Sarah's Recipe Blog

I feel kind of sheepish doing this but I think it will be helpful to alot of people.

The kids and I eat a little bit differently from Sasha. For now I'm going to just put what the kids and I eat because Sasha usually just eats oats, dates and nuts twice a day without much variation besides what I fix for snacks or lunch.

Breakfast:

Oats, Milk/soymilk, Homemade Granola(I don't think I have this recipe up but it's a very basic granola recipe with oats, agave, cinnamon, sunflower seeds, coconut and raisins.

Lunch:

Sloppy Joes (ground turkey, kidney beans) on Fresh Homemade Bread

sides: Buckwheat and organic baby carrots

Dinner: Freedom Fries (pan fried potatoes...this recipe is on Healthy Recipes) with organic ketchup (can't remember the brand right now but it is from our local Health Food Store) I have made my own ketchup and have a recipe posted for it but it doesn't taste the same as store bought and I really do prefer that taste.

sides: sliced apples (Frugal note: I bought a box of these apples at a store called NPS in Salt Lake City that sells about to go past their date food for cheap. I got 40 pounds of apples for $10)  

In the summer I will go and pick fruit from my neighbors trees that they aren't eating and serve this to my kids with meals or for snacks.  We have a garden and eat out of there in the summer too. This year the garden may not be as fruitful because of crazy weather. I don't plant a huge garden but I do a little bit of gardening.  

Breakfast: Oats w/ soymilk or milk (the girls and I do milk, the boys are lactose intolerant and drink soymilk) topped with homemade granola.

Lunch:

Whole wheat angel hair pasta (I buy Heartland brand from Wal-mart...much cheaper than the health food store brand and satisfactory quality) Homemade spaghetti sauce with sauteed mushrooms. The kids and I top this with Parmesean cheese

sides: homemade bread with butter/honey/jam/garlic (sasha likes his with honey and garlic...yuck) organic baby carrots

Dinner: Homemade Pizza (it must be Italian day) Sasha likes his without cheese. I put plenty of cheese on top for me and the kids. Sometimes I buy chicken sausage from Costco for a yummy pizza topping.

sides: cucumber, carrots and watermelon

Even though we eat the same breakfast day after day I guess I just want people to see that that's really what we do. I vary our breakfast sometimes but if I make granola we definitely enjoy eating that. That is one way to keep things cheaper. Keeping your recipes simpler gives me more time to have a little bit of a life outside the kitchen and things are a bit cheaper that way. I do, however, try to provide variety for the health benefits I think it brings.

Breakfast: Rolled raw oats with soymilk/milk and homemade granola.

sides: Cantelope

Lunch: Revisted Homemade Cheese Pizza

sides: grapes/baby carrots

We almost always just drink water with our meals. I'll let my kids have milk if they ask for it but I'm into simple. Sometimes I make homemade rootbeer with rootbeer flavor and agave to sweeten. I love rootbeer....I also make it into popsicles for later. I also often buy fresh limes and squeeze some into some water with a bit of agave. Mostly I push water because it's free.

Dinner: Steamed Salmon w/ Red potatoes ( I'll add dill and olive oil to the steamed potatoes and some dill and braggs liquid aminos-similar to soy sauce- to the salmon)

sides: cucumbers/watermelon

Dessert: Fresh homemade cinnamon rolls (I've been using my Bosch alot this week. I make these rolls with my same basic bread recipe only add butter and fructose and cinammon)

I thought I'd make note of the groceries I bought this week. This is partly for me to see what we buy and how often.

Costco:

2 pounds Salmon, 10 pounds red potatoes, 2 gallons milk, 1 bag tortilla chips, 1 bag rice chips(for the barbeque), 1 pound blackberries, 1 pound blueberries, 2 cases soymilk, 2 loaves whole wheat bread, 1 box of organic raisin bran, 1 carton natural omega eggs, 1 case pull-ups.

Reams: 1 watermelon, 1 cantelope, 1 honedew melon, 2 cucumbers, 4 small cartons cottage cheese.

Good Earth: 5 pounds fructose

Breakfast: Raw rolled oats and granola with soymilk/milk

sides: honeydew melon

Lunch: Creamy Split Pea Soup ( I put the typical carrots, onions, celery jazz in and then blend it in the blender to make a very delightful soup on a cold June day)

Sides: baby carrots/ salsa fresca rice chips

Dinner: Creamy Pea Soup...five hours old....

sides: rice chips/grapes
 

A couple of my kids only got one of the cinnamon rolls I made yesterday so I woke up and made a fresh batch this morning....the magic of a Bosch...awww... They still ate the soup after stuffing their little faces on sweet rolls. Joseph who rarely eats thirds asked for thirds of soup. He loves green and I guess that's why he wanted more green soup. :)

Breakfast: Granola , granola, granola...we are almost out of it and I actually am getting tired and had a bowl of raisin bran this morning. I think I'll try cooking oatmeal next week if I can get organized. The kids wake up right when I'm done running and want to eat right away.

Lunch: Mashed Potatoes

I boil red potatoes whole. I leave the skins on partly because I'm lazy and partly because I like them. I leave a bit of potato water in them for mashing and add olive oil and salt to taste. Sometimes I get fancy and sprinkle some parsley on top. The kids eat it with organic ketchup and Sasha sprinkles flaxseed crackers on top.

sides: green salad

I put a spoonful of veganaise and a dash of garlic powder on the salad and my kids gobble the salad up. Don't tell them about the garlic.

Dinner: Turkey Sandwiches

sides: grapes, rice chips, cookies (from good earth they were on a sale for an amazing price....I should go back and get a case!)

We are going to eat it picnic style at the Stake Bar B-Q.They don't usually serve super healthy food at these functions and we try to just bring our own "cool" stuff so the kids don't feel bad. I like hamburgers but am happy not to eat them most of the time.  

Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ blackberries and blueberries on top.

Lunch: We are getting free sack lunches at a BYU play my kids got tickets too at the library. I'll take out the cookies and give them the sandwiches, fruit and water...I'll probably bring some more of those cookies I got from Good Earth.  

Dinner: TBA 

Breakfast: Waffles w/ pure maple syrup

Lunch:  Tortilla chips and salsa 

Carob Banana Ice Cream (frozen bananas, carob powder and soymilk in my champ blender...came out thick like ice cream)

This meal was kind of a snack

Dinner: Whole wheat angel hair pasta w/ sauce

sides: sliced cucumbers

Dessert: Carob Chip Cookies

Breakfast: Oats w/ milk

Jenny puts peanut butter in hers sometimes

Lunch: Shrimp Jambayala

sides: cucumbers and apples

We always use brown rice in all of our rice dishes. The kind I bought for my food storage is called Basmati and it smells like buttery popcorn when it cooks.

