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A post-surgery menu plan

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Rockford is saying goodbye to his gallbladder early tomorrow morning. He’s a little bit concerned that it’ll forever affect his ability to eat fatty and fried foods, so he spent the weekend eating cheeseburgers, pizza and fried chicken just in case. We’ve stocked up on brothy soups for him, but I’ve also planned a rather bland menu for the week just in case he’s up for something more than soup.

Monday: ??
We have a good deal of running around to do this evening, so I’m guessing we’ll be eating out.

Tuesday: Lucky Charms?
I’m not sure whether or not Rockford will want to eat anything, and I’m happy eating cereal for dinner. The kids might demand more, though. We’ll see.

Wednesday: Baked chicken and rice
I bought Shake and Bake.

Thursday: Breakfast for dinner
Hopefully egg white omelets are an acceptable thing for someone without a gallbladder, because that’s what we’re having.

Friday: Poppyseed chicken casserole
It’s innocuous and delicious!

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

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Coming back from vacation is never easy

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We rented a cabin in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for the weekend — although “cabin” really doesn’t seem to be the appropriate word for a place that can comfortably house 16 people. We rode go-carts and played mini-golf and went to Dollywood and ate and ate and ate. And then we ate some more.

It was an utterly delightful weekend.

Today we are back to reality, which means that instead of having my sister-in-law’s homemade salsas and guacamole with a Mexican fiesta, we’ll be having omelets and the like. Ah, well. We’ll always have the NASCAR SpeedPark.

Monday: Omelets

Tuesday: Chicken sausages and mac & cheese

Wednesday: Spaghetti

Thursday: Cracker Barrel chicken

Friday: Cheeseburgers

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

Bandwagons, menu plan Monday

A menu plan in which I seek free food on my birthday

We had a delightful weekend.

Perry Mason, Mrs. Perry Mason and Perry Mason Jr. came over for trick-or-treating and other fun things all various and sundry. Pete was Darth Vader, so the Familia Mason decided to join his universe as Boba Fett, Obi Wan and Yoda. Rockford’s mother made Poppy a gorgeous Elsa dress, and I ordered a crocheted wig[ref]I wasn’t crazy about the quality, so I’m not going to link to it.[/ref] for her from Etsy. I’d expected to see a swarm of Elsi out there — the other family with whom we trick-or-treat had an Elsa, who roped her parents into being Anna and Kristof — but I only saw seven.

My favorite costume of the evening was the kid dressed as Weird Al Yankovich from the “Fat” video. I laughed loudly when he came strutting up the walk.

This is Birthday Week at our house. Rockford’s sister Mrs. Poppins celebrates today, mine is tomorrow, my dad’s is Wednesday and Pete’s is Friday. And yet there is a marked lack of cake on this week’s menu:

Monday: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Some warm and gooey sandwiches sound just right after the blustery weekend we had.
Tuesday: Ordering in
I’ll be taking advantage of all of the Free Thing on Your Birthday offers in town. Or rather, one of them. Probably a sandwich.
Wednesday: Date night
The kids will be having pizza. I don’t know what Rockford and I will be having.
Thursday: Sandwiches
So many sandwiches this week!
Friday: Lasagna
Pete requested a Garfield party for his birthday, so we’ll be having lasagna, garlic bread and salad. I’m pretty sure Garfield wouldn’t approve of the salad, though.

How was your weekend? Did you trick-or-treat? Do you have any candy left? Poppy had big ideas about the “Candy Fairy” coming and leaving her a gift in exchange for all of her candy, but that went out the window as soon as she organized her loot on the dining room table.

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