I’ve been cooking for sixty-five years, but our menus changed two years ago. My husband is now diabetic and I must eat a low-fiber diet due to radiation damage to my intestines. We need almost exactly opposite foods.
An RN trained in nutrition, I developed a meals pattern, years ago. Every day we average 2 servings of proteins, 3 servings of dairy, 4 servings of carbohydrates and 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, divided into several meals.
Breakfasts don’t vary. Hubby has oatmeal with fruit, I have cranberry juice, milk and a bowl of Cheerios or a scrambled egg with toast. Or left-over pizza, my favorite.
Mondays our main protein is Wild Alaska Salmon, a specialty of our area. Hubby has wild rice, I eat white rice. He has a salad of mixed greens and a steamed veggie every noon while I drink V-8 and milk, digestible fiber (Benefiber), and yams with no skin.
Wed. is often spaghetti with tomato sauce and ground turkey. Thurs. a small pork chop with apricot sauce (Kathi Lipp’s recipe!) Friday’s-- crock pot chicken with barbecue sauce for Hubby, plain for me..
Our evening meals are simple; Maybe a sandwich, fruit and milk or a cottage cheese and fruit salad or soup and crackers--whole wheat for Hubby and saltines for me.
So how about sharing YOUR weeks’ menu? List your menu in the comments, please and we’ll all enjoy your ideas.
One person who posts a menu will be entered in a drawing for Kathi Lipp’s hundred dollar basket of cooking goodies. Also, one of you will receive Kathi’s book The What’s For Dinner Solution from me.
Hello, My menu is as follows. Breakfast everyday oatmeal with sweet and low. Lunch will be either a turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread that I bring from home with pretzels or a Weight Watchers frozen meal. For dinner; on Mondays eat a egg with black beans and cheese on a whole wheat tortilla. Tuesday I have roasted sweet potoes, green pepers, onions with a protein. Wednesday evening I will have soup and turkey sandwich on whole wheat. Thursday I will eat out so that changes weekly. Friday I will perogies, or pizza.
Posted by: Janette Boren | January 25, 2012 at 08:50 AM
The closest we come to a regular menu is Campbell's chicken noodle (Tom's breakfast) and high fiber cereal and skim milk for me. And it's sort of semi-regular to have "breakfast rice" after church on Sunday, leftover rice, sauteed onions, whatever meat we have on hand, eggs scrambled into it, a little soy sauce, sometimes cheese or sour cream on top. A regular weekly menu? What a concept!
Posted by: Denise | January 25, 2012 at 07:08 PM
No week is the same. We always have four different meats in the freezer. So it is,"Paul, do you want chicken, pork, beef or ham."I can usually have dinner ready in a half an hour. It has been fun reading Geni White's blogs.
Posted by: Phyllis Lavenau | January 26, 2012 at 07:04 AM