Dinner: Freedom Fries w/ Organic ketchup

Dessert: Carob Banana Ice Cream

Breakfast: The granola is gone. My 3 year old demanded that I produce more granola that instant...he is usually pretty good with his demands but I guess didn't quite understand this time. So, we had raw rolled oats with milk and agave. My kids adore this combination and I'm pretty happy with it too.

Lunch: Tuna Casserole (veganaise mayo, pickles, cucumbers, tomatoes and sunflower seeds)

sides; watermelon and a very few sugar snap peas from our garden :)

Dinner: Rhubarb Crisp

I didn't have any shopping to do this afternoon and felt ambitious so we picked the rhubarb in our backyard and made a delicious dessert...for dinner. I will feed my kids apple crisp or peach cobbler for dinner sometimes too.

Breakfast: Oatmeal (agave, cinammon on top)

sides: homemade whole wheat bread w/ all fruit jam (I buy smuckers all fruit jam at Wal-mart for the best price I've found for sugar-free jam)

Ask me sometime to tell you about the failed jam experiments I've done. One batch in particular still sits on my shelf and bears the title "Texas Barbeque Jam"

Lunch: Baked Chicken ( I marinated the chicken legs last night w/ braggs, coriander and sage. I'll probably add some more braggs and then bake them for an hour. I've started always covering the chicken I bake so it's more tender and doesn't dry out)

sides:  barley ( I added this to the chicken to let it soak up all the juices..yum) cucumbers , watermelon, fresh garden peas (I leave these out of the salad because Sasha doesn't like them in)

Dinner : TBA

Brk: Oatmeal

Lunch; Mexican Cornbread Casserole (adzuki beans, barley, salt free tomato sauce, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder with layer of cornbread on top)

sides: green salad w/ homemade ranch dressing 

Dinner: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

sides: strawberries, cucumbers

Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ fresh strawberries, blueberries and raspberries

sides: whole wheat toast w/ all fruit jam

Lunch: Sloppy Joes on homemade whole wheat buns

I am going to use the adzuki beans from yesterday and barley from the day before as a base for the sloppy joes, add some mustard, ketchup, worchestshire (sp?) sauce, garlic powder dehydrated onions...yum..should be good)  Sasha goes in and out of his admiration for beans. I personaly think they are wonderful all by themselves. He needs them dressed up a bit. We'll see if he likes lunch today or not.... 

sides: green salad w/ homemade ranch dressing  

Dinner: TBA...I'm toying with the idea of making a breakfast casserole for dinner. We got this new kind of chicken sausage from Costco yesterday that tastes like the most delicious hot dog you've never had.....I mean I shouldn't really compare it with a hot dog. It's sausage..just has a light delicate and lovely taste.  

Breakfast: Homemade Banana Muffins

Lunch: Various snacks at race filled us up....

Dinner: Homemade Whole Wheat Pancakes w/ pure maple syrup

sides: fruit salad (oranges, apples, bananas, pineapple, and a sprinkling of coconut), strawberry yogurt sweetened with fructose

Breakfast: Oats w/ yogurt, raspberries and blueberries on top

 Lunch: To each his own (after church on Sunday we all just kind of grab what we can...we get back after 2 and are all starving) I think some of us had cheese and chicken sausage sandwiches. Joseph had an all pickle sandwich. yum yum....that kid ;)

Dinner: Mashed potatoes

sides:fresh garden peas, fresh cherries (got the cherries for 1. 19 a pound at my new favorite store-Market Square -Redwood and 1700 South in Salt Lake
 

Breakfast: Oats and strawberry yogurt

Lunch: Buckwheat and potstickers (bought at Costco ...all natural)

sides: orange slices, baby carrots

Dinner: cold cereal (we buy organic raisin bran at Costco and eat it on nights I don't feel like cooking)

Breakfast: oats and strawberry yogurt

Lunch: Tuna Casserole (would have made Salmon today but Sasha wasn't in the mood for anything but tuna)

Dinner: French Toast (with homemade whole wheat bread) topped with fresh raspberries and agave syrup(we ran out of maple syrup..we'll have to wait until I go to Costco next week)

Dessert: Kids bought themselves all sorts of treats at Good Earth with their compensation packet for Heart of Holladay. 

Breakfast: oats and yogurt

Lunch: Lentils (I just boiled them and added some olive oil and braggs...I love them that way..oh and a dash of dehydrated onions)

sides: baby carrots, homemade bread with jam, orange slices

Dinner: Homemade Pizza( put some of the chicken sausage from Costco on top...yum)

fresh strawberries, baby carrots

Dessert: my favorite!!! Strawberry Shortcake

I made a recipe of vanilla pound cake (cut down on the eggs and put in half olive oil half butter...Sasha still won't eat it because of the eggs) Made muffins and used those for the shortcake part. I whipped up about a year's supply of whipping cream in my Bosch. Used some of that on top of the shortcake with cut up strawberries..heaven. I'm putting the leftovers of the whipping cream in my freezer to use over the next few months or so for anything that could use some cream....I love cream.

Breakfast: Fruity Breakfast Cereal (bought at good earth can't remember the name and I'm too tired from my run to go all the way upstairs and look) Julia talked me into buying it when we were on a date yesterday.

Lunch: Leftover Homemade Pizza (at the park after my midwife appointment)

sides: baby carrots, juice boxes

Dinner: Steamed Salmon and red potatoes ( i steam them in my two story steamer...it's great and then add dried parsley, garlic, dill, olive oil and salt)

sides: garden peas

Breakfast: Oats and Yogurt w/ sliced strawberries

 Mid morning snack (we had friends coming over and needed to do lunch later)-strawberries and cream, natural cheetos, yogurt triple berry smoothies.

Lunch: Mashed Potatoes and chicken sausage

baby carrots  

Dinner: Leftover mashed potatoes (we had a lot leftover because Daddy wasn't around to eat most of them and I just so darn used to cooking for him) 

and....whatever else the kids felt like...bread and jam, oats and milk.....smoothie popsicles I made this morning. Then we went to the park after dinner and brought along our huge bag of baby carrots from Costco and they had millions of them. I always used to bring fresh veggies to the park. My kids will munch on anything when they are happily playing..so I sneak in more veggies that way.

I didn't have much of an appetite tonight but was hungry...perfect recipe for a blood sugar crash and no husband around......so sorry for myself. ....I know that they are having a time and I wouldn't interfere for the world....enough chatter....night y'all

Breakfast: Oatmeal with triple berries (frozen from Costco..marionberries, blueberries and raspberries) 

Lunch: Potstickers (also from costco) and Rice

sides: orange slices, watermelon and baby carrots

Dinner:  TBA
 

Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ raspberries and blueberries

Lunch: Turkey wraps (I buy the natural deli version without nitrates) and whole wheat tortillas at Walmart. I love these tortillas because they are a good price 2.04 and they actually stay together. I've bought ones at the health food store that crumble as soon as you bite into them.

sides: cantelope/organic sesame street crackers ( also from Wal-mart...a treat to get the kids to behave for the grueling Wal-mart shopping trip)

Dinner: Green salad, avocado wraps, leftover pancakes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  We kind of all did our own thing tonight. Sasha and the little boys had avocado wraps. I had leftover pancakes and salad. Benjamin had cereal and the girls ate pb and j.

