I always find things I want to make. But, then I look in my pantry and I am missing stuff. Sometimes, when I work on my weekly plan there just isn't room for a few ingredients. In September, I started planning for October. I made a folder to save the new recipes for October. When it started looking a bit too much, I think around 20, I started November. This worked so well for me. I looked through them all and added those staples to my first shopping list. I was able to do most of them for October. It really helped to mix up my normal go to recipes like chili, enchiladas, tacos, homemade pizza, pasta and sauce. So, here are my picks for November.
Breakfast
If I can actually get up in the morning and make something for breakfast. SURPRISE! My crew will wake up early, too. They are so much happier with something to eat. If I remember I will set out stuff the night before. I can mix up dry stuff and put them in the mixing bowl. The bright green one that has it's own lid. The one that used to seem so big before I had a teenager.
Soup
It is starting to get cold. I love soup. It is cheap. I can usually make it in the crockpot. When put in the crockpot at breakfast time, it is usually read for lunch. Hot lunch makes homeschooling just a little bit better. Already prepared hot lunch makes me feel like I almost have a maid or cook or mother's helper.
Gluten Free Goddess's Mulligatawny soup with Jasmine Rice
Dinner
For some reason dinner is the hardest meal of the day for me. I don't really like dinner. Everyone in my house likes something different for dinner. My husband and the 14 year old man er boy...whatever he feels like that day...think they need meat and man food. My 11 year old is a staunch vegetarian. My 8 year old wants to eat and run. My toddler wants to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The baby wants to slap my spoon and nurse at the same time. I could eat chili and rice or stir fry and rice EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. If I was feeling warm I might eat a smoothie. Oh, and the budget. Our budget is tight. My compromise? They don't get to complain unless they help. I buy meat maybe once a month and it is usually I really good sale. Our local store often has B1G1F. I can usually get nice chicken or roasts in a family pack. So, I can get a lot of meals out of those. I am totally digging on the lentils, too.
I made the lentil balls and they were awesome. No one complained.
Well, at least not the annoying kind. But, everyone ate. No one said
they had a stomach ache. I even made some Vegan Parm. I used half raw
almond and half nutritional yeast. I whizzed that up in my vitamix very carefully. I was afraid of making nut butter. I ended up adding salt to taste. I felt like it needed some saltyness. I feel like such a dummy mummy for waiting so long to make Vegan Parm. It is so expensive and the jar is so little. I think I spent maybe 2 or 3 bucks and the jar is huge. It is so yummy and full of protein and B12. What isn't to like about that?
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