Whats in the Oven? My Boyfriends Lunches

We've recently decided that it may be cost effective for me to make my boyfriend his lunches for the week at work. We decided that I'll make him 4 lunches a week, which we purchased some reusable fake tupperware at dollar tree for. They end up completely full more or less. The total amount of food being about 5 cups per lunch.

What did we put into his lunch? We ended up with an interesting lunch. He had one container that contained a hard boiled egg, some cheese cubes, carrot sticks and slices of green pepper. The other container had a in house concoction I am calling Garlic (bread) Noodles, and Polish sausage coins.

Since this was the first week we've done this, we weren't sure how it was going to go. But we did find out, that he feels healthier and fuller with his new lunches. He had been eating the premade type things, like  a banquet pot pie, or a frozen dinner. Which in comparison, doesn't contain as much food. So I think part of it is that he actually is fuller because there is more food. The only adjustment he has decided we should do is add more polish sausage.

What we bought:
Package of Baby Carrots (99 cents at Save a Lot)
One Green Pepper (not quite a pound, so it cost 66 Cents at Save a Lot)
Dozen Eggs ($1.89 at Save a Lot)
Polish Sausage ($1 at Dollar Tree)

What I already had at home:
Shredded Cheese (originally from Dollar tree for when we had tacos)
Butter (Save a Lot)
Noodles (unsure)
Garlic Powder (unsure)

Next time I will make sure to take pictures of his lunch, so that you can have an actual visual of what he's eating.

Oh Oh! I can tell you about the garlic (bread) noodles!

Garlic (bread) noodles do not contain any bread. They simple taste and smell like garlic bread when you've finished preparing them. To be honest it was a spur of the moment recipe, but I have a feeling we'll be making it again.

Boil 2 cups of noodles of choice with a splash of oil and salt. (I used 2 cups of macaroni noodles.)

Drain noodles when they are done cooking.

Add 2 teaspoons of butter, and garlic powder to taste.

Stir in 1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese.

Voila! Garlic (bread) Noodles.

Makes 4 decent sized servings.

What's in the Oven? : Applesauce Bread

So this is what I made this week. Well, not all I made. I also did a Banana Bread, but It was all eaten up before I got around to remembering that I should share with you what I've been up to. After we ate all the banana bread, I remembered that we didn't have anymore Banana's in the house, So I decided to research what else I could make. I found a few different recipes. Applesauce Bread sounded pretty good, and simple enough. So that's what I decided to make.

Applesauce Bread

Picture of Applesauce Bread Taken by Polke A Dot (It's just food! It doesn't need a glamor shot)

So first things first. I didn't have everything on the recipe list. But I didn't find that out until I had already mixed most of the concoction up. So the list below shows what I actually put into my Applesauce Bread. The verdict on how it tasted? Well... we'll get to that later on.

1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/4 cups applesauce
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup butter softened
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Set the oven to 350 degrees. It needs to be that hot. Then  grease and flour your loaf pan, so that you don't have to deal with that once your batter is ready.

So you start off smooshing the butter and sugar together, then smoosh in the egg and applesauce. Pretty simple right? Then you add in all the dry ingredients. Mixing them up until they're a decent consistency (NOT DRY).

And I found half a bag of chocolate chips in the cabinet. So in my case I poured them in to taste, adding them into the mixture before putting it into the margarine and flour treated loaf pan.

Then into the oven it went for an hour.

Sure felt like a long time.

Ok. Emma you're right. I can't pour it out of the pan before it's cooled. *hopes it remelds before morning >.>*

Verdict : It didn't taste half bad. To be honest, it was a little spicy, but the chocolate balanced that out. Polke A Dot even ate some. So it couldn't have been all that bad. He doesn't like anything that might be good for him.