I was planning on being an AUTUMNAL FREAKING GODDESS last night. We went apple picking on Saturday and made apple sauce in the crockpot overnight on Sunday and I was GOING to serve it with pagas slow cooker pork roast with balsemic and honey and sweet potatos.
Yeah I put the slow cooker on high not low and burned the sauce and the pork was dry as a brick, and sad. DS hated his homemade applesauce made from apples he picked that he helped make and asked for Motts and we ate it with a rotissirie chicken DH stopped to pick up on his way home.
Post by harmony11 on Sept 23, 2014 12:32:12 GMT -5
Not canned chili, but definitely take a route like that. My kids thought they died and went to heaven when their response to the dinner I planned was "can we just have...cereal" and I said yes. They thought they had pulled one on me, but I was doing the roger rabbit in my head. Being the poor, neglected kids they are, they'd never had cereal for dinner. Suckers.
Not chili in a can, but I have equally lazy meals that I serve all too often...or send H out to pick up food instead of whatever I have planned (if there was a plan!)
Baking the cornbread definitely takes it up a notch in my book. When I don't want to cook, anything other than the microwave or toaster (NOT toaster oven) is off limits. Except grilled cheese or fried egg sandwiches.
Post by pantsparty on Sept 23, 2014 12:48:25 GMT -5
I think we have one of those bagged pasta/chicken meals at least every other week with Mama Bella's garlic cheese toast on the side. It's fucking delicious.
I am guilty as fuck for serving up the blue box mac and cheese way more often than I should. Throw some BBQ chicken on the grill and call it a freaking day!
Why is that bad? We had them last night and had been looking forward to them since last week.
Not BAD, I love me some grilled cheese, just not the type of meal that I normally cook. I'm more of a protein, veggie, starch with every dinner kind of gal, so grilled cheese and frozen french fries is me being lazy.
Got it. We had tomato soup and salad with ours this time, but we've totally had fries as the only side in the past, or tater tots. It happens.
Post by texassmith on Sept 23, 2014 13:13:51 GMT -5
I just planned grilled cheese for dinner tonight bc of this post. But I do like to use fancy cheese (parm and smoked gouda on sourdough) and make tomato basil soup to go with it. It still only takes like 15 minutes to make, so it's like lazy dinner with a touch of class, lol.
Breakfast for dinner is my favorite easy, filling meal. We had it last night.
I hear people say this, but I find a big breakfast to be a pain in the ass to cook. Everything needs a different pan or appliance, takes a different amount of time, and has to be eaten right away to be at its best. Trying to time pancakes, eggs, toast, and bacon perfectly makes me irritable. But then I eat it, and it's all worth it.
chili from a can? Because that's where I am. It's Trader Joes Turkey Chili and I bought the boxed cornbread mix to go with it. I'm hoping it does not taste like dog food.
I feel like this sentiment should be embroidered on something.
Breakfast for dinner is my favorite easy, filling meal. We had it last night.
I hear people say this, but I find a big breakfast to be a pain in the ass to cook. Everything needs a different pan or appliance, takes a different amount of time, and has to be eaten right away to be at its best. Trying to time pancakes, eggs, toast, and bacon perfectly makes me irritable. But then I eat it, and it's all worth it.
Last night, I put applesauce + oatmeal + butter and sugar in a small casserole dish and popped it in the toaster oven. I washed/sliced some fruit. Then I made scrambled eggs. Plated it all as soon as the eggs were done. Side of yogurt and a glass of milk. Easy. Pancakes and bacon are going too far for a quick meal IMO.
Post by circa1978 on Sept 23, 2014 13:42:16 GMT -5
No judgement. WHEN he eats, my child subsists on PBJs, yogurt, fruit, mac and cheese, quesadillas, peas and milk. He will sometimes eat chicken or some salad. And pancakes on the weekends. He's the height of an average five-year-old at three and super skinny. It is not my parenting hill to die on.