More Yumminess!

Wednesday
Breakfast: homemade whole wheat bread; honey greek yogurt; frozen grapes; orange juice
Snack: Cranberry Wheat Bread
Lunch: Homemade Sausage Macaroni and salad
Dinner: Yummy Stir Fry! The same as the other day since Benjamin loved it so much!

Thursday
Breakfast: Oatmeal with honey and milk (I need to get some berries or fruit!)
Lunch: Spaghetti squash (baked with honey and butter) and salad (lettuce, radish, red pepper, cucumber) with homemade honey mustard
Dinner: I had salad. The boys were with their friends for dinner.

Cranberry Wheat Bread

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2  teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup orange juice
1/2 - 1 cup honey
2 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon orange peel
1 egg, beaten well
1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries, chopped

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease 1 9x5 or 3 mini loaf pans. Mix together dry ingredients. Stir in orange juice, oil, orange peel, and egg. Mix until well blended. Stir in cranberries. Spread evenly in pan(s). Bake for 55 minutes for large loaf or 40-45 minutes for small loaves; until toothpick comes out clean. Cool on rack for 15 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely.

*Good recipe overall, but the cranberries were pretty tart in the bread. The kids really liked it, but I think if I make it again, I would prefer to use craisins instead of the fresh cranberries.

Sausage Macaroni

1/2 lb. elbow noodles, cooked to al dente
1/2 lb. sausage, browned
-Add to browned sausage: milk, cream, cheese, mustard powder, salt, pepper
-Combine noodles with mixture and either let come together in the pan or for best results, bake for 10-20 minutes until it gets thicker.

 Honey Mustard

1/4 cup mayonaise
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
1/2 tablespoon lemon juice (this is mostly for consistency, so less if you want a thicker dressing)

Destination: Whole Foods Eating

We are not perfect at eating whole foods exclusively yet, but I want to transition into it. I figured keeping a journal of all of the things we make and eat would be a good place to start. That way I can look back and see how we are progressing. I love eating whole foods, so I'm pretty excited! We still have some things to weed out of our pantry, so those will randomly appear in different meals, but as I begin to experiment and shop differently, those will disappear. Here it goes - my honest entries of our meals and eating habits.

Breakfast: whole wheat pancakes with yogurt & applesauce and milk
Lunch: Stir Fry (carrots, onion, zucchini, yellow squash, mushrooms, garlic) with barley
Dinner: Boys ate scrambled eggs and fried baked potatoes. We ate creamy leek and potato soup.


Whole Wheat Pancakes
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2-4 tablespoons honey
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons melted butter

Combine dry ingredients and then add remaining ingredients. Cook on hot griddle.

Stir Fry
I preheated the wok and put the ingredients in this order: carrots, onion, zucchini, yellow squash, mushroom, then garlic. After everything reached tender-crisp, I added salt and garam masala and let it set in the pan for about 10 minutes after I turned off the heat to seal in the flavor.

Creamy Leek and Potato Soup from Allrecipes.com

All of the meals today received excellent reviews in our house. The pancake recipe is tasty, delicate, and tender. Stir fry was delicious and has been requested to be exactly the same in the future. The leek and potato soup was so much better than regular potato soup with onion. I've been wanting to try leeks for a long time and I'm so glad I finally did it. Leeks will be a regular addition to our shopping list! Overall, a very successful day, in my opinion!