Lunch This Week
Pot Roast & Carrots
Barley
Pot Roast & Carrots : I chopped 4 very fat carrots and covered the bottom of my crockpot with them. Then I coated a 2.5 lb roast with salt, garlic powder, and flour and placed it on top of the carrots. I poured in 1 cup of red wine and a bit of tart cherry juice (cause those are the things I had...I didn't have any broth...), put the lid on, and cooked it on high for 6 hours. Then I added a bunch of rough chopped mushrooms, and used forks to shred the beef. I ladled out most of the liquid and brought it to a boil on the stove, adding some cold water mixed with flour. I stirred over high heat until it thickened, then added it back to the crockpot.
Barley : I brought 2.5 cups of water seasoned with salt to a boil, then added 1 cup of barley, and cooked on low heat until tender but not mushy. Unfortunately I dumped about 1/4 cup down the sink by accident while I was draining the excess water...
The meal : I divided the un-ruined barley into 5 sandwich containers, and then added a big spoonful of beef and carrots on top. I have green grapes and sugar snap peas to choose between for extra fruit/veggie each day, and I suspect I will be bringing potato chips some days as well...extra salt and carb since I lost some of the barley...
I'm going to have to figure out something else for Friday's lunch, and keep one of these for the weekend, since it's now Lent. I was so far in robot mode as far as lunches go, I didn't remember that I wasn't supposed to eat meat on Wednesday last week until I got home, at lunchtime (we got dismissed early for severe weather). And then I remembered no more meat on Friday's either. So I ended up with two lunches left over at the end of last week. On Friday last week I ended up grabbing some leftover pasta from something else, and throwing some salmon from a pouch on top. With 1/2 an avocado. It wasn't much, but better than no lunch! I suspect lunch this Friday will also involve a pouch of salmon, but I have no idea what I will be eating it with...I'll probably figure it out Thursday night. Meatless meals are hard now that I don't eat tuna fish sandwiches every day. And meatless twice a day has always been hard because I don't really care for that many types of fish. I like shellfish and salmon, but they are expensive! I recently discovered the pouches of salmon though, that are quick and easy and cheaper. I usually shy away from pre-packaged stuff like that, but hopefully these are more rather than less healthy...I'm trying not to overthink it.
I'm going to have to figure out something else for Friday's lunch, and keep one of these for the weekend, since it's now Lent. I was so far in robot mode as far as lunches go, I didn't remember that I wasn't supposed to eat meat on Wednesday last week until I got home, at lunchtime (we got dismissed early for severe weather). And then I remembered no more meat on Friday's either. So I ended up with two lunches left over at the end of last week. On Friday last week I ended up grabbing some leftover pasta from something else, and throwing some salmon from a pouch on top. With 1/2 an avocado. It wasn't much, but better than no lunch! I suspect lunch this Friday will also involve a pouch of salmon, but I have no idea what I will be eating it with...I'll probably figure it out Thursday night. Meatless meals are hard now that I don't eat tuna fish sandwiches every day. And meatless twice a day has always been hard because I don't really care for that many types of fish. I like shellfish and salmon, but they are expensive! I recently discovered the pouches of salmon though, that are quick and easy and cheaper. I usually shy away from pre-packaged stuff like that, but hopefully these are more rather than less healthy...I'm trying not to overthink it.
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