Last Saturday was Wesley's and my birthday dinner at mom and dad's. Always a treat to have dinner made for you! It was also so nice to have my cousins there to play games later too.
This week for dinner, I let Will pick the menu with only one exception that I planned. I always make up my grocery list the week before and sometimes I draw a blank on what I want to make. What have we had recently? What sounds good to us? Don't forget to take our upcoming schedule into account. Make sure there's a variety. Yada. Yada. Yada. It helps to look back at our recent weeks grocery lists in the notebook 'cause I always write down what I'm planning to make. But one occasional planning tool I use is to bring our grocery notebook to the dinner table and we all brain storm what we want for dinner. If I get multiple, similar ideas, I can write some on the following weeks' lists. But I usually take everyone's advice into account.
So Will's votes for this week were:
1) hot dogs (shocker) - we get the natural casing ones from House of Meats and always serve with some raw fruits and veggies and occasionally some chips or pretzels
2) breakfast for dinner
3) chicken noodle soup with grilled cheese
I also added:
4) ham and swiss bread pudding
The bread pudding is made with Hawaiian sweet dinner rolls, cubed and toasted. And obviously diced ham, shredded Swiss cheese and green onion. Delish.
Side note: so The Anderson's by us closed and we are devastated! Our new go to for meat shopping is the House of Meats on Starr now. An easy stop on my way home from work coming from 280 on a night when Craig can pick up the kids. And then just a couple of turns/blocks away from the library to pick up and return whatever we need that week. I'm slowly adjusting and it's really not so bad. I just don't have the fresh produce option that I would sometimes lean on if Meijer's produce didn't look so great some weeks. Most of the time that's not an issue.
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