Well i thought it would be difficult weekend, smelling steaks bbq'ing, bacon sizzling in the morning but it turned out to be very entertaining and fun to create meals this weekend!!
Food shopping is usually a very boring task for me. I like to shop but when it comes to food shopping i find that I buy the same foods each week, boring foods. I buy the meats, the bread, breakfast items, milk and butter, have the same dinners each week and may switch it up but in the end, we have eaten the same dinners throughout the week just sometimes have pasta on Mondays instead of Wednesdays but that is the extent of our jazzed up meals.
When I had to go shopping for our getaway I found that I was writing items down, taking the time to figure out what our meals were going to be, organzing what we were going to eat, ensuring that we will be full from our selections. Since i brought my daughter along with me this weekend, i knew she would not want to stick to my regiment of fruits and vegetables so i had to add some pasta and bread to our meals. I have posted pictures below of some of our meals that we prepared.
Cooking is not one of my fortes, it always has seem to be a chore, something that i do not look forward too. This weekend, my daughter and I had so much fun cooking together, an activity that we have never done before together, only when she was small and we use to bake, but never cooked meals. Was it the cottage atmosphere or was it something that we are now both interested in and can lean on each other for support. Not sure, all i know is we both enjoyed it!!
The two other girls that we went up with are both meat eaters. This is where i thought i would find it difficult. What is the weirdest thing is they both didn't cook meat "all" weekend. Saturday morning they did head into town and have a bacon/egg breakfast but we never had to smell it cooking. For their dinner, Friday they had pasta with us and Saturday evening since it was so hot they were not hungry and had a potatoe with hellava dip for dinner....wow...not what i was expecting, but it did make things a little bit easier :) One of the girls husbands cooked homemade burgers to bring up for the weekend, she left them there for the following weekend when her and her hubby go up. Homemade burgers...i am hoping her hubby didn't think that i was trying to brainwash her over the weekend..yikes!!
This weeks task is being more informed of what is on food labels. Paying attention to what is in the package before purchasing. I will be googling info over the next two days and will post some info and tips on here this week.
Off to celebrate Spain's WIN today...having nachos and salsa!!
Food shopping is usually a very boring task for me. I like to shop but when it comes to food shopping i find that I buy the same foods each week, boring foods. I buy the meats, the bread, breakfast items, milk and butter, have the same dinners each week and may switch it up but in the end, we have eaten the same dinners throughout the week just sometimes have pasta on Mondays instead of Wednesdays but that is the extent of our jazzed up meals.
When I had to go shopping for our getaway I found that I was writing items down, taking the time to figure out what our meals were going to be, organzing what we were going to eat, ensuring that we will be full from our selections. Since i brought my daughter along with me this weekend, i knew she would not want to stick to my regiment of fruits and vegetables so i had to add some pasta and bread to our meals. I have posted pictures below of some of our meals that we prepared.
Cooking is not one of my fortes, it always has seem to be a chore, something that i do not look forward too. This weekend, my daughter and I had so much fun cooking together, an activity that we have never done before together, only when she was small and we use to bake, but never cooked meals. Was it the cottage atmosphere or was it something that we are now both interested in and can lean on each other for support. Not sure, all i know is we both enjoyed it!!
The two other girls that we went up with are both meat eaters. This is where i thought i would find it difficult. What is the weirdest thing is they both didn't cook meat "all" weekend. Saturday morning they did head into town and have a bacon/egg breakfast but we never had to smell it cooking. For their dinner, Friday they had pasta with us and Saturday evening since it was so hot they were not hungry and had a potatoe with hellava dip for dinner....wow...not what i was expecting, but it did make things a little bit easier :) One of the girls husbands cooked homemade burgers to bring up for the weekend, she left them there for the following weekend when her and her hubby go up. Homemade burgers...i am hoping her hubby didn't think that i was trying to brainwash her over the weekend..yikes!!
This weeks task is being more informed of what is on food labels. Paying attention to what is in the package before purchasing. I will be googling info over the next two days and will post some info and tips on here this week.
Off to celebrate Spain's WIN today...having nachos and salsa!!
Our meals this weekend....
This pizza was awesome!! Red onions, Red peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, tomatoe sauce, mozzarella cheese and topped with feta cheese!! All placed on a whole wheat Naan bread...Mmmmmm, so good!
This is a stir fry that we made, bag of frozen assorted vegies, thin noodles and soy sauce!!
This was our desert...so refreshing and so much better then having cake and sweets!!
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