Lately my biggest challenge has been how to create enough hours in the day to get everything done. The one thing that seems to suffer and frustrate me the most is creating meals for everyone 3 times a day and still have time to get to the kids schooling, my work etc.
I have been working to try to create meals that have components that can be used for the next meal. One thing there is never a shortage of in our freezer is a variety of soups and chili that have been left over previously.
So....here was my first attempt at that idea, trying to spend less time in the kitchen but still have healthy meals. -
Yesterday before my run I threw 10 medium sized potatoes in the oven and made baked potatoes.
Lunch recipes:
Loaded baked potato
1 Baked potato
Cover with leftover chili or canned chili
Top with shredded cheese and diced green onions.
Baked potato soup
3 baked potatoes diced
1/2 onion diced
1 head of broccoli plus the stem (peel it to get to the tender part) diced up
6 ounces diced ham
4 cups chicken broth
Dill weed
Boil together until broccoli is tender
Add 1 cup of milk
2 ounces of velveeta cheese
Top with 1 slice of crispy bacon.
Serve with biscuits - you can make and freeze them before baking, then just pull out of the freezer and pop on a pan and bake them.
There are still 4 potatoes left so breakfast this morning is going to involve dicing a potato up and tossing it with an onion and frying it in Pam, then we will mix eggs in and scramble it all.
3 meals without too much effort, all from tossing potatoes in the oven.
In other news: School is going well this fall.
Conner is a 9th grader and using a program that uses NovaNet and has concurrent enrollment for college credit (he starts those classes next fall). He has finished Algebra I, English 9, American History I and is currently working on Geography and Earth Science. They work in modules and have to finish an entire years worth of work and take the semester test in about a month. So far he really likes this way of doing things and is doing very well. His final semester test grade for Algebra was a 92, which just blows me away considering how hard that class was for his mom!
I have been working to try to create meals that have components that can be used for the next meal. One thing there is never a shortage of in our freezer is a variety of soups and chili that have been left over previously.
So....here was my first attempt at that idea, trying to spend less time in the kitchen but still have healthy meals. -
Yesterday before my run I threw 10 medium sized potatoes in the oven and made baked potatoes.
Lunch recipes:
Loaded baked potato
1 Baked potato
Cover with leftover chili or canned chili
Top with shredded cheese and diced green onions.
Baked potato soup
3 baked potatoes diced
1/2 onion diced
1 head of broccoli plus the stem (peel it to get to the tender part) diced up
6 ounces diced ham
4 cups chicken broth
Dill weed
Boil together until broccoli is tender
Add 1 cup of milk
2 ounces of velveeta cheese
Top with 1 slice of crispy bacon.
Serve with biscuits - you can make and freeze them before baking, then just pull out of the freezer and pop on a pan and bake them.
There are still 4 potatoes left so breakfast this morning is going to involve dicing a potato up and tossing it with an onion and frying it in Pam, then we will mix eggs in and scramble it all.
3 meals without too much effort, all from tossing potatoes in the oven.
In other news: School is going well this fall.
Conner is a 9th grader and using a program that uses NovaNet and has concurrent enrollment for college credit (he starts those classes next fall). He has finished Algebra I, English 9, American History I and is currently working on Geography and Earth Science. They work in modules and have to finish an entire years worth of work and take the semester test in about a month. So far he really likes this way of doing things and is doing very well. His final semester test grade for Algebra was a 92, which just blows me away considering how hard that class was for his mom!
Conner and his dad had a project this fall with an older laptop computer that the charging port quit working on. Conner found out that YouTube can teach you how to do anything and he was able to get the computer completely deconstructed and then put back together and it all worked! Sadly, the charging port was not the final problem and there was a short on the mother board so that computer is now in the graveyard! The project was surely educational though!
Keenan is in 7th grade this year and is flying through his curriculum. He loves science and is doing VERY well with that. He recently got to dissect a clam and find all the important parts of that. He has almost finished all the literature component for the year because he loves to read so much. His challenge project for this year is to write children's books explaining math concepts. He has finished one and is starting on the 2nd.
Have a wonderful Thursday everyone!
Cool Conner,
ReplyDeleteI love that you figured that out about fixing the computer. Sorry about it's further death but that is so how to learn.
Looks like the eating has been good too. Loved looking at the blog a bit. ken