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Eat-In Challenge: Here we go...
Post by Kristen in MightyNest Blog
February 23, 2010
This week the whole MightyNest crew is participating in The Week of Eating In, sponsored by the Huffington Post. To read more about it check out this post from Dina, our eco-challenged mama.
I Started out feeling pretty confident about this challenge. After all, we don't do a whole lot of eating out with a 4 year old and a toddler, not always a very relaxing dining experience! Last night we had a super yummy roast chicken with root vegetables and some brown rice. Here is a really easy recipe for doing a whole chicken. Merrick was being a little fussy, so he ended up on my back in the ergo, while i cooked.
But today we hit a snag... I was at kindergarten registration and it took a little longer than anticipated (4 hours!) needless to say, I got quite hungry and Chris came to my rescue by bringing me something from Panera. Aaah, the guilt - but it won't happen again! I will make sure to pack food in my purse the rest of the week.
Tonight i will attempt to redeem myself by making chicken noodle soup. I made stock with the the leftover bones last night, bread (not homemade, hope that still counts!) and salad.
Anyone else partaking in this? Any good recipes to share?
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This is the week Chris!
Go, Kristen, go!
Love the photo. This is my week off from school. We eat at home ALL the time! We've been homebound for WEEKS. This is my time to go out with the girls now that they are healthy and eat out on the run if we need to. But I wish you good luck!
Katy
Dust yourself off and give it another shot Travis. In my opinion it's not about being perfect it's about giving it your best shot, learning and trying again.
we have failed miserably.
Okay, I'm on board! Today for lunch: tuna salad (dolphin-safe tuna from Thailand, with chopped organic onion and cucumber, mashed avocado, vanilla yogurt instead of mayo), on a toasted 12-grain English muffin, topped with a soft-poached egg and wafer-thin tomato slices, draped with a slice of provolone, and into the toaster to melt the cheese.
Yy-ummm! Hot green tea on the side. Enough tuna left over to wrap it tomorrow with spinach and diced apple in a whole wheat tortilla. . .
Ok so i started today!! i hate eating out honestly unless of course it's amazing from scratch type food. fast food is soooo hard for me to eat...my mind assumes the worst, so i'm super excited to try to avoid all of it. i wore my daughter stella(5mo)tonight as i cooked too :) i made grilled steak salad w/org whole wheat herb bread..it didn't quite rise :( but we pretended in was focaccia bread?!