I've had plenty of dinners for a party-of-me. I've made big batches of stir fries to eat on. Baked single fillets of salmon in parchment paper. Bought & picked at a store-bought rotisserie for a couple days. Whatever gets you fed, right?
The correct answer to that is no.
Last night for dinner I ate Triscuits with hummus & a couple handfuls of peanuts.
Some people are fine with that sort of thing. These are the same people that eat a couple grapes with cheese & declare themselves satisfied.
These are not my people.
Except for the cheese.
For me, it was ugly. I love hummus but, come on, that ain't dinner. (A hummus platter featuring roasted red peppers, cucumbers, warm pita breads & an assortment of olives, on the other hand, is in fact a fantastic dinner though. Bonus points for a nice chutney.)
Dinner is an occasion. So when dinner ain't great, I sorta get the sads & want to stomp off to my room
Truth moment. The hubs says I'm sometimes too focused on my next meal. I'm seeing it now.
Let's move on to the next day - being today - for lunch.
Behind the healthier options, there has been a frozen pizza taunting me since the ole hubs left town. I was avoiding it because I read the nutritional content. (Dumb, rookie mistake. Also, who cuts their pizzas in fifths as a serving size?) But after The Night of Hummus Dinner Sadness, we're going to eat that thang. My moral was starving.
Also, cheese.
Yeah, that's a Tombstone Ultimate Supreme.
What?
My pizza buying philosophy at home is that it's a backup. Hence no fancy "real" frozen pizzas. (My old man would disagree. But he's not the one going to the grocery store so I do what I want.) (Also, if we got the "good stuff", we would just eat pizza all day erry day.) (No offense, Tombstone.) In my mind, frozen pizzas are for when we don't feel up to cooking but not like going out either. Basically, they're a bad, over-priced, deep-fried delivery net.
This simple, cheap pizza also feeds into something I'm interested in... Semi-homemade meals. Not like that show on the Food Network. (I doubt they dabble in the frozen pizza section.) But super easy while slightly elevated. Maybe more like semi-semi-homemade.
I cooked the pizza for about 10 minutes, took it out & then added some stuff.
I had some extra parm in the fridge. That went on. I almost always have tomatoes. Thinly sliced slices went on. A half eaten jar of mushrooms? Why not? A little more parm? Sure. Basil from my herbs in the backyard & some leftover pesto splatters finished it out. Put it back in the oven to cook & what do we have? Frozen, leftover, backyard herb pizza.
It's not DiGiorno, it's random stuff on a Tombstone!
Quick question... Does everyone do this already & I'm late to the game?
So lunch was pretty good. And I have leftovers for tomorrow. But what to do for dinner? <– My immediate thought as I chewed my last bite of pizza.
I had some leftover spaghetti squash from another recipe. Frozen spinach in the freezer. Eggs. And the aforementioned jarred mushrooms.
And, of course, cheese.
Mix it all together. Boom! Frittata. Very veggie heavy because I was alone & I like it like that.
A quick easy non-real-cooking meal that satisfied. I used up some extra stuff in the fridge. And again, leftovers!
These aren't fancy things. But I feel an sense of pride for the no-muss, no-fuss, fridge-cleaning way I fed myself today. All by myself. (*Pats self on back*)
Lunch
Tombstone $4.99
Random stuff to throw on top - Priceless
Total Meal $4.99
$2.50 per serving
Dinner
Eggs .99
Frozen Spinach $1.25
Total Meal $2.24
$1.12 per serving
Tax not included. Partially because I hate math. And partially because I have no idea what Kansas' tax rate is.
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