What does three days of meals look like at your house?

I made scones a couple of weeks ago and froze them so right now those are my breakfasts. I also keep a stock of soups in my freezer and now that the weather is cooling off I'm eating a lot of soups. So the past three days have been:

Day 1 Breakfast: raspberry scone Lunch: leftover enchiladas Dinner: Panda Express
Day 2 Breakfast: raspberry scone Lunch: Leftover Panda Express Dinner: Potato leek soup
Day 3 breakfast: raspberry scone Lunch: Apple, crackers, salami, cheese Dinner: Weeknight Lemon Chicken & green beans

I've been snacking on ranch flavored cashews from Trader Joe's and Pringles along with cherry tomatoes and strawberries from the garden. This weekend I'll be making copycat Chipotle bowls with beef birria (frozen from when I made a huge batch last time), cilantro lime rice and various toppings from my garden including peppers, onions, tomatoes and corn salsa. Sunday I'm making pot roast in the crock pot. Those two things will give me lots of leftovers for lunches and dinners throughout the week.

Monday was oven baked herb chicken with braised green beans and baby red potatoes, cranberry sauce, and homemade muffins - apple cinnamon that are egg free and coffee cake with streusel topping that have egg. Both are also GF and lactose free (and soy free and nut free, and vanilla free).

Tuesday was tacos and tostadas with black beans, sauteed red onion and bell pepper, shredded iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, salsas, shredded Monterey jack cheese, and Mexican rice on the side.

Thursday was baked potato and muffin for DD and vegetarian lasagna soup for dh and I. Along with muffins and side salad.

I skipped Wednesday as that is FIYS night due to dd's infusion.

Tonight was baked potato for me and dd, and soup for dh. Dh and I are feeling our flu vaccines.

ETA: breakfast one day for me was an apple and cooked bacon, another day a bagel with just butter, and another muffins.

Lunch is left overs or salad or snacky like stuff (cheese + crackers, apple slices, rolled meat, chips).

Breakfast is pretty much always banana for me, porridge for DH.

Lunch is usually Ryvita or rice cakes with toppings such as cheese, smoked salmon, nut butter and jam. DH has salad at work.

Dinner:
- air-fried salmon with broccoli and "dirty rice"
- sausage and lemon bean mash with peas
- "mac uncheese" (cheeseless version made from rice flour and nutritional yeast), with spinach and leftover chopped sausages

Breakfast:DH does his own thing. I have a cup of black tea and a couple spoonfuls of plain Greek yogurt so I can take my morning meds. X3

Lunch: DH does his own thing. I have a couple ounces of protein, and/or some tabouli, baby carrots and hummus, pickles and olives. Or a salad. Or takeout leftovers. 


Dinner:

Homemade chicken and lentil stew with kale and spinach. 
Homemade chicken and lentil stew with kale and spinach.
Homemade chicken and lentil stew with kale and spinach.

We had a protein bar each for dinner last night. Try not to be jelly! 😂

We’re empty nesters, and I teach lessons from 4-7 Monday through Thursday, so dinner is often something DH can manage. HEB has meals ready to cook that are simple and healthy - we usually choose salmon and a vegetable or chicken and a vegetable. We probably have those twice a week on average. They just pop in the oven.

Other days, I might make something I can cook in the afternoon and reheat for dinner after I’m done teaching - soup or a stir fry works well. Or I might pre make a salad.

So there aren’t really a consistent three days I can point to, but it’s all pretty low key these days.

ETA: OK now I have my groceries here, so I've planned this for the next three days.

Tonight - Crispy sheet pan black bean tacos, carrot and celery sticks with salsa ranch. 
Tomorrow - Sheet pan Italian meatballs like this www.themediterraneandish.com/baked-meatballs-recipe/#wprm-recipe-container-42746 except that I'm using frozen meatballs and then following the rest of the recipe as written. Probably a salad to go with.
Monday - Protein bowls from HEB with southwest chicken and vegetables.

Typical breakfasts - DH usually eats toast with peanut butter and some fruit. I often skip breakfast and just have a cup of tea, but if I eat it, I like greek yogurt with fruit and granola.
Typical lunches - DH often makes a turkey sandwich or will eat leftovers from dinner. I will also eat leftovers, or will just grab a protein bar or put one of those little tuna packs on some salad. 

Lol. You most likely won't get inspiration from me. I hate to cook and now that dh is retired I don't feel obligated to put dinner on the table (he never made me feel obligated, that was my own choice since he worked a long day and I do not). So this week...

Breakfast -- I rarely eat breakfast, dh eats cereal, or peanut butter toast, or eggs.

Lunch -- I usually eat breakfast/lunch mid morning unless I'm at school. If I'm home I might eat cottage cheese and peaches, or leftovers, or peanut butter toast, or a smoothie. Dh usually eats a sandwich.

