AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 09/15

Gotcha! Actually, most people spend more than $5. I always get stuff at Home Goods.

I got lazy last night and got take out thai. we are having leftovers tonight.
grey and cold out..switched to winter today..may even sprinkle a bit tonight and snow in Sierra Mtns.

dh is leaving for seattle on tuesday for high school reunion.. and I am taking care of doggy for the week.. then meeting him in idaho .. we will spend a few weeks.

hugs to those who need them. I put lemons and such in the fridge. but am lucky to have huge center island in kitchen.

went to church this morning and realized I am going to be there 50% of time til dec.. then gone most of that month. not great for being part of the choir.

leannec, I am sorry you are dealing with depression and anxiety in addition to your insomnia issues.  Those are all issues that my fibromyalgia gives me also, in addition to extreme pain, so I have empathy with how you are feeling.  Good for you for taking care of yourself instead of feeling pressured to show up to the condo celebration.

jeremysgirl, I put the citrus and other fruit into the fruit bin in my refrigerator to get them off the counter.  I do like my fruit chilled though.  I keep the onions and potatoes in bins on a shelf in my food cupboard.  In your case, it sounds like the multilayer containers would work better for you.

As for bananas, I remove the skins and put them in a ziplock bag into the freezer, preferably the day that I buy them.  I hate overripe bananas.  I always add frozen banana to my protein drinks and lately to my vegetable drink. It improves the texture in addition to the normal banana nutritional benefits.  I usually pull two or three off the main bunch to eat fresh and hang them on a banana hook insert in my fruit bowl.  Bananas don’t stay edible for more than two or three days for me so I don’t keep more than a couple out before preparing the rest for the freezer.  Avocado and tomato go into the fruit bowl and are the only produce visible in my kitchen.

stormsts, I would be furious if someone pulled photos out of a scrapbook that I carefully put together as a gift.  I have only given one scrapbook as a present to someone and I made a dvd of the photos that I used in making it and put that in an envelope on the last page of the album.  That way, if someone wanted to have a copy or maybe enlarge a particular photo, they will have it on the dvd and would not need to damage the scrapbook that spent my time and money putting together. 

cadoodlebug, using those adorable snowmen is not a tacky idea at all.  I .love snowmen too and would be perfectly happy with receiving one of those.

I have no idea what my dinner will be tonight.  I just don’t have much of an appetite.  I may just have a protein shake and call it good.

I did not get much sleep last night, not drifting off until 3 am.  Then I always have an alarm set for 6:30 to take my short term pain pill and the pill my doctor prescribed to fight fatigue.  I can usually go right back to sleep after taking those and then when I wake up normally, I am not suffering due to my time-released pain pill having ended because I took the short term pill early.  And by then the anti fatigue pill has kicked in and I have the energy to get out of bed and start my day.  I try not to take the anti fatigue pill daily, even though the doctor prescribes enough for one each day.  I do really appreciate them because I would end up laying in bed and dozing off all day without them.

 Instead I got up and fixed several things for the freezer.  I steamed some broccoli that will probably end up as broccoli cheese soup, mushrooms that I add to so many things, and I made 12 egg/cheese patties in my round shallow mold to make breakfast sandwiches.  All of the store bought breakfast sandwiches have ingredients that are not healthy so it is easier and cheaper to make my own.  I found the molds on Amazon and today I filled them with plain eggs and shredded cheese.  I use those sandwich thins instead of the high calorie croissants that Costco uses and I use Canadian bacon rather than regular bacon again, less calories and fat in it.  I assemble them and pop them into my freezer and now have 12 breakfasts ready to go.  They heat in the microwave in about a minute and a half.  I use these when I am too tired to put a protein shake together.

This is similar to the mold I use for the egg sandwiches:

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Happy Sunday, all. We went to church and then went out for lunch- we chose a Mexican restaurant that was showing the sea hawk game since we don’t have cable. They won in OT so that was fun. Dinner was supposed to be tortilla soup- but we had the unexpected Mexican food for lunch (it was an impromptu decision after church when we realized they were playing). So… that doesn’t seem so great so it might just be leftover pasta from last night.

jeremysgirl I store all produce in my fridge. Onion and potatoes have their own separate baskets in a bookshelf in my kitchen where they stay out of the light. We almost never buy bananas as they hurt my stomach (I have a latex fruit sensitivity). Sometimes I’ll put clementines in a bowl on my island for decoration and easy access but mostly things are in the fridge. I’d use a three tier wire basket if I were you- I wish you were closer as I have two sitting around I don’t use! They would take the same “footprint” of your other bowl but hold more (unless they blocked your upper cupboard- then maybe a two tier would helpSome). Could something go in a bowl on top of your fridge? Out of sight out of mind might be an issue for that, though.

We went to the farmers market to pick up fresh corn for tomorrow and buy produce etc. We then went to Bon Ton meat Market for fresh meat pies for dinner (they have been selling their meats for over one hundred years) and fresh potato salad from there. We had tomatoes from our garden with dinner.

Thank you ntsf - my non-cabbage eater does like stirfry so I'll give that a try

Linda, what about shredding the cabbage to use for fish tacos?  Cabbage is what all the restaurants that served fish tacos would use.  To be honest, years ago when my friend wanted to go to this place for fish tacos, I didn’t want to go.  It sounded repulsive, putting fish in a taco?  Ugh.  But she was very persuasive so we went there.  OMG, I am so glad we did.  They were delicious.  We put a squeeze of fresh lime on them.  We made Wahoo’s, the restaurant that made fish tacos famous in our area, a regular lunch or dinner stop.  I really miss having a Wahoo’s around the corner from the house.

Somehow my Facebook algorithm has sucked me into a vortex of rug cleaning videos, of all things!! I must have watched one, then FB decided I must really love watching filthy rugs get cleaned, because that's all it's feeding me now. And I'm not gonna lie, they are very satisfying to watch! 

Thanks Lexica and ntsf