Before we talk about ice cream for breakfast, we should probably talk about lettuce. Spoiler alert: the ice cream we ate is the same color as the lettuce, which means that one of them has food coloring in it and the other doesn’t, yet I still let my family eat both.
Hahaha, I let them eat lettuce. As if they had to beg me for it. “Please Mom can’t we just have more salad?!” said none of my children ever.
I mean, they don’t dislike salad. They just like other parts of the meal better. But whatever. They are good eaters and they eat a wide variety of fruits and veggies and so what if they ate green ice cream for breakfast last Wednesday?
So lettuce. Let-us talk about that already. (get it? lettuce=let-us. that is so amazingly funny) Look what came out of our garden last week!
We’ll be enjoying meal after meal of this lettuce from our garden as the rain has made our lettuce go crazy. (I won’t even tell you that none of the rest of our garden is even planted yet. Hello graduation preparation and bathroom remodel. You are cramping our gardening style.)
See what a pretty lunch we had the first day we picked lettuce? Creamy Mac and Cheese with peas and salad is the easiest lunch ever, by the way. (Can you actually call it a salad if you don’t add anything but Ranch Dressing? We were out of other salad veggies that day.)
Now, about that green ice cream. First the back story:
About four years ago I surprised the boys by making Homemade Ice Cream for breakfast on our very last day of school. The following year, they declared that we had always had ice cream on the last day of school and that it was a tradition and that we simply must do it again. I believe they told me this at bedtime the night before our last day of school, which of course meant that while I loved the idea, I did not love the idea making homemade ice cream at midnight or 6:00 am. So I told them no, and then I decided on a splurge of all splurges and surprised them the next morning with not only store-bought ice cream – but a box of ice cream cones too.
(The “Best Mom Ever” Award went to me that day. But then I made them do their living room and bathroom chores so I immediately went back to “Best Mom Ever” status after breakfast.)
Anyway, the Last Day of School Ice Cream tradition has continued (which I only do because we home school because it would truly be wrong of me to feed my kids sugar cones filled with drippy sugar and then send them to be instructed by other adults). The three younger boys finished their school work last Friday, but patiently waited for Asa to finish his last college final on Tuesday (he’s been getting dual credits for high school/college this year – woot!) so that we could celebrate by having ice cream for breakfast.
It was grand. But now we should probably talk about vegetables again.
I hit some great price matching deals on berries this week. 99¢ for blackberries? Yes, please. Plus I got great prices on strawberries and raspberries. We’ve been eating these delicious fruits with just about every meal, so these are already almost gone. (We put the food away at our house, I’m telling you.)
Don’t ask me why I bought mixed greens this week. Hello, Laura. Your garden is kicking out lettuce right now, remember??
Have any of you ever tried that Hormel Natural Choice Bacon? I was excited to see it at the store since it is a “better for you” brand. It was quite tasty!
Friday night I experimented with another new recipe we all loved: Sloppy Salsa Chicken. Don’t tell, but I’m almost finished with a project I’ve been working on for several months in an effort to simplify our (yours and mine!) evening meal time. Later this week, I plan to reveal some packets I’ve been putting together which include recipes, complete grocery lists, and instructions for creating five meals that can be made ahead all at once, then frozen for fast real-food meals for your family. Details coming!!
Here’s a little sneak peek at one of the packet cover pages:
There’s also a Chicken Edition, and then I’ll be working on several additional editions (I couldn’t resist) for the future like breakfast, lunch box, ground turkey, and others!
So back to last week’s food details. It was a Bountiful Basket week for me, and I almost bought the whole truck. Man, we get some good deals from BB!
Along with all you see here, I also got a huge box of sweet corn. Which leads me to Mother’s Day.
I wanted grilled burgers with watermelon and sweet corn. So that is what my men made me. As you can see, I worked on my corn and melon before my burger. Ooh, and Matt put some fresh asparagus from our garden on the grill too. So yum.
After we digested, we played our traditional game of three-on-three Mother’s Day soccer. I so stink at soccer. But it sure was fun.
One final bit about last week…
Some sweet friends gave me a basket full of thank-you gifts and look what was included!
Yes, it is a coffee mug that is almost as big as my head. Almost. As you see here, I filled it just about to the top. This meant that after I finished drinking it on Saturday morning, I absolutely did conquer the world and solve all of earth’s biggest challenges (it’s a caffeine miracle).
