I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 28 years, disabled daughter, adult son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!Okay, so I've figured out the meal planning for the week. It would be too difficult to work around my nephews, so I'll be making easier, less expensive food than usual as my mother can get very, very lazy about cooking when she invites them here and then they end up making puppy dog eyes at me because they'd much rather have my real cooking than another can of chili and tuna fish or toasted cheese sandwiches.
I can't afford to feed them our nicer cuts of meat from the farm, teenage boys eat too much, especially these two. If I wasn't up to my ears in medical, dental, and vision that had to paid right now and wasn't budgeting our food money so closely I could have managed, but right now I can't. I can spare some hamburger and chicken from the farm as long as there are plenty of starches along with them for the boys to fill up on.
Mom did ask me to make a big pan of lasagne which we'll have for dinner one night and then the boys can eat it for a couple lunches, and she even paid for most of the ingredients for a change, but everything else will probably come out of my pocket. They love my spaghetti. They love my pizza. They don't arrive until Tuesday so I am holding off on my pizza making until later in the week. I am over the craving anyway.
I will be making a lot of bread this week. Double batches each time for certain, because we will need rolls and I'm sure they will still eat a lot of PB&J and tuna fish sandwiches, because they are pretty much constantly eating when they visit.
Monday--
Salmon
Green beans
Fried potatoes
Galia melon
Tuesday--
Lasagne
Homemade garlic bread
Salad
Watermelon
Wednesday--
Pizza with pepperoni, ham, red bell peppers and onions
Salad
Thursday--
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Leftover homemade garlic bread
Cole slaw
Friday--
Chicken and vegetables stir-fry
Egg fried rice
Apples (pear for DS)
Saturday--
Cheeseburgers
Homemade french fries
Cole slaw
Berries
Sunday--
Fried Chicken
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Green Beans
Drop biscuits with homemade jam
Meal Planning for the Week
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NGG, they really are. I haven't had to deal with that too much as DS is only 12, but he is starting to eat more and more. Fortunately he really likes vegetables.