Foodie

food·ie

[foo-dee] 

–noun Slang .

a person keenly interested in food, especially in eating or cooking

*borrowed from dictionary.com

I think I may be turning into one of these.  I have never claimed to be a good cook or said that I love cooking or considered cooking a hobby.  Recently, however, my behaviors have been contrary to this.

I have been planning our menus for forever.  I'm just no good without a plan.  I have been doing it more recently in an effort to save money by only buying what we need and then actually cooking and eating all of what I have made.  I also know that with a plan, we are less likely to just pull through a drive-thru and eat junk.

I visit and read several blogs to plan our menu each week.  I must say that it has become my favorite Saturday morning activity (I think that statement alone makes me qualify as a foodie).  What I have realized is alot of these bloggers are simply borrowing from other blogs.  I have also realized that some people just do a little tweak to a recipe and Voila! they have a whole new recipe.  I guess I am experimenting with some recipe tweaking and going completely off the recipe to do what I feel led (another statement that a foodie would make).  With all of that being said, here is our menu from last week.

Sunday-sandwiches and chips

Monday-chicken and rice soup (super easy and ymmy: throw chicken breasts, carrots, celery, salt, and pepper in the crock pot with chicken broth~cook all day~cook some rice and throw it in there right before serving~stir it all up and enjoy)

Tuesday-Teriyaki Chicken and vegetables 

Wednesday-Meatloaf (from the kraftfoods.com but I do it for memory now) and brown rice

Thursday-Chicken Crescents and Swiss Potato Cups (I renamed the potato dish because the other name was boring)

Friday-Chick-fil-A night

Saturday-Lasagna-Stuff Garlic Bread (this makes a ton for two people and I could not get all of the stuffing to fit in the number of crescent rolls recommended.  Despite all of that, it's a keeper.)

• SE's favorite: I have a tie between chicken and rice soup because it was so homey feeling and chicken crescents because they were super yummy and I have all of the ingredients on hand all of the time.
• Jeff's favorite: Can't tell you right now because he is snoozing after spending all night working and all morning and afternoon awake.  That is a post for another day :)