Then I had to finish cleaning up the kitchen from last night. :)
8:20am: Put the pizza crust in the bread maker.
8:30am: Get chicken and red beans cooking on the stove. Chop vegetables.
9:00am: Mix dry ingredients for waffles and muffins.
9:25am: Cut up cooked chicken.
9:35am: Make pizza rolls ups (oops--forgot the cheese in the BBQ chicken roll up!) and wild rice soup. Discover that my largest pot does not hold a double batch of wild rice soup. Oh well, I make do.
10:30am: 1 Large bowl of wild rice soup cooling; 2 pizza roll ups in the freezer, 2 French toast casseroles in the freezer and 2 cooling; the red beans are still cooking as they ought to be. Time to put dinner in the crock pot!
10:35am: Time for a break, that blueberry French toast casserole looks so yummy!
11:00am: Start making red bean and quinoa chili and muffins.
11:45am: Do a few dishes while waiting for the chili to finish.
12:15pm: Chili is cooking, muffins are in the oven (need to keep the muffins going!) and time for some lunch.
After lunch: Make bean burritos. Not sure how these will appear when they come out of the freezer as the tortillas fell apart while I was rolling them. I think they'll taste good; just might be a mess!
2:05pm: Burritos done. Last of the muffins are in the oven. Time to start on the spaghetti and waffles.
4:05pm: Food is done! Dishes are done! The only thing left is to sweep and mop the floor!
In about 8 hours....4 pans of French toast casserole, 5 dozen muffins, 2 batches of waffles, 3 meals of wild rice soup, 2 meals of red bean and quinoa chili, 1 meal of pizza roll ups, 3 meals of spaghetti, 10 burritos, and dinner in the crock pot!
Overall, the day went far better than I expected! What I expected was to be scrambling at dinner time and then have about two hours of dishes to clean up after it was all done! I mostly stuck with my written plan for the day, making just a few changes as I went. I was surprised that I really didn't generate too many dishes! And, I was able to wash a few here and there, so they weren't piled high at the end of cooking day!
I feel good about what got done today and I have to brag on my honey a little bit too. Do you know what he did today? In addition to caring for our two littles, he....
- Worked on next month's budget.
- Figured out that we still have a warranty on our breaking blender and sent an email to the company.
- Replaced the broken belt in our vacuum cleaner.
- Scrubbed the shower and the toilets.
- Did a couple loads of laundry.
