Sunday, April 17, 2011

Small Step #1

We have a confession. We like food. A lot. Another confession: I don't always feel like cooking. With Bobby's inconsistent hours sometimes it's hard to feel motivated to plan a meal that there might not be time to make. What do we result to? Eating out. Oof.

So last week, we decided to set a goal. We want to limit ourselves to eating out only once each week. That may not seem like a big deal to most people, but because we both work full time, a nice home-cooked meal isn't always on the menu. I'm happy to say that week one was a success! We used our eat-out of the week last Sunday when my mom was in town. Nowhere fancy, but we'd been wanting to try a sandwich place in town and it was well worth it. I think it was better to head into the week with a concrete goal: we will eat AT HOME every night this week.

We still had a couple of nights where we were scouring our pantry trying to figure out what to eat. Solution: panini and soup night. We both eat sandwiches every day for lunch so when we first thought, "let's try paninis," it's safe to say neither of us were super excited. Let me be the first to say, it is amazing what grilling a sandwich can do. Dinner took five minutes, and I whipped up a nice carrot soup while we were at it. Granted, the soup took a little longer, but we had our sandwiches and waited for our HUGE carrots from the farmers market to cook all the way. The soup was a hit for me, not so much for Bobby but at 72 calories per bowl I will definitely be making it again (even if it's only one portion).

This was such an easy solution on a night we were tempted to go out to dinner for the ease and time it would save. Looking forward to finding more five-minute meals!

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