Each week I try to plan a menu and now, in this current state of existence, I am trying to plan based on what I have on hand., For now the possibility/probability of running out to pick up whatever sounds good for dinner is no longer an option. I will change all shopping to either delivery or pick up, so I need to be much more intentional with our plan. I do have many bags of frozen vegetables and I have a good bit of fruit (berries) that I previously froze also. This week my aim is to only purchase salad veggies.
This is what I thought our meals for the past week would be:
1. Pork tenderloin, tossed salad, baked potato (or none), broccoli, keto cornbread
2. Chopped Salad, garlic bread or keto dinner roll
3. Ham slices, carrots, green beans, coleslaw, keto cornbread
4. Hamburger helper, coleslaw or cooked cabbage (undecided) I am fasting one day this week so TheHub can have this and then have leftovers for lunch a couple of days
5. Take out from a locally owned place
6. Mac and cheese (or fake mac and cheese, since there is no such thing as keto mac) turnip greens, coleslaw, keto cornbread or real cornbread for the non ketonian.
7. "Night at the movies meal" Snacks that are non-keto for the keto day off. Right now I am thinking popcorn and a corndog, but it is subject to and probably will change.
This is what I thought our meals for the past week would be:
1. Pork tenderloin, tossed salad, baked potato (or none), broccoli, keto cornbread
2. Chopped Salad, garlic bread or keto dinner roll
3. Ham slices, carrots, green beans, coleslaw, keto cornbread
4. Hamburger helper, coleslaw or cooked cabbage (undecided) I am fasting one day this week so TheHub can have this and then have leftovers for lunch a couple of days
5. Take out from a locally owned place
6. Mac and cheese (or fake mac and cheese, since there is no such thing as keto mac) turnip greens, coleslaw, keto cornbread or real cornbread for the non ketonian.
7. "Night at the movies meal" Snacks that are non-keto for the keto day off. Right now I am thinking popcorn and a corndog, but it is subject to and probably will change.
And this is what really happened:
Monday: Even though I had a lot of frozen meats, seafoods and chicken in the freezer, I planned on having a few vegetarian meals during this period of isolation since we have no idea how long it is going to last, and I really do not want to have to resort to having a delivery service choose my proteins for me. I feel like this might go on much longer than we expect it to. Meals are not big deal for me during the day because I will eat a plate of coleslaw anything else that is leftover and call it lunch, but I do try to make our evening meal a little better. (TheHub is still working in an essential business so it's just me during the day)
I have said before that I keep foods stored so it was not surprising when I inventoried everything to find I have the capabilities to make a lot of pasta meals plus I have many blocks of cheese in the freezer.
Mac and cheese (or caulimac and cheese for me) turnip greens (canned) coleslaw, keto corn muffins
Tuesday: I found a container of stewed tomatoes in the fridge that had to be used that day. I am trying desperately to have zero food waste, so the menu plan had to be altered.
Spaghetti sauce over pasta or zoodles, shredded romaine with black olives and scallions
Wednesday: Once again my plan changed based on a bag of coleslaw mix that needed to be used immediately. I need to get a better handle on our produce consumption because I am finding too many things that are on their last leg.
Smoked sausage with sautéed coleslaw and onions
Thursday: Hopefully this was the last day for me to play catch up using slightly wilted produce. I had instacart deliver a rather large produce stock up purchase. While I was processing everything (Washing every veggie with peels with Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap, rinse and dry or soaking soft surface produce in vinegar water before letting them join the refrigerator items) I had a couple of bell peppers in the crisper. One still looked very good, so I sliced it into strips and froze it for a meal later, but one screamed "Use me__right now!"
Stuffed bell pepper, baked potato or not, cucumber tomato and onion salad, keto cornbread or rolls
Friday: At last I had all the produce processed and everything could be used as it was intended instead of as an emergency salvage mission. After washing the zucchini I processed them into zoodles. It always leaves the center of the squash (like a zucchini pencil), as well as an end piece of the zucchini that is about 1/2 inch thick. I was not about to let that go to waste so I cooked it and added it to a can of well drained, chopped yellow squash. (That close to zero waste thing again!)
Pork tenderloin, squash casserole, mashed potatoes or steamed cauliflower, tossed salad
Saturday: Saturday was a gathering of the fragments meal (Notice how skillfully I reworded the term leftovers)
Ham slices (last of the Christmas ham from the freezer) turnip greens, rosemary potatoes (box taken from the lake place) coleslaw.
Sunday: For a period of quarantine we actually had a busy day, yet we never went farther than the driveway (except for my daily time at Mom's and even that is just a few blocks from my house) We visited with neighbors in the driveway, all maintaining the 10 feet apart rule until after dark. TheHub and I came inside and scratched up a crappy dinner. Thank goodness it was not a keto day.
