January 2011 Home Cooking Challenge - Page 12

[annethcz]

I'm losing track of what we've been eating.  It's not been fancy, but it's been at home (except for 2 lunches out this past week....).  Next month's budget also looks pretty tight, so I'm planning to continue to cook at home and eat out of the pantry in February also.

Jan 1: leftovers for lunch; Burgers & salad for dinner

Jan 2: Tilapia/fish sticks/salmon & salad for lunch, omlettes for dinner

Jan 3: eggplant parmesan

Jan 4: roasted chicken

Jan 5: pizza

Jan 6: hot dogs (boo hiss!!!  was supposed to be beef roast, but the roast burned in the crockpot)

Jan 7: lasagna, garlic bread, broccoli, key lime cheesecake bars for dessert (had company for dinner)

Jan 8: leftovers for lunch, chicken/squash/rice soup for dinner

Jan 9: leftovers/pasta for lunch, homemade pizza for dinner

Jan 10: burgers and sweet potato fries

Jan 11: Brinner- pancakes, eggs, bacon, fruit

Jan 12: Crockpot chicken with apricots and dates

Jan 13: Tortilla crusted Tilapia

Jan 14: Quesadillas

Jan 15: going to my mom's for dinner :)

Jan 17: Chicken & rice casserole, carrots

Jan 18: Chicken Tacos

Jan 19: homemade pizza

Jan 20: pancakes, eggs, bacon

Jan 21: dinner at a friend's house

Jan 22: leftovers/ sandwiches

Jan 23: salmon burgers & sweet potato fries

Jan 24: ?

Jan 25: ?

Jan 26: Beef roast, roasted root veggies

Jan 27: chicken enchiladas

Jan 28: homemade pizza

Jan 29: Eggs, bacon, leftover root veggies

Jan 30: Leftover roast, mashed potatoes

Jan 31: chicken enchiladas

[jimblejamble]

Had dinner at a friend's house; they made rice with some sort of Brazilian soup and a salad. We took the ingredients to make strawberry ice cream.

[Alyantavid]

1-31 b: pop tart

        l: salad

       d: going to my mom's

So for totals, 4 dinners out, 1 lunch out and 1 breakfast out.  Hopefully it'll go better next month.

[Motivated Mama]

I've lost my creative juices for cooking. I will meal plan this next month. Since it's a short month...
I've got 30 something cookbooks, so this shouldn't be an issue!

[Alyantavid]

Originally Posted by Motivated Mama 

I've lost my creative juices for cooking. I will meal plan this next month. Since it's a short month...
I've got 30 something cookbooks, so this shouldn't be an issue!

Me too.  I've got part of February planned but I just have no idea or interest in doing the rest.  Which is weird for me, normally it bothers me until I've got the whole month planned.

[MamitaM]

I actually did pretty well, but I lost track of posting and didn't come in every night after awhile. I've only ordered in once and I may actually order in tonight. I
m going to go over my budget tomorrow and may try the envelope system and actually put money aside for eating out with friends since I did this a few times this month and didn't spend much, but would like to keep better track of what I did spend.

[Lakeeffectsnow]

I roasted a whole chicken and made mashed potatoes and a salad.  Okay, I cheated and used baby spinach and a cucumber, but I cooked a meal!  No take out!  Tomorrow I will use the mash potatoes and chicken (adding frozen carrots and pea) and topping with pie crust to make chicken pot pie.  I'll boil the chicken carcass down to make stock and use what meat is left over for chicken noodle soup on Wednesday.

[Lakeeffectsnow]

We had homemade mac and cheese with baby carrots for lunch, instead of pb and j and an apple, my standby since I had the baby in December.

[Aeress]

We ordered out once in the last two weeks, so we did well, and we budgeted for it. Overall, I am very happy with our month

2/1 L- Mac and cheese

d- roasted chicken and veggies

2/2 L PBJ

D- Chicken noodles soup

2/3 L- leftovers

D-

2/4 Hard boiled eggs, or egg salad

D Swiss steak with rice salad

2/5 L Yogurt

D Stir Fry

2/6

D- Millet?

2/7 L leftovers

D  Soup or casserole?

2/8 tomato soup crackers

D meatloaf, taters

2/9 PBJ

D chicken chimichangas

2/10

D-Breakfast for dinner

2/11 Salad

D Hungarian goulash?

