Tim's lunches...

Every so often I pull out a bunch of chicken or some random meat and make a few different recipes with it and freeze them for Tim to take for lunch. I pack his lunch 98% of the time. Every once in a while when he feels spunky he will get to it before me. But making meals and freezing them is working out great because we don't have to worry about finding something for lunch and there is an assortment to pick from so he just isn't having last nights leftovers or the same thing all week. I'll also pack some fruit or yogurt and some other cool stuff. It makes him pretty happy when I throw in a boysenberry spritzer or some chocolate milk!





The other day I made chili. I pretty much made up the recipe and don't remember everything I put in it. I used chicken and ground turkey. I believe maybe 2 cans of tomato sauce for the base and I also pureed some tomatoes we had here that were about to go bad. The seasonings are what I am mainly unsure about. I know I put chili powder in there but I'm thinking maybe I added parsley and or something more. Also, there a bit of salt and pepper. The veggies I threw in were celery, green pepper, onion and garlic. I also added kidney beans. It didn't make a ton of chili but just enough for what I was doing. Oh I remember one other ingredient...sugar. It added a bit of a sweet taste. This chili defenitely had a different but very good taste to it. I put this in individual containers in the freezer for Tim's lunches. I left one container with enough for both of us for one evening. At first I was cooking this in the slow cooker but I got anxious and halfway through(after a few hours) I put it on the stove to finish it up quickly.





That same day I made something called Chicken Vicious. The following were the ingredients..


2 teaspoons vegetable oil
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cut into 1 inch pieces
1 1/2 cups distilled white vinegar
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes, or to taste
2 tablespoons garlic powder, or to taste
1 tablespoon onion powder, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 (8 ounce) package button mushrooms, sliced
1 cup frozen green peas
3 green onions, chopped
3 teaspoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons cold water


Not to the T on the measurements though. At the beginning of cooking this, the vinegar and soy sauce were doing a good job of going right up my nose and clearing me right up. It was horrible when I would get a wiff. But in the end it made the house smell soooo good. I took the tiniest taste at 2 different times because I had to make sure it was ok but it was way too spicy for me. Tim got home just after I finished making it and thought it smelled amazing through the house. He can't wait to try it for lunch! He is having it tomorrow because I can't wait to see if it tastes just as good as it smells. Seems like something Kyle would really enjoy though so I will have to let you guys know how it is after tomorrow.

He also got 3 other delicious lunches waiting for him from this week. I got 2 lunches out of the meatloaf night and one from tonights pork chops. Both with all the fixins! When I made a few dips for New year's I froze some in small containers for Tim to take in his lunch every once in a while too. I am jealous of those though and might have to steal some of the buffalo chicken dip ones! Christa, you need to see if you can make buffalo tofu dip or something because this is one meat snack you are missing out on!!! In the past I have made Chicken Tikka Masala over rice...that's a big hit!

Does anyone else have a cool camoflauge lunchbox like Tim? hahaha....I bought it cheap at Target one day cause I thought it would be funny but it kinda works great. If I didn't have a kid size lunchbox then I would probably just keep adding all kinds of delicious food to his lunches, then he would eat it all and the end result would be him working out more than once a day! The lunchbox even came with a bottle that velcros to the outside!

The guys at work get pretty jealous too! It's funny to hear what they always have to say to him at lunch time when he brags. The one old guy gets an ok lunch. Unless his wife is out of town. One time she was out of town for 2 weeks and he had hot dogs every single day! Tim said sometimes she will go to a fast food place before she leaves and freeze burgers for him to have everyday. That is so horrible! Bryan(the cowboy) eats like a poor college boy. Even though every once in a while his gf will bake brownies. He isn't poor so I guess just too lazy to make something delicious or grab a piece of fruit.