Monday: Chicken and black bean enchiladas

I was supposed to have a co-op meeting to go to last night, so I put these together yesterday afternoon. The meeting was canceled — hooray for canceled meetings! — and dinner was very simple to make.

Tuesday: Side-dish-apalooza

OK, fine, it’s just a box of potatoes and some frozen vegetables.

Wednesday: Baked mahi-mahi

I couldn’t find any tuna last week. Instead, I took a chance on some frozen mahi-mahi, and it was excellent. We’re having it again this week.

Thursday: Pizza

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Friday: Fettuccine Alfredo

Poppy loves fettuccine alfredo, so I’m going to teach her how to make it.

I’m linking this up with OrgJunkie.com’s weekly Menu Plan Monday thing.

Instead of writing a couple of blog posts last night — behind-the-blog secrets revealed! I write most of my posts in advance! — I watched the “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary special. I laughed ’til I cried several times. I regret nothing.

Monday: Sandwiches

We were planning to go out for sandwiches, but the weather is supposed to get nasty later today so we might have switch things around a bit. Or have PB&Js.

Tuesday: Breakfast for dinner

Ain’t no dinner like a breakfast-for-dinner ’cause a breakfast-for-dinner has omeletes.

Wednesday: Five-spice tuna

This is the second attempt at Eating Fish for Health. Last week’s grouper wasn’t a hit.

Thursday: Tortellini

At Poppy’s request.

Friday: Pizza

There’ve been a couple of things happening around here that have necessitated a change in my menu-planning operations.

The most fleeting change is Poppy and Rockford’s. They’re taking skiing lessons on Fridays, and they’ll probably be having dinner out afterward most weeks. This means that it’s just me and Pete having dinner at home, which could translate to a lot of cereal for dinner.

The second and longest-lasting issue came about after my annual checkup. Genetics bear part of the blame for my newly discovered high cholesterol, but I’m guessing at least 70 percent of it is due to my abiding love for cheese. My numbers aren’t insanely high, but they’re higher than they ought to be so my doctor said to start eating more fruits and vegetables, have fish twice a week, go easy on the eggs and cool it on the cheese.

Easier said than done, doc, but I’m working on it.

Monday: Pizza

Pizza on a Monday?!?! Have we been transported far, far away from the ButterscotchSundae universe? Nope. Pizza night was usurped by other things all weekend long, though, and Poppy really missed it. I’ll be having something light on the cheese and heavy on the veggies.

 

Tuesday: Festival of frozen

Pete chose chicken taquitos this week, Poppy is having pizza (again; I just realized this), and I’m having a kale-couscous-peanut thing.

 

Wednesday: Baked Grouper

I don’t like fish all that much, and I haven’t been able to tolerate the smell of it since the last time I was pregnant. I’m going to try to bake some filets this week. If the smell runs me out of the house, we’ll have to do it on the grill from here on out.

 

Thursday: Poppyseed chicken casserole

This definitely isn’t the healthiest of meals, but at least I bought the “heart healthy” cream of mushroom for it.

 

Friday: Leftovers, probably

Poppy and Rockford will be on the slopes again, so Pete and I will be on our own. There’s a good chance we’ll be having leftovers.

Last night we tried an excellent flank steak recipe from Good Housekeeping’s “Good Food for a Healthy Heart.” It was simple to make, and the marinade gave it a great flavor reminiscent of Mongolian beef. It’s going in the permanent rotation.

I’m linking this up with OrgJunkie.com’s weekly Menu Plan Monday thing.