Cheap & Cheerful Suppers the Last Week of February

This week went by in a blur, so I'll try to remember what we had for dinner each night. What I do know is that it was frugal. I wouldn't have had time to rush out for takeaway meals.

Friday

• turkey, vegetable and barley soup
• toasted cheese sandwiches
• orange wedges

Saturday
husband's night to cook

• wrap sandwiches
• carrots and celery sticks and bleu cheese dressing

Sunday

This was the night that we had leftovers from the fundraiser that I work.

• leftover assorted sandwiches
• leftover chips
• leftover fruit salad
• tossed salad made from leftover lettuce, cucumber slices and half of a tomato, topped with bleu cheese dressing
• a mix of the leftover egg salad, potato salad and cole slaw
• leftover cookies

Monday

• egg salad sandwiches
• soup from the freezer, turkey, vegetable and barley
• bananas

Tuesday

• soft tacos, made with 1 chicken breast, cooked onions, lettuce, black beans and salsa (really yummy!)
• canned corn
• cookies -- those jam-filled ones that I shower to you earlier this week

Wednesday

• black bean and lentil soup
• cheese quesadillas
• tossed salad (lettuce, cucumber slices, olives, bleu cheese dressing)
• cookies

Thursday

• pancakes, with real maple syrup (a treat that we are enjoying tremendously)
• scrambled eggs
• pumpkin souffle (I had canned pumpkin in the fridge needing using, and this sounded good with what else was planned)
• blackberry-rhubarb sauce from the freezer

I made it through the week. My back hurts from hunching over papers, as I edited. I'm exhausted and just want to go for a vacation on a tropical island. But I'm not quite done. I have to put together a portfolio for review. Guess what I'll be doing this weekend?

Besides that, my one daughter comes home tomorrow morning. I'll be picking her up, with my other daughter with me. The three of us will do our galentine's thing, Saturday AM. We missed it on Valentine's, but aren't going to let this opportunity slip away from us. 

This past week, I think one of the tastiest things that I ate were the soft tacos. I'm usually not a big fan of flour tortilla tacos, preferring the texture of corn tortillas, but those chicken tacos were delicious. They were a hybrid between soft tacos and fajitas. We didn't add cheese, or sour cream or any usual taco toppings, but had the lettuce, olives, black beans, along with strips of cooked chicken and grilled onions. If I had had any peppers in the house, those would have made the tacos over the top!

This next week, I will finally have time to cook from scratch, again. As it happens, there is now room in the freezer for some prepared meals and soups. So, I'll get busy on the casserole-making and soup simmering. I've enjoyed not having to cook as much this winter.

The other thing that I am really looking forward to is flowers. Who else is ready for spring? I still have crocus bulbs in the fridge that need planting out. It shouldn't be too late. And I need to get started on some seeds this week. Oh, and then there's taxes. It is looking like a busy couple of weeks, but a nice change from everything that I've been working on.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend!