Hello! Happy Sunday and welcome to my weekly Meals of the Week Post! On Sundays I like to share with you, my dear readers, all of the deliciousness I have enjoyed over the past seven days for my main meals of the week!
This is one of my favorite posts to do every week and by all accounts it is one of your favorites as well. I love taking the time at the end of the week to go over what I have enjoyed eating as my main meals and plan my meals for the week ahead accordingly.
As a Senior living on my own and on a limited budget, planning is really important to me. Making my food dollar stretch as much as I can, as well as limiting waste are two things I take great care to implement when I am planning my meals.
I also don't want my meal planning and cooking to become boring. I love to cook and I love to eat and I try to make my menus as varied as I can from week to week, and I like to take you along with me, hopefully so that you will be likewise inspired to want to cook economical and interesting meals for yourself and your family.
Admittedly a lot of my recipes these days are tailored for only one or two people, but all can easily be doubled or even tripled to feed more. If you have any questions as to how to do that don't hesitate to get in touch! I am only too happy to help.
These are only my main meals. I usually have a protein powder smoothie for my breakfast each day or very occasionally I will have toast or (blush) leftover pizza if there is any in the house.
Normally I will eat my main meal at noon or in the early afternoon as eating heavy later in the day no longer works well with my digestion. Unless I am eating out, then I will go along with the rest of the people I am enjoying my meal with and eat my main meal when they eat theirs. Otherwise, here at home, its usually early afternoon, like one or twoish.
For my supper I will have a salad, or fruit, sometimes I will have a bowl of cereal or sometimes toast. Whatever it is I feel like having. Sometimes I will have yogurt with my fruit. Or I will have granola and yogurt with a bit of date syrup drizzled over top if I am feeling particularly indulgent.
And that's it. That is how I mostly eat during the week. I don't like to eat a lot of processed foods and I don't like ready meals. I have occasionally picked one up but have always been quite disappointed in them, so mostly I cook for myself, and I like to share that experience with you!
So without waffling on any longer, here are my Meals of the Week for the past seven days. I hope that there is something here which will inspire you to want to try and to cook for yourself also!
Doesn't that look great? Look at that lovely lobster claw sitting on top. Only Dad and Cindy were able to eat dessert. Dad had a piece of Lemon Meringue Pie and Cindy had a piece of Toblerone Cheesecake. I did not take photos of those, but I did have a taste of the cheesecake and it was good.
I am sharing my recipes for Beer Battered Fish and Chips and Nova Scotia Fish Chowder in the place of these two restaurant favorites.
Needless to say we were all stuffed. Good food, great company, and a lovely drive there and back. You cannot beat this fabulous combination!
MONDAY, September 2nd - Dinner at Cindy's
Monday was Labor Day which is a holiday here in Canada. I believe also in the US and UK as well. In any case Cindy cooked supper for us at hers. She made hot roast beef sandwiches which she served with runner beans from her garden and some frozen wedges. It was really delicious. For dessert we had sugar free jello with squirty cream. Nobody was complaining.
I am sharing my tutorial on how to make Diner Style Hot Sandwiches for this day. There is also a recipe for home fried chips.
TUESDAY, September 3rd. - Tuna Rice Muffins with a Butter Lemon Sauce
Someone actually thought these were regular muffins with tuna and rice in them. They are not. They re delicious muffin shaped tuna bakes, with tuna, rice, egg and seasonings. Like tiny tuna and rice muffin shaped loaves. They are delicious and very easy to make. The butter lemon sauce is fabulous.
I enjoyed two of these with some buttered corn on the cob and steamed broccoli. I was not complaining. The recipe makes six muffins. So I had two on the day and I froze the remainder for a later date. So one bake, three meals.
WEDNESDAY, September 4th - Chicken and Dumpling Casserole
I normally go out to dinner with Dad on Wednesdays but we went on Sunday instead this week. So I hauled some leftover cooked chicken from out of the freezer and made Chicken and Dumpling Casserole. This casserole is delicious and is sized just for two people, although you can certainly double or even triple it to feed more people.
Delicious meals. I want to try the tuna & rice muffins, but I've been having a flare up of my ISB so just plain old food for me till it passes. But I have saved the recipe to my Paprika app for later.
ReplyDeleteOh, that IBS, is a terrible thing. I suffer from it myself from time to time and I know it is no fun. I Hope you will enjoy this when you are feeling better, and that you enjoy it! xoxo
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