[Turquesa]

Originally Posted by Turquesa 

Not on MDC a lot lately, but I'll chime in with recent home cooking activity:

1/27: Quiche with leftover vegetables

1/28: Vegetable-Tofu Lo Mein with Vermicilli Noodles

1/29: "Grown-Up" Macaroni and Cheese

1/30: Leftovers

1/31: Pan-Fried Tempeh in Honey Mustard Sauce with Mixed Steamed Veggies and Rice

[mags.bubble]

1/30 went out for Korean food

1/31 hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls, honey mustart roasted potatoes, mixed veggies, raspberries

Did better than usual this month. I had the flu for a week of the months, so dh ordered take out more often that I would have, but he was trying to be helpful. All dinner out were planned rather than me saying, forget it I don't feel like cooking. :)

Plan on sticking to it for February. Hoping to stick to only 2-3 dinners out/take out for the month which would be am improvement over last year!

[jimblejamble]

Pizza again! Woo!

[melissel]

1/9: Leftover pot pie filling for lunch, broccoli cheese soup for dinner

1/10: Soup for lunch, tuna melts and chocolate chip cookies for dinner

1/11: Bits and pieces for lunch (cheese sticks, dried fruit, fresh fruit, etc.--we were running around), Hopping John for dinner (this turned out SO good, even though I deviated from the recipe and used brown rice, cooked IN the pot--this recipe is definitely a keeper)

1/12: Leftover Hopping John for lunch, sandwiches after gymnastics for dinner

1/13: Dinner on my own tonight, which is easy, but that's because DH is taking the girls to his mom's, which always means spending $$$ on dinner there *sigh* (GAH!!! $50 on Applebee's! I had yogurt and blueberries and granola and picked at some leftover lunch meats at home)

1/14: Lunch at home (can't remember what!), broccoli cheese soup for dinner (big hit here!)

1/15: My parents called to take us out dinner, so we ate out but didn't pay. Awesome burger.

1/16: Baked buffalo wings and celery for dinner (found a recipe I really liked for this one, it's a keeper)

1/17: Lunch at home (can't remember what), white chicken chili for dinner

1/18: Leftover chili for lunch, spaghetti and meat sauce for dinner

1/19: Tuna and whole grain crackers and fruit for lunch, grilled ham and cheese sammiches for quick dinner after gymnastics

1/20: Burgers instead of meatloaf (ran out of time), DH's yummy cheesy cauliflower-potato mash, and salads

1/21: "Smorgasbord" (whole grain crackers, cheese, fruit, whatever else we can add) for lunch, broiled scallops for three of us, leftover pancakes for one, veggie brown rice risotto for all

1/22: Can't remember what we had for lunch (possibly cupcakes and fruit ), and then my parents took the kids out for dinner, so DH and I had burgers instead of meatloaf

1/23: Chicken apple sausage, cheese, and fruit for lunch, roasted chicken, peas, and honey mustard potatoes mentioned earlier in the thread (delicious!) for dinner

1/24: Meatloaf and broccoli for dinner (bad news is I found an entire of box of organic salad mix frozen in the back of the fridge )

1/25: Teriyaki sirloin with the last of our cheap sirloin beef, peas with goat cheese and balsamic vinegar

1/26: Creamy chicken/veggie soup made with leftover chicken (got two quarts of broth out of that thing too!)

1/27: Leftover soup and a bunch of random roasted veggies--beets, cauliflower, a random carrot, maybe some squash

1/28: Nachos (did have to get a few things from the grocery store while I was there stocking up with coupons, but still cheaper than going out)

1/29: Dang!!! Fell off the wagon two days before the end of the month, how wrong is that?! But it was only burritos at Moe's, used a coupon, the kids were so happy, and we did so well this month that I'm not beating myself up about it (too much, LOL!)

1/30: Burgers and broccoli

1/31: Chicken apple sausage, noodles, and corn

[Motivated Mama]

Is there a February thread yet?

[Alyantavid]

Originally Posted by Motivated Mama 

Is there a February thread yet?

Just started one  http://www.mothering.com/community/forum/thread/1295347/february-2011-home-cooking-challenge#post_16229571