It's been a surprising busy week.  Tuesday we ended up having Smoked Sausage, Julienne Cheesy potatoes and peas.  It's the most processed meal we've had in a while.  It also happens to be DH's favorite.  Except for potatoes, there were no leftovers.

Wednesday was our Cross Country Team Dinner and we had about 40 kids there.  I made my Spaghetti Sauce times 9 and 9 boxes of a combo of Penne and Rotini for all of our hungry kids.   We picked up day old bread from Jimmy Johns (7 loaves for $3.50 total) and 5 boxes of organic mixed greens, 3 cucumbers and 2 boxes of grape tomatoes to make a tossed salad for them.  The kids were amazing and brought about a million desserts!  There were so many, we had to send dessert goodie bags home with a lot of them! The sauce & pasta cost about $15, bread was $3.50, lemonade (mix I bought for $1 per container) was $2, and of course the salad stuff was $18.  The basic dinner was a total of $38.50 or less than a dollar per kid!  Your sure can't beat that. Our first year coaching, we took the team (much smaller by the way) to Olive Garden for a team dinner.  It set us back about $250.00.  I knew I needed a cheaper way to do this.  I found it.  Get the fellowship hall at church for the night (costs nothing), use the kitchen at church to cook dinner myself at church and lastly have the kids bring dessert if they want some.

After a long day of report cards at our respective schools, last night we went to our friends' house for dinner and guess what we had?  Spaghetti!  But, it was spaghetti noodles that you could twirl (Hubby loves that too!), and it was meat sauce.  Surprisingly that’s radically different for him.  Also there was coffee to linger over as well, another fan favorite!  

I'll post again tonight...dinner will be Pork Chops and Pilaf.  I haven't made this in a few years, It will be great to have something from the oven.  I'll also have Monday's recipe for Kofta Kari ready.

Until then!