Off Track..

We got off track with meal planning between the Super Bowl (I don't want to walk about it) and travel to see my in laws for my nephews second birthday (seriously, so sweet and cute) and then home hockey games and a super fun knife skills course at a local culinary school! In between all that I have had a number of recipes that I tried and was disappointed in. So all quite lame excuses I know, but yesterday while doing the work chatter about the weekend it occurred to me: I have NOTHING planned.

Hubs woke up early and we put the finishing touches on the meal plan and we went out shopping. We stopped at Hilltop Steak House Butcher Shop to pick up some chicken for $1.39/lb. Can you believe I have no boneless skinless chicken? I don't. It's not something I am proud of, I pride myself on having a variety of meat in the freezer. That way if I am hankering for something I don't have to pay full price for it. So we picked up some Chicken and some Pork Butt (you'll see what I'm doing with that next week) and a Pork Roast. I wasnt thrilled with that Apple Cider Braised Pork Shoulder I made a few weeks back so I am working on that recipe as my Sunday Crockpot meal this week. Also not planning to freeze any of it as it didn't really freeze well.

Since this weeks scan of the flyers caught my eye at all three of my local grocery stores, we stopped at all three for a few items. Now all items are in my kitchen and I'm relaxing on the couch watching the Bruins game writing up my prep plan for a full day in the kitchen tomorrow.

My freezer has some reminant ingredients from a trip to the HMart in December so I'll be utitlizing some of that stuff this week. I am pretty excited about this weeks plan. Apple Cider Braised Pork, Ginger Carrot Soup, Asian Chicken Noodle Soup are all new recipes to the meal plan, so let's hope it goes well!