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Friday, July 16, 2021

Cheap & Cheerful Menus for a July Week

This has been my breakfast every morning
 for the last 10 days -- plain yogurt,
fresh raspberries, and honey. Yum!

Another week of all home-cooked meals.  I feel like this may sound dull to someone else. However, I've discovered that I really like our own home-cooking.

In the garden this week, we've been harvesting lots of raspberries, some blueberries, the rest of the cherries and strawberries, some red and black currants, salad greens, kale, turnips, garlic scapes, chives, Swiss chard, beet greens, grape leaves, lavender, oregano, and zucchini.

Cheap and cheerful pretty much describes this past week's meals. Here's what we ate:

Breakfasts
homemade plain yogurt with raspberries and honey, toasted o's cereal,  toasted homemade bread, eggs, cheese, peanut butter, dried fruit, bananas, milk, juice, coffee, tea

Lunches
hummus, crackers, mixed garden green salads, cheese sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, berries, carrots sticks, celery sticks, bananas, juice, lemonade, cookies

Dinners
Friday
homemade pepperoni pizza, stuffed grape leaves, strawberries, sorbet

Saturday
sandwiches, canned green beans, cookies

Sunday
bean and cheese enchiladas, pickled beet salad, watermelon, cookies

Monday
eggs with chives, brown rice and chicken stock gravy, sautéed zucchini, roasted turnips, sautéed turnip greens and garlic scapes, watermelon

Tuesday
hummus, crackers, raw veggies, sautéed Swiss chard, watermelon, cookies

Wednesday
hotdog cookout, mixed vegetable salad, pasta salad, watermelon

Thursday
beef, beet green, cabbage, chives and sesame stir fry, brown rice, fruit cup of blueberries, raspberries, and banana slices, cookies


It was a busy week for me, so meals were simplified as much as possible. It's Friday, so tonight's dinner has been predetermined -- homemade pizza and a movie.

How about you? What's was on your menu this past week?
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