I don’t have a menu chalkboard from this past week because I only had two family meals to prepare so the rest of my eats were solo randomness. Mostly leftovers because cooking for one isn’t worth the effort when I could just throw a salad bowl of grains and veggies and stuff together. That’s my hippie jam. I have pics though. In case you wanted that. And some of my big boy too. Because people always want those.
I don’t have many breakfast shots, but I mostly ate zucchini bread with eggs. I did have greek yogurt with (home-made) granola one day. I just discovered Noosa this October and have since tried to keep my habit in check (it’s $$$ stuff) but I do think it’s pretty amazing yumminess. My granola was pretty seedy so that made it have enough staying power. I find I need more protein in my breakfasts…oats just don’t cut it for me anymore.
Ok, moving on.
Have you guys tried these ridge cut sweet potato chips from TJs? Highly recommend. They aren’t salty so that keeps you from eating the entire bag at once, but they are still awesome. They remind me (pretty dead on) of Terra root chips.
More lunches…
Big ol salad with BBQ quinoa (way down there) with romaine, carrots, tomatoes (from our garden STILL!?!), avocado, and more BBQ sauce on top (post photo).
A kinda sorta Caesar ish salad with spinach, cucumbers, carrots, avocado, Applegate farms’ GF chicken nuggets, and Newman’s Own Organic Caesar dressing. I had more chips on the side. Obviously.
Classic Elise bowl of spinach, quinoa, roasted butternut squash, carrots, avocado. I made a simple olive oil and red wine vinaigrette to dump on top.
Leftover Asian Chicken Salad which I amped up with quinoa and avocado. You’ll see the dinner version in a bit.
Cheater soup which I did with a boxed butternut squash soup. I used the soup as the sauce for GF pasta, kale, and TJs chicken sausage. As you can see this was one of the few nights Kyle was in town, hence the double bowls.
This on the other hand was a solo night because it’s way not fancy. I think this bowl had roasted brussels, butternut squash, spinach, quinoa, avo and balsamic glaze.
I used cabbage and broccoli slaw with a sesame soy dressing. I tossed it in the dressing early in the day so it broke down and got soft/wilted by the evening. Then I added (canned) mandarin oranges, shredded chicken, and sesame croutons. Since this had sesame up the yin yang it was definitely made and eaten while P was nowhere in sight (aka asleep). He ate the chicken before it got added to our meal with other sides.
Aaaaaaand…take out. Because sometimes you just need some greasy Chinese food. Kyle demanded greasy noodles and there’s a local place that we’ve always “meant to try” (meaning Kyle has been begging for it since we moved to Davis). I’m not a big fan of takeout Chinese because it’s just not my thing. I’m sure you can imagine why – it’s not the healthiest. Anyway, we were busy this weekend and this was what we did since we couldn’t make it to the grocery store in time for me to put something together. He was VERY happy. He got an entire chow mein dish all for himself. We have heaps of leftovers so that will be keeping my belly busy for the next week.
Nobody loves zebras as much as this kid. Nobody. If I let him watch TV (or if we had cable) he would have Nat Geo’s safari everything on a loop.
And yes, baby Toms.
