It's Sunday afternoon, and Frances and I have just finished preparing the last of our meals for this coming week. Since we only prepared four dishes (three main dishes and one side dish/dessert), you'd have thought everything would have been ready in a snap. I don't know, maybe we just moved slower than usual today; no matter, we're done now and all week we can enjoy the "fruits" of our labor!
Two of this week's dishes are "new" recipes we're trying out. The vegetarian chili recipe comes from RecipeZaar, where it's the #1 rated chili recipe. For us, it's a "must try" since it's
- low-calorie
- low-fat
- loaded with vitamins (over 100% RDA of Vitamin C alone)
- AND made in the slow cooker! How great is that?!
Like lots of chili recipes, though, this one has a high sodium content. To reduce the salt, Frances and I drained the red beans and the chick peas, then rinsed, drained again, soaked in water, rinsed and drained them a THIRD time. Also I substituted frozen corn for the canned corn, which further reduced the salt content. Will let you know how the chili turns out. It won't finish cooking until 8:30 tonight.
I found the Italian chicken recipe last week when snooping around the Organizing Junkie's Menu Plan Monday to see what some of the other ladies were dishing up last week. Thanks to Christy (Eat Well), who shared this recipe -- another "must try" for us because it's a one-dish meal with only four ingredients.
Monday: Granny's Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili ; corn muffins
Tuesday: Chicken Breasts with Italian Dressing; tossed salad
Wednesday: Lasagna (leftover from Sunday); corn on the cob
Thursday: Chili-topped baked potatoes (using leftover chili)
Friday: Leftover chicken and veggies
Saturday: Turkey picadillo tacos; Spanish rice
Sunday: Slow-cooker Italian Spaghetti Sauce; Spaghetti; tossed salad
And for dessert this week: Light Sweet Potato Casserole
2 comments:
The Swet Potato casserole looks yummy. I will have to try that.
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MJ
Sounds yummy!
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