Dinner
Spaghetti with meat sauce (with mushrooms and no TVP)
Toasted whole wheat bread
To make preparing spaghetti even easier, I cook a whole box of noodles at once, even though we only eat about 1/3 of a box at a meal. I freeze the cooked noodles in single-meal serving sizes in ziploc bags. Then, I can just heat up a small pot of water and dump the noodles in to thaw just before serving. That way, I don't have to heat up our GIANT stock pot every single time I want to make spaghetti. It takes forever to heat up that much water, and then all that energy just gets dumped down the drain.
Shockingly, we ate almost an entire jar of sauce. Everyone was really hungry tonight, so I think my days of being able to stretch a jar of sauce for more than one meal are done!
I can't even make a "prepared" meal without doctoring the heck out of the ingredients. Tonight's sauce from a jar (Classico) was added to the pot only after browning 1/3 lb Italian sausage with half a large onion and a handful of finely diced fresh mushrooms, splashing in some red wine, and topping it all off with a handful of frozen chopped spinach just before serving.
I am constitutionally incapable of plain prepared food.
Toasted whole wheat bread
To make preparing spaghetti even easier, I cook a whole box of noodles at once, even though we only eat about 1/3 of a box at a meal. I freeze the cooked noodles in single-meal serving sizes in ziploc bags. Then, I can just heat up a small pot of water and dump the noodles in to thaw just before serving. That way, I don't have to heat up our GIANT stock pot every single time I want to make spaghetti. It takes forever to heat up that much water, and then all that energy just gets dumped down the drain.
Shockingly, we ate almost an entire jar of sauce. Everyone was really hungry tonight, so I think my days of being able to stretch a jar of sauce for more than one meal are done!
I can't even make a "prepared" meal without doctoring the heck out of the ingredients. Tonight's sauce from a jar (Classico) was added to the pot only after browning 1/3 lb Italian sausage with half a large onion and a handful of finely diced fresh mushrooms, splashing in some red wine, and topping it all off with a handful of frozen chopped spinach just before serving.
I am constitutionally incapable of plain prepared food.