Chicken Caesar

Cost: $8

Prep: 15 minutes

This is one of my favorite dinners. I just love chicken Caesar salad. We used leaf lettuce, light dressing, crisp bacon, croutons, and grilled small chicken breasts. I also made garlic buns (margarine and crushed garlic).

Quiche Lunch

Cost: $8

Prep: 20 minutes

The meal shows how flexible I am: something came up so I made our dinner for lunch! One thing I haven't commented on is brought to light by this post. My husband and I are both teachers. That means the three of us are at home for three meals a day for two months. Now, I don't go all out for lunch every day, but we can't eat grilled cheese and condensed soup every day.

So, tonight, there are plans to go to have a campfire, so dinner needed to be cooked. To make it more "lunchy", I added a handful of chips. Lol. No. I did that because I am pregnant and really want chips.  I am being honest.

I made mini-quiche. I needed to take something as an appie to our get-together tonight as well, so I managed two jobs at once.

I used organic non-sweet pastry shells as the crust. Inside, there was a bunch of yellow pepper, cheese, and crisp crumbled bacon. Add some milky whipped egg, bake 20 minutes, and you have lunch (or an appy, as I am bringing these cold to a baby shower soon too).

As an extra bit of health, I steamed some green beans and we had a hearty serving of these on the side.

Breakfast Bookends

Cost: $4 (just dinner)

Prep: 15 minutes

If I had wrote this post any sooner it would have something scathing about Matt. But, because we have waited a few days, I have cooled off from Matt with his sad puppy dog eyes coming home in the middle of Charlie and I eating and saying, "That's okay you didn't make me any. I would have eaten it cold, but I just wont eat" or something to the like. Seriously!

Once I convinced him to go make himself some darn eggs, he asked me what heat to cook eggs at. Then I saw what his eggs looked like, and I realized the reason he doesn't come home and make his b for d is because he doesn't know how to make eggs.

So, anyways, we all ate b for d with the delicious rosemary foccacia bread from Thrify's and a pineapple that was too ripe and tasted like a pina colada.

I also wanted to talk about my lunch.

I wasn't so into dinner anyways because I had had a large lunch at school. Imentioned earlier in the week that I buy my lunch almost every day.

Today's lunch meal was a small salad (with far far too much dressing), spaghetti and meatballs with olive bread. Looks yummy? It was. I also had a yoghurt and an orange.

B for D

Cost: less than $5

Prep time: less than 10 minutes

Matt did not join us for dinner tonight; I had had a very busy, long day; Charlie enjoys pulling my wet shirts from the laundry and running around with the shirts over his face, regardless of walls in his way. So, anyway, Matt had rugby until 6PM and Charlie and I cannot wait to eat until then, so we had a quick breakfast for dinner. I didn't make for Matt, as it would have been cold before he got home, so he still hasn't eaten yet.

I tried to make this dinner healthier by serving it with a lot of fruit. We picked up a little water melon, about the size of a bocce ball, when we were at Walmart the other day ($2.50). We ate 1/2 of that, although it was difficult as I had to take it apart for C because of the seeds. We also shared an orange and a few grapes.

The bacon is the Natural Selections variety, even though I hear it is not actually any less full of nitrates than regular bacon. Still, it is really nice bacon. I like to broil it so it is flat.

I fried our eggs: 2 for me, 1 for Charlie. I like my yolk soft, and it was a little harder tonight, but C gets his completely cooked through. I'm not sure if I am supposed to feed him runny eggs, but I have no idea how he would manage to eat a runny egg anyway.

For our grain product, we shared an English muffin with light herb and garlic cream cheese. This was very satisfying, especially when combined with the bacon and eggs; it was almost like having a Hollandaise sauce or something.

Honestly though, I am still hungry and looking forward to a snack tonight...

Big Breaky

Charlie and I slept in this morning and woke ourselves up to a nice, big breakfast.

We had bacon, eggs, toast, strawberries, and hashbrowns.

The most important part, however, was the coffee. But, if you ask Charlie, it was the ketchup.

Kitchen Sink Pasta

Cost: $9

Prep: 15 minutes (mostly chopping time)

This was a hard week. Between freezing our booty's off and strike action and a baby cutting four teeth, we were very tired. AND Matt was  even later than usual with a rugby game today.

So, the plan for tonight simply said "pasta and veggie?". Thanks, Kyla. Great planning.

At least we had bought the pasta. It was a Olivieri variety, cheese and asparagus ravioli. It was way too salty, so I am glad I mixed a lot of veggies in.

I fried up and crumbled on four strips of bacon. I finely chopped 1/2 a tomato, 1/2 a green pepper, and a whole orange pepper.

I boiled the veggies with the pasta for the final minute, so they were tender. I mixed parmesan (bad idea--too salty) and a bit of butter in with the hot pasta.

While I cooked, Charlie sat in the recycling and ate a whole lime.

He gave the meal his seal of approval: placing some on his head.

Breakfast for Dinner