What's for dinner? 10/24

It has been a long, long week with some craziness thrown in. Also supposed to be 91° out. Guess Mother Nature forgot it is actually fall in Southern California.

So it is a breakfast dinner night for sure! Waffles (frozen because I have yet to master a good gf waffle), scrambled eggs, bacon, and potatoes o'brian. Mmmmm!!!

Pizza night. I know. It is not that healthy, but I will have fruit with it in the form of wine. ? I don't normally care for pizza, however, we have found a Pretzel Crusted Pizza that I do like.

I'm a thin crust pizza girl myself, but just wanted to say I like the idea of counting wine as a fruit serving

The meatloaf from last night was so popular I had to put it on the "no snack" list so there is enough for dinner tonight. Don't worry, no one was left hungry but when I make 3 meatloaves it should provide enough for at least 2 meals. I was hoping to freeze at least one, but DS wants it tonight for dinner.

I will make mashed potatoes again and saute carrots and broccoli.

Lasagna tonight for us!

We are having baked macaroni and cheese. My kids will be delighted.  

I have a pan of baked beans with a big ol' pork hock sitting in it in the oven. Don't know what else except to finish off the cheese bread.

We're having homemade veggie beef soup and cornbread.

We're ordering out Chinese.

It's Friday night, so it's Pizza Night!

I love doing breakfast for dinner. It is one of my husbands favorite dinners. 

Last night we had mac and cheese casserole.  I made 2 boxes of mac and cheese. browned 1/2 pound of burger salt and peppered it and then used 3 of the cheese packets. and the butter and milk for 3 boxes. that made it more cheesy and it had more liquid so that when I baked it all together it wouldn't dry out. my husband said he wanted to make it one of our regular meals. it wouldn't be a weekly meal but maybe a monthly meal. 

Tonight daughter and I will be on the freeway at dinner time so I am going to stop at KFC and pick up some popcorn chicken and potato wedges and drive.  I have been craving KFC for months now so I thought this would be the best road food for our trip. 

happy dinner ladies.

Vegan Sloppy Joes-now hold on! I can hear you all going "blah!" from here. But these are really, really good. Took me awhile to get the recipe right. First I dice some onions and put those in a pan with just a tiny bit of olive oil until they are translucent. Then I add the "beef". It's actually a product called "Beyond Meat-Beef Free Crumble" that looks just like crumbles of hamburger-Google it, it's very healthy and tastes actually really good. I was shocked how good it tastes. I add a little water and let that warm up. Then I add half a can of tomato sauce, 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and pour in some of Trader Joe's "Bold and Smoky Kansas City BBQ sauce". Stir it all up and let it simmer and it's ready. I serve it on 365 (Whole Foods own brand) Whole Wheat burger buns.  I like mine with a few slices of sweet onion and a few slices of dill pickle. Yummy!

I'm making potato salad to go with it using those small potatoes that I'll steam first, then I'll toss with white wine vinegar, a little olive oil, salt and freshly ground pepper and freshly chopped dill.

Debbie in MD.

You may ban me from the thread for this, but Pillsbury crescent dogs and baked beans. We were going to have meatloaf but the meat didnt' thaw out in time, so its pushed back to tomorrow.

I'm on day 3 of my diet (again!). I shouldn't have opened this thread.

I'm having chicken, green beans, sweet potato, and a VitaTop for dessert.