What's For Dinner? Week 4

{Week of January 19-25}

I knew this week was going to fly by.  We'd made the preparations for the kids and the dog to stay with my parents while we were in New York and everything about their days would go on as usual, save for the dinner, bath and bedtime at Nana & Papa's.  Sophie still went to the babysitter's during the day and anything school-related (homework, lunch packing, school library books, clothes picked out and packed) was taken care of for both.  I also packed up some raw fruits and veggies, several pb&j's and some cookies & snack foods for Craig and I too.  I knew it would be handy to have those things for breakfast and lunch instead of the ridiculously-priced lodge food or the Burger King that was right by the slopes.  We planned to eat dinner out of course, but I hate eating every meal out.  It was very helpful.

So for dinner this week, I only planned two meals for the beginning of the week:
1) creamy grilled chicken piccata (found on Pinterest)
2) Rachael Ray's chicken tortilla soup with chipotle and fire roasted tomato (see picture in my InstaFriday post coming shortly)

I've made both several times before.  Especially the tortilla soup - that's one of my faves and I've made it for years.