So there you have it. Berries, vegetables, ice cream, and a huge mug of coffee. That about sums up last week for me. (I also did laundry and cleaned, but who wants the boring details on that? No one.)
Tell me about your week in food! Find great deals? Make yummy meals? Drink giant-sized mugs of coffee? Splurge on ice cream? Share, share, share!!!
mrs.p says
The only deal I got this week was strawberries 5 for 5.00. I wanted to have a quite mother’s day but they shedule a tractor pull that my daughter and hubby was in. It got cancelled so i got my quite day did happen. I went to kfc dueto plans being cancelled. Had few people over. Stay home.Very nice mothers day
Leigh says
I raise my coffee mug to your coffee mug! My deal of the week was found while shopping at the thrift store with my just-finished-his-first-year-of-college son (and boy, do I feel your graduation emotions, Laura!). We found one of those expensive lidded containers that go with my vacuum sealer. The cost was crazy low and it was half price day to boot!
P.S. Our garden isn’t planted either, but weeds are pulled and new landscape rock is installed.
Molly says
Man oh man, I made pizza on Saturday, and it was GOOOOOOD. I used a new spice mixture in the crust (spice house’s Chicago pizza pizzazz), and it added quite the nice oomph.
kentuckylady717 says
Ice Cream for breakfast, sounds good to me….that would be my kind of breakfast :) yes I have tried this bacon, it is now what I buy and I love it….it’s quite more expensive than others but worth it….
Not really a fruit person, but I do like vegs tho ….eat very little fruit…..love my ice cream and donuts :) not too healthy for you, so I don’t eat it every day….but I could…..congrats on your oldest ready for college….you have a lovely family……you will miss him if he goes away or is he going to a local college so he can commute daily…. both my kids left for college together….my heart was broken…..then 2 yrs. later broken again when my son left for the Airforce….that was a big cry day , or should I say days and mos ?. Then later broken again when my daughter left for Texas for a job (she is a nurse ) and more tears……..so you never get over missing your kids no matter how old they are…..many many tears, and many many years later you still cry when they come visit and leave…….it just never stops……..THANK GOD FOR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS…. (the grandkids) you have this to look forward too and you will love it :) but probably several years down the road tho……you will make a great grandma……:)…. just saying…..
K. Ann Guinn says
I’ll just tell you about Mother’s Day weekend (yes, I have been informing everyone that we DO indeed get the whole weekend, especially when shared with our own mothers).
Sharing a Subway sub and stopping at my favorite ice-cream place for fresh fruit frozen yogurt (just my husband and I), out for breakfast at one of our favorite local places (which serves food from local farms and businesses), clam chowder and clam-cakes, along with a couple of half gallons (not those cheesy smaller containers they’re now trying to pass off as half gallons) from our local restaurant and ice-cream factory/store with my mother-in-law and other family members, homemade pizza (actually, this one time it was with store-bought dough), continental breakfast and coffee at church, nice quiet, dinner of grilled chicken at home with my family, with the lovely fruit custard tart I picked out for myself at the grocery store.
Yes, I also love food and we did eat fruits and vegetables with our meals. It was a nice weekend.
Meg says
Last week we had lots of refried beans and mexican pork! That’s my husband’s favorite and he never seems to get sick of it :)
Tara says
Wow Laura! Your ice cream cone tradition, and soccor game tradition, sounds like fun! You’re such a cool mom!!
I love the garden too. Yay for fresh lettuce!
Watermelon and sweet corn are two of my favorite summery side dishes. Your guys did a great job with your Mother’s Day dinner!
Lastly, I definitely need a coffee cup as big as my head too!! Love it!! I actually made my coffee today using your homemade whipped cream recipe tip. I thought it was delicious and fun because it got all foamy on top and it felt like I had a fancy latte. :)
Happy (late) Mother’s Day to one of my favorite blogger moms!
Diana says
If you’ll notice in the picture, your new mug is also nearly as big as your dishwasher (which I’m assuming is bigger than your head)! :) No wonder you conquered the world! ;)
Lisa B says
Just wanted to pass along a couple of ice cream products that we love for your family. They only contain whole ingredients: milk, cream, chocolate, ect… no added junk. One Turkey Hill ice cream puts out and it is called Naturals. Another is Talenti Gelato is FABulous. The coconut is our favorite. I hope that you would be able to try these in your area.
Lisa @TrueFaithful.com says
Laura, how did you price match the berries? Was it a Walmart price match?