Breakfast: Raisin Bran (some of the kids had oats still but I was in the mood for something else)

Lunch: Tacos w/ ground turkey and buckwheat. I always stretch the meat by mixing the turkey and buckwheat. I add my own spices to the meat and never use those packet thingys...they are bound to have sugar in them...just look and see for yourself.

sides: grapes, watermelon, plums, cucumbers....i love this time of year :)

Dinner: Avocado Wraps

Breakfast: Oatmeal w/ berries

Lunch: Turkey wraps

sides: grapes

Snack: Homemade Cinnamon Ice Cream ( i love making this flavor..not one you usually find anywhere ..that I know of....but very very yummy and easy)

Dinner: Homemade Whole wheat pancakes with butter cream sauce

Sasha had avocado wraps..I bought a bunch of tortillas and we are living off of them this week.

Breakfast: Breakfast Burritos (scrambled eggs, salsa, monterey jack cheese)

sides: watermelon, V-8 fruit/veggie juice

Lunch: Spilt Pea Soup,

sides: cucumbers, garlic toast

Dinner: Freedom Fries 

Breakfast: Raw oats w/ macademia nuts, almonds, sunflower seeds and berries (well at least that's what I put in mine...feeling like I needed a bit more protein this morning)

Lunch: Annie's Cheesy Ravoli

(it's a brand of canned ravoli's from good earth...I was away all morning scrapbooking with my friend and got home late) note...half of my children didn't really liked the canned taste..which is actually a good thing. I hardly ever feed them canned anything and they have good little taste buds that know the difference between canned and fresh.

Dinner:  Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

sides: green salad (Julia has been begging me for salad..I bought some vegan ceasar dressing and she and Joseph love it) 

Sasha does not eat cheese so this wasn't appealing to him. I've decided that if he's had his typical lunch already which is nuts, berries, dates and soymilk and I make something for the other meal (be that dinner or lunch) that he doesn't eat..then I'll make him an avocado wrap. It's quick for me to do and I feel good about it. He's perfectly willing to make himself something else but I do like to help him out if I can.

Breakfast: Oats w/ bananas and macademia nuts

Lunch: Free lunch at Macey's grocery store. They did this promotion that if you did some healthy activities and ate a healthy meal then you could come to the store for a free lunch.

They served: Barbeque chicken, mashed potatoes, corn and salad.

It humored me a little bit what their idea of healthy was...they even served soda and dessert at the meal...I guess I figured they could have just had fruit and juice.

It was so nice to sit down and be served....all for being healthy...fun!

Dinner: Different types of wraps (can you tell I'm on a food lag with the wraps......hey it's summer...who wants a hot kitchen...) I had a Barbeque Chicken Wrap and the boys had the ol standby Avocado Wrap.

Breakfast: oatmeal w/ berries and macademia nuts

 Lunch: Aduzui beans and barley

sides: baby carrots/green salad

Dinner: Freedom fries

sides: baby carrots...time to get to the store again

Dessert: Homemade rainbow cupcakes (made by Jenny almost entirely with her little cupcake kit that she bought with her own money) 

Breakfast: oats and berries (fresh...went to Costco again yesterday...I love that store)

all except Jenny...the darling child begged me to give her jobs yesterday so she could earn money..since we'd had a busy weekend and didn't get our normal chores done I was of course more than willing. She vacuumed and dusted the entire upstairs and earned enough to buy herself a box of cereal at Good Earth which she will eat with great relish and delight in front of all the other children for the rest of the week.

Joseph didn't finish breakfast because a spider appeared at the table....We need to get out of the house today....

Lunch: Rotini Pasta w/ meat sauce

sides: Green salad/ baby carrots

Dinner: Cheesy Adzuki Bean Casserole (my kids will eat almost any leftovers if I make it into a cheesy mexican casserole...added some salsa, garlic and cheese and they loved it)

sides: grapes

Dessert: Cherry Cobbler

as soon as we finished our lessons yesterday my kids raced out the door and picked a huge amount of cherries. Then we spent the afternoon pitting them and checking for ...well...you know..extra unwanted protein. I think Julia and I were the biggest fans of the result. Joseph liked it too but Jacob..the kid who eats pretty much everything wouldn't touch it. I think maybe just maybe he actually doesn't like cherries.

Breakfast: The baby must be growing muscles or his brain is developing or something..I have not been able to stomach oats for the past few days and have been craving Breakfast Burritos..I finally got to the store and bought some eggs and had two and a half burritos with cheese and chicken sausage. Then I finished it off with some Cherry Cobbler and cream. I'm looking forward to feeling great this morning. I was so weak yesterday and could barely keep up with my kids at the library and had to strap them in the stroller and let them fuss....very not fun.

Lunch: Lentils and Rice

Green Salad

after my huge breakfast I wasn't hungry until about 3:00 in the afternoon. I still fed everyone but not until much later than normal

Dinner: Homemade cheese and chicken sausage pizza

green salad

The salad we will be eating this week is the basic spring mix they sell at Costco...it's great because it is prewashed. I always have a hard time feeling like I've washed the lettuce enough. The salad from Costco is alot of salad for only 4 dollars...it will give us enough for salads a couple of times a day and maybe smoothies for a week for my big family.  Sometimes we eat it straight. Sometimes with dressing or other veggies.

Breakfast: oatmeal and berries ( although I have to admit I was craving eggs again)

Lunch: Picnic in the park with G-ma and cousins visiting from California..ones my kids have never met before because of a divorce in that family.

Leftover Pizza

Strawberries

Dinner: French Toast w/ berries and pure maple syrup

When I made the pizza dough yesterday and made a little loaf of bread that I used for the french toast today.

Happy 4th tomorrow everyone..we've got some special meals planned and I'm sure you all are going to have a wonderful day.

Breakfast: Fourth of July Pancakes (strawberries, blueberries, cottage cheese)

I am proud to say that my darling Benjamin made the pancakes all by himself...He even ground the flour fresh(the dear woke up at 6:30 so we could have our picnic breakfast while watching the balloons rise over the mountains)

Lunch: Baked Potato Bar...I've been looking forward to this....

toppings: cottage cheese, grated cheese blend, sour cream, corn, green peppers, tomatoes, onions, spring mix salad blend, broccoli, salt, pepper, ranch dressing, ceasar dressing, barbeque sauce (don't know if anyone will use this..we'll see)..umm...I think that's it....I can't wait..they are taking forever to cook

Dinner: Bagels and Cream Cheese

i didn't eat too much because i was still full from lunch. Somehow all of my children were hungry so we actually ate this meal way earlier than I was planning. I was thinking we'd have it as a late night snack type of thing when we'd finally digested our huge lunch....I guess I'll have it for a later snack when I've finally digested those huge potatoes I ate.   By the way..I did try the barbeque sauce with the potatoes. I think I actually put a little bit of every topping on mine. It was all delicious.

