After our busy kitchen day yesterday, we took it easy today.  Of course, we still kept busy around the house.  I have been desperately trying to organize the house, and so have been tackling one area of the house at a time.  I am thrilled to have finally finished my multi-day project of my daughter’s toys tonight!

Okay, so back to the kitchen talk…

For breakfast, we again had those yellow box waffles.  Poor, poor kids.  Except me, I had something else.  Something a whole lot more like leftover oatmeal cookies.  (There’s oatmeal in them, right?  Perfect for breakfast!)

Lunch found me deeply involved in my decluttering, and so when one of the kids said, “Can we have Pizza Rolls for lunch?” I said, “Well — why not?”  I think there might be something very wrong about serving the kids Pizza Rolls and organic yogurt.  But, they enjoyed it.  (I had some of our leftover fruit from last night as my side item.)

Dinner was another quickie, with a dish that we have always called Gulash.  It’s just a box of elbow macaroni, a pound of browned ground beef, and three cans of tomato soup.  (My husband likes to sprinkle parmesan cheese on top, and so all of the kids have joined in too.)  My picky kids love it, and I figure if I’m using lower fat content ground beef, whole grain pasta, and low sodium tomato soup, then it can’t be entirely bad, right?  For whatever reason, it’s also a rule (since my childhood) to have bread and butter with it.  Of course, when I was a kid, we had very, very white bread.  But, now we have whole grain wheat bread.

Even with all of the changes though, eating this dish still reminds me of when my Mom was cooking for a house full of kids and we all ate dinner together just about every night.  Isn’t it funny how food can bring back so many memories?

Hopefully tomorrow’s meals will be a bit more inspiring.  But, then again, they may not be.  We’ll just have to wait and see, huh?

See you in the kitchen again tomorrow!

Angie @ Many Little Blessings

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