Brats and Beans (meal 4(?); week 4)

Well, I'll let you all be the judge and decide if this meal counts as a 'planned' meal or not!

I went to the grocery yesterday morning and they had a good sale on brats and smoked sausage. I bought some thinking that it would be a good grill meal sometime this week with all the awesome weather we're having. By the time I got home from picking my son up from pre-school and getting the baby down for his nap, I realized that we had parent-teacher conferences that night and we needed to eat early!

So, I pulled out the brats and sausages (I'm not a big fan of brats) and had the hubby fire up the grill. I made baked beans and we had the leftover coleslaw from Tuesday's fish tacos. It was a fast, but delicious meal!

Grill out! (meal 1; week 3)

Today was just a bad day all around. The last thing I wanted to to was cook... don't you have days like that?!? But it's so nice out, I thought maybe the hubby would be willing to grill! We are loving this weather!

We are having porkburgers (waaay better than a hamburger!), baked sweet potato fries, and baked beans.

To make the baked sweet potato fries:

3 sweet potatoes, cut into wedges or strips

olive oil

salt/pepper to taste

Coat sweet potatoes in olive oil and sprinkle with salt/pepper. Lay in one layer on a cooking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Flip potatoes and then raise oven temp to 450 degrees for another 15 minutes. (these will be softer than traditional fries.)