Getting creative with our menu

Had a good day today all things considered. Work was as usual and then my daughter had a performance tonight (she’s on a clogging team) and those are always so much fun! It helped get our minds off the stressful parts of life and back on what really matters – family.

I need to mention something regarding my food choices for this upcoming week. Since it will be a couple of weeks (at least) before my husband either receives his first unemployment check or finds another job, we’ve decided to “pantry shop” this next week. Basically we will not eat out or buy any groceries except for the essentials (bread, eggs, milk). Of course, the problem with this is I hadn’t really stocked our cabinets with a lot of “healthy stuff” yet. I’ve just been going every week and getting what I would need for the week, so I really don’t have a lot of healthy food on hand at this point.

So, unless something changes, here is our dinner menu for the next week:

Saturday 10/31 – Spaghetti and meat sauce
Sunday – Eggs and Pancakes
Monday – Hot Dogs and French Fries
Tuesday – Hamburger Helper
Wednesday – Ramen
Thursday – Italian Sausage and potatoes
Friday – Hamburger Helper

Yeah, not the healthiest of choices, eh? So, I’m gonna have to be real creative this next week to watch my calorie and fat intake. I DO have some ground turkey in the freezer, so for spaghetti tomorrow I will make my sauce with that instead of beef. When we have “breakfast” for dinner on Sunday I will make my eggs without yolks and have sugarfree syrup. Our french fries on Monday will be baked and not fried, etc. etc. The only thing I’m not sure of at this point is how I will get my fruit and veggies for the week. We’re gonna go tomorrow and pick up the few essentials we need like bread and milk, maybe I will look to see if any fruit is on sale or something.

I didn’t walk at all today, so to meet my goal I have to somehow get 6 more miles in between tomorrow and Sunday. Hopefully I do it. It felt really good to meet all my goals last week and I’d like very much to continue that streak.

I also want to give a heartfelt “thank you” to everyone for your well wishes and prayers in light of my husband losing his job. He applied for unemployment today and will start sending his resume out on Monday. We are holding on to the notion that this door closed so another one would open…you know the whole “blessing in disguise” thing and just wait to see what kind of blessing this will turn into. So thank you, your support means the world to me!