well, for J only as he was away in China until tonight. Leftovers for the rest of us.
So we have had a somewhat frugal week, by which I mean I have done NO Shopping (for the first half of the week at least), using up bits and pieces out of the fridge and freezer wherever possible. I also managed to have two "0-yen" days, when I resisted the urge to go buy just some bread or whatever and we ate at home, with what we had. I made up for the lack of spending on those days with a dinner date and donuts, tho, lol!!
Mon: L - yoghurt and mango slices; K cereal
dinner - rice with shirasu for the kids; I had leftovers of kimche nabe
Tues: Breakfast - found some frozen bread, so toast all around ;)
lunch - pizza toast
me - leftovers
dinner - yakisoba
Wed : breakfast - cereal, blueberries,
lunch was out at a playdate. We slept in until 7:30am, so I only made snacks of peanut butter rolls (in tortillas, lol) and bought bento from the conbini.
Dinner - I relented to K's constant request and we had pizza at Saizeriya.
Thurs : breakfast was cereal for K, bubbles n' squeek for L (without the bubbles, or was that without the squeak? ok, all he had was fried potato and pumpkin, lol)
snack for K: salmon onigiri
Lunch : udon noodles after playgroup, banana
afternoon snack: donuts (naughty!!)
Dinner: vege pasta salad (to make up for the afternoon snack!?) with capsicum, asparagus, brocolli, mushrooms, onion and tinned tomato
Fri : b'fast - blueberries and apple for L
cereal for K
Lunch - tomatos, cucumber, cheese and soy beans for K
L and me - left over vege pasta salad with toasted tortilla (seriously good -- have never toasted them in the oven toaster before. What a fab idea!!)
Dinner - well, J got home and wanted his sushi fix, so we picked him up at the train station and headed straight to sushi-ro where K had 2 (plates of) prawn, 1 egg and a bowl of udon, L had 2 egg, some udon and a banana and J and I had the other 17 plates between us.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Fri 18th Feb
B'fast - L was awake at 6am, so he had a banana before anyone else even got up ;)
And I had 3 cups of tea(with real milk, of course), lol!
Raisin Bagel for me and K, then she followed up with a piece of toast with peanut butter.
Morning tea - apple
Lunch -
K: chicken and cheese s/w
L: cream cheese s/w, some chicken, pumpkin, carrot (if he got any in his mouth? there was a LOT on the floor...) and one quater of K' s/w that he stole of her plate, lol
ME: yummmmmy French cheese and coppa (is that what is it called, the nama-ham type stuff)
Afternoon snack - yoghurt would be good, I think ;)
Dinner: plans to do a 菜の花 and bacon pasta (maybe ペペロンチーノ） and fresh rye/white bread which is cooking up right now. Oh, and some cheese and ham, which has to be used by today - oh, the things we have to do ;P
And I had 3 cups of tea(with real milk, of course), lol!
Raisin Bagel for me and K, then she followed up with a piece of toast with peanut butter.
Morning tea - apple
Lunch -
K: chicken and cheese s/w
L: cream cheese s/w, some chicken, pumpkin, carrot (if he got any in his mouth? there was a LOT on the floor...) and one quater of K' s/w that he stole of her plate, lol
ME: yummmmmy French cheese and coppa (is that what is it called, the nama-ham type stuff)
Afternoon snack - yoghurt would be good, I think ;)
Dinner: plans to do a 菜の花 and bacon pasta (maybe ペペロンチーノ） and fresh rye/white bread which is cooking up right now. Oh, and some cheese and ham, which has to be used by today - oh, the things we have to do ;P
Thurs Feb 17th
B'fast - cereal for K (small bowl only)
- mango in yoghurt for L and me
Lunch - onigiri and anman
well, the story behind this is that K chucked a major wobbly at playgroup, screaming for udon about half-way through, putting her shoes on and attempting to leave.....not really sure why,, except maybe that I wasn't paying attention to her coz it my turn to run an activity. Oh, and maybe she was actually hungry, looking over what she had for b'fast, and no snack before playgroup, oops ;(. Anyway, we ended up with conbini bought lunch, eating it on the way home rather than our regular eat together after playgroup "date"
Dinner - Kimchi nabe for J and me. Pork, oysters, chinese cabbage, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, tofu, leek and udon.