Leftover Mac and cheese, corndogs
And the plan moving forward, in no particular order:
1. Chopped salad, rolls or keto rolls
2. Pasta or zoodles with Alfredo sauce, broccoli, roll or keto roll
3. Leftover pork tenderloin, green beans, wilted spinach salad, rolls or keto rolls
4. Grilled halibut steaks, tossed salad, baked potato or caulimash
5. Taco salad, corn chips (or none) keto cornbread
6. Hot dog hash, coleslaw
7. Easter meal, Stuffed boneless leg of lamb, rice, asparagus (? I think I have some frozen) , salad, something lemony for dessert.
Taken from the freezer:
2 small packs of ground beef
6 mini corn muffins
1 pork tenderloin
small pack of ham slices
2 corndogs
large container of Mardi Gras punch
Added to the freezer:
6 zucchi made into zoodles (5 frozen zoodle "nests")
1 sliced bell pepper
assorted bread slices (they will become either garlic toast or French toast at another time)
keto cookies
leftover snicker doodle cake (cut into squares, frozen on a cookie sheet then bagged)
caulimash
keto freezer slaw
What I need to make/bake
Keto rolls
Keto cookies (not a need but definitely a want)
Lemon cake?
Monday: Even though I had a lot of frozen meats, seafoods and chicken in the freezer, I planned on having a few vegetarian meals during this period of isolation since we have no idea how long it is going to last, and I really do not want to have to resort to having a delivery service choose my proteins for me. I feel like this might go on much longer than we expect it to. Meals are not big deal for me during the day because I will eat a plate of coleslaw anything else that is leftover and call it lunch, but I do try to make our evening meal a little better. (TheHub is still working in an essential business so it's just me during the day)
I have said before that I keep foods stored so it was not surprising when I inventoried everything to find I have the capabilities to make a lot of pasta meals plus I have many blocks of cheese in the freezer.
Mac and cheese (or caulimac and cheese for me) turnip greens (canned) coleslaw, keto corn muffins
Tuesday: I found a container of stewed tomatoes in the fridge that had to be used that day. I am trying desperately to have zero food waste, so the menu plan had to be altered.
Spaghetti sauce over pasta or zoodles, shredded romaine with black olives and scallions
Wednesday: Once again my plan changed based on a bag of coleslaw mix that needed to be used immediately. I need to get a better handle on our produce consumption because I am finding too many things that are on their last leg.
Smoked sausage with sautéed coleslaw and onions
Thursday: Hopefully this was the last day for me to play catch up using slightly wilted produce. I had instacart deliver a rather large produce stock up purchase. While I was processing everything (Washing every veggie with peels with Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap, rinse and dry or soaking soft surface produce in vinegar water before letting them join the refrigerator items) I had a couple of bell peppers in the crisper. One still looked very good, so I sliced it into strips and froze it for a meal later, but one screamed "Use me__right now!"
Stuffed bell pepper, baked potato or not, cucumber tomato and onion salad, keto cornbread or rolls
Friday: At last I had all the produce processed and everything could be used as it was intended instead of as an emergency salvage mission. After washing the zucchini I processed them into zoodles. It always leaves the center of the squash (like a zucchini pencil), as well as an end piece of the zucchini that is about 1/2 inch thick. I was not about to let that go to waste so I cooked it and added it to a can of well drained, chopped yellow squash. (That close to zero waste thing again!)
Pork tenderloin, squash casserole, mashed potatoes or steamed cauliflower, tossed salad
Saturday: Saturday was a gathering of the fragments meal (Notice how skillfully I reworded the term leftovers)
Ham slices (last of the Christmas ham from the freezer) turnip greens, rosemary potatoes (box taken from the lake place) coleslaw.
Sunday: For a period of quarantine we actually had a busy day, yet we never went farther than the driveway (except for my daily time at Mom's and even that is just a few blocks from my house) We visited with neighbors in the driveway, all maintaining the 10 feet apart rule until after dark. TheHub and I came inside and scratched up a crappy dinner. Thank goodness it was not a keto day.
Leftover Mac and cheese, corndogs
And the plan moving forward, in no particular order:
1. Chopped salad, rolls or keto rolls
2. Pasta or zoodles with Alfredo sauce, broccoli, roll or keto roll
3. Leftover pork tenderloin, green beans, wilted spinach salad, rolls or keto rolls
4. Grilled halibut steaks, tossed salad, baked potato or caulimash
5. Taco salad, corn chips (or none) keto cornbread
6. Hot dog hash, coleslaw
7. Easter meal, Stuffed boneless leg of lamb, rice, asparagus (? I think I have some frozen) , salad, something lemony for dessert.
Taken from the freezer:
2 small packs of ground beef
6 mini corn muffins
1 pork tenderloin
small pack of ham slices
2 corndogs
large container of Mardi Gras punch
Added to the freezer:
6 zucchi made into zoodles (5 frozen zoodle "nests")
1 sliced bell pepper
assorted bread slices (they will become either garlic toast or French toast at another time)
keto cookies
leftover snicker doodle cake (cut into squares, frozen on a cookie sheet then bagged)
caulimash
keto freezer slaw
What I need to make/bake
Keto rolls
Keto cookies (not a need but definitely a want)
Lemon cake?
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