Monday, Oasis buffet

On our way to the highway there is a Brazilian restaurant with a heaping buffet where you get stuff, weigh your plate, and pay by weight. (Occasionally their scale is way off in our favor, too - but I think it all averages out in the end.)

It was MLK day and there was no school and no work, we were doing errands, and to get a move on we decided to stop there instead of having lunch at home. It's quick, there is stuff each kid likes, and when you are starving everyone winds up eating before they can have too much of a tantrum. And it's tasty and inexpensive for restaurant food. K always eats Brazilian-BBQ-cooked steak and french fries and some fruit, I had a few stewy things from the hot part of the buffet and some salad, L ate everything in sight, and b had a smattering of a bunch of stuff and some grilled meats too.

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Green Monster

We had a very long night with E. last night, so lunch was kinda breakfast too. I had a "green monster, " which is much more appetizing than it sounds. Spinach, almond milk, flax seed, peanut butter, and a banana all run through the blender. Deliciously green and filling!

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Fish cakes, rice and peas

The fish cakes were a leftover invention - some polenta from yesterday's dinner, some already cooked fish scraps that came off the spine after making fish broth, an egg, salt+spices, and some flour, shallow-fried. One fish cake disappeared from the high chair and we looked all over for how L had managed to toss it into his seat or onto the ground.. but in fact, he had devoured it and got a second one.

Rice was going in the rice cooker and I added peas and a splash of wine partway through. Then I had to serve rice with peas carefully removed to K, who had her peas separately straight out of the freezer bag. But she did eat the fish cakes, insisting they were actually made of meat.

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Leftovers for me!

I had leftover shells stuffed with broccoli and ricotta. It's one of the freezer meals I put together before E. was born and it was pretty tasty for having sat in the freezer for a couple of months. I also had an extra 5 minutes, so I threw together a small spinach salad. Spinach, red onion, cucumber, and feta with a olive oil vinaigrette. The baby weight is going to come off, I'm determined!

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Leftovers, Lisa

Today the kids and I had leftovers. We had potatoes and carrots, fried (sauteed?) in a bit of cooking spray, and leftover pork roast chopped up as bbq. We also have a couple Cuties. I ate all of mine, The Bug and Bo Peep ate the pork and the cuties (the Bug also picked out and ate his carrots), and the Princess ate the Cuties.

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Thursday Lunch

To drop the couple of pounds I gained over Christmas-curses to all those yummy treats I enjoyed, like the homemade toffee my friend Barb sent me, I've vowed to eat a light lunch.  Today it was three juicy clementines. 

~michelle @ peaceful reader

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Leftover jumbalaya

I had leftovers. The kids had leftovers with a bagel and fresh pineapple. The Bug ate some of each. The Princess ate her bagel. Bo Peep wouldn't eat any of it.

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