This week we are tentatively beginning a modified chore chart. Instead of the kids doing dishes, they said they’d rather cook the meals and I’ll wash the dishes. The reason this is tentative is ds16 isn’t home at the necessary times to prepare meals but we’re trying it out. I suggested that the person making dinner double the recipe so that there would planned leftovers for lunch the next day so that it wouldn’t feel like non stop food preparation, which it could very easily feel like when three meals from scratch are being prepared. Alternatively lunch can be something easily self prepared by the kids, like a sandwich or eggs. But it’s not going to be listed on my weekly menu for now.
Shabbos – dinner – challah, meatballs, mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, fresh garden salad, rhubarb/apple crisp; lunch – kids requested dairy, for the second or third time this summer – lasagna, onion quiche, sweet potato pudding, Israeli salad, beet borscht with sour cream, cream cheese, brownies, grapes and orange slices; shalosh seudos – laffa wraps, gefilte fish, sardines, leftovers from lunch
Sunday – this is why it’s very helpful for me to write my meal plan down in black and white – I don’t remember what everyone ate for the first two meals of the day since it wasn’t yet written down. They did eat, though! 🙂 Dinner – vegetable soup, shwarma, rice, lacto fermented pickles and fresh tomatoes from garden.
Mon – b – Dutch puffs with blueberries; d- lentil rice mushroom loaf
Tues – b – Southern biscuits, eggs, gravy; d – polenta casserole
Wed – b – rice with milk, fruit; d – oat walnut burgers
Thurs – b – cranberry muffins; spinach cheese casserole
This week I’m hoping to write a breakdown of how much meals for the week cost, meal by meal, like I did a couple of weeks ago with meals for a day. Since there are often changes to the plan that I write here in the beginning of the week, I’ll have to make a note of them to give you an accurate accounting.
Avivah
How do you make your gravy that you eat with your biscuits?
Also, I was wondering…
You make a lot of interesting and exotic foods. Do your kids eat all of it, or are they picky eaters? What is your policy in terms of if kids don’t like a certain food?
Or if they’re not picky eaters, how do you ensure that?
I have more questions for you. 🙂
Does your dh work out of the home? What does he do for lunch? It’s an issue around here, currently my dh is buying lunch every day and it’s $$!
I had another question but it slipped out of my head.
He works out of the home, and eats at work. It doesn’t honestly make much of a difference when one person in a family this size isn’t here since I prepare the same amount and it just means more or less leftovers. When your questions slips back in, let me know. 🙂
My kids eat what I make. Some things they like more than others, though! I started a post a while back to address the question of picky eaters, and will try to finish it up soon and post it.
Nudge, nudge, gravy recipe! 🙂
My brain is noodles, I’m afraid that whatever I wanted to know is gone.
Avivah,
Would you please post all of your recipes for everything that you’ve listed? Pretty please with a cherry on top :-))
Gravy – sorry, no recipe. I just make it up. It goes something like this. Melt some butter in a pan, add whole wheat flour, stir over a flame for a couple of minutes. Then pour in milk and mix it around (still on the stovetop) so it stays smooth and you have the consistency you want – it should be pourable but not watery, but not too thick. Gravy that is too thick is yuck. Then add a sprinkle of salt and pepper to taste. Easy and quick.
Rina – Welcome! I hate to say ‘no’ to someone the first time they comment! So how about you ask me for something in particular that interests you and I can try to get it posted? 🙂
Hi Avivah,
I would love to have your recipes for the following: Dutch puffs with blueberries, lentil rice mushroom loaf, Southern biscuits, polenta casserole, rice with milk, oat walnut burgers, cranberry muffins, spinach cheese casserole. It all sounds so exotic to me, and I love trying new things. Sounds healthy, too, and that’s a tremendous bonus.
I don’t usually post more than one or two recipes a week, so this will take a while! In the meantime, here’s a link for the oat walnut burgers –
http://vibrantmoms.com/recipes/oat-walnut-burgers/.
I’ve posted a bunch of other recipes, so check out the section on the right of your screen where it says recipes and you might find something else you like.
Thanks, Avivah, I already printed the oat-walnut burger recipe.