K and L had grilled chicken, pumpkin, carrot, asparagus; and udon noodles.
- mango in yoghurt for L and me
Lunch - onigiri and anman
well, the story behind this is that K chucked a major wobbly at playgroup, screaming for udon about half-way through, putting her shoes on and attempting to leave.....not really sure why,, except maybe that I wasn't paying attention to her coz it my turn to run an activity. Oh, and maybe she was actually hungry, looking over what she had for b'fast, and no snack before playgroup, oops ;(. Anyway, we ended up with conbini bought lunch, eating it on the way home rather than our regular eat together after playgroup "date"
Dinner - Kimchi nabe for J and me. Pork, oysters, chinese cabbage, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, tofu, leek and udon.
K and L had grilled chicken, pumpkin, carrot, asparagus; and udon noodles.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Wed 16 feb
Bfast: sultana and cinnamon bagel toasted
L also had half a banana
Lunch: chicken (olive oil, paprika, oregano, basil); avocado
K also had cheese
L also had young corn, fried potato, spinach cheddar muffin
I got nothing coz they ate all the chicken lol is ok as I had a lovely chicken teriyaki pizza ice from breadshop when out for r's morning walk ( k got a custard cream bread in anpanman face shape)
Dinner: アジの干物, rice, nameko miso soup, potato salad (with asparagus), 冷奴, pumpkin and shimeji mushrooms in butter/こんぶつゆだし
L also had half a banana
Lunch: chicken (olive oil, paprika, oregano, basil); avocado
K also had cheese
L also had young corn, fried potato, spinach cheddar muffin
I got nothing coz they ate all the chicken lol is ok as I had a lovely chicken teriyaki pizza ice from breadshop when out for r's morning walk ( k got a custard cream bread in anpanman face shape)
Dinner: アジの干物, rice, nameko miso soup, potato salad (with asparagus), 冷奴, pumpkin and shimeji mushrooms in butter/こんぶつゆだし
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
a full day
This blog has mainly listed out dinners, as I know that I am not (what is the word I am looking for here??) enough to upload what we eat at each meal, each day, however recently I have been trying to make sure that L, and K for that matter, get a good balance of food, so I am gonna try to upload our full daily menu to analyse our eating habits/diet.
(does that paragraph make sense? brain not working, ready for bed...)
Tues Feb 15th
B'fast: spinach and cheese muffins (gee, they really are good!!)
Lunch: Chicken mince, onion, grated carrot, grated pumpkin, tinned tomato* "mac'n'cheese"
Well, am guessing it was like a mac'n'cheese, as I have never had it.
Simply fried up the chicken mince, onion, carrot and pumpkin in olive oil, then added half a tin of tomatoes, then cooked fusilli pasta then mixed in grated cheese.
Dinner: Seafood Thai curry with tumeric rice
Scallops, prawns, abalone, lotus root, carrot and young corn (It makes me laugh that I had all these ingredients in the house, lol!)
The kids had つるつるわかめ, fried potatoes and salmon-rice (L also tried out a corn, but I don't know how much of it he ate ;)
* I didn't intend to put tinned tomato in - still had a bit of tomato puree (in a glass bottle) which I threw into the chicken/vege mix, only to look at the rim of the bottle and see MOULD!! eeewww!! I was this close to throwing the whole thing out, but had nothing else for lunch, so I threw out the bits that had sauce on them (luckily I had tipped the sauce all in one spot, so it was easy to separate) and then used the small amount of un-tainted mix to make the new pasta sauce with tinned tomatoes.
(does that paragraph make sense? brain not working, ready for bed...)
Tues Feb 15th
B'fast: spinach and cheese muffins (gee, they really are good!!)
Lunch: Chicken mince, onion, grated carrot, grated pumpkin, tinned tomato* "mac'n'cheese"
Well, am guessing it was like a mac'n'cheese, as I have never had it.
Simply fried up the chicken mince, onion, carrot and pumpkin in olive oil, then added half a tin of tomatoes, then cooked fusilli pasta then mixed in grated cheese.
