cook healthy dinners 5 days a week

cooking is the last thing on my mind. I will try to “provide” healthy dinners for hubby and eat healthy dinners myself, but if they are out of a freezer bag or box or if they are take-out, so be it.

Yummm . . . vegetarian chili, in keeping with my resolution to be a 3-day-a-week vegetarian. I’ll top it with a little cheese and add some Jiffy Corn Muffins if I have the mix.

and a casserole is in the fridge awaiting cooking!

The soup is turkey, bean, and rice, the casserole is turkey nooodle.

Chicken, onions, white beans, kidney beans, spices and tomatoes, all cooking in chicken broth!

Lovely!

You, the Owners Manual is chock full of good information and recipes. I find these quite good for healthy dinners.

I am going to alter this to four days a week, with leftovers on Wednesday. This past Wednsday, we had leftovers and I had an Internet-free morning before I went to work. I got so much done!

Made four dinners last week and leftovers one day. Two lessons learned . . . no round steak: it is the proverbial shoe leather. Lesson 2: No crock pot meals that require 47 steps and ask you to cut up chicken thighs. Ewwwwww!

Italian Sausage something-or-other in the crock pot.

Must get started.

I shopped yesterday for the week and have the ingredients for five healthy crock-pot meals ready to go!

I love eating real meals!

I subscribed to the Crock Pot Menu Mailer from menumailer.com. Crock-potting fits my shecdule—I have time in the mornings and work mostly afternoons and evenings.

Now, four healthy, yummy dinners may not seem like much, but I do not cook. For years, it’s been pizza, takeout, sandwiches, and frozen, heat-in-oven type things. Part of it has been pain-my feet have hurt too much to stand on. Part of it has been that I just hate cooking. Part of it has been just too much hassle with hubby-does not want to eat now, does not want this or that. My philosophy is, if I cook it, he can friggin’ well eat it and be grateful. Also, I wanted to cook when I got home and get it over with, he wanted to eat later.

Crock pot meals solve the problem. They are yummy, and we can eat whenever we like. Yay!