Breakfast: Breakfast Burritos (eggs, whole wheat tortillas, green peppers, corn...leftover toppings from the potato bar yesterday) 

The kids however want oats but for some reason I still can't stand the sight of them....I don't want to eat eggs everyday but I just don't feel like oats or oatmeal.

Lunch: Leftover Baked Potato....still have plenty of potatoes and toppings so I think we'll do this lunch again.

Dinner: TBA 

Breakfast: oats and homemade granola (I made some more and can now stand eating oats again....I actually love eating oats in the morning so I'm wondering why I had a sudden aversion to them)

Lunch: Fix your own...I had yet another baked potato and enjoyed it immensly ...the kids had all sorts of things that I can't even remember now..sorry

Dinner: Lasagna (whole wheat noodles, cottage cheese, grated cheddar cheese, italian flavored tomato sauce, garlic and green peppers)

sides: green salad

Breakfast: Granola w/ oats

Lunch: Haystacks (I found the millions of toppings on the baked potatoes a good way to feed my family of different preferences) I cooked some brown rice and had toppings like..salsa, corn, cheese, avocado, minced garlic, and chicken sausage available...everybody was happy....we may just have to eat that way everyday....I feel a food lag coming on. My definition of food lag is when I find a recipe that I love so much that I keep making it again and again)

Dinner: Rice and milk (well at least my three little ones had this...they love rice and milk and cinammon and agave...our sugar...for a yummy comforting dinner)

Breakfast: Oats and granola

i haven't made it up for breakfast yet but I've already had like 3 1/2 nectarines. I was a little hungry when I got home from my run. BTW...those of you that live in Utah Valley or thereabouts should check out Allred's fruit stand in a couple of weeks here. They sell the most amazing nectarines and peaches. Being the cheapskate I am I love to buy their boxes of seconds...or slightly weird looking fruit that they sell in a big brown box for only $5....it's about 20-25 pounds of fruit. I have a friend who buys it for canning. She came over one day and I fed her children some fresh peaches for a treat. She said, "Oh...I've never given them any fresh" and I said, "Well, my children will probably never eat them canned. " Not that I don't like canned peaches but 1. I'm not really into canning as much as she is and 2. We eat them fresh so fast that we don't have time to can them...I also love making cobblers and that uses up a lot of the fruit.

Lunch: Buckwheat and guacamole

Dinner: Fix your own...Jenny is having raisin bran, Joseph and Jacob wanted cheese sandwiches...the rest of us gave into the temptation of the wating cherry cobbler...the last for the year since our cherry tree has been picked to the bone (except for those really high branches that I'm too chicken to watch my kids climb up to...I invited a neighbor's child that I don't like very much and likes to climb)

Breakfast: granola, oats and yogurt

Lunch: Brown rice and chicken nuggets. I cut up some chicken breasts and roll them in olive oil. Then I stick them in a bowl of flour, garlic powder and salt (Today I'm doing 5 breasts and will use a couple of cups of flour to make sure they get nice and coated)..tsp of garlic, tsp of salt. Cook at 350 for 30 min then turn up to 400 for the last 15 to brown them. I usually spray the cookie sheet I use so they don't stick.

Dinner: We went swimming and then stopped by Great Harvest Bread to redeem our coupon for a free loaf of bread. While there we bought samples...the lady cut them real thick...for awhile I thought that could be dinner and I'd feed them some sort of snack when they begged for one later. They said they were hungry when we got home....so...I poppped some popcorn. We had two kinds: Caramel and Parmesan (for the caramel I boil 1/4 cup of agave and pour it on top of a big bowl...it really covers a big bowl and tastes yummy..see my recipe section)

Caramel Popcorn, Parmesan Popcorn

great harvest bread slices and juice    

Breakfast: oats, granola and yogurt ( I added berries and macademia nuts to mine)

 Lunch: Tuna wraps

sides: tortilla chips, strawberries and leftovers from dinner...popcorn :)

Dinner: French Toast w/ berries

We were gone fishing today and would have had a salad on our wraps if I had been more organized...I wasn't...a day without veggies feels weird..should I feed my kids salad for a bedtime snack...or give them the leftover homemade ice cream in the fridge. Do you think they'd notice if it turned green suddenly?

I just have to say that we had a wonderful day driving out to Strawberry and sitting by the lake was the most delightful experience of the summer yet....gorgeous air...delightful lake breeze..the kids were happy wading and throwing rocks in the shallow water. 
 

Breakfast: oats and granola w/ yogurt

Lunch: Parmesean Pasta

sides: green salad w/ fresh garden green beans and zucchini  the first of the year...delicious.

Dinner: Steamed Red Potatoes, Steamed Yams w/ buttter

fresh garden zucchini slices   I never realized how much I enjoy sliced zucchini when they are little and you can eat them like a cucumber. In the salad at lunch they had some dressing on them and were chopped up small. Tonight I ate them straight and enjoyed the mild taste.

Breakfast: Oat, granola and yogurt ..I bought three large containers of yogurt and by placing a dollop of it on mine and the kids breakfast it has lasted us all week.  Our little Jacob loves yogurt and asks, "more nummies" at every breakfast. I have made my own yogurt before but I find buying the natural brand that has a sugar I approve of to be just as cheap as making it. 

Lunch: Cheesy Quesadillas

The kids ate theirs plain but I added spring salad mix and salsa to mine for a quick satisfying and healthy lunch

Dinner: Mashed Potatoes

Green Salad (with fresh garden green beans and garden zucchini)

Breakfast: Oats, granola and yogurt

No pancakes or waffles this morning. I often make them on Sundays because we don't have church until 11 and I actually have time to cook breakfast. However, Jenny fell out of the new bunk bed that we bought her yesterday and woke us up early. She is fine but we've installed an extra railing thing now so hopefully that won't happen again. We eventually went back to sleep and slept in later than normal.

Lunch: Fix your own. I had leftover mashed potatoes with salad and BBQ sauce on top.
The kids did their own thing and the little boys had sandwiches.

Dinner: Buckwheat and Sweet Mesquite Chicken Bits

sides: Garlic Biscuits (made entirely by Benjamin) and Green Salad (with more green beans and zucchini)

I often don't feel like making anything Sunday for dinner and whip up something really really easy. I like to follow the day of rest thing for religious and worship purposes and also for renewal. I cook for my family because I love them and I'm learning to enjoy it..but I'm human and definitely get burnt out with the kitchen scene day after day. I try to make it mentally manageable by not doing too much every single day and only making bigger or more complicated things when I'm in the mood and it will be a pleasure and not a chore.

