I am curious... here are my answers but I want to know yours.
What do you always have on hand? beans (in all their variety), sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, evap. milk, canned tomatoes, taco seasoning, spices of every kind, corn, cake mixes (for easy and fast cookies!), green chilies, salsa, flour, sugar, brown sugar
With these I can at least throw some kind of dessert or dinner together.
What one ingredient can you not live without? I am between cilantro, garlic, avacodos or green chilies...
What do you make for dinner when you are rushed on time? breakfast (waffles, pancakes, swedish pancakes), or mexican food (bean and cheese burritos (with only the cannery's dehydrated beans- they are SO good!), tacos, enchilada style burritos...)
What do you make for dinner when you haven't been to the store in 2 weeks or don't feel like cooking? same as above
I am really wondering what other people do at their house. Do you really always cook dinner? I sure don't. So what do you do on those days?
Monday, September 28, 2009
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Hmm, good questions.
We have very few of the things you have on hand! So what are your "staple" meals with those things?
What do you always have on hand?
rice, pasta, spag sauce, cream of chicken, black beans, diced tomatoes, taco seasoning, corn, salsa, pretty much all the basics for any baking.
This reminds me, I want that salsa/dip you made when we came. It was yummy!
What one ingredient can you not live without? I have no idea, salt. :) garlic I suppose.
What do you make for dinner when you are rushed on time? breakfast is a good one (waffles, pancakes, french toast, biscuits and gravy, breakfast burritos), we do what we call pasta and veggies... pasta and frozen veggies cooked in cream of chicken soup and chicken broth and garlic, frozen pizza, I don't know, I'm usually not rushed.
What do you make for dinner when you haven't been to the store in 2 weeks or don't feel like cooking? same as above or shane cooks, or he can pick up something on the way home from work.
I am really wondering what other people do at their house. Do you really always cook dinner?
Pretty much, I really always cook dinner. Well, Shane cooks some too. We maybe go out to eat once a month, maybe. And we usually have leftovers 1-2 times a month (depends on the meals, and we often eat leftovers at lunch instead). I don't know, what do you do if you don't cook? We plan a 2 week menu, shop for those 2 weeks and pretty much go by the menu, so yeah... I always cook.
no way! i'm impressed you always make dinner!
i actually PLAN on some really easy, quick throw together meals every week because I definitely get rushed. i do breakfast - which my kids love. they think i'm the best cook ever. who am i to argue? and bean/green chili/cheese burritos that I crisp in a skillet without oil. That makes it special without overdoing anything. fettuccine alfredo - the one from here - super easy and quick. and then spaghetti with the sauce from a jar. and my kids are in heaven. spencer will occasionally make a bean soup if it comes down to it. not that he won't cook, it's just not my fave.
i simply cannot live without garlic.
and i'm still working on getting stuff on hand after our move. i'm waiting for awesome sales. right now i have beans, tomato stuff, canned veggies, and brownies.
it seems like life is getting busier and i've been curious about what other do when they don't have time, or are just too tired.
I am way impressed that you always cook Sarah. And that you can shop for two weeks worth of groceries at a time. Wow! I guess when I say I don't cook it makes it sound like we don't eat, so I guess I do cook. But, if it isn't on the menu, is something unplanned, something scrounged that we just happen to have the ingredients for, and only took half and hour to prepare, I don't really count it as cooking. I guess I should plan on cooking easy things but I don't. I just make a menu with about 7-8 good meals and that will usually get us through 2 weeks. I usually have to run to the store for more milk or bread (if I don't make it) and produce. But I try not to buy more than the needed things and do one big grocery trip every other week. We usually do leftovers for lunch too but there is always a day or so where we don't need it (David has a lunch meeting at work) or the meal just made a lot so we will do leftovers, or something easy to cover us the rest of the time until I get to the store again.
And about the dip thing Sarah? Wasn't it just the black bean corn stuff? If so it is similiar to the recipe you posted (Black Bean Salsa) only we put avocado in instead of onion and lime juice instead of italian dressing. If that is not what we made (cuz I really don't remember) let me know.
Yep, that's it. I assumed that's all it was, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks. I want some, now. :)
I probably plan several easy meals and just don't think about it, but they are almost always planned out and we're usually prepared. Oh, and we usually have to make an extra trip for a few things here. Not always, but sometimes!
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