So here's the deal. In this household we LOVE to eat out. And I mean loooooooooove.
I have a daughter who for many years had an extreme anxiety towards food (as in she honestly thought most food would hurt her). We've worked very hard on this and we are truly starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, her diet is still pretty limited.
Limited diet = exhausted mommy.
I have a husband who is "picky". He's not your average picky eater. He'll eat ALMOST anything (as long as it's not too vegetably), he just won't eat much of it if it's not really good OR if we just had it (or something similar). I openly blame his mother for this (to which she agrees). The guy hardly ever had to eat leftovers growing up. What's up with that? I remember my mom making a big pot of pinto bean soup with corn bread and we ate on that for days. And it was GOOD.
Cook once to last for several meals = happy mommy, happy budget
My other daughter loves ethnic foods. Shane and I do too. But sometimes mommy's not so good at cooking ethnic foods.
Hearing daughter beg for Indian food = mommy tempted to order delicious Indian food
I like foods with little to no meat. I love the vegetables. Cooked spinach is my favorite. Asparagus is definitely a runner-up. It's not fun cooking vegetables that only one person will eat and watching the rest of it go bad.
no veggies = essential nutrient starved mommy
So basically this all comes back to me. Doesn't it always? I used to love cooking, but not so much anymore. I'm so tired. We eat out way too much and our budget can't take much more of it. I'm thinking of challenging our family not to eat out for an entire month. But before I go and do something like that, I was wondering if any of you guys have any tips on making it easier to not eat out (for when you have one of those days that you want to just scream). I don't care how silly it sounds, if it works for you, I want to hear it!
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This may be overly simplified (because I still am tempted to eat out), but I've discovered buying frozen meals--something I don't typically do. On the nights when I don't feel like cooking, it makes it easy & still feels like a bit of a treat to me. And it's cheaper than even a $5 pizza. Does this help?
Crockpot - chuck the stuff in there and walk away! You can substitute lentils for most meats & cut the time. I will look through my recipes and see if anything fits for description. Good luck - I'll get back to ya!
The nights I don't want to cook we usually end up having breakfast for dinner. The kids think it's great and since Steve never eats a real breakfast he doesn't mind it either. Our other fall back meal is grilled cheese and tomato soup or whatever soup is in the pantry. They're both easy and don't take much time.
This has absolutely nothing to do with this post, but I couldn't find your email address. I want to see you make this: http://sweetpaul.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/01/cr.html
That's disgusting Tracy. No thank you!
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