Breakfast: Oats and granola (we are out of yogurt)

Lunch: Bean Burritos (emergency lunch today. I was playing my flute with the very talented Josse and after we were done I was so hungry I had to do something fast. So I got a can of refried beans from our 72 hour emergency kit ...we never eat canned foods except in "emergencies", heated them up and piled them up on some whole wheat tortillas)

sides: plums

Dinner: Potato Bar (I had so much fun with this last time that we did it again and invited our friends over who couldn't come last time because of sick children)

Toppings/sides: spring salad mix, corn, green peppers, broccoli, chicken sausage, cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, butter, salt, pepper, salsa, BBQ sauce)

Breakfast: oats and granola

Lunch: Turkey Burgers (Joseph's request)

I had green peppers, onions, pickles, organic ketchup, grapeseed oil mayo-which is way lighter tasting and very yummy, BBQ sauce and some kind of dark green leaf from the spring mix I buy at Costco) I also made homemade buns again. I was thankful they turned out soft and perfectly shaped this time...yay!

Dinner: Potato Supreme

I'm not sure exactly what to call it..I took 2 baked potatoes, 1/4 cup sour cream, 1/4 cup cheese, 1/4 cup milk, a couple of chicken sausages minced, and a few broccoli florets minced and created what I thought was a great dinner.  My kids spied it with caution but most of them enjoyed it..I do have some picky eaters that simply have bad attitudes..despite my intolerance of pickiness..they persist.

Breakfast: Oats and granola (I had raisin bran)

Lunch: Kasha (or Buckwheat...but we call it Kasha) Brought out a lot of the toppings we used on the potatoes...corn, sour cream, peppers, salad, etc....

Dinner: French Toast (on homemade bread...I always feel so cool when I do it this way) I added nutmeg to the mix and it had an extra yummy taste.
Scrambled Eggs

sides: fresh berries

Breakfast: oats and granola ( I actually rebelled and had raisin bran again..I can only handle oats so many times a week. Don't get me wrong. I love them....I just need a change sometimes. My kids however like things to be the same and some of them don't like raisin bran...more for me)

Lunch: Cheesy Corn Quesidillas

sides: baby carrots and ...ta da...the first cucumber of the year....wait the second...I ate the first myself one night when we hadn't had any veggies that day and i was craving something.

Dinner: Fruteos cereal (looks like fruit loops...DOES NOT TASTE LIKE IT...but my kids don't know that so they loved it) I had some of the homemade bread I made this afternoon with PB and J since I just can't eat fake fruit loops that just taste blah...most of the healthy versions of stuff really tastes yummy or even better...not this....I bought two boxes of it on sale and I think we'll use the other box to make cereal necklaces....an experience every child should have a least once in awhile.  

Breakfast: Oatmeal (ordered by Joseph...he likes to boss me around...he is often polite about it but he does have opinions)

Lunch: Lentils and Rice

sides: green salad with zucchini and fresh garden cucumbers..yum. The dressing I make for it is so easy and my kids LOVE salad with this dressing. I simply put on about a 1T of veganaise (it's grapeseed oil mayo that is very light and very good for you) and then about 1/4 t of garlic powder. It gives it a ranch dressing type taste for pennies and my kids adore it.  They also LOVED the cucumbers. I picked two for the salad and ended up with half of one. They were begging me to cut up more....and I love that.

Dinner: Blini..okay...here is a Russian recipe that I healthified. Blini is the Russian word for crepes. There is a cult in Russia that judges a woman by her blini..the thinner the better..she has to be able to flip them just right...and of course they have to be perfectly round.

I make this recipe in my family sized rectangle electric skillet. The first time I made them Sasha (who usually is pretty oblivious to what food looks like) laughed and said, "A schto za blini?" Meaning loosely...what in the world did you do to those blini?  Ah...well at least my kids can enjoy the joy of blini without mommy standing over a stove for 2 hours...this version cooks up in about 20 minutes..Yay!

I'll post the recipe later..gotta go read stories to my kids.  

Breakfast: Oatmeal and berries

Lunch: Lentil Casserole (yummy..I finished off the lentils and rice in a delicious casserole....I put in corn tortillas, tomato sauce seasoned with cumin and garlic powder, corn, cheese and of course the leftover lentils and rice) I layered it like lasagna and put it in the oven for 40 minutes...oh..I forgot I also added some sour cream..finished off the container that I'd bought for the baked potato bar.

sides: baby carrots

Dinner: Homemade chicken sausage and cheese pizza (every time I go to Costco I have to buy the chicken sausage and every time I buy it I have to make pizza....so here we go again)

sides: Big fat green salad...I'm starting to crave these which is good for me because I'm not really a salad eater....with garden cucumbers...yum.

Dessert: Cinnamon Rolls (homemade...made the dough along with the pizza dough..I used to dread baking things like cinnamon rolls or any yeast based bread because I never felt like it came out quite right...I love my Bosch...I've been baking happily ever since I got it) 

Breakfast: Oats and granola w/ berries

Lunch: Salmon and steamed red potatoes

sides: cucumbers and baby carrots

Dinner: Garden Vegetable Chicken Soup

So only one of the veggies in the soup was from our actual garden but it still sounded like a good name for this soup. I used a box of free range chicken broth, 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts cut up, 10 baby carrots chopped, 2 medium potatoes chopped, 1 clove of garlic minced, 4 green beans chopped, and about 1/2 cup of frozen corn. I brought it to boiling and simmered it for 30 minutes. My kids adored it especially since we hadn't had soup for awhile.

Dessert: Carob Party Cake w/ whipping cream frosting...it was Jacob's 2nd birthday today...he liked the cake and present part but got really annoyed at us earlier in the day when we kept singing happy birthday to him all the time.

Breakfast: oatmeal

Lunch: Red lentils and rice ( I cooked them together and added a bunch of different types of herbs..sage, parsley, coriander and garlic powder. You can basically put in any herbs you want...red lentils cook up very creamy...I love lentils)

sides: baby carrots ..I'm kind of being stubborn in the veggie dept. I didn't buy many this week because we should have some from our garden in a couple of days...

Dinner: Lentil Mexican Casserole (this is kind of similar to one I made last week..layers of corn tortillas that I broke up by hand, tomato sauce seasoned with cumin and garlic, cheese, frozen corn and of course the lentils and rice from lunch...my kids LOVED it)

The lentils and rice is a great filler food for casseroles, wraps, I know some people make salad type meals with them. I've made lentil burgers many times but Sasha stopped liking them and the kids are happy eating them in the non-burger form...which is much easier.

It is also a DIRT CHEAP meal..I haven't done the math exactly but when you buy in bulk (even with the rising prices it is still cheaper to buy in bulk if you are disciplined enough to eat your bulk food). For LDS people out there this is such a great food storage food. I like beans but I am so bad about remembering to soak them and then never seem to have time to cook them the next day if I don't soak them. I go through phases of being good about beans and bad. Lentils are so easy..no soaking...they cook in roughly 30-40 minutes.  And they can be enjoyed with almost any spice or herb you like...very versatile.  

