Apparently I only write stuff here when there are big changes, so in keeping with that tradition here's what's been happening: I've graduated and am waiting for confirmation of my teaching license, we've moved and are both trying to find permanent employment in our new location, and we're trying to get into the habit of cooking and cleaning on a regular basis. After months of what felt like limbo between homes/school and jobs/states, etc. we are finally situated somewhere that we plan to stay for a while. We had these grand plans to get everything unpacked and cleaned up right away and then keep it clean, unfortunately we seemed to lose steam on that goal pretty quickly and find ourselves three months later still with unpacked boxes, a messy house, and a desire to get all the projects finished but lacking the drive to do so. We also were finding ourselves eating out far too often or buying groceries and then not using them in time and thus wasting money on food that we weren't eating.
I decided that something needed to change and that the easiest place to start would be food, and so I signed us up for a three month subscription for
emeals and we are now at the end of our first week with that. I had tried menu planning but while I love cooking and choosing creative meals I am not very decisive or good at planning well rounded meals that use up the ingredients. Over this past week we have been eating things like grilled salmon and couscous with roasted tomatoes, Sausage and arugula pizza and nectarine and tomato salad. We went for the mediterranean plan that serves 4-6 because we wanted to have leftovers for lunches, although I think we're ending up with more leftovers than we bargained for it's nice to not have to think about what to buy for lunches.
That's where we are now, hopefully we can slowly make progress and get the house running more smoothly as time goes on.
