Week 3 meal plan
My current stocks of sanity food & staples:
- 10 single serving pot pies
- 4 meals of chicken nuggets
- 10.5 meals of chimichangas
- 2 cans of non-condensed soup
- 4 portions of beef chili (homemade)
- 3 portions of beef stew (homemade)
Easy-prep I have on hand:
- Fixings for ham sandwiches, PB&J sandwiches, chips&beans, eggs on toast
- 1.5 meals of uncooked chicken tenders
- 1 3-meal trays of lasagna (homemade)
- 1 3-meal tray of cheese enchiladas (homemade)
- 17 boxes of macaroni and cheese
- 8 + 9 hamburger patties
- Gyro meat (homemade)
Overnight thawing/more prep needed:
- 1 2-meal bag of pork chops+veg (homemade)
Misc:
- 1 2-serving bag of air fryer carrots (homemade)
- 1 2-serving bag of "roaster" veggies
- 1 9-roll tray of dinner rolls (homemade)
- 2 hamburger buns (homemade)
- 5 single serving bowls of microwaveable sticky rice
- 5 cups of shredded beef (homemade)
- 11 sandwich hoagie rolls (homemade)
- Half a bag of oven fries
How I ate last week (out of order, but you get the idea):
- Day 1
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Day 2
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, lasagna
- Day 3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, hamburgers
- Day 4
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Day 5
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Day 6
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, hamburgers
- Day 7
What we're doing this week:
So my first act upon getting my EBT refilled was to stock up on pot pies, chimichangas, and mac & cheese. Sanity food ftw. I also picked up a few things for my grill out (vegetables, sour cream, some ice cream and bananas), which ended up going great, despite my, uh, resulting exhaustion. My social events prior to that had been canceled for various reasons, so it was nice to have people visit again.
Unfortunately, both me and my partner are now carless for the time being which a) is highly stressful and b) makes getting groceries a lot harder. Also, both of them breaking down (and then hosting the grill out, which gave me enough euphoria to get through) kinda sucked up all my spoons for the week.
As a result, I made nothing this week except hamburger buns (and my partner was cooking the burgers). I did recruit a friend up help me whip up a bunch of falafel at some point, so I'm looking forward to that.
This coming week I don't expect to have much by way of spoons. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to finally making those pizza crusts. When I have the energy and my friend is free, we'll work on the falafel. Don't know if it'll happen this week, though.
Here's a rough sketch of the order of things this week, for those who like order:
- Day 1
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, chicken tenders
- Some spoons: Sanity food/staple x2, chicken tenders + mac & cheese
- Many spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, meal prep, chicken tenders
- Day 2
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, lasagna
- Some spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, lasagna + salad
- Many spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, lasagna + salad + rolls
- Day 3
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, hamburgers
- Some spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, hamburgers + fries
- Many spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, prepping a staple and having the first as lunch/dinner
- Day 4
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, pizza
- Some spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, pizza
- Many spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, prepping a staple and having the first as lunch/dinner
- Day 5
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, enchiladas
- Some spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, enchiladas with beans & rice
- Many spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, enchiladas with beans & rice
- Day 6
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, hamburgers
- Some spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, hamburgers + oven roasters
- Many spoons: Sanity food/staple x2, hamburgers + oven roasters + macaroni salad
- Day 7
- No spoons: Sanity food/staples x3
- Low spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, pork chops + veg
- Some spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, pork chops + veg + rolls
- Many spoons: Sanity food/staples x2, pork chops + veg + rolls