What are you having for dinner? 2.0

davina61 · December 31, 2017, 05:59:41 PM

coconut chicken curry with neea doesa (think that's how its spelt) rice and coconut pancakes

natalie.ashlyne · December 31, 2017, 07:17:52 PM

Cabbage soup

Steph Eigen · January 01, 2018, 05:27:21 PM

Last night: roasted root vegetables, Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, strip sirloin steaks with ruby port reduction; A nice Napa Cab to go with it. Toasted the New Year with very nice Prosecco. A good time had by all. I'm the chef in the house.

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V M · January 01, 2018, 05:35:25 PM

Last night was one of my Calif. burritos and a side of fries

I was kinda bummed because I was out of olives though $:-\$
I usually have mushrooms, onions and olives with almost everything

V M · January 01, 2018, 08:41:41 PM

Tonight is Pollo Bonavita rigate al porto

Cassi · January 01, 2018, 08:46:59 PM

Eye B hav'n Katfish, mashed patatoes and pepper gravy

V M · January 01, 2018, 11:05:14 PM

Quote from: V M on January 01, 2018, 08:41:41 PM
~~Tonight is Pollo Bonavita rigate al porto~~

Scratch that, I needed to pick up a few things but the grocery was closed so now I'm having a meatball sandwich from Subway

Thea · January 02, 2018, 08:33:02 AM

What am I having for dinner, indeed.

I work in retail management and during the holiday season pretty much all I do is work and sleep, no time for shopping or cooking. I am sick to death of frozen burritos!

I want someone to do it all for me, but that ain't happening. Does anyone know of software (free) or an online service (again, free) that I can use to plan meals in advance and make up shopping lists? That seems like the next best thing.

Julia1996 · January 02, 2018, 08:38:34 AM

I was planning to make the German new year dinner my dad likes but everyone ended up eating the snack stuff I made. I made buffalo wings, Philly cheese steak sliders, bacon wrapped jalapeño popers and nachos. Everyone had eaten so much of that stuff during the day that no one was hungry at dinner time. I ended up not having to cook dinner which was nice.

Julia1996 · January 02, 2018, 08:47:23 AM

Quote from: Thea on January 02, 2018, 08:33:02 AM
What am I having for dinner, indeed.

I work in retail management and during the holiday season pretty much all I do is work and sleep, no time for shopping or cooking. I am sick to death of frozen burritos!

I want someone to do it all for me, but that ain't happening. Does anyone know of software (free) or an online service (again, free) that I can use to plan meals in advance and make up shopping lists? That seems like the next best thing.

You could make your own frozen dinners. I do that in case I can't or don't want to cook and because my brother sometimes gets hungry between meals but he totally hates storebought frozen dinners.When you get a day off cook 2 or 3 meals you like and put serving portions in freezer trays and freeze them. You can get a bunch of freezer trays with 3-4 compartments pretty cheap at Walmart. Then when you get home from work just microwave it. I don't use any kind of app to plan dinners. I just decide what I want to make and then write down all the ingredients I will need for each meal. I do that by the week but you could do it by the month if you wanted to.

MollyPants · January 02, 2018, 08:47:36 AM

Pea and ham soup from the freezer. We've pretty given up on shopping over Christmas x

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Roll · January 02, 2018, 10:24:14 AM

Leftovers. All leftovers, all the time. Sick of leftovers.

Julia1996 · January 02, 2018, 10:37:37 AM

Quote from: Roll on January 02, 2018, 10:24:14 AM
Leftovers. All leftovers, all the time. Sick of leftovers.

Leftovers? I've heard of leftovers but with my brother around and Tristan being here a lot I've never actually seen leftovers. Lol

Cassi · January 02, 2018, 11:08:48 AM

Leftovers are second cousins to Hangovers.

Julia1996 · January 02, 2018, 11:16:52 AM

I've seen hangovers a couple of times. My dad doesn't drink very much but I saw him with a hangover once. He was so miserable! What could drinking possibly offer that would be worth a hangover?

That's just nuts to me.

Thea · January 02, 2018, 11:50:03 AM

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 02, 2018, 08:47:23 AM
You could make your own frozen dinners. I do that in case I can't or don't want to cook and because my brother sometimes gets hungry between meals but he totally hates storebought frozen dinners.When you get a day off cook 2 or 3 meals you like and put serving portions in freezer trays and freeze them. You can get a bunch of freezer trays with 3-4 compartments pretty cheap at Walmart. Then when you get home from work just microwave it. I don't use any kind of app to plan dinners. I just decide what I want to make and then write down all the ingredients I will need for each meal. I do that by the week but you could do it by the month if you wanted to.

Thanks Julia.
I have made casseroles and slow cooker dishes and frozen them when I had time.
My biggest issue is with guessing what I'm going to want later.
I'll just have to be less lazy, I guess.