Breakfast: Oats and granola

Lunch: Historical first picnic on my masterpiece picnic blanket...I'm so sorry I haven't figures out how to post pictures because it is a lovely quilt I designed myself.

We had: Cheesy Quesidillas (on corn tortillas..I like these because you can get a bunch for cheaper than wheat tortillas)

sides: juice boxes ...this is very exciting for my kids because they are expensive...and baby carrots.

Dinner: Garden Veggie Chicken Lentil Soup

I used the rest of the lentils and rice (which is also great for soups) and added carrots, green beans (from our garden), zucchini(from our garden), chicken broth, and chicken.

I have to admit that I burnt it a teeny bit but it was luckily still edible but not as wonderfully delicious as it would have been.

Dessert: Watermelon and then later soy ice cream bought by Daddy to celebrate Pioneer Day and the marathon he ran in the morning.

Breakfast: oats and granola

Lunch: yet another picnic on the blanket....I couldn't resist...and it was science today for our little homeschool so we went on a nature adventure...We had turkey cheese and spring salad mix wraps on whole wheat tortillas w/ watermelon, honeydew melon and baby carrots.

Dinner: The rest of the Fruteos...we made the necklaces and there was some leftover for a night like tonight when I got back  at 6:00 p.m. from a fun and long day of visiting friends and shopping for weird things like a video camera battery that I finally found at a specialty store and young coconuts from the Thai store on the other side of town.  

Breakfast: Oats ..I had mine with bananas and macademia nuts. I'm actually still hungry so I'd better go eat more..the baby must be having a growth spurt. The other day I had to keep filling my bowl up like 6 times before I felt I'd gotten enough. I try to be sensitive to this and eat until I'm full and stop before I'm overfull. Unfortunately my stomach has times where it's tiny and I eat a little bowl of something and I'm stuffed. its a weird pregnancy thing I guess.

Lunch: Turkey wraps  w/ cheese and spring salad mix

sides: nectarines

Dinner: Refried Beans and Rice....I finally made beans...I think credit goes to Lybi for encouraging me with her stories of eating beans...Thanks Lybi !

Breakfast: Oats

Lunch: Cheese sandwiches

Dinner: Revisted Refried Beans and Rice...I love leftovers personally but I don't think my family always does...beans and rice fare well the next day I think.....tomorrow the rest will be made into some kind of yummy soup.  

Breakfast: oats

Lunch : Buckwheat (my little ones LOVE kasha..what we call it...Jacob had 6 servings and Joseph had 4)

sides: Green salad

Dinner:  Homemade whole wheat pancakes w/ pure maple syrup and berries

Breakfast: oats (but some people had leftover pancakes)

Lunch: Oh..I broke down and we actually had PB and J today. I'm not sure why I avoid this but I guess I feel like it's just not a meal that gives me what I need. I'm more of a bean/meat protein person. Anyway, we had the sandwiches in the car on the way to a million errands today. Not even a few minutes to spread out the picnic blanket.

Dinner: Bean Soup

This soup turned out great. I simply added chicken broth, a couple of cut up chicken breasts, garden zucchini and salt. My kids loved it and it filled our tummies.

sides: garden cucumbers....we are getting lots this year..yay..last year we only had a few and it was a bummer because I was all psyched to can pickles. No can can this year...I just won't do that pregnant. It's too much of a strain.

Dessert: Coconut Pudding

I think I forgot to mention the fabulous raw frozen coconut pie I made the other day. My friend gave me the recipe and I LOVE making it.  I used the three leftover young coconuts from the pie. I always buy a few extra because we love coconut and I might as well buy a lot once I'm at the Thai store that sells them for cheap.

For the pudding I hacked open the coconuts with my huge knife I bought at the Thai store. (that's the part I like the best....) Then I pour out the coconut juice (which is soooo good for you). I scrape out the coconut meat and put it in our k-tec blender with a squirt of lemon juice, a handful of blueberries and a couple of T of agave and coconut oil.

Blend it up and serve it immediately or chilled as coconut pudding...soooo good.  

Breakfast: oats and blackberries

Lunch: adzuki beans and barley

sides: garden cucumbers

Okay..I have to say I'm a so proud of myself when I make what I call a "food storage/garden" meal. When something I serve my family is nearly 100% from food storage and the garden I feel like a proud Latter Day Saint girl.

Dinner: I'm thinking of making calzones for dinner tonight...with cheese and chicken sausage filling. Same idea as pizza just a little twist that my kids will probably think is cool. We'll see how I'm feeling...maybe need to rest this afternoon because I've been a busy bee this week and ran a little faster this morning and yesterday...gotta watch my pregnant legs now that I'm in the third trimester.

Dessert: Zucchini Muffins

I will definitely make this no matter how I feel. I've got two beautiful Zucchini from my garden waiting to for me to make them into something delicious.

Note: I made the calzones and the muffins all in one tornado and then spent a hour on the couch recovering...Sasha saved me from the couch and took me house shopping...we aren't moving but we like to look for fun. I told the kids that mommy and daddy were having a date and we just happened to be taking them with us...they weren't too thrilled to be thrown in the car just to drive by some houses.

The Calzones were SOOOOO delicious and even though they were a little bit of work I want to make them again...like tomorrow... 

Breakfast: Zucchini muffins (some of us still ate oats)

Lunch: zucchini muffins ...I didn't mean to eat them again but my friend asked us to meet her at the park and I didn't have enough time to get a "normal lunch" together. Her kids and my kids devoured the muffins and everyone seemed very happy.

sides: fresh picked apricots...my friend has a tree with about 4,000 apricots in it and we made a very small dent in it this morning and picked a few hundred.

Dinner: Adzuki Bean and barley casserole (yesterdays beans and barley with some cumin, tomato sauce, corn tortillas and cheese) My kids will eat anything if there is some cheese on top.

sides: kiwi and peaches 

Breakfast: oats (I'm really liking macademia nuts, banana and blueberries on mine lately)

Lunch: Salmon and steamed potatoes (I always add parsley, garlic powder, dill and salt to both..olive oil to the potatoes)

sides: garden cucumbers and our first garden tomato

Dinner: Cold cereal...can't remember the name...some fake cheerios w/ dehydrated strawberries. Not bad but not my favorite..I really like raisin bran and this kind called puffins.

Dessert: My favorite cookies at Good Earth were on sale and I brought some home. I can eat an entire box by myself..they are soooo good.

