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A good week

So I have to admit, I’m kind of already looking forward to this week.  I have decided my life is just too hectic to even consider cooking when I get home at night, which at the earliest is 9:30 but usually later.  So I spent a couple hours Sunday cooking up food for this week.  On the menu for lunch is salmon with bacon Brussels sprouts.  Options for dinner are sausages with onion, peppers, zucchini and a “creamy” tomato sauce or ground turkey with beans and spicy tomatoes.  Neither are their original recipe, they are modified to suit my allergy issues and culinary ineptitude.  So the first recipe I got from Everyday Paleo.  Her recipe uses the zucchini like spaghetti.  It looks fabulous but I just didn’t have the patience or tools to cut mine that small.  So I have wedges.  And since I love zucchini so much, it’s actually better because I get big wonderful juicy bites of zucchini, yes I do love summer and fresh veggies.  Second the ground turkey, I originally saw the recipe as stuffing for tacos which is what happened the first time I made it.  But I had leftovers, and when I heated them up for lunch the next day, the container looked and smelt good enough to just add cheese and eat.  And that’s how I have been eating it ever since.  Except I used to add roasted corn.  It adds a great bit of crunch to it.  That’s no longer an option, so I added a can of pinto’s until I figure out what else to do.  Also, all breakfasts of egg whites, turkey bacon and cheese are cooked.  I even cut up about 3 pounds of strawberries for deserts this week.  There is bacon cooked, cheese cut up, veggies and hummus…so even snacks are covered.  I couldn’t be more tickled with my week and the culinary simplicity  of microwaving that lies ahead.    

 

After all this cooking and prepping, I thought to look back at how much I spent, time and money to make it work.  Costs for the food was about $110, estimating because some I bought and some I had in the freezer.  The volume of food I cooked will easily get two of us through the week.  That’s pretty good considering how much we eat.  And in total in only took me about 4 hours to cook up.  I got a little distracted while babysitting the cute little Miss Samantha Trent but still didn’t take long.  Granted it’s not as simple as picking up McD’s on the way home but I will feel about 30x better the day after.  Eating good takes a little more planning but it’s cheaper and better in the end.  I’m looking forward to great workouts and feeling good this week, and getting a little extra sleep for not having to cook!  And interested to see how this helps with my fight against the evil sugar cookie….It’s been 7 days and about 12 hours since last falling off the wagon…J

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