Food for today

Breakfast was one of our standards -- store-bought O'Brien potatoes, sauteed with water, seasoned salt, and pepper. Eggs for the gang, none for me.

For lunch, I made a really decent fat-free coleslaw, but now someotherguy wants to use it as the veggie for dinner (he's making steak hash for himself and sogwife, I'm having barbecued Riblets, because I've been craving them, and that's what I wanted the cole slaw for). And now, of course, I have no idea what I'm having for lunch, but maybe just soup and crackers.

I'll post the recipe for the cole slaw once I get it into MasterCook.

Today, I'm hoping to spend some time doing some meal planning. I eat more veggies when I *plan* for more veggies, and I've really been craving fresh food, so no better time to try new recipes and stuff.

Next week, we start getting our organic produce box, too, so it'll be fun to find ways to use the variety of stuff we get.

Cole slaw

The recipe for the cole slaw is behind the cut. It was really good when freshly made, and I'll let you know how it is after it's chilled a while.

( Cole Slaw )

Dinner last night

The day before yesterday, I made rotini with a jar of Seeds of Change
organic kalamata-and-balsamic pasta sauce, found for $1.49 at the local
Grocery Outlet (I usually make my own sauce, but from time to time I
buy a jar of interesting-looking sauce if it's cheaper than it would
cost me to make). Well, half a jar. It was wayyyyy too sweet for us,
so yesterday I tried to do something with the other half that would tone
down the sweetness. I simmered it with garlic, black olives, basil,
red peppers, and maybe some other stuff. Drained spaghetti over some
fresh chopped spinach, and had it with the sauce over it.

Still too sweet. Darn. Not buying that brand again, even at that price.

I could post pics, but why? Pretty doesn't equal tasty. :-(

Product review: Health Valley Fat-free Soup, Lentil & Carrot

I usually make my own soups, but our local discount grocery store had
some Health Valley fat-free soups on sale for fifty cents a can, so I
went for it. And since someotherguy has, um, appropriated my cole
slaw for dinner, I needed a lunch idea. :-)

The soup is very good. someotherguy likes it a lot, too. (Vegan
alert: there's honey in it, but no other junk, and there's no fat.) There
are lots of veggies, and the broth is tomatoey and good. One can serves two
for a snack or one for a meal.

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Riblets Just so no one ever thinks that everything we eat is (a) healthy; (b) homemade; (c) unprocessed; or (d) pretty. :-) Clockwise from top right: fat-free vegan coleslaw, leftover curried lentils, Gardenburger Riblet

Yummy!

The people on rec.food.cooking would probably mock me for liking this, but someotherguy just made yummy hash out of some London Broil we got on sale last week. Not leftover steak, either -- straight from the fridge. SO good. I should've gotten a photo. It was pretty as well as tasty.

Snackage

Today's snacks have been uniformly yummy:

Peanut Butter Crunch cereal with soymilk
See's candies that sogwife brought home from her family's mother's day thing
Everything flatbread crackers (thanks to loracs for turning me on to these delights) with jarred "ratatouille" that's really more like caponata. SO yummy.
Grape juice

Yes, I'm a grazer. Life is lovely with a full cupboard. As they said at the May Day celebration, "May you never hunger."