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Friday Five May 29th
Jun. 4th, 2026 04:38 pm1. In an average week, how many nights do you eat home-cooked dinners?
We eat home cooked meals 4 or 5 nights a week.
2. Do you plan your meals out in advance, or just wing it?
Hubby cooks most of the time. Everything from BBQ on the outdoor grill to pasta, chicken, burgers, steak, seafood etc. Sometimes just soup and sandwiches, or occasionally breakfast for dinner.
3. How many nights per week do you eat out or order food delivered?
Probably 2 or 3 nights a week. Most places the portions are large enough we then have leftovers for a day or two. For example this week we ate out for lunch over the weekend and dinner last night and I'll have the leftovers tonight when I get home, (part of a grilled chicken sandwich and 1/2 a crab grilled cheese), and maybe some for lunch tomorrow depending on how much is in the leftover containers. If the leftover bread/roll is soggy I'll eat it without the bread or on a fresh piece of bread.
4. Do you keep a stock of nonperishable foods from which you could whip up a meal or two if you needed to?
We always have soup, pasta, tomato sauce, rice and cereals in the cupboard. Canned veges & fruit & juice in the pantry and frozen veges in the freezer, and usually a few full meals in the freezer. And in the fridge we always have eggs, milk, & cheese. And we have bread on the counter. Soup & a grilled cheese or a PB&J is always an option when we don't feel like cooking.
And right now we have fresh Lettuce, Spinach and Herbs in our container gardens on the porch we can pick to go with a meal.
5. Have you ever tried preparing meals for the week all at once, say, on the weekend?
When I was single I did this quite often and would freeze individual servings to take for lunches. I'd buy a big pack of chicken divvy it up and cook different chicken meals (like shake and bake chicken, chicken cacciatore, chicken marsala, mexican chicken, etc) with sides and wrap them in individual servings and freeze them.
This week we had friends over on Sunday and Hubby BBQ'd chicken out on the grill. He made one pack with a sweet Mango sauce and another pack of chicken with Jerk. He made rice. I shucked and cooked corn on the cob, made veggies, salad & Mango salsa. Friends brought biscuits and desserts. We've been eating the leftovers all week for dinner and lunches. I just finished the last of the Mango chicken for lunch with rice & Mango salsa today with the last of the corn.
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We eat home cooked meals 4 or 5 nights a week.
2. Do you plan your meals out in advance, or just wing it?
Hubby cooks most of the time. Everything from BBQ on the outdoor grill to pasta, chicken, burgers, steak, seafood etc. Sometimes just soup and sandwiches, or occasionally breakfast for dinner.
3. How many nights per week do you eat out or order food delivered?
Probably 2 or 3 nights a week. Most places the portions are large enough we then have leftovers for a day or two. For example this week we ate out for lunch over the weekend and dinner last night and I'll have the leftovers tonight when I get home, (part of a grilled chicken sandwich and 1/2 a crab grilled cheese), and maybe some for lunch tomorrow depending on how much is in the leftover containers. If the leftover bread/roll is soggy I'll eat it without the bread or on a fresh piece of bread.
4. Do you keep a stock of nonperishable foods from which you could whip up a meal or two if you needed to?
We always have soup, pasta, tomato sauce, rice and cereals in the cupboard. Canned veges & fruit & juice in the pantry and frozen veges in the freezer, and usually a few full meals in the freezer. And in the fridge we always have eggs, milk, & cheese. And we have bread on the counter. Soup & a grilled cheese or a PB&J is always an option when we don't feel like cooking.
And right now we have fresh Lettuce, Spinach and Herbs in our container gardens on the porch we can pick to go with a meal.
5. Have you ever tried preparing meals for the week all at once, say, on the weekend?
When I was single I did this quite often and would freeze individual servings to take for lunches. I'd buy a big pack of chicken divvy it up and cook different chicken meals (like shake and bake chicken, chicken cacciatore, chicken marsala, mexican chicken, etc) with sides and wrap them in individual servings and freeze them.
This week we had friends over on Sunday and Hubby BBQ'd chicken out on the grill. He made one pack with a sweet Mango sauce and another pack of chicken with Jerk. He made rice. I shucked and cooked corn on the cob, made veggies, salad & Mango salsa. Friends brought biscuits and desserts. We've been eating the leftovers all week for dinner and lunches. I just finished the last of the Mango chicken for lunch with rice & Mango salsa today with the last of the corn.
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