Foodie

[dancerjodi]

I've been frustrated with the awkwardness sometimes of packing a lunch (fitting what I want, carrying too much stuff) and have been keeping my eye out for a new cooler/lunchbag for work. I blog I've been reading about school lunches lately inspired me to order a kit from http://www.laptoplunches.com/. It arrived last night, very neat. It was fun (but also a challenge) to pack up for today. It's definitely easier to carry than my previous one, and made me think more about putting a balanced meal together.

It also reminded me that we are sorely lacking in easy/quick/healthy snack foods. And fruit. I need to get my shit together with meal planning before we have a baby to care for and worry about. :)

I also need to spend some time doing some bulk-cooking to freeze, but first things are first. We have a Thanksgiving dinner to plan for next week. There will only be 7 of us. I found a great recipe for a squash+carrot+sweet potato dish that I'm excited to try. I want to make my Gram's italian stuffing. Mom doesn't eat that, so I'd need a traditional stuffing. And then we'd need a white mashed potato, right? It is a lot of sides for only a couple of people. I'll do some kind of green veggie side for good measure, though Thanksgiving tends to stick in the whites/browns/reds in our house.

This talk is making me hungry.

Comments

[dawntreader]

it's making ME hungry!

what's Italian Stuffing and the difference between regular stuffing?

Italian stuffing

[dancer.livejournal.com]

It uses bread crumbs rather than bread. Has ground beef, sausage and pepperoni in it, along with italian seasonings, egg. And chopped/diced tomato. It is more of what you'd put in a meatball w/ pepperoni and breadcrumbs added. Very red! You would not want to put gravy on it.

I guess it was my great-grandmother's recipe, and I have 5 or 6 different versions of it I kind of pick the one that looks best for what I have on hand at home and for the amount of people I'm having over, and it usually comes out great!

Re: Italian stuffing

[dawntreader]

that sounds sooo good and i don't usually put gravy on my stuffing anyway.

[nepenthedreams]

You got time! The baby can't eat food for six months, and probably won't be eating what you're eating until about a year.

[omly.livejournal.com]

Love laptoplunches!

Laptop Lunches ROCK!

[dee-cee.livejournal.com]

I love, love, LOVE this system! All three of us use it, so when I pack lunches, it makes it so _much_ easier for all of us to have the same system. I'm going to be buying more containers so that we'll have enough to put one day's worth in the wash and I can make lunches the night before.