Pasta, Prawns, and Psalad

Cost: $12

Prep: 20 minutes

The goal for tonight's dinner was to clear room in the freezer. I took out the tortellini and prawns as they were awkward shaped and could be eaten together. (Although, if you ask my dad, everything goes together including fish sticks and spaghetti).

The prawns were sauteed in butter and garlic, and there were way too many to eat so Matt got a nice lunch!

Quick, Late Pork

Cost: $8

Prep: 20 minutes

I told Matt that I had yoga at 6:10 PM, but he still wanted to go to Walmart before dinner. So, 5:55 I am getting dinner on the table, and 6:10 I was out the door.

I ate the salad and a bit of the Stove Top.

After yoga, I was so hungry, I indulged in Tim Bits and tea. Oh well! Dessert is important sometimes!

3 Awful Things Together on a Plate

Cost: $10

Prep: 10 minutes

Another sucky dinner. What is wrong with me?

It had to be quick, as I had yoga, but these 3 lame things together made a lame dinner.

We had lame bagged salad. Too lemony.

We had lame steaks. Too tough.

We had lame pasta. Too soggy.

Th pasta was the biggest problem. It was supposed to be spinach and cheese tortellini, but while it was cooking EVERY SINGLE pasta spilled its contents, filled itself up with water, and became awful.

See that plate? That is what I DIDN'T eat.

Another Later Pizza Dinner

Cost: $10

Prep: way too long, but really only about 15 minutes

We messed up dinner tonight. Not the food, but the timing. We went to run an errand at 5PM, and we weren't sitting down until dinner until almost 6:30, which is when we start the bath. The table was covered in folded laundry, but we just went with it.

So, anyway, dinner was simple, so I made up a bagged salad, and started eating that before the rest was ready.

We had got a clearanced pizza, Spicy Sicilian Flatbread, from Thrifty's. It was good, but REALLY spicy. Luckily though, we had left over pizza from a few nights ago and Charlie ate that.

Today, I am really not happy with Thrifty's. I don't have time to get into it now, but the last straw was that this pizza would have normally been $9.

A Staple Gone Wrong

Cost: $6.50

Prep: 10 minutes

Here is something we eat reguarily: KD with taco meat mixed in and a salad on the side.

Tonight, it was gross. It was the KD that was gross. I let the pasta drain too much, and then I had to use milk to get the cheese to mix in. It came out too wet. Yuck. Everyone else ate it though.

Baby portion with baby veggies and the adult's salad

Helpin' Out Some Hamburger

Cost: $6.50

Prep: 20 minutes

Another night where Charlie and I were on our own....It is the most difficult time of day when I am trying to make dinner and Charlie is being a butt. And boy has he ever been a butt lately! He's still adorable, but he is hitting, biting, chucking, etc, and we are giving timeouts like compliments.

Tina has gone :( and I had a really long day at work (including an after school staff meeting). Matt didn't get home until 5:50, and I was already done eating by this point. I sometimes just feel like I have way too much on my plate. I guess this is the plight of the modern "superwoman"--a million responsibilities.

Anyway, I made an easy dinner tonight because of the circumstances. I tried to make it as healthy as possible, but I honestly didn't try very hard.

I cooked up some Kraft Dinner. I noticed that it was expired, but I didn't notice that hard, so I made it anyways. It was fine.

I fried up some ground beef, added taco seasoning, red pepper, and onion. I think the veggies mask the fact that this is ground beef with salt and KD. It makes it ground beef with salt and KD and veggies.

I also made a Caesar salad kit. This seems to be the only kind of salad I can handle. I don't know what is different about this salad kit. Charlie ate quite a bit, and he especially loves the croutons.

Anyway, because I was passively-aggressive with Matt, I didn't put a drink for him on the table. I guess that wasn't really necessary because by the time he got home it was cold :(

Golden Chicken Nuggets

Cost: $12

Prep: 30 minutes

This was a fantastic dinner, and I guess it is only fitting since it is our first dinner as a family in over a week.

We got a great deal on chicken breasts this morning when we stopped to buy milk. They were $9 for four large breasts. I cut these up into strips and chunks, egged them, and panko breaded them. I baked these in the oven for about 30 minutes. We dipped the nuggets in a chipotle aioli (the one in the big bottle from Costco) and Sweet and Sticky barbeque sauce.

For the side dishes, we had a bagged Caesar salad and a Lipton Sidekick chicken flavour. We used to eat Sidekicks all the time pre Charlie, but as we started to watch our salt intake, it became very clear that these are terrible for you. I don't add the butter, which must make it marginally better, but I still am not comfortable feeding this to my family. Charlie was permitted to have very, very little, even though he loved it.

We have a whole container of leftover chicken, so Charlie can continue to be as happy as his is in the picture below during his meals tomorrows.

No one is hungry...

Cost: $5

Prep time: under 5 minutes

So, when Charlie and I got home, Matt wasn't around for dinner and I was not at all hungry. Charlie sure didn't seem to be either, as the only way to entertain him in the car was to feed him (goldfish, puffs, etc).

We also slept until 5PM after getting home, so when we woke ourselves up, I whipped up a bagged salad (Thrify's, Compliments, Supreme Caesar). Delicious.

I also cut up some cheese (Kraft, havarti) and pickles (low-salt). Served that up with some vegetable crackers, and that was dinner.