Dinner -- Monday I did a "let's see what I can come up with from the freezer" dinner -- it ended up being pineapple teriyaki meatballs (Costco), mashed potatoes (needed to use up a few potatoes), and green beans (frozen). Tuesday dh finished those leftovers and I have no idea what I had -- probably cottage cheese and peaches which is always my default.   Wednesday dd arrived for a friend's wedding and I made white chicken chili in the Instant Pot (Jeffrey Eisner's recipe from Pressure Luck Cooking). Thursday we had Indian take-out because dd requested it. Friday dd had the wedding rehearsal and dh and I ate leftovers (the chili and/or Indian). Tonight dd has the wedding reception and dh and I will have our regular Sat. night pizza (Milton's frozen cauliflower crust, Costco). Tomorrow dd is having dinner with friends, and dh and I will finish the pizza. Unless I eat mine for breakfast. In that case I'll have whatever for dinner.

Did I mention that I hate to cook? But even more than that I hate thinking up what to cook. 

I like to do a combo of mashed and shredded. More of an Irish potato pancake than a German one.

The 2 textures really play well together and add a bit of depth to the pancake.

Breakfast is usually scrambled egg whites with whole grain toast, sometimes with feta and/or spinach

Lunch is something quick, not usually planned. I keep Costco Barely chicken breasts in the freezer, so I'll make one of those and add fruit

Dinner I try to make somewhat healthy due to my student athlete grandson. He loves shrimp, rice, Costco's orange chicken, homemade pizza, Costco's battered cod in air fryer, burgers, sloppy joes. I can usually get him to eat 1 or 2 bites of a vegetable. He eats a ton of fruit.

Wednesday - Lunch and Dinner - meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and broccoli casserole
Thursday - Lunch - pimento cheese sandwich and baked potato chips. Dinner - leftovers from Wednesday but with the meatloaf as a sandwich
Friday- Lunch - bacon and tomato sandwich and baked potato chips. Dinner - Shrimp and baked potato

Breakfast varies
banana, strawberries, and an orange
Cake or cookies with glass of milk
Biscuit with bacon, tomato, and yellow mustard

It varies greatly here depending on how insane work here. This week I made sloppy joes, a beef roast, cottage pie, brought home fast food one night and one night of leftovers. Lunches were leftovers for me. I made a batch of chicken and broccoli teriyaki and white rice that the girls took for lunch this week with an apple. I made two loves of banana bread on Sunday so they had that for breakfast most of the week. Tacos in some form or another are a frequent meal. Homemade pizza used to be every Friday night but I’ve slacked off of that. Peanut noodles with chicken and veggies. Lo mein. Butter chicken. Mongolian beef spinoff - beef with caramelized onion. Made from scratch sausage gravy and biscuits. Crust less quiche and maybe some bacon or sausage or cut up fruit. In winter I often make a big batch of soup over the weekend that gets used for easy lunches - chicken noodle, vegetable beef, tomato, beef barley or beef stew. Chicken Thai pizza. Broccoli cheddar soup. Occasionally beer cheese soup. Potato soup. Enchiladas. I think I’m going to make a pot of posole this weekend. Krogers has a decent Birria sauce that I will throw in the crockpot with a beef roast for tacos or quesadillas. I’ll throw a pork butt in the crockpot and let it cook all day and then shred. That meat gets used for bbq sandwiches, tacos, quesadillas, loaded bbq fries - depending on what we add to it after it’s cooked. I generally do the biggest one that will fit in my crockpot and freeze it in meal size portions once it’s cooked. I also freeze soup in Souper cubes then I can use it for lunches or quick dinners later

This week, I made beef stew, ham and potato soup,and pork chops with beans and cornbread for dinners. Breakfast for dh is cereal or a frozen burrito or bisciut. Lunches are sandwiches, chips, and fruit

3 days for me this week looked like:

Breakfast: Starbucks and a croissant
lunch: Panera (gift card), max & cheese and frontego chicken sandwich
Dinner:

Breakfast: coffee at home, wasn’t hungry
lunch: soup and sandwich
Dinner: ribeye steak, mushrooms, cottage cheese

Breakfast: coffee at home, wasn’t hungry
Lunch: Mongolian beef & Rice
Dinner: garlic bread pizza (think like Italian bread)

I only plan dinners - beverages are milk or water

Sun - chili and cornbread, grapes, carrot sticks

Mon -chicken curry over rice and topped with chutney, peanuts, raisins, coconut, apple, banana, mandarin oranges, onions, and cucumber (in some combination)

Tues -kielbasa and cabbage skillet, grapes, carrot sticks

breakfast options include cold cereal, oatmeal, farina, eggs, bagel/cream cheese, cinnamon raisin toast, fruit/cheese, protein bar - beverages are milk, water, coffee, or hot tea

lunch options include dinner leftovers, bread/cheese/tomato/fruit, sandwich (brie/cranberry and egg mayo are the most common options), hummus with veggies and fruit, eggs... beverages are milk, water, hot tea, iced tea, occasionally limeade or lemonade

snacks -fruit, cheese, nuts, crisps, crackers, protein bars....there's usually a sweet snack and/or chocolate around also

Breakfast varies each day but is usually oatmeal or eggs. DH did make some really good avocado toast last week.

Lunch recently has been salad mixes with tomatoes and cucumbers and sometimes air fried salmon on top. The day that DH works in person, I tend to just graze on whatever I find.

Dinner is the same Monday-Friday, as we make one big meal and reheat throughout the week. This week is chicken and rice soup. We almost always do salmon, rice, and corn on Sundays, and steak on Saturdays.

Yesterday was different since we spent the day out, so we had food court pizza for lunch and Thai food out for dinner.