Monday: Grilled chicken tenders

Pete’s been asking for chicken for almost every meal lately. Maybe he’s not getting enough protein. Or maybe he just loves chicken.

Tuesday: Jason’s Deli

Free kids’ night! I don’t know what I’ll have, but I know it won’t be the Spicy Seafood Gumbo. I tried it last time, and it was not good.

Wednesday: Spaghetti

Possibly with meatballs. (But most likely not.)

Thursday: Eggs & veggie sausages

Have you tried Morningstar Farms veggie sausage links? You should. I don’t care for the texture of the patties so much, but the links are really good.

Friday: Pizza

We’re expecting a large and terrible snowstorm tomorrow. I’m very much in favor of the electricity staying on, but I have sandwich meats and bread on hand just in case. Here’s what I’m planning to make this week:

Monday: Salsa chicken

This “recipe” came from Rockford’s advisor/boss in graduate school. You take chicken breast halves, put them in the slow cooker and salsa over them. And then you cook them for 6 hours or so on low. They’re good over rice. I’m not expecting the power to fail until late in the day (if at all. please let’s make it not at all, but I’m planning to have the chicken cooked early anyway. I’ll reheat it if we have power. We’ll eat it cold otherwise.

Tuesday: Chicken tacos

This will be shredded chicken from yesterday’s leftovers, served with tortillas, cheese, sour cream and avocado. No lettuce, because I neglected to buy it.

Wednesday: Eggs & veggie sausages

Clearly, I’m counting on having power on Wednesday. Although I did make some just-in-case hardboiled eggs, so we could have hardboiled eggs and not-warm veggie sausages.

Thursday: Bean griddlecakes

Rockford scoffs at this, but I stand by their deliciousness.

Friday: Homemade pizza

So we are fine on the eating front if the power goes out for a day or so, but we still don’t have any non-electric source of heat (because, apparently, I do not learn). So I’m a bit worried about the Staying Warm factor. But I do have a plan or two in the event that we do lose heat.

Plan A! We would be to drive over to my in-laws’ house.

If the roads are too bad for that, though, we would have to go with Plan B. Which is probably a hair-brained scheme and has also earned the Scoff of Rockford, but I would appreciate your opinion nevertheless.

Plan B! I would set up a small tent in the living room, and we would camp out wearing warm clothing and blanketed in blankets until the electricity was restored. The theory being that the tent would retain our body heat, thus keeping it warmer in there than in the wide open expanse of house. (The house isn’t all that expansive, but it’s bigger than a tent.)

What do you think? Is Plan B an incredible idea or an incredibly stupid idea?