Breakfast: Oats

Lunch: Buckwheat

sides: garden cucumbers

Dinner: Garden Veggie Lasagna Supreme

I'm pre-blogging this today so I'll just tell my idea for the recipe and then maybe I'll actually look one up on-line to help me not mess this up. My idea is to saute some zucchini, squash and green beans together with garlic and some other spices I haven't decided ye. I'll have that be the bulk of my lasagna. I'll add grated cheese and some chicken sausage in the layers and call it almost vegetarian but very good for using up garden veggies. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Okay..I looked up some recipes and am trying the crazy and cool idea I found online. You actually use the giant zucchini from your garden sliced up as the lasagna noodles....I did that and then made a tomato, squash, green bean, and italian spice sauce in the blender which I poured over the "noodles" I added the sausage and cheese to the layers. It's still cooking...I may steam the "noodles" first because it's going on 2 hours in the oven to achieve the tenderness I was looking for and that's a bit long for me.

Okay final comment on this venture. It tasted great..I got impatient and took it out before it reached it's full tenderness so it would have been a little bit easier to chew if I'd cooked it until really really tender..all in all it was a success.  

Breakfast: Oatmeal

Lunch; Refried Beans and Brown rice

sides: avocados, green onions, cheese, tomatoes, salsa...

homemade rootbeer to drink with homemade rootbeer popsicles for dessert

Dinner: Enchilada Casserole

sides: garden cucumbers...I am so happy I planted 12 plants this year and get a cucumber for dinner or lunch almost everyday.

FHE treat: Gramwiches...more of those cookies I could eat all by myself. I bought 4 boxes thinking they'd last a few weeks.... 

Breakfast: oats

Lunch: Turkey wraps

sides: carrots

Dinner: Bean and Rice soup (I'll add some veggies from the garden and chicken sausage)

sides: watermelon 

Breakfast: oats  but I had raisin bran and Jenny bought herself some special cereal at Good Earth and then ate it in front of everyone...it was a lovely start to the day. 

Lunch: Tuna Casserole

Dinner: We've eaten beans all week but I'm still going to try and see if I can get my kids to finish them off...I liked the bean soup I made last night....maybe if I have a good dessert  to bribe them with they will all eat beans for the fourth time this week without complaining..
 

Breakfast: Oats (I had macademia nuts, bananas and blueberries..I've been liking the combination lately)

Lunch: TBA

Dinner: TBA 

Breakfast: oats

Lunch: Buckwheat

sides: garden tomatoes...they are finally ripe!!!

Dinner: Calzones..these were so good last time we had to make them again...I had my older kids do most of the work for them and they were very proud of the delicious meal they made.

sides: Green Salad (also made by my little Jenny) w/ fresh garden tomatoes
 

Breakfast: Pancakes and fruit at the Provo River Half Marathon. Sasha helps Curt the race director with his website and Curt always invites our whole family to come enjoy the fun. 

Lunch: Scrambled Eggs ( Sasha took the big kids out for a lunch treat and me and the little ones had this)

Dinner: TBA 

Breakfast: Oats and milk 

Lunch: Adzuki beans and barley

garden cucumber

Dinner:  Mexican lasagna (adzuki beans, barley, tomato sauce, corn tortillas, cheese on top, mexican spices in sauce)

bought the kids animal crackers and 100% fruit fruit snacks at good earth

Breakfast: Oats and milk

Lunch; Pita Pockets

(homemade pita pockets stuffed with adzuki beans and barley, garden tomatoes, salsa and cheese)

Dinner: Raisin Bran...needed something easy..making pita pockets is more involved than I usually do..although it was pretty simple it just adds more time and more clean-up.

I have some kind of exciting news. I was contacted by the director of diabetic research at New Mexico University today. They are putting together a cookbook for diabetics as part of their extension services and wanted to use some of my recipes. It kind of gave me a kick.

Breakfast: oats and milk

Lunch: Picnic in Salt Lake with my sister and her 5 kids. We had bean burritos, baby carrots, baked cheetos and apples. It was a free lunch program for kids they do during the summer. (to make sure kids are fed by their parents during the summer I guess?? )

Dinner: Apricot Muffins and Pina Colada Banana Smoothies.

I got a million apricots from a friend..made it into a bunch of syrup..that I planned on using on top of waffles. My kids don't really like the syrup so I used it to sweeten and liquify the muffin batter I made this morning. Worked like a charm.

Then I went to my favorite store this morning and they had my dream come true...a box of bananas(like 25 pounds or so) for $6.00..yay!!! I also bought some juice for cheap and we are going to have smoothies and banana bread galore this week.  

Breakfast: oats and banana smoothies (we will be having lots of banana things this week to eat up our bananas) I will also freeze some of them. Then I put them frozen in our K-tec awesome blender and it creams them into an amazing banana ice cream. I add a tiny bit of soy milk to it and that's it. It's really sweet and creamy.

Lunch: Tuna Sandwiches

We now have an overload of bread. I went to my favorite store in Salt Lake yesterday that sells the bread we buy at Costco for 3.00 for only 1.00. I've stocked up and am very happy. We really don't eat sandwiches very much because it's a pain to bake that much bread and it's expensive to buy the kind we eat. Also I still feel like I get more full and feel better after a cooked meal with whole grains, beans or meat. But if I have the bread and it needs to be eaten I'm happy to have a easy meal of sandwiches. Maybe we'll have French Toast for dinner tonight...we'll see...I'm still deciding.

Dinner: Pasta and baby carrots...soccer season is here and I need to get organized. It should be better this year because his practices are at 7 at night instead of the insane hour of 5...dinner time..or dinner making time at least. 7 will be great and then there's the games to figure in but Daddy helps out a lot by taking Benjamin to a lot of the games so that helps.

Breakfast: Peach Cobbler....I LOVE August and I love Allred's fruit stand in Provo that sells me a huge box of peaches for $6.00. Someone amongst the craziness of going to a water park in the afternoon and soccer in the evening I managed to whip up some peach cobbler. We loved it for breakfast this morning and I'm sure it will be gone by noon tomorrow.

Lunch: Yummy Supreme Harvest Blend (this would be lentils and rice topped with a fabulous garden sauce- I sauted garlic and onion in some olive oil and added tomato sauce, chopped zuhcinni, squash, and green beans. It was delicious)

sides: Yummy Supreme Havest Salad- chopped squash, zuhcinni, cucumbers, and tomatoes with a light olive oil/garlic dressing...superb.

Dinner:  Banana Pancakes and banana/peach  smoothies. 

Breakfast: Oats and Milk..the peach cobbler lasted until noon yesterday...I'll be going to get more peaches today. I was a good girl this time and actually got some in the freezer.

Lunch:   PB and J sandwiches

Dinner: Lentil and Rice Soup

sides: garlic bread and garden cucumbers

Breakfast: Peach Cobbler

Lunch: Zucchini Pasta

sides: garden tomatoes

Dinner: Fix your own....these types of meals are fun and crazy. I had leftover pasta and everyone else had crazy combinations of whatever they were in the mood for.

Breakfast: Oatmeal

Lunch: Barbeque Chicken and Basmati Brown Rice

sides: garden tomatoes and cukes

I cooked the chicken and rice together with a lot of water and about 1/2 of cup of barbeque sauce. It resulted in a very mild tasting chicken and delicious moist chicken barbeque rice. Sasha had thirds so I'll probably make this again.

