Accomplishments

Well, I accomplished quite a bit this week end. Daughter's room is almost cleaned up and set up for the new school year which starts tomorrow morning. Have made small head way on the mountains of laundry. We bought a new little cleaner sweeper to help with the floors. I still think a swiffer type jet mop would be better, but that is on the "maybe" list. Has anyone got an opinion about the swifters? I did the shopping for the household needs and bought a huge bill of groceries today. Mostly meat and veggies, but with the prices I found, I also picked up some convenience items for breakfast. A huge box of french toast sticks were 1.99 and I cannot make half as many for that amount.

Now, as for the menu around here. Have not gotten it completely worked out yet, will post the details when I do. As for the next few days though, here it is. Only supper, no one is really home for lunch.

Sun: Steak, grilled squash packs, grilled corn, Hawaiian rolls, carrot cake.
Mon: Carne asada, spanish rice,
Tue: Crock pot herb chicken, carrots, green beans, crescent rolls
Wed: Green Chile casserole, Sweet cornbread bake, brownies
Thu: Herbed Pork Chops, scalloped potatoes, brocolli
Fri: Sausage & rice dish

The carrot cake is called Decadent Carrot Cake and is a mix (Duncan Hines I think) which I had a coupon for and it was on sale. It is way to pricey other wise, but oldest son is coming over for supper tonight and it is about the only dessert he will eat. Both of my boys are not big sweet eaters, but do love buttermilk pie and brownies. The squash packs will cook on the grill as will the corn. The corn is a new recipe I am trying. The carne asada was on sale, as was some mesquite marinade. Californians don't know what mesquite is, except as chips in the BBQ store, but we are transplanted Texans so we know the real deal. At any rate, the package was enough for two meals, so I divided and bagged the meat with the marinade up and the one for tomorrow is in the fridge, the other one is in the freezer for next month. I did this with some other meat that I bought as well. Froze the portions in various kinds of marinade or seasonings. I just forgot to label them so it will truly be suprise dinner.

I need to go pull out the bundt cake I made to take to work from the oven and check on the final progress of youngest dear daughter on her room.