I can't figure out what to make for dinner.
Normally, I plan out 12-14 meals at a time, then go grocery-shopping so that I know I have the ingredients I need for each of those meals. Choosing dinner is then simply a matter of picking something off the list and making it. It's easy, quick, and painless.
The meal I chose for today (albeit at 4:30pm, after Elli was home and going to the store became three-times more complicated and time-consuming) is chicken and wild rice casserole. It only requires a few ingredients. Chicken, wild rice (shocking, I know), cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, and mushrooms.
Somehow, this last time I made my list, I overlooked the need for the cream of mushroom soup. I also assumed that I had a stockpile of cream of chicken soup (which I needed for a recipe a couple days ago).
What to do. What to do. Ask a neighbor for soup? Don't know them well enough, plus that's kind of weird. Eggs? Sure. Butter? Yup. A certain kind of soup? Not so sure.
Go to the store? It's already 5:30. The kids are in. It's bitterly cold. The parking lots are still very very icy and Elli's wheelchair plus two other children is just not easy to maneuver in ice.
Substitute something? Not sure what. Maybe I could use milk plus extra sour cream. Could end up too runny. Or bland.
Make something else? Sigh. Nothing else sounds good. We just had it or it's too late to start at this point.
Hmmm. What about breakfast for dinner? The kids LOVE that option. But we usually have hot breakfast on Saturday morning.
Or leftovers? Scott make an enormous batch of spaghetti last night. The kids love spaghetti.
Hmmm.
(Note to self: choose a dinner and check ingredients after breakfast, not after Elli gets home.)