Dinner: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

sides: cukes 

Breakfast: oats and milk (I had wheat puff cereal..um...drawing a blank on the real name...sorry) Then around 10 I had eggs...The baby must be growing because I'm starving and exhausted today.

Lunch: Pizza Pockets

Dinner: Pizza Pockets ...I made lots and they were gooood

Breakfast: Oats and Milk

Lunch: Buckwheat

sides: garden tomatoes

Dinner: Squash/tomatoe fritatta ( my kids didn't like the squash part but ate the eggs underneath..it was an experiment I won't repeat)

Breakfast: Bagels and cream cheese, bananas, OJ

Lunch: Zucchini Sauce over Basmati Rice

sides: garden tomatoes

Dinner: Oats and milk...I had leftovers but the kids love oats and it was time to get going to watch the men's marathon.  

Breakfast: oats and milk

Lunch: Cheese Sandwiches

Dinner: Macaroni w/ red sauce and cheese

sides: cukes

I made the coolest thing yesterday that I'm so proud of. We'll see how proud I am when we try eating it. I got the idea from my mother-in-law who is an excellent cook. She knows how to make anything taste wonderful and always prepares us delicious meals when she is here. She took some of the zucchini from our garden and...pickled it!! I'd never in my life thought about it but it is actually a great thing to do with lots of zucchini and it is the only way Sasha will eat the stuff. I did a conservative 5 jars because I'm just trying it out and I didn't can it so it's just sitting in my fridge. I liked the taste of the brine I made so I think it will turn out well.  

Breakfast: Oats and Milk

Lunch: Barbeque chicken and basmati rice

sides: garden tomatoes

Dinner: Annie's All Natural Organic Bunny Mac and Cheese ...or something like that...Jenny found a pink box of bunny shaped pasta at Good Earth yesterday and she had to have it..it was her 8th birthday...she was so excited about it...I did make a fuss over her but in some ways I wish I'd made a bigger fuss...she was so cute all day long, "I can't believe it's my birthday." or"Oh...I just remembered...it's my birthday."  Her two favorite things in the world are the color pink and her trusty stuffed bunny...the meal was perfect. :)

sides: cantelope 

Breakfast: oats and milk

Lunch : Lentils and barley

sides: tomatoes and cukes

Dinner: Pizza Toast

sides: nectarines 

Breakfast: Zucchini Muffins w/ butter and all fruit jam

Lunch: Adzuki Beans and Barley

sides: tomato cuke salad

Dinner: Sloppy Joes (at the ward dinner....it was probably beef and gave me a tummy ache because I guess I'm not used to it)

sides: Watermelon 

Breakfast: oats and milk 

sides: nectarines and zucchini bread

Lunch: Adzuki Bean Mexican Enchailada Casserole

sides: tomato cuke salad and fresh farm corn on the cob

Dinner: Leftovers or make your own...I had leftovers everyone else had whatever they wanted.

sides: pineapple

Breakfast: I had raisin bran..the kids had oats and milk

Lunch: Pita Pockets with adzuki bean hummus, fresh garden veggies and salsa

Dinner: TBA 

Breakfast: oatmeal..can you feel fall in the air..oatmeal is always so comforting but I usually opt for oats because it's easier to not cook them

Lunch: Lentils and Rice seasoned with Braggs and topped with salsa

sides: nectarines, cuke and tomato salad

Dinner: I'm contemplating making a fun dish that I've never made before to use up some squash from the garden . It will have potatoes, squash, cheese and turkey bacon as the main elements...we'll see how it turns out and if my kids will eat it.

I did make it and I sauted some onions before I baked it all up. It was DELICIOUS!! I'm making it again tomorrow!! 

Breakfast: Carob Apricot Raspberry Waffles (homemade carob and apricot sauce on top of whole wheat waffles with raspberries on top...this is a fabulous combo!!)

Lunch: Potato Squash Turkey Bacon Casserole( I think I'm going to add this one and the one on top to my collection of Sarah recipes...I'm having a good cooking day). I sliced about 7 small red potatoes potatoes potato chip style, diced the medium sized squash (which I grew), diced about 4 slices of turkey bacon, sauted about half an onion , added about 3/4 cup of cheese (some throughout, some on top) and baked it for 45 minutes in the oven at 350 or until it's bubbly and the potatoes and squash are tender. yum yum

Dinner: hopefully something easy..I'm bushed

We ended up just having oats and milk or whatever else you wanted to fix yourself....I can only cook so much in one day. ;)

I totally got off a day because of Labor Day...so I didn't even blog the delicious breakfast that Marion made us and the yummy lunch we ate out at an Organic restuarant in town...oh well.

Breakfast: Oats and milk

Lunch: Chicken Nuggets(homemade)

sides: rice, apples, nectarines

Dinner: Fix your own...I had zucchini bread since I made some more this afternoon ...with several glasses of milk. 

Breakfast: oats and milk 

sides: carob chip zucchini bread

Lunch: Homemade Refried Beans and Spanish Rice

sides: Guacamole and homemade garden salsa

Dinner: Fix your own or leftover lunch

Dessert: Caramel Popcorn

Breakfast: Zucchini Muffins, apples, milk

Lunch: Bean soup (with garden veggies)

Dinner: TBA
 

Time to cut down on something...and that is this recipe blog for awhile. I am now 33 1/2 weeks pregnant and I'm cutting some things out. Thanks to all of you who have diligently checked out what we crazies eat everyday. I'd like to collect healthy recipes from all the bloggers and maybe make a blog cook book that will inspire all of us to eat more whole foods....maybe that will happen before the baby...maybe not. 

Just a couple of fun ideas for today. If you have a poweful blender(we have a K-Tec). ...I've been making this delicious banana ice cream out of frozen bananas and soymilk. I put much less soymilk than I would for a smoothie and it comes out thick and frozen and sweet.....just like ice cream should be.

Jenny, our 8 year old, made some really good trail mix today. The addition that I thought was super yummy was a little bit of puffed wheat. She also got the proportions beautifully. She made one serving for herself and put about a Tablespoon of the following ingredients in (for a crowd I'd put in 1/2 to 1 cup of each)

pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, flame raisins, puffed wheat, carob chips,  and peanuts..oh and she said she sprinkled a little peanut butter on top. It was good. I think we'll be making it for our camping trip this weekend.  Best of luck to all you healthy eaters out there.
 

HEY! I'm not really officially back since I just had our little Willy Billy Baby Boy 12 days ago but I may post things here for fun now and then. I am feeling pretty good so I'm trying to contribute to the household here and there and I made fresh applesauce for a snack. I love having a powerful blender. I just cut up 5 or 6 apples and put in about a cup of water and presto..you've got applesauce. I also like making warm applesauce on the stove but you really need to peel the apples for that and don't have to with our K-Tec blender. I felt accomplished but didn't feel like I'd overdone either...have a good one.