December- Home Cooking Challenge - Page 2

[mommyto4grits]

I did this in Septmeber and October, slacked off (online) for November. But overall we have been doing great with eating out! Ate out a little more than usual last week since family was in town.

Dec 1- Chicken Cattiatore/Brown Rice
Dec 2nd- Pasta/Salad

[caiesmommy]

This month I'm hoping to not rely on take out to much with all the holiday rushing.
Also hoping to make at least one new meal a week

Everything vegan

1. NEW MEAL/KEEPER!-Lemon rice,navy beans sauteed w wine, onions, garlic, tomatoes w carrot sticks/avacado/cukes
2. Falafel w broc/corn/carrot sticks/cukes-ds hadn't tried falafel in a long time and just kept saying mmm I like new things

[Keeta]

Back on the wagon! We eat dairy-free vegetarian around here.

1. Sweet Potato Lentil Stew (from Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Diet), spinach salad with vinaigrette
2. Black Bean, Sweet Potato and Kale Burritos with spelt tortillas, spinach salad with vinaigrette

[jlpumkin]

Day 2: ranch pasta salad, beets & pears

We had a very busy evening so I made this ahead. A little pat on my back, because the original plan was to eat out. I feel as though I dodged temptation.

[Kimber47]

Also new to this thread, but totally need to be held accountable for cooking at home! We eat out entirely too much and so need to save!

1. Tempeh "bacon", tomato and spinach sandwiches with sweet potato fries
2. I've come down with Strep and had a late Dr's appt, so it's DH grabbing he and DD something. Damn...the best laid plans!

[Snow Cherries]

I'd like to join! This is my first month of really trying to be accountable for cooking at home each day. I have the whole month planned out already! Hopefully I'll stick to the plan.

1 - Chicken Enchilada Casserole
2 - Soft Tacos

[isosmom]

1. baked potatoes with broccoli, homemade cheese sauce and bacon, homemade chicken noodle soup (day 3 of roasted chicken)
2. broccoli corn casserole, hot dogs, rice

[Ianthe]

Everything cooked at home is vegan

1. (School night) FFY (DH and kids had waffles and tater tots, I had tater tots and cereal)
2. Spanakopita
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[BabyBugsMom]

I just read through November's thread, and I'd love to join in with you all this month!



We're a family of eight, with six kids ages 9-2. Dh works out of town during the week fairly often, which means the kids eat a lot of cereal for dinner. Not good. I want to cut out the convenience meals/take out, and make real dinners for the kids and me even when dh isn't here.

1. Originally planned tacos, but the afternoon got away from me. Kids had cereal and fruit, I had a sandwich.
2. Pasta bake (ground beef, red sauce, rotini pasta, cheese over the top), salad, garlic bread. Tonight I made a double meal, because I brought a meal to a family in our church with a new baby girl.

[mamakah]

This website may help us all cook at home with what we have:
www.supercook.com
*you enter in what you have at home (I just went through the lists in the ingredient bar alphabetically and added what I have in my kitchen) and it searches through the online recipe sites for recipes that you can make with what you have! It will tell you "you have everything for this recipe!" or "you need butter for this recipe!" You can modify your search and ask it to only look for meat free, or gluten free (and others) recipes! I took the time to fill out what I have and it found 2000 recipes for me!!!!!! I have dreamed of something like this for so long!!!! I set a goal this week to cook everything from the ingredients I have! This website will make it possible!!!!!
ETA:
My December dinners so far:
1-Curry chicken with broccoli and rice casserole
2- shredded pork, black bean and quinuo (sp?) burritos.

[BabyBugsMom]

Mamakah, thank you!! What a great resource!

[milosmomma]

1. whole wheat spaghetti with tomato sauce. Orange slices.
2. FFY- leftover spaghetti, turkey sandwiches, frozen pizza

Hopefully tomorrow brings a bit more inspiration

[Alyantavid]

1-pancakes, sausage patties
2-leftovers
3-turkey sandwiches, potatoes

[CameronsMama]

Originally Posted by mamakah

This website may help us all cook at home with what we have:
www.supercook.com

Thanks for sharing that!! I will definitely be using that site!

December meals:

1. Out (planned meal out due to getting family pictures taken that evening)
2. Chicken, Spinach, and Feta sausages with pasta alfredo

We do have a couple more planned meals out this month- sunday brunch for my birthday, I have a lunchdate with my mom one weekend (but she's paying, so I don't have to count that against myself, right? ), and teo family dinners out. My goal this month is to only eat out those planned times, and eat at home (or someone elses home- we have a couple potlucks/holiday celebrations/etc this month of course, but none of those are at restaurants)the rest of the time. So 3 dinners out, 5 meals out total.

[air]

Day three-making homemade mac and cheese in the crock pot. Think I might put bread crumbs on top at the end of cooking

[Ianthe]

Originally Posted by mamakah

This website may help us all cook at home with what we have:
www.supercook.com
*you enter in what you have at home (I just went through the lists in the ingredient bar alphabetically and added what I have in my kitchen) and it searches through the online recipe sites for recipes that you can make with what you have! It will tell you "you have everything for this recipe!" or "you need butter for this recipe!" You can modify your search and ask it to only look for meat free, or gluten free (and others) recipes! I took the time to fill out what I have and it found 2000 recipes for me!!!!!! I have dreamed of something like this for so long!!!! I set a goal this week to cook everything from the ingredients I have! This website will make it possible!!!!!

I use this site all the time.. I love it!

[rsummer]

I am in!

I am going part time at work in preparation for the new baby, so giant income hit, here we come! We spend way too much money eating out, and we really don't need the extra junk that we eat when we are out...

1. Shrimp pasta ala leftover shrimp cocktail
2. Blackbean Northern Quesadilllas
3. Planning on leftover squash soup out of the freezer and crusty bread
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[ursusarctos]

1. Leftover stew and pea soup
2. Meatballs, boiled potatoes, roasted brussels sprouts, sauerkraut
3. Root veggie and ground beef soup in bone broth
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[Ianthe]

Everything cooked at home is vegan

1. (School night) FFY (DH and kids had waffles and tater tots, I had tater tots and cereal)
2. Spanakopita
3. Baja-Style Grilled Tempeh Tacos
Planned:
4. Cabbage and Noodles (Veganized)
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October's Challenge
November's Challenge
(Keeping track so I remember some yummy recipes!)

[CookiePie]

December

1. Cioppino (Italian red seafood stew) with homemade bread & salad. I made a double batch of atrisan bread in 5
2. Venison with onions & mushrooms, smashed red potatoes & white beans & kale
3. Shrimp Scampi over ww linguini & salad I'm also making a gallon of yogurt today!
4. Breakfast Pizza