Tonight I made a taco salad of great magnificence for Girlfriend, an al pastor with cheese sauce burrito with all the sides for Boyfriend, I had some leftover fried rice with chicken on top cause I saw it in the fridge and WANTED, and Son had himself a pizza that his wonderful mom had made and stuck in the freezer for him.

I'm doing precooking. There was an eleven pound pork butt that got cut in two and done in two slow cookers with onions and black pepper and several bottles of hard cider. That simmered overnight and I got 13 six ounce bags of meat out of that. Those get used for pulled pork wraps and pulled pork sandwiches, and as that is one of the "always available" meals, we like to keep plenty of it around. I find six ounces makes three wraps or sandwiches, and that's an amount that thaws quickly and gets eaten up before it goes bad.

I bought a two-pack of small pork tenderloin ends, and am cutting those into chunks to marinade in a Thai-inspired peanut sauce. I'll grill the pork and boil up the marinade as a dipping sauce when I serve this. Two pork ends are two meals for three of us. (Son is not into Thai flavors. Saturday nights he handles his own dinners.)

I got out my big cast iron dutch oven and cooked up three bags of spinach and one bag of kale into Thai spinach, which I serve as a side with both things like that Thai pork and with curries. Five bags of that, with each bag being two servings.

I made white rice and made it up into both four ounce and two ounce packets, and with the part that was left over made vegetable fried rice for later use as a side dish, packeted that up and froze it.

Currently I have apples rehydrating in hard cider to be put into apple cinnamon muffins for breakfasts. I thought about doing lemon-poppyseed, but right now I am having tooth issues so maybe poppyseeds are not a good idea. I buy the apples in packets freeze-dried. They're meant for snacking, but they're shelf-stable till I want them, and they rehydrate fast and I don't have the trouble of slicing and cutting a fresh apple up. I'll make the muffins tonight, too.

And then I'll clean up, because that blasted peanut sauce gets all over despite my best efforts, and sit and read and drink tea, and then go crash.

There's more to do tomorrow.

Those apple cinnamon muffins….rehydrated in cider😍….sound amazing!
Not sure what tea is going to be tonight ….Any ideas welcome! 🙃💡💡💡

Ah @lauriekallis feel for you and hope moving to be nearer The Boy becomes attainable…that sounds ideal for you all 💝
My oldest came down for a quick visit … I wonder about the feasibility of moving to Edinburgh one day, but have those thoughts of cramping their style & treading on their toes!
The youngest has also shared he has completed his application to live with a family in Japan to dive into another culture! Proud of him, but envious that some other “mum” gets him for a whole year!
I know I am being silly! But I am not looking forward to this next year much…