Dinner: Seafood Thai curry with tumeric rice
Scallops, prawns, abalone, lotus root, carrot and young corn (It makes me laugh that I had all these ingredients in the house, lol!)
The kids had つるつるわかめ, fried potatoes and salmon-rice (L also tried out a corn, but I don't know how much of it he ate ;)
* I didn't intend to put tinned tomato in - still had a bit of tomato puree (in a glass bottle) which I threw into the chicken/vege mix, only to look at the rim of the bottle and see MOULD!! eeewww!! I was this close to throwing the whole thing out, but had nothing else for lunch, so I threw out the bits that had sauce on them (luckily I had tipped the sauce all in one spot, so it was easy to separate) and then used the small amount of un-tainted mix to make the new pasta sauce with tinned tomatoes.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
mid Feb
Sun Feb - 6th buta no kakuni, rice, salad, hiyayakko with shirasu
Mon 7th - nabe :oysters, pork, chinese cabbage, japanese leek, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, tofu, shirataki..all very "white"
(lasagna for lunch -- hosted playdate)
Tues 8th - "wa": rice, salmon, leftover pork kakuni, renkon kinpira, 揚げだし豆腐, miso soup
Wed 9th - french bread, french cheese, french ham! ooh-la-la ;)
Thurs 10th - tinned spaghetti on toast (J had drinks after work)
Fri 11th - hotel dinner, Shimoda Prince Hotel, Izu Penninsula
Sat 12th - sukiyaki at PIL's
Sun 13th - ramen noodles, tonkotsu!!! (yay!)
Mon 14th - brown/white rice; さわらの西京焼き; pumpkin, mushroom, onion and spinach in oyster sauce; namako (sea cucumber); つるつるわかめ (something MIL was sucked into buying bought from TV-shopping, tastes ok, but kinda expensive)
Also made spinach and cheese muffins for the kids - YUM!!! followed this recipe, adding half an onion and garlic, as commentors suggested.
Mon 7th - nabe :oysters, pork, chinese cabbage, japanese leek, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, tofu, shirataki..all very "white"
(lasagna for lunch -- hosted playdate)
Tues 8th - "wa": rice, salmon, leftover pork kakuni, renkon kinpira, 揚げだし豆腐, miso soup
Wed 9th - french bread, french cheese, french ham! ooh-la-la ;)
Thurs 10th - tinned spaghetti on toast (J had drinks after work)
Fri 11th - hotel dinner, Shimoda Prince Hotel, Izu Penninsula
Sat 12th - sukiyaki at PIL's
Sun 13th - ramen noodles, tonkotsu!!! (yay!)
Mon 14th - brown/white rice; さわらの西京焼き; pumpkin, mushroom, onion and spinach in oyster sauce; namako (sea cucumber); つるつるわかめ (something MIL
Also made spinach and cheese muffins for the kids - YUM!!! followed this recipe, adding half an onion and garlic, as commentors suggested.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
what do you do for dinner, on a cold winter's night??
肉うどん, of course (!?)
While I had thought of doing a nabe, for the night before J goes away for a biz trip to France, I didn't have any pork, or plain fish and was weary of trying a nabe with beef (altho sukiyaki would have been nice, I don't think the beef we had was good enough for that!), so I went back to what I know - niku-udon, and threw in all the veges we have, so a nice fridge clean up to boot too.
Sliced beef with chinese cabbage, carrots, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, sliced daikon, Japanese leeks, and flavoured the broth with katsuo-dashi and konbu-tsuyu. Easy, peasy, but yummy.
While I had thought of doing a nabe, for the night before J goes away for a biz trip to France, I didn't have any pork, or plain fish and was weary of trying a nabe with beef (altho sukiyaki would have been nice, I don't think the beef we had was good enough for that!), so I went back to what I know - niku-udon, and threw in all the veges we have, so a nice fridge clean up to boot too.
Sliced beef with chinese cabbage, carrots, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, sliced daikon, Japanese leeks, and flavoured the broth with katsuo-dashi and konbu-tsuyu. Easy, peasy, but yummy.
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