sarahmichelef

Well, we ended up going with the trash-can-compost-bin method, and acquired the thing today.  For an outlay of under $20 and half an hour in Lowe's, we now have a compost bin.  A compost bin that's already a quarter full!  Hopefully stuff will start decomposing fast.  TRex is very excited about the "fruit salad" that we're making for the plants (we explained to her that we can take the trash and turn it into dirt for the plants - the fruit salad connection was all her) and was mad when we couldn't put it on them right away.  I explained to her that it's springtime food for the plants.  "Is it springtime now?"  "No, sweetie, it's fall.  After fall comes winter, and after that it will be spring."

And cooking tonight... old stand-bys.  Humble Vegetable Casserole (from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest) and Lentils Ole.  Tomorrow I'll be grilling up chicken for peanut sesame noodles.  Dinner was yummy, too - bean burritos, corn, and green beans.  TRex was my sous-chef for the green beans - I had her put them into the pot as I trimmed them.  (Hooray for jobs to give the kid so she doesn't whine that you're not paying enough attention to her!)

We made lasagna this weekend (at TRex's request - "Grandma and Opa at my house!  Eat dinner!  Lasagna!"), and I bought way more spinach than I needed to.  So, as we were cooking, I was pondering what to do with the spinach, and Fran suggested soup.  This was, of course a brilliant idea as I love making soup.  But I had never invented a soup all by myself before.  And so, I present to you, Chicken Spinach Stew.

I was standing in the kitchen thinking that I'm hungry and I want a snack.  As we all know, this has the potential to end very, very badly.  I look in the cabinets - nothing that will be both satisfying and low-points.  I look in the fridge.  AHA!  I made salsa the other day.  I have fresh, homemade, tasty salsa.  And so, for my snack, I am having 10ish low-fat wheat thins (2 points) with salsa (0 points).  Yay.
Oh, yes.  That was satisfying.  Quite satisfying.

Lunch:

WW pita with tuna salad (with scallions, red peppers, and carrot shavings), dijon mustard and spinach leaves - 4 points
Pepsi One - 0 points
Orange Mango Yogurt - 1 point
Banana - 1 point

More points that I usually want for lunch, but very good, and hopefully substantial enough that I won't want a snack.