After a crazy busy week filled with birthday celebrations and website issues, I am more than happy to wake up to Friday.
Tonight is the first game of the Islanders season (yay for hockey time again!) and we are heading to Brooklyn for opening night at our new home, the Barclays Center.
It feels like yesterday that it was the last home game at the Nassau Coliseum and now, suddenly, home is in Brooklyn and I am about to hop a train to see my team play against the Blackhawks tonight.
At first I was holding a grudge against the team moving and didn’t plan on going to opening night but as the date approached, I realized I was insane and that of course we had to be there. Not to mention, I usually get tickets for opening night as a birthday present for my son so how could I not keep up the tradition?!
Grocery Shopping & Attempt at a Meal Plan:
I like to get ahead on the weekend food shop by doing it on Fridays but I ended up doing most of my shopping yesterday instead because I needed a few things that couldn’t wait.
The other day I mentioned to you that I started meal planning dinners for my son. I am an easy meatless eater who can throw together anything last minute and be satisfied, he is carnivore who cannot so he is the only person I am meal planning for each week 🙂
I try to plan out dinners for Sunday nights through Friday (no cooking on Saturday!) but this coming week is not your typical or ideal meal planning week because his schedule is a little busy and I only needed to plan for three nights of dinner.
I think that the issue with getting into the habit of regularly planning and preparing healthy dinners is often a struggle for people because they look at their calendar, see a few nights of evening chaos and then decide to just throw in the meal planning towel for the rest of the week thinking why bother but that just shouldn’t be!
Planning three nights is better than planning no nights, right?
After discussing dinner ideas with my son which do not involve chicken (he is tired of chicken) for next week, here is what we came up with:
Bacon & Sweet Potato Fritatta – I have been meaning to try Lisa’s recipe for him for a while now! I like that this recipe can be frozen or even eaten as breakfast.
Sloppy Joe’s made with ground turkey – I have the ingredients and seasonings, I will just pick up a nice (whole wheat) roll for him on Wednesday.
I have a recipe for cauliflower sloppy joe’s that I would like to make for me too! Too bad Trader Joe’s was out of the cauliflower yesterday, I will pick one up before Wednesday.
Pizza night – Usually, pizza night is Tuesday night in between soccer and hebrew school. This week we moved it to Thursday and will decide as it approaches if we are making pizza using a whole wheat crust or making pizza bagels.
I think the key to getting this meal planning thing working for us is knowing how to be flexible while holding to some sort of planned out routine as much as possible.
If it really starts to work for us, I may continue to share our meal plans for the weeks ahead in Friday’s post so you can take a look and consider stocking up over the weekend for your meal planning too!
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Three things you are doing this weekend?
How many nights a week do you normally cook dinner?
Are you interested in seeing our weekly meal plan going forward?
Three things I’m doing this weekend: Running, eating, sleeping 😀 I will get back to some semblance of order later with regards to food. And no offense, but I hope that the Hawks win 😀
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Congrats on an awesome race! I can’t wait to read the recap.
I was at the grocery store three days this week because I didn’t ever make a list. Sometimes I feel like a few shorter trips is better than 1 or two big ones. Just depends on the week and how organized I am! Have fun tonight!
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I am the worst with a grocery list but I am trying to get better at it.
Once I start working, I will need to meal plan AND prep on weekends, otherwise whenever I straggle home it’s some salad and an Amy’s Kitchen microwave meal with extra tofu or frozen veggies tossed in! I’d like to be able to not do that more than 1-2 nights a week…
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It will definitely help set you up for the week so you don’t have to rely on quick and frozen meals although Amy’s is good 🙂
Three things double spin class, running, eating. I try to cook 5 days out of the week but lately things have gotten a little hectic. Have a great weekend.
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I was just thinking I could use a spin class!
I hope he liked the frittata! Three things I’ll be doing this weekend are running, eating, and catching up on blogging! Have a great weekend:)
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I can’t see how he won’t love it, I will certainly let you know!
Those sweet potatoes look so good!!! Yum, love all of those veggies I’m seeing in that grocery haul! This weekend I’m doing tons of studying (per the usual), going to yoga, running, hopefully apple picking, and hanging out with friends! I hardly ever eat out, honestly I just don’t have the time to even go out to eat- everything I make right now is quick, easy & meat free!
I like quick, easy and meat free too 🙂
You know I love those grocery store haul pictures. They make me all kinds of happy.
Good luck on the meal planning. It should be interesting how it all shakes out and I’d love to know how the cauliflower sloppy joes come out if you end up trying them.
I definitely intend to make the cauliflower sloppy joes – things got a little thrown off here come dinner time this week so maybe next week.