Day Nineteen

Zucchini carrot apple bread (recipe: Cooking Light). Thanks to Karen S. for the zucchini- one of these breads is for you! :)

Dinner: Ciabatta bread (dough made in bread machine).

Dinner: Tortellini Florentine soup (crockpot. Recipe from my friend Janna, who nabbed this from the Southern Living Slow Cooker Cookbook), and cut up honeydew.

Day Eighteen

Dinner: Chicken Tetrazzini (crockpot) over egg noodles, lima beans, and fruit salad.

Day Seventeen

Dinner: Turkey meatloaf (with shredded zucchini- thanks to Karen S. for the zucchini!!) with brown gravy, roasted potatoes in olive oil and fresh rosemary, roasted cauliflower, and cantaloupe. Usually I like do to green beans w/meatloaf, but we were out.

Day Sixteen

Dinner: Chinese chicken and vegetables (broccoli, zucchini, carrots, and mushrooms) in a brown sauce over rice, and sliced apples.

Day Fifteen

Breakfast: Whole wheat banana sweet potato waffles (recipe: Sneaky Chef) and fruit salad.

Dinner: Pizza (from Sam's Club) enhanced with fresh broccoli and mushrooms, a side salad (thanks to Karen S. for the cucumber from her garden!!), and sliced apples.

Dessert: White chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies (recipe: Annabel Karmel). My daughter wanted to have a "birthday party" for her hedgehog puppet.

Day Fourteen

Breakfast: Whole wheat mini-bagels and fruit salad. My daughter wanted a smiley face. :)

Breakfast: Smoothies. Homemade yogurt, nectarines, blueberries, and bananas, with a splash of honey.


Dinner: A beautiful basil-sundried tomato-parmesan orzo salad, which my husband made for us to bring to a BBQ at a friend's, but forgot to photograph. I'l leave it to the imagination ;)

Day Thirteen

Dinner: Whole wheat french bread. The dough is a bread machine recipe- pretty easy.

Dinner: Farmer's market lasagna (recipe: Parents magazine). Whole wheat lasagna noodles, part-skim ricotta and mozzarella, spinach, diced zucchini, yellow squash, red peppers, and shredded carrot. This made enough for two nights' worth of dinner... hooray!

Dinner: Mango chunks and blueberries.

Day Twelve

Vanilla yogurt. Very easy to make, using the Frugal Girl's cooler method.

Dinner: Big Salad. Romaine lettuce, chickpeas, sliced egg, zucchini, cucumber, carrots, and red peppers.

Day Eleven

Whole wheat rolls. I'll forever be indebted to my friend Sarah H. for this recipe. The dough is a bread machine recipe; very easy.

Dinner: Pulled Chicken (crockpot) in a homemade BBQ sauce (Sneaky Chef- pureed sweet potato), whole wheat rolls, steamed broccoli, and sliced pears.

Day Ten

Dinner: Salmon in a Japanese glaze, spinach salad, rosemary olive oil bread, and a three-cheese sauce.

Day Nine

Dinner: Turkey cheeseburgers with shredded yellow squash and zucchini mixed in, steamed cauliflower, tortellini with vodka sauce, and fruit salad.

Day Eight

Apparently taking pictures of our food has become a way of life around here. After dinner tonight, the girls were fooling around with the camera, and pretending to take pictures of imaginary dinners. Lol.

Dinner: Broccoli and cheese quiche in a whole wheat crust, whole wheat yogurt strawberry muffins, and cantaloupe.

Day Seven

Dinner: Turkey Veggie Bolagnese (recipe: Annabel Karmel; ground turkey, and diced tomatoes, onions, zucchini, carrots, and red peppers, over fettuccine).

Dinner: Honeydew trains

Day Six

I did not take into account that when my younger daughter looked at her teddy bear burger, her first reaction would be, "don't cut off his ears!!!" Oops. But, she went on to finish the whole burger, which is quite unusual for her.

Dinner: Chicken apple teddy bear burgers, homemade whole wheat mac & cheese (with pureed cauliflower), steamed mini broccoli and carrots, sliced strawberries.

Teddy bear burger recipe from Family Favorite Meals (Annabel Karmel)

Mac & cheese recipe from Sneaky Chef to the Rescue (Missy Chase Lapin)

Day Five

Dinner: Hungarian turkey goulash over egg noodles (crockpot), Parmesan spinach, and fruit salad.