Cook it once, eat it many times

Well here I am, second day in a row... a new record for me!  I have been taking stock of what I have in the pantry and seeing how I can cook once, use multiple times.  I have pureed tomatoes, diced tomatoes and tomato paste (all organic) and all the spices needed to make a spaghetti sauce that I can use for spaghetti and meatballs, chicken cacciatore and two lasagna's, one veggie and one meat and stuffed green peppers (to use up the cup of brown rice in the fridge).   I plan to at least double this as I am making a few meals based on this sauce. I just found frozen ricotta and mozzarella cheese in the garage freezer and while there, I pulled out some chicken thighs and legs.  I am going to make the "spaghetti" sauce in the crockpot so I do not have to watch it all day.  I have some meatballs in the freezer, so no need to make new and I will just chop up some of them to add to the meat lasagna along with a small piece of sausage I also found in the freezer.  I also saved the pasta water I used at lunch to use again for the lasagna noodles

Meals for Today:

Breakfast: 

There was no breakfast, we slept right thru it!  We got the call yesterday that there was no school again today, so we stayed up really really late and slept really really late!

Lunch:

We were ready for lunch!  I chopped up some carrots, bell peppers, onion, chopped garlic and  threw in some frozen TJ's corn and broccoli.  I sauteed all the veggies in about a T. of olive oil and added some paprika, mustard powder, kosher salt, and balsamic vinegar when it was hot.  I added a little bit of heavy cream and parmesan cheese and let it get thick and then added the pasta along with a little pasta water and it makes a very creamy and yummy sauce.  I always make a bunch of this as I will eat it for a few days.

Dinner:

We have not had dinner yet, my lunch dishes are still all over the counter,  and I am still chewing as I type this.  I have a steak thawed in the fridge and this will be cooked on the grill* outside. I have about 20 lbs of potatoes, so broccoli cheese potatoes seem like a good and yummy choice to add.  I will also use the last of the apple sauce tonight for dinner.  I will eat my pasta made for lunch, a salad with my champagne dijon dressing.

Baked yummies:

Last night I made the Applesauce Cake and this morning there is the equivalent of an applesauce muffin left!  I am going to make another applesauce cake in addition to a Pumpkin one.  I have cans of pumpkin from December that I had planned to use to make pumpkin pies and never got around to it.  I will also make a peach cobbler out of some canned peaches we have since I want to make the best use of the oven while it is baking away.  Hopefully some of this will make it to the freezer before Hoover and Son find them.  Hubby says if food disappears, it was very good and I should take it as a compliment, so I did.

*We grill all year long and have 2 grills, one is Hubby's for all the meat items and the 2nd is mine for fruits, veggies, and veggie burgers.  Yes this may seem a bit odd, however I do not eat anything with a face or a family and cooking my veggies next to a sizzling cow loses its appeal to me.