A Peek in My Cart - May 25 - 31

This was a fairly typical week, lots of work and other activities going on. On Saturday I made poor eating choices and experienced the consequences on Sunday.

Monday - Leftover night. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Some people may hate leftover night but I love it.

Tuesday - pizza. We buy frozen balls of dough from First Ravioli on Commerical Drive. Take the dough out of the freezer in the morning, remove it from it's bag and place on a floured surface, covered by a floured tea towel. By dinner time it has defrosted and risen. Just, roll out the dough and top with what you love. Today's pizza included tomato sauce, bell peppers, mushrooms, olives, sundried tomatoes, and salami on W's half. Top with cheese and bake in the oven at 400 degrees until the crust is golden and the cheese bubbling.

We ate half the pizza tonight and have half leftover for lunch tomorrow.

Wednesday - spinach & cheese canneloni. This is a prepared dish that we keep on hand in the freezer. It's W's turn to cook and he has lots of work to do this evening. So, he pulls the canneloni out of the freezer, tops it with jarred tomato sauce and pops it into the oven. He serves it with a chopped salad - what's in the crisper: mushrooms, carrots, celery, and cabbage. I like my chopped salad with a creamy dressing so we use the store-bought ranch. The salad does take some time to make - chopping all those veggies. So, he makes extra that we can eat over the next few days. We don't dress that salad so that it'll stay fresher longer.

Thursday - "meat" with rice and asparagus. W grills lamb chops and I have a veggie patty.

We make extra for leftovers.

Friday - BBQ at a friends' place.

Saturday - no dinner, snacking only. Tonight was a great example of poor planning. After a full day workshop W and I spin by a friends' place to say hello. We haven't brought any food and I get really hungry. So I fill up on what's on-hand: potato chips. Later I'm not hungry for dinner. W fends for himself (I'm not sure what he ate). Sunday morning I have no energy for my trail run, cutting it short from 10km to 5km. Ugh.

Sunday - Sushi and edamame. I'm tired of looking at the nori sheets and pickled ginger in my cupboard and fridge so we buy some avocado, cucumber, and imitation crab meat and make sushi. A little preparation before hand to make and cool the rice, otherwise it's a fun and fast meal. While we're rolling our sushi, I steam the edamame. It's a great meal on a hot day.

We have extra filler and no more rice so I mix the cucumber, avocado, and imitation crab together. Top it with shredded nori and we eat this on top of rye crackers for lunch on Monday.