More Blogging- Meal Ideas

   

     Longtime  blog friends might remember I blogged much more often before. I thought with this new space, I'd aim for twice a week. Some weeks it strikes me to whack away on the keyboard spouting nothingness more often. Often in sleepless nights or when I wake too early. This is one of those times. I've got a post noodling around about tightening my spending in March and April on the heals of vacation. Tightening means using up, even if my meals get repetitive and odd, the freezer and pantry stocks.

      I did a silly Sam's Club shop a week or so before leaving, had a crammed freezer, and ample shelf staples. Nothing orderly though for meal planning, but lots of food for a household of one human. I made a list of what all could be in the meal plan the coming weeks without heading into a store. Most will give me a second dinner and lunches, and I can freeze in portions for easy freezer assets or to send with my daughter's. 

1. Baked macaroni and cheese with hamburger and tomato sauce
2. Hamburger on a pretzel bun (found one lingering), waffle fries 
3. Hamburger and cheese homemade pizza 
4. Beef, cream cheese, and black bean burrito or burrito bowl, rice 
5. Chicken tortellini Alfredo soup with spinach
6. Chicken wild rice soup with beer bread
7. Chicken and vegetable stir fry with rice
8. Chicken leg from rotisserie chicken with rice, corn
9. Chicken drumsticks with rice and carrots or peas ( two packs found)
10. Sausage and gravy with biscuits, eggs and thawed frozen fruit 
11. Turkey meatballs, stuffing, baked beans
12. Spaghetti with veggie,garlic and herb sauce, homemade bread

    Above is with no shopping at all. I know it's a lot of chicken thanks to the rotisserie one bought at Sam's that I broke down and froze, including prepared broth, and a multi pack of legs bought the end of January. Plus, we stocked up on basmati rice. We buy in a 20 pound sack and divide in containers for each of our homes. I have several, one pound rolls, of other meats in the freezer. I'm stretching the canned, frozen, and fresh produce I have though, which isn't ideal. 

     

     Honestly, stopping at Kwik Trip for produce, milk, cheese, bread, and eggs, I think I could skip grocery shopping the rest of the month altogether. Pup will need his wet food by Friday and with cleaning, purging, packing, and donating, I may need some household supplies, and coffee will run out, so I can't avoid a regular store completely, but can be quick and lean with a list. That's my meal planning mind dump. Stay tuned for other stimulating keyboarding from when I can't sleep.