Day Four hundred and seven

Dinner: BBQ chicken, mashed sweet potatoes, steamed veggies, and an orange.

Dessert: Mini Marble Cake (recipe: Gluten Free in Five Minutes).

Day three hundred and ten

Breakfast: Blueberry pancakes (we tried a gluten-free mix that a friend gave us) with turkey sausage and oranges.

Dinner: Turkey burgers, brown rice penne mac and cheese (crockpot; Make it Fast, Cook it Slow), steamed broccoli, and fresh tomatoes and mozzarella. 

Day One hundred and fifty-six

Breakfast: Cream of wheat with strawberries and maple syrup.

Breakfast: Scrambled egg white with cheese.

Dinner: Mandarin apricot pork (crockpot; Recipe: Make it Fast, Cook it Slow) over whole grain spaghetti; steamed broccoli, and oranges. This looked and smelled so good but since I don't eat pork, I had to trust my family to enjoy it on my behalf. ;)

My daughter's plate, once the pork had been sliced and made kid-friendly.

Day One hundred and thirty-one

Purees for the freezer: Green puree (which is a blend of spinach, broccoli, and peas; Recipe: Sneaky Chef).

Mini drop-meatballs (turkey). Meatballs take me forever to make, so I decided to make seven lbs. worth and freeze for future use. Given the giant bowl of turkey I had in front of me, I decided to make them drop meatballs, and save myself some time. I bake them to save myself the extra time of frying, and also they're so much healthier.


Dinner: Magic wontons (which are just the turkey meatballs from above, wrapped in wonton wrappers and lightly pan-fried; Recipe: Sneaky Chef), steamed veggies, and oranges.

Day One hundred and thirteen

Snow day breakfast: Blintzes, turkey sausage, spinach and cheese eggs, and oranges. My husband shopped for and planned the breakfast, and the pancakes I planned to make were tabled for another day. Weekday snow days are always treated like holidays around here.

Vanilla yogurt. This goes from the pot to six jars, and cools in a water bath for a few hours in a cooler, ala the Frugal Girl.

Dinner: Potato and cheese soup garnished with shredded cheddar and light sour cream (crockpot: recipe: my friend Lynn, who now expects to be famous ;), leftover sliced grilled chicken from a few nights ago, cheddar drop biscuits (recipe: Cooking Light), vegetable medley, and fresh cantaloupe.

Day One hundred and five

Dinner: Turkey cheeseburgers topped with turkey bacon and sliced avocado, steamed veggies, steak fries, and oranges.