Today's menu:
Breakfast-breakfast snadwich on honey wheat with egg and cheese (do we see a pattern yet?!)
Lunch-frozen dinner and yogurt (purchased with the little bit of money left over)
Dinner-gumbo and rice. The gumbo was made with fresh veggies from the garden. Lima beans, tomatoes, purple hull peas, corn, okra and garlic!
I really feel good at this point (and that could be from the two bowls of gumbo that I had for supper), but I am truly happy that I will be able to complete this challenge without eating any ramen noodles!! Today at our staff meeting was difficult, but I made it through without cheating. The snack that was provided today was soft granola bars with chocolate chips and rice krispie treats dipped in chocolate. Sometimes, you just need chocolate...and today was one of those days (that and a glass of wine!!!). I could have killed someone for a bite of chocolate. I settled for a glass of water...<sigh>.
My mother came over for supper. She actually ended up cooking supper while I finished up some readings for grad school (awesome!). I made sure that she understood the rules for the challenge (and she stuck to them). We had enough food for at least a small army. Mom had a decent sized portion, I had two portions and there is still enough for at least two more generous adult supper portions. Love that!
I'm amazed you could afford frozen dinners! I typically eat them for lunch but couldn't work them into the budget and I bet that was nice having your mom cook dinner!
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to have all of those fresh vegetables from the garden! The gumbo sounds delicious.
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