food - dinner plans

so part of my (and my boyfriend's) new year's resolutions involves food. mainly for me, making and taking my lunches to work almost every day. and together we want to make dinner more often. really make dinner. less of "we're tired let's eat out". less "i don't know what to make, let's have a huge chuck of meat." less "we don't have time to make anything, let's grab this quick bottle of sauce and add chucks of meat." see a trend? we do too. so it's on to planning ahead, actually grocery shopping on the weekend, and prep prep prep.

as all resolutions start on an upswing, ours does as well. with lasagna!



monday night was a vegetable lasagna. with (practically) pureed broccoli mixed in with the ricotta cheese and layered with carrot and zucchini slices. now i went the semi-legitimate route with dried no-bake lasagna noodles; i also added way more veggies then originally stated in the recipe. it was originally just a broccoli and cheese lasagna, but think how much more nutritious it is now!!!

also part of my resolution is eating less. not that i need to be on a diet, but i should eat less than my 6'2" high-metabolism boyfriend. especially since i'm 5'4". i've found that in the past couple months when i bring dinner to the table, i can't remember or tell which plate i prepared for him and which one for me. to counteract this, i plan on (in the previously described circumstances) returning some of the food to the pan. another measure will be to cut different sized portions, like with the lasagna. i cut half further into half and the other became thirds. so my boyfriend will get two meals out of the lasagna, and i will get three. i think that's reasonable.