Dad's Dinner

Baby cheesies: a pre-dinner snack.

Matt cooking

Cost: $7

Prep: 45 minutes

I am very proud of my husband tonight. I am on my way out with my Ladies' Dining Club, and generally that means the boys will be eating frozen pizza. Tonight, Matt stuck with the meal plan I had designed at the beginning of the week and made the stir-fry was tonight himself!

So, as I am leaving, the boys are eating REAL food with MULTIPLE food groups. Go Daddy!

He made teriyaki sauce himself (a little too much corn starch).

He used some teriyaki beef from the freezer (even if he forgot to defrost it).

Udon noodles, which are easier for baby to eat

Lots of veggies

Ready to eat!

Matt's Pizza Dinner

Cost: $10 (for 5)

Prep: none  (for me)

Tonight, I got to sit with two of my girlfriends and chat while Matt made us a pizza dinner. It was fairly simple, but very tasty. We bought multigrain crust kits from Thrifty's (on sale for $5 for the two). For toppings, we had onion, peppers, olives, and pepperoni topped with mozzarella and parmesan.

For dessert, we had a blueberry coffee cake that was clearanced from Thrify's for $3. There is still one piece left, but we made pretty good work of it!

Boys' Night

I have a rule: if I am not here to eat dinner, I will not make you dinner.

Charlie and Matt were on their own! Charlie had a fudgesicle as an appie, and then I am pretty sure they had pizza. But for now, I am going to pretend I have no idea or that they ate chicken breast on spinach salad with yoghurt dressing.

Boys' Night

Boys' Night

Cost: $10

Prep time: none

Charlie and Dad had a big rectangular pizza from Thrify's. Matt was a little bitter that I went out without him, so I made sure to buy something that was sort of a treat for him--as well as quick for me to make--to soften the blow. Charlie had his with a side of mixed veggies for good measure.

Dad's "Crap" Stirfry

I just realized I didn't post yesterday. Probably because I didn't cook; it was Matt's chance to take a turn. He may have overestimated how much we needed and now may or may not be eating this every lunch for the rest of the week.

He made a stir-fry. In our university days we would make stir-fry all the time. We always called it "Crap Stir-fry" because we would just throw in whatever crap was in the fridge.

This time, it was a real stir-fry but with "crap" sauce: bits of every bottle of sauce in the fridge.

The great thing about this dish is that you can really get a lot of veggies in there. Carrots, green pepper, yellow pepper, broccoli, cabbage, and bokchoy joined noodles (weird noodles, like Mr. Noodles minus being deep fried). We also cooked four chicken breasts, two for the stir-fry and two we froze for Thursday's pizza.

Charlie was a big fan, both of eating it and putting pieces of it in his hair. That is how he shows us he approves of his meal (so far, clearly, his favorite is sour cream, which he likes to comb through his hair with his fingers).