If you have read this whole blog, you know that I plan the dinner menu for the entire month at the beginning of the month.
Like I can tell you that this Thursday we will have breakfast: biscuits, bacon. sausage, omelets, baked oatmeal and hashbrown cups.
I can tell you on the 19th we will have roast beef, mashed potatoes and roasted carrots.
Its all planned out, complete with a weekend trip to Auburn, grilling meals on the nights Ty is home early enough to grill and my absence on the night of 8th grade graduation when Ty can heat up spaghetti or take the kids out. Its all a neat little concise plan.
But what happens if on that night, that is not what you want?
That is one of the questions I get asked a lot.
What if on the 19th, I don't want roast beef or on the 23rd the kids do not want spaghetti?
(NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!)
Ty, dear sweet man that he is, is not a "foodie."
He IS incredibly picky about seasoning and he is not shy about telling me if something does not taste right. But he very rarely requests a particular meal.
But tonight, he did not particularly want what was planned. He had a request that goes back to his mother's cooking and what he finds as comfort food.
Leaning way back to his German heritage, he wanted Hot Dogs and Kraut with Mashed Potatoes. He has been asking for it for a couple of weeks now and tonight was the night.
The only thing I had at home was the stuff to do the kraut and the stuff to do the mashed potatoes, except potatoes.
But we were in the store and grabbed "QUALITY" (keyword here) hot dogs and potatoes. I would make him hot dogs and kraut.
That is not the meal I had planned: Porcini Grilled Chicken Salad.
But it is the meal he wanted and he does not ask for certain meals often.
So what do you do with the meal that was supposed to be prepared?
Its all about flexibility. We skipped buying lunch meat this week. He has grilled the chicken and will use that in wraps and on salads for lunch this week.
And just like that our meal plan adjusted.
A dinner moved to a lunch.
A happy husband.
And score for me: he paid for the groceries!
And that QUALITY word: we will leave for another night.
