Like I’ve said, breakfast (1/2 an English muffin with peanut butter for me) and lunch (yogurt and an apple for me) are pretty much always the same. Tonight’s dinner was another mish-mash since hubby was working again. He had melted cheese sandwiches, a banana, and some cheese danish. The kids and I had baked beans and the rest of the cheese danish.  I know totally not balanced nor healthy.  As a side note – our church gets day-old bread to share and we rarely need to buy bread any more.  The cheese danish was in the last delivery of day-old bread.

Does anyone else add brown sugar to their beans? Even though they come with brown sugar already in them?

I had hard boiled eggs in the fridge because it just isn’t Easter without coloring eggs. We ate some of them at Easter dinner, but the rest of them needed to be dealt with.

My daughter helped me shuck them and she was tickled when one of them peeled so nicely!

My father-in-law makes delicious deviled eggs and he told me his secret is adding some finely diced pickles or relish. I just happened to have some relish hanging around and it needed to be used up, so into the eggs it went.

Mmmmm!! So good! A healthy snack for a few days. At least two of my kids will eat them.

Around here, breakfast and lunch are pretty much the same everyday – makes it easy for me!  Dinner is usually where things fall apart.  Some weeks I’m really good about meal planning and then making a list and doing the shopping.  Weeks like that are so easy!  For some reason though, I’m not consistent.  I’m not sure what happened when I shopped last, but I apparently only did one week worth of meals instead of two.  Hmmm…  So, dinner last night was a mish-mash.  Hubby had to work his second job which means he leaves before dinner time.  He had a couple peanut butter sandwiches, a couple hot dogs, and a banana.  I had an apple salad and the kids had breakfast for dinner (I love when they do that – they can make everything with very little help).  I also finished up my vegetable broth.  I blended some of the veggies in and strained the rest out.  I was afraid it would be too much if I did all of them.  The house smelled so good while it was cooking!!

When I checked out one of my favorite blogs today, I noticed that she was issuing an eat from your pantry challenge. This seemed like perfect timing for me.  Grocery day is this Friday and I always try to use up what I have before going shopping.  Sometimes it means eating leftovers, sometimes it means getting creative or sometimes both.  I found some veggies languishing in my fridge drawer and pantry.

I chopped them up and tossed them in a pot of water.  Don’t worry, I only used one clove of the garlic!

At the very least I’ll have some delicious vegetable broth that I can use to make a meal or two.   I’m thinking some of it will go in a potato leek soup I want to try my hand at making.