Cooking

When I was pregnant my food preferences changed almost daily and there was so much that I didn’t like.  This led to eating out and bringing home take out almost daily.  I don’t think I cooked more than 5 meals the entire time.  I couldn’t stand to handle a lot of the meats and the smells would be a huge turn off.  Now that I’m pretty much back to “normal” (normal is a loose term here cause just how normal am I?  haha), I’ve been cooking more and trying to eat on the healthy side.  Its hard to cook and shop with baby but since P is home early most days, this gives me time.  We’ve cut down the carry out to just once a week and I’m so proud of us!  hee hee.  The whole family put on weight with the baby and now we’ve gotta cut down.  Even Heidi! Remember my filet o fish cravings!!  Madness!  I haven’t had one since the baby joined us.  I can’t believe I was eating several a week.  I know I was talking about them all the time and driving a lot of you guys to McDonalds too, hee hee.

I love using the crock pot and I recently tried Jean’s cream cheese chicken recipe.  I’m getting ready to try her mexican cornbread casserole recipe next week.  Yumm.  We also grill out a lot and I know hot dogs aren’t particularly healthy…..but darn it, they taste so darn good grilled.

I haven’t been able to bake as often as I’d like to.  I wanted to make green tea cupcakes for our BBQ this weekend but I haven’t been able to procure the green tea powder that I need.  I also have a chocolate chip zuchini bread recipe that I want to try out.  No cookies or cakes cause I think I’ll end up eating them.

I’m not sure how going back to work and our hectic schedules around the baby will change our cooking and eating out habits but I’m hoping that I get a few easy and fast recipes under my belt.  Its too easy to just order something or pick up a pizza on the way home.  Very yummy but $$ and not that healthy.  Perhaps I’ll do what a lot of moms do, prepare a bunch of stuff over the weekend and then portion them out and freeze it all.  I know its ok to leave the crockpot going but it makes me paranoid and I’m afriad that I’ll come home and the house is burned down.  Oops, must be that chicken I was slow cooking!

So if you guys have any healthy and simple recipes, please send them my way!  Thanks and have a great long weekend!