Weekly Goals + Tardy Check-In

I forgot to post a mid-week check in last week. I even thought about it, but wasn't at my computer anytime I remembered that I needed to write one. By the time I would get back to my computer, I had other "more important" things to get done.

I can proudly say that every morning there were dishes in the draining rack, I put them away. However, this did not encourage me to do the dishes any more than usual. I guess that wasn't contributing as much to the problem as I thought it was. It did, however, make the kitchen not look so out of control.

I also kept up with making the bed...as I was writing that I remembered that I hadn't made it this morning. So I got up and went and made the bed. But yeah, still holding strong to this task.

So, what should I add to my growing list of daily tasks? I feel like it needs to be dishes related, since putting the clean dishes away didn't help as much as I had hoped it would with the overall issue. I know that, realistically, I cannot promise a set time of day for me to dedicate to dishes. Some mornings I'm running late, some evenings are busier than others. I think I need to go at this new task two-fold first realizing that evenings are a time when I'm dead for the most part after work so if I can, I need to give up some morning time to this task. The other part is keeping it a non-intimidating time frame. 

This week's daily tasks are:

• Make the bed every day

• Put away clean dishes every morning

• Spend 10 minutes every day on doing the dishes

Food Waste Friday

I'm bringing back something I did on the old WordPress version of this blog, Food Waste Fridays. Every Friday I'm going to share with you the foods that I found in my fridge or pantry that have gone bad and I've had to throw away. It's really a double hit because this is not only once-good food that is being wasted but money as well.

Here's what I tossed out:

• Rotten romain lettuce
• Not spoiled but doesn't taste good and will end up going bad leftover chicken and potatoes
• Below that, doesn't smell but is multiple weeks old pot roast and potatoes.
• Also, not bad but no one wants to eat it leftover meat sauce

I know there are things in my pantry and in my freezer that need to be tossed, but I didn't get around to doing that this week.

I feel bad for throwing out food that is still good but Mr. LL and I were just honest with ourselves and admitted that we weren't going to finish these leftovers in a timely fashion. The chicken + potatoes were a failed food experiment of mine and the meat sauce was left over because we ran out of noodles. Hopefully this won't happen again.

Meal Plan Monday

Last week, I started sharing my meal plans with you all, to help me feel the need to be accountable for keeping to them (if you want a free meal planner, check out this post). We did great sticking to it, I am proud to say! Even though Mr. LL kept requesting pizza, I stuck to my guns and kept us to the meal plan.

So here's this week's:

Monday 

Shrimp Fettucini

Tuesday

Carnitas + Chipotle chopped salad

Wednesday

Breakfast for dinner

Thursday

Namese (ordering out)

Friday

Leftovers

Lunches

Turkey sandwiches for Mr. Ll, peanut butter sandwiches for me  + apples, crackers, & cereal bars