Memes and meal plans

I'll get to the memes but I wanted to share this first. I have stopped posting recipes on here simply because I stopped innovating and caring in the kitchen. I don't know when that happened...I think it was after Wells was born that I originally fell into a slump. That went away and then when I went back to work in 2021 and was pregnant and had a baby in 2022, I really lost all desire to try. The last two years especially have been survival mode with groceries and dinner and I even used meal kits on and off in order to find any kind of inspiration. 

Now, being home all day with two kids lends to a lot of assembling and cooking of meals and snacks. 

I had a conversation with someone a month or so ago that was about how people literally do not know how to cook anymore. Like, they can't do it because they don't care, no one taught them, or convenience foods are so easy to buy that they never *have to* cook. 

So while I have a lot of thoughts and opinions on how supplemental nutrition programs are working and have worked in the past, I can say that we all, as people in the 2020s, just don't cook anymore. Hopefully, this can give a little inspiration. It's not hard. You just have to think farther than a few hours ahead and we, as a people in the 2020s, aren't great at that either. 

Here's what I spent on food in October and where I spent it: $910 total but I did that in my head so feel free to check the math. 

And here's my meal-planning over the last two weeks:

Here's some links:

Lasagna Soup

Mongolian Beef

Marry Me Chicken Soup

Chicken Taco Soup (I have been making this since 2012 and it freezes super well)

This was the "mac and cheese" up there. 

For what it's worth, the nuggets and fries nights were nights it was just me and the kids because it leaves no leftovers and when Scott isn't here, I spend all my time eating leftovers. (I do not make my own fries or my own chicken nuggets because I hate breading chicken. Everything else was homemade.)

I bought "barrel leg" sweatpants and "stovepipe" jeans last week. We'll see if they work. 

These are absolutely my favorite kind of movies but the description is exactly right.

I'm coming off of 3 weeks of solo parenting and these are spot on:

Wells has, more than once said, "you have no idea how tired I am" which has made me say, "I was tired before you were born and you were ready to be born in the middle of the night, which means, I literally haven't slept a full night since before you were born".

I can count on both hands the number of times I've taken Sutton to daycare and asked them to flip her clothes around and please fix her hair after Scott got her ready for school and put her in the car for me lol. 

Wells tells Sutton a lot: "we wouldn't even be here if it weren't for mom"

I haven't been skiing since high school. Worst experience ever. I actually had better luck at snowboarding but it wasn't great enough that I'd ever try again. 

How I feel at a homeschool co-op: