.if you can't take the heat.

I can cook, not amazingly mind you, but I do dabble now and then in the art of food. I love the idea of finding new and creative recipes for things I've never tried before, but too often life gets in the way, and to top it off Roy is not a food person. If he could he wouldn't eat, to him its just a waste of time and gets in the way of more important things like....exercise. So since I don't particularly like to cook for myself, cooking usually takes a back seat.

A few months ago I was telling Jill of my one Saturday effort to make a week's worth of meals. It was a great week because the food was already made and ready to go without me having to expend any more energy than throwing it in the microwave or the oven to re-heat. Of course that one Sat. was a very long day. However, it was decided that we could do it together and it would not only save us time and money, but it would be a lot healthier. So here is what a typical Monday looks like:

The car will be loaded with groceries and other household oddities that have been purchased.

Jill will don her latex gloves so as to not have food smelling hands for a week as she is usually cutting up onions, garlic, and de-boning something.

In this case...chicken

Recipes are laid out and tackled one by one (or sometimes two by four)

And than the cooking begins. (Roy was showing us his fancy new helmet)

Lots of grilling, saute'ing, and shredding

A break every now and than, but....

Then it's back to work.

This weeks selection included a cheesy chicken casserole

and a mystery meal we'd never tried before (Italian chicken pasta)

A weeks worth of meals stored and ready to be eaten

and a weeks worth of dishes ready to be washed.

It's exhausting work, but so worth it.