As many of you saw, I posted a link to Groupon on my Facebook status the other day. For $29 you can get a 12 month subscription to emeals.com where you get dinner menus and shopping lists. For an entire year you get someone else to do this for you!
So, you don't get to pick your specific meals, or even change them around. You DO get to pick the type of eating you want to do. I chose Paleo for now - I wanted to see how it goes. Once a week for a year, I will get a menu emailed to me for 7 days of dinners and it will be accompanied by a shopping list. This means I will not have to spend hours finding recipes and putting all the ingredients together in a shopping list. Nope, I have people for that now. I am fancy.
This YOT, I am thankful for emeals.com for saving me so much time and money because I am ONLY buying what is on my list and it will be all used up in the 7 meals. For me, this is a glorious thing. Some might not like it because you lose a lot of the spontineity of what to have for dinner. Sure, you can have mean 6 on night 3 but that's about as crazy as it gets. See, for ME - that is what I need. In my case, if I am left to decide what to have for dinner, it will probably have to be picked up or delivered. This menu thing puts me in my place.
Plus, I made the choice of having menus for the family versus 2 people so we have leftovers for lunches! I'm smart like that.
Plus, great scott, my refigerator has never looked so healthy! Green is everywhere. (Usually that is the mold form the leftover crap we never eat so this is a HUGE improvement.)
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YOT 67 - Garlic, yeah, I said garlic
If you keep reading through the next post, you will see I have been cooking. Tonight, it was prepping for tomorrow's dinner when I realized what this YOT would be.
Tomorrow, we are having garlic chicken. This is a new recipe that can be cooked in the slow cooker (yippee!). It always amazes me the prep work that goes into slow cooker recipes. I mean, I thought that this was supposed to be so much simpler; apparently the actual COOKING is easier but the prep is the same most of the time.
Things were going along just fine; chicken went into the pot, wine and broth covered it. Next up, garlic. It's garlic, how hard can that be? Great Scott, it sucks! Three heads of garlic, separated into cloves and peeled. Peeling each clove is a lot of work! There are a lot of cloves in three heads of garlic.
Tonight, this small YOT, I am thankful for the jars of minced garlic! Oh yes, yes I am. Next time, I will read the recipe thoroughly and just substitute cloves of garlic for pre-done minced stuff that some amazing people did for me.
My hands stink (yeah, I will put lemon juice on them), by back hurts from standing up that whole time (yeah, I should have been sitting), the counter was a mess because that garlic peel goes everywhere.
This chicken better be damn good.
Tomorrow, we are having garlic chicken. This is a new recipe that can be cooked in the slow cooker (yippee!). It always amazes me the prep work that goes into slow cooker recipes. I mean, I thought that this was supposed to be so much simpler; apparently the actual COOKING is easier but the prep is the same most of the time.
Things were going along just fine; chicken went into the pot, wine and broth covered it. Next up, garlic. It's garlic, how hard can that be? Great Scott, it sucks! Three heads of garlic, separated into cloves and peeled. Peeling each clove is a lot of work! There are a lot of cloves in three heads of garlic.
Tonight, this small YOT, I am thankful for the jars of minced garlic! Oh yes, yes I am. Next time, I will read the recipe thoroughly and just substitute cloves of garlic for pre-done minced stuff that some amazing people did for me.
My hands stink (yeah, I will put lemon juice on them), by back hurts from standing up that whole time (yeah, I should have been sitting), the counter was a mess because that garlic peel goes everywhere.
This chicken better be damn good.
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