Day Three hundred and ninety: New Year's Eve

Lunch: Brown rice wrap, pumpkin puree, cheese, and spinach.  This is my current favorite lunch.

Brown sugar cookies, to be turned into the crust for a...

Cheesecake.  Family recipe, and it would not be the holidays without it.

Dinner (Carnivore-Lite): Grilled chicken, roasted rosemary potatoes, and sesame broccoli.  My dad is picky about most everything I make, and he was raving about the broccoli.  The recipe is definitely a keeper.

Dinner: (Carnivore-De-Lite): Steak, roasted rosemary potatoes, and sesame broccoli.

Cheesecake, up close and personal.

Day Three hundred and eighty-one

A crust Boule. The recipe yields four balls of dough, and this is one of the three from the freezer.

On the rise: Gluten-free bagels.  I used the Shoestring recipe with the Artisan flour blend.

After rising, boiling, and baking: Bagels.  I made a dozen and froze half.

Dinner: Smashed potatoes, a slice of boule bread, steamed veggies, and grilled chicken.

And my husband's dinner: Steak, sauteed onions, and the rest of my dinner from above.  I'm still trying to help him realize he's not a caveman.

School lunch for tomorrow: PB wrap, babybel cheese, cutie orange slices, cucumber and carrots.

Day Two hundred and thirty-five

Man dinner: Steak, sauteed onions, baked potato, steamed broccoli, watermelon.

Day One hundred and eighty-seven

Vanilla yogurt. About to go into the cooler for six hours, ala Frugal Girl's method.

Dinner: Four-cheese tortellini with fresh spinach in a light alfredo sauce, broccoli and cauliflower, and fresh pineapple.

And dinner for the meat-eater: Some kind of steak with a horseradish sauce, tortellini, vegetables, pineapple.

Day One hundred and sixty-one

Breakfast: Strawberry blueberry smoothies.

Shredded yellow squash, for the freezer. This is great for putting into quesadillas, meatloaf, and spaghetti sauce.

My husband's dinner: Steak, bread and butter, grapes, and steamed carrots. I think I had leftover chicken, as I don't partake in beef.

Day One hundred and nine

Smiley face dinner: Grilled chicken, asparagus, and triple-stuffed broccoli and cheese potatoes (recipe: Sneaky Chef; This is one of our favorite potato recipes- it has pureed white bean and is the bomb!!)

Meat-eater's dinner (aka my husband): Steak, triple-stuffed potato, asparagus, sauteed onions, and a horseradish sauce. Inspired by all of the cooking, my husband devised his own herb steak rub.

Kids' cooking project, aka Dessert: Brownies. My husband wanted to make these with the kids, which was so cute. We had them with fresh strawberries, which were so sweet that they were gobbled before we remembered to take a picture. Always the creative thinker, my daughter suggested using a plastic strawberry from her play kitchen to use in the picture. ;)

Day Ninety-six

Mashed potatoes. These were my husband's doing.

Dinner: Lasagna (my grandma made this for Christmas, and sent it to us since we were sick) and steamed spinach.

Other dinner: Steak, steamed spinach, onion petals, and mashed potatoes. Who other than my husband would BBQ in the middle of a blizzard?!?

Day Seventy-nine

Maple spice muffins (Recipe: Doubly Delicious). These were really yummy.

Gingerbread house. We do one every year, and the girls love doing it, but they always try to eat it immediately afterwards.

Honey whole wheat bread- this one came right out of the bread machine. This is our favorite bread.


Dinner: Homemade chicken nuggets, which I made in the crockpot (recipe: Make it Fast, Cook it Slow), whole grain mac & cheese with cauliflower and yellow squash puree (recipe: Sneaky Chef), green beans, and clementines.

My husband was craving steak, so he BBQ'ed this for himself. I take no credit or responsibility for it.

Chicken soup with egg noodles- my daughter wanted this for lunch for tomorrow, so I let it simmer on the stove during the day and poured it into a thermos for the next day.