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We went to a SOUP-er Bowl lunch that a church has every year. All the proceeds go to support our local center that helps the chronically homeless. The church donates all the food and a professional chef plus volunteers make the soups. Three homemade soups, chili, chicken noodle, and potato with green salad and rolls. Sheet cake and brownies for dessert.

I'm bummed it didn't occur to me to just get snack food for dinner. Maybe tomorrow.

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I don't remember who originally recommended this Asian slaw with ginger-peanut dressing recipe, but last month it popped into my mind and I realized I hadn't made it in a while.  I've made it three times since, and am having the latest batch right now.  I don't know why this fell off my radar for so long; it's easy and delicious.  It's also very colorful, so it's looks as good as it tastes.

Because I use several of the same ingredients in the mango slaw I make to go in shrimp tacos, while I was chopping cabbage and cilantro anyway, I made that slaw (minus the mango, which I'll add tonight) and the dressing (mayo, lime juice, cilantro, chili paste, and a pinch of sugar), and I'll make those tacos for dinner.

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I spent a lot of the day making stuff for my Oscar party tomorrow so didn’t feel equipped to make dinner so pulled some homemade sauce from the freezer and had spaghetti with chunks of mozzarella.

I have been trying to organize our kitchen better because of one two many times of food getting wasted because it got shoved to the back of the fridge so a few weeks ago I got some magnetic white boards and put them on our fridge/freezer in the kitchen and our chest freezer and inventoried everything in both with expiration dates where appropriate and wrote them all down on the white boards. Now when anything goes in or out i just add it or erase it. It’s really helped and also made menu planning so much easier because I can just look over what we had a create something based on that.

 

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I made shredded BBQ chicken for dinner (boneless breasts in the slow cooker with some BBQ sauce, removed to a serving dish to be shredded and mixed with some of the sauce).  I just took a couple of hamburger buns and made sandwiches.  Simple but good.

I thought I might have spoiled my dinner by having an afternoon snack of some Girl Scout cookies (a sampler plate of the new lemon flavor, Thin Mints, and Tagalongs) with coffee.  But, my appetite was fine by dinnertime. 🙂 

Breakfast:  Frozen berries thawed overnight in the fridge topped with yogurt and kefir as well as ground flax and chia. 

Lunch:  Spinach salad with lentils and sweet potatoes

Dinner: It's Shrove/Pancake Tuesday and I'll be making socca (chickpea pancakes).  Also, turkey breast and tomato sauce.  Bought some pre-made "regular" (not so regular since one is jalepeno and bacon.  The lady at the store STRESSED that it wasn't that spicy) pancakes just in case my husband doesn't like the socca. 

5 hours ago, chessiegal said:

Shrimp pasta salad for lunch.

Chicken tikka masala over saffron rice and King Cake for dessert. I had a hard time finding one. WF had lots of them on Saturday, but when I went on Monday, they were sold out. Finally found one at a local grocery store.

 

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Love the beads on the cake!!

Good ol' nourishing beef stew and mashed potatoes (to get us through the debates!) & tossed salad.  Harris Teeter's lower fat/less sugar vanilla ice cream with chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

On 2/27/2020 at 8:47 PM, chessiegal said:

Today was my monthly Fun Lunch potluck luncheon. The theme was tea. Lots of finger foods, cucumber and crème cheese sandwiches, egg salad, chicken salad. Scottish eggs, scones, trifle, and tea cookies. And our requisite bottles of wine in addition to tea. . 

I went to a bridal shower today and the menu was very similar to what you had for your pot luck. I enjoy a good tea party. 

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I had a disappointing lunch today. A few weeks ago I had lunch at a small place in rural Anne Arundel county near our marina that was recommended by a friend. I had the best Cuban sandwich I've ever had, and black bean soup that was very good. I went back today and ordered shrimp tacos. I was shocked the shrimp were overcooked! At least the glass of Prosecco was good. 😉

4 hours ago, chessiegal said:

Went to the grocery store around 11 am for just a few things, and it was NUTS! People are panic buying.

I'm going to try early tomorrow morning - 9:15ish. We have 5 supermarkets in our area so it may not be too bad 🤞 I just read an article in the Washington Post in which a lot of grocery executives are saying they have the supplies, they're in the warehouses and the stores will get restocked. Here's hoping the truck drivers, stockers, etc., stay healthy. Sheesh - here's hoping we all stay healthy! 

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On the quarantine diet!

Breakfast: A smoothie -- Vega One protein + greens chocolate plant-based protein powder; powdered milk; chia powder; cocoa powder; peanut butter; frozen raspberries; water. Then I put some Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted whole grain cereal in it as well, so it was more of a smoothie bowl.

Lunch: Whole grain crackers and a can of sardines in olive oil.

Snack: Some dates and unsweetened chocolate chips, and a mug of English breakfast tea.

Dinner: Sort of a stew -- lentils, brown rice, olive oil, frozen spinach, frozen butternut squash, nutritional yeast, rosemary, sage, garlic.

Grilled bacon cheddar cheese hamburgers I got at the grocery store recently, one of the few fresh meats on the shelf, so thought I would give them a try. We have bread, but I thought it would be nice to have hamburger buns. I checked the small store near us, and they had gotten a delivery this morning, so were fully stocked with bread products.

When we were looking for a house, the sign on this store cracked me up. Under their name, it says "Liquor Lottery Tickets Bait". All the necessities of life.

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19 hours ago, chessiegal said:

When we were looking for a house, the sign on this store cracked me up. Under their name, it says "Liquor Lottery Tickets Bait". All the necessities of life.

When my stepdaughter was driving cross country from LA to State College, PA for grad school, as the scenery got more & more "rural", she got more & more worried. By the time they passed a little ol' country store with a large sign saying "Bait" she burst into tears.  All worked out though as she has lots of fun memories of great people & times at Penn State.

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Trying to plan lunches rather than grab whatever to better utilize all of our food efficiently. So last night I made some sandwich bread and today I turned some left over roast chicken, chopped mixed vegetables from TJs, and some pesto I made with some basil that was turning and carrot tops into chicken salad sandwiches with leftover slaw as a side.

Dinner was spaghetti Alfredo because in a pandemic you don’t always get your choice of pastas and a salad with a pesto vinaigrette.

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