Dinner brain dead that is. Last week's menu was Pizza, Tacos, Spaghetti, Meatloaf. May as well have been Dull, Mundane, Boring, and Not Again!
Truly, I have been so out of ideas. I had been "Ad Shopping", as in, when the weekly ad came out, I made a menu around what was on sale. That got me by for a little while.
So I am a huge Dave Ramsey fan...we used his plan to get out of debt. E-Mealz is advertised on his show and I had thought about signing up. But what spurred me on was talking to a co-worker and hearing she is signed up for a similar menu service and loving it. So I signed up for E-Mealz and we are loving it! For a buck and a quarter a week, the menu is planned and the grocery list made. It is two pages...page 1 is the weekly menu with the recipes right there, and page 2 is the grocery list. All the meals have been good and the amount of prep and time to make pretty easy. Maybe eventually I'll get my dinner mojo back, but for now this has been a life saver!
In other news, the Guineas have started a nest! It is not in the coop...it is between the duck house and creek in a bramble of fallen tree branch. Our plan is to keep an eye on it and when she has a full clutch and starts sitting...move her and the nest to a confined area. Last count she had 13 eggs. And she is not sitting on it yet, so it is not time. Hopefully this will go according to plan and we'll have Guinea Keets someday!
Oh, and we have a pregnant cat. She's not a very friendly cat so all kinds of questions come to mind...like will she be a good mom? Will her babies be friendly? WILL SHE LET ME PLAY WITH HER NEWBORNS?!?!?! I hope so! :) We are getting her spayed after this litter, which is her first litter.
Garden is well under way. Onions are growing, Potatoes should be sprouting any time now, and the first succession of Carrots, Spinach, Chard, and Lettuce seeds are in. My Tomato, Pepper, Ground Cherry, and Broccoli plants are in the process of hardening off. It is a pain in the rear to drag them in at night and out of the house in the morning, but I keep telling myself it won't be long now! We have had an amazingly mild and warm spring. I am getting ready to start Melons, Pumpkins, and Squash seeds. I will start them outdoors in flats - they'll stay outside during the day and come in at night. A lot of people around here are planting warmer season stuff already....I am still leery so I am sticking with my original timing schedule.
That is about it for now! How's it going in your neck of the woods?
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I'm with you on the gardening... I'm waiting. It is so tempting but, I'm still waiting! I'm glad to hear you like the e-mealz. I looked in to it but my husband and I are both so picky in different ways that I don't think we would eat a lot of it. Does is use sale items too? I thought I heard that.
ReplyDeleteJena...most of the plans do use the sale ads...since I picked the Wal-mart plan it doesn't since they don't have ads. We have tried some new recipes through this and all liked them! Even things we weren't sure we'd like! :)
ReplyDeleteall very exciting stuff!
ReplyDeletewhat are you doing with potatoes?
i want to plant this this year but it's so rocky here i don't think they'd grow--i though about trying to grow them in a straw bale...how are you sprouting them? can i use organic ones from the store? they sprout
guineas...we have lost a few to dogs lately..i'm very sad...and the rest are laying low--can't blame them--my husband says they are nesting....we'll see
will you take over the babies into a heat lamp if/when they come back?
i heard you can't let a guinea raise their own or they'll kill them all
glad you found some new/easy recipes!!