportunity for our readers to ask us questions, get to know all 3 Moms a little better, and maybe even share a tip or two. We have really appreciated all the comments and emails we’ve been getting, but we know we have not been able to answer everyone as thoroughly as we wanted. That is why we decided to do this open-forum, live discussion on Friday.