Tuesday, May 11th

For Eva's snack, I packed: strawberries, colby cheese cubes, carrots, string cheese, laffy taffy, and goldfish crackers.  Gerald had last night's dinner for his lunch.

Breakfast: Apple & Sausage Breakfast Burrito's
Lunch: leftover's
Dinner: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, finger jello


I know that I saw a recipe for breakfast, but I couldn't find it anywhere! I usually make a pdf of the recipe so I can refer back to it and cite where I found it. hmmm, lost my mind on this one, lol! Basically, spread cream cheese all over a flour tortilla, lay sliced apples on top, then sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar, then lay sliced sausage patties on top, then wrap up like a burrito.
Well, it was good, but I think the next time, I'll cook the apples instead of having them raw.

For dinner, since it was soooo cold and yucky out, I made meatloaf, mashed poatoes (with sour cream, butter, and milk). On Gerald's and my dish, I sprinkled some sliced almonds on the green beans. A perfect meal for such a yucky day!

                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                               

Sunday, May 2nd

                                                                                                                                    
Well, it's Sunday and we really didn't have anything planned. We just had English Muffins with peanut butter before church. For lunch, I reheated last night's pizza in the electric skillet (so the bottom would stay crispy). For dinner, I made meatballs & gravy over noodles with green beans. I used my favorite meatloaf recipe, but just made them into meatballs.  I used a brown gravy mix (one that used 3 cups of water) and I added some worchestire sauce and onion powder to it.  Well, Eva just ate the noodles (of course) and everyone else ate it up! No leftovers for dad's lunch tomorrow!!

It's Wednesday and Eva's still sick! But I still need to make dinner so it's ready when we get home from Ella's ballet lesson. Gerald has choir practice tonite, so he'll eat when he gets home. Was hungry for meatloaf, but didn't feel like mashed potatoes, so I made the meatloaf into meatballs and served with gravy over noodles - yummy!! For the kids, I served the noodles, peas, and meatballs in gravy seperately, but you knew that already, lol!

Here's my favorite meatloaf recipe. Works every time and is always yummy!!

Lipton Souperior Meat Loaf (made with Onion Soup)

Easy & Delicious!

Ingredients

1 Envelope Lipton Recipe Secrets Onion Soup Mix

2 lbs. Ground beef (or ground turkey)

3/4 cup Plain dry bread crumbs

2 Eggs

3/4 cup Water

1/3 cup Ketchup

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

In large bowl, combine all ingredients

In 13 X 9 inch baking or roasting pan, shape into loaf (for best results, line pan with aluminum foil and use a non-stick cooking spray before adding meat loaf to pan)

Bake 1 hour* or until done

Let stand 10 minutes

(Note: leftovers make GREAT cold meatloaf sandwiches for the next couple of days!)

*for the meatballs, I cooked them 20 mins at 350. I didn't use ketchup because I knew I was going to put them into the gravy.

Breakfast: I had planned on pancakes, but Eva was dinking so bad this morning that I had to stop at the gas station for some doughnuts and milk. Ok, if you think that's weird, I'm telling ya, Kwik Trip has the BEST doughnuts and the BEST price!!! (as well as the best price for milk and eggs!!) Dropped Joey off at thereapy, then took the cats to the vet. Couldn't do a urine analysis on the one kitty because she didn't pee (and still hasn't!!)

Lunch:  Eva and Eddie didn't want to eat, so I just made cheese sandwhiches (not grilled) with carrots and pretzels.