Getting Organized

It’s slowly getting there around here.  We’re in the home stretch of the first week of our new schedule, and I think it won’t take too long to figure things out.   If I have it figured out right, we’ll have two meals a week that we take with us, three meals normally at home, with plenty of time to cook them, and then two meals that either need to be crock-pot or made-ahead with few steps to completion when we arrive back home.

Yikes.  I’ve been very busy looking for inspiration this week.  Our take-along meals last year were just one day a week, and it seemed like we were always going back and forth between calzones and pasta.  Boring to have over and over.  And my biggest go-to for being ready and waiting is taco night.  Always a good option, but every week?

So I’m in the process of trying (trying, I tell you) to compile some kind of meal organization.  I may add a few categories to my Recipe Trove for just this purpose.  Something like “Take-Along” that either reheats nicely in the microwave or doesn’t even need reheating.  And then a category of “Ready-When-You-Are” that can be totally made ahead and left in the fridge or crockpot for a few hours.

I’ll figure it out, I promise.  And on top of that, I think I’ve also finally figured out how to mobile blog.  The sticky widget in doing so has always been my photos- I just wasn’t figuring out a good way to store them online and be able to access them easily for my blog posts.  Silly me, apparently I can do that right here with WordPress.  If I can mobile blog, that guarantees me time to blog post four days a week while I watch my babies dance.  This is spectacular news, my friends!

Tonight is one of those taco nights, but have you ever had tacos and then had leftovers- but not really enough for a full meal for the family?  Tomorrow I’ll share a new way to re-invent those taco leftovers that actually got both of my kids eating well.