I am not really on top of dinners, but I've gotten pretty good at breakfasts. Once a week I make 4 or more servings of muffins, pancakes, waffles, or bagels, we eat our serving a piece each when it's fresh and hot, and the rest goes into the freezer packaged up two servings to a ziploc. A steady supply of breakfast meat to have on the side, eggs one or two times a week, and cereal on occasion, and we eat pretty well in the mornings.
I am trying to apply the same principles to dinner, but there are so many more choices to be made! I do have homemade pizza shells in the freezer, so there's that. And when I do settle on a meal, I make a lot of it and freeze some to have later. I lean towards the flea system of menus - deciding what to have is the hard part, so once the menu is made, we will stick to it. But since making the menu is the hard part, it doesn't always get made.
But I am still relying on prepared food much of the time - it's so much easier to just have whatever is next on the stack and heat it up in the microwave than do all the deciding and shopping and cooking. It's a step up from the near constant stream of fast-food I was eating not so long ago, at least.
This morning when I got to work all of the power was out. The elevators came back, so now I am upstairs in my office, but I guess that was an emergency generator or something, because the rest of the power is still out. No computers, no lights, and no ventilation.
It's the last one that might send me home.
This morning when I got to work all of the power was out. The elevators came back, so now I am upstairs in my office, but I guess that was an emergency generator or something, because the rest of the power is still out. No computers, no lights, and no ventilation.
Huh. There's a lot of that going around this week. Monday something happened to the primary power source here, and when the backup kicked in, it tried to take over all at once and basically blew up! Smoke in the data center and everything. We got a day off yesterday out of it.
no ventilation
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Perkins, you need to breathe. Can you work from home??
menu planning: I try to plan menues in advance, shop and stick to it, but that doesn't always happen. I tend to cook on the weekends and eat on it all week. So, I end up having the same meal for 4 days and it gets really boring. I need to start planning menus that use the food in different ways.
I've got 8 kids in my room working on projects. I love that they are so invested in their work that they come during their lunches to work.
Wonder if shock therapy from static electricity in winter can counteract SADS.
I tend to cook on the weekends and eat on it all week. So, I end up having the same meal for 4 days and it gets really boring.
I do the same thing. It's bad enough cooking for two and not always being able to cut a recipe down, but it's near impossible for one person. OTOH, I got a cookbook for Christmas that is all about cooking for one; I suppose I really should look at it and see what it can do for me.
My menu planning resembles amych's in that I tend to not actually plan them. I buy things I know I can cook quickly for the nights that need a quick meal, and I try to err on the side of food the kids will eat, plus enough fruits and veggies for a week. Oh, I also like erring on the side of foods that have a long shelf life, so I don't HAVE to cook a meal on a day I don't want to just to avoid food going bad. If I miscalculate, TJs is just up the street.
I R LAZY.
If I had a microwave, planning ahead would be much easier. There are many nights where I don't consider cooking an option. So I order in too much, or eat insufficient dinner.
I have not yet made peace with giving up that counter space. I flipped a coin between Foreman grill and microwave, and it came up grill.
