{"id":140,"date":"2025-11-01T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:50:43","slug":"food-friday-meal-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Food Friday: Meal Sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s this awesome blogger\/youtuber I follow named Cassandra over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BecomingaFarmGirl\">Becoming a Farm Girl<\/a> who resonates with me. She has all the awesome hobbies I do (actually, also the career)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>she cooks from scratch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>she cans (although she does pressure canning, I do not&#8230;.yet)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>she gardens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>she&#8217;s an educator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>she&#8217;s really cool \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And one of the things she does regularly is her &#8216;meal sequences&#8217;, where she cooks one thing for dinner on Sunday, and the rest of it becomes the base for the rest of the meals for the week. &#8220;With a costume change&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kinda cook like that, only with my family it looks different. I&#8217;ll often cook one huge batch of protein (chicken, pork, even beans) and then use what&#8217;s left to make new stuff. You&#8217;ve seen it over the last few menus, I made a pulled pork batch that became pork tacos, then BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, then the leftovers went in the pork chili. Sometimes it&#8217;s that planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s&#8230;more flexible. All the cooked veggies for the week (no matter what they were) will go in a soup. Or whatever fruits are on the edge of overripe will go in a smoothie, or a pie, or &#8216;fruit goo&#8217; for yogurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try to use everything up, and I try to make things not feel like leftovers. Even if they are just leftovers with a costume change. Looking in my fridge this week, that&#8217;s a whole lot harder, because I did such a great job using stuff up. But what I do have that has to be used up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Various veggies (bell peppers, half a cabbage, carrots)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lots of eggs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A few boiled potatoes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A whole mess of cheeses (sliced, block, and shredded)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A pound of bacon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Which looks to me like a really excellent breakfast on Saturday (eggs, bacon and home fries) and a vegetable soup to pack for lunches next week. But that sounds like breakfast and lunches, not dinners. I am declaring the fridge officially &#8216;cleaned out&#8217; of dinner food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week my meals are going to take advantage of the fact that pork loin is really cheap at my grocery store. I&#8217;ll buy 2 (BOGO) and butcher them into 4 thin pork chops, 2 pounds of stew meat\/stir fry meat, one roast, and whatever else I can get for the freezer. It&#8217;s less meal sequence and more meal strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday: parmesan crusted (pork) with leeks and apples, I found the recipe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coopersfarm.ca\/recipes-1\/2015\/7\/11\/parmesan-crusted-chicken-with-leeks-and-apples\">here <\/a>but I believe it goes back almost 2 decades to a really old Cooking Light recipe. I&#8217;ll make rice and roasted butternut squash with this. I&#8217;ll make a double batch of rice to make ahead for Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday: Sous vide pork chops with ginger scallion sauce and rice (leftover from Saturday). Steamed broccoli and carrots will accompany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday: Leftovers &#8211; it&#8217;s always leftovers on Mondays<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday: Some sort of quick Indian pork curry, I&#8217;ll serve this with Naan and cauliflower from the freezer. I&#8217;ll steam the cauliflower and mix it into my curry, The Kid can have some on the side, and the rest will be saved for a future meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday: We&#8217;ll need a pork break. I&#8217;ll make the turkey pesto meatballs from last week that never got made last week and serve them over pasta. We&#8217;ll eat whatever leftover veggies there are, or maybe pull some frozen kale out if we need to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday: leftovers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday: I think the plan is to find a gift card from the forgotten pile and go wherever it takes us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s this awesome blogger\/youtuber I follow named Cassandra over at Becoming a Farm Girl who resonates with me. She has all the awesome hobbies I do (actually, also the career) And one of the things she does regularly is her &#8216;meal sequences&#8217;, where she cooks one thing for dinner on Sunday, and the rest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grownupish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}