This Weeks Eats 6.2.13

A friend of mine told me that she was reading through the weekly menu and thought she really ought to try the tortilla pie or the baked taquitos (I concurred) and that her kids might actually eat them.  Now, I must admit - as I admitted to her, that my kids eat a very small fraction of what we make on ye olde weekly menus.  Eeegads!  I know.  My six year old has indeed tried the taquitos and a few of our other regular meals, but he still hasn't overcome that phase of being distrustful of food that he can't easily identify/things that are mixed together (What's that green thing in the soup? spinach What's that brown thing in the taquito? a black bean); and his three year old sister is firmly in the midst of this phase of suspicion.  Usually what they eat is a deconstructed version of what we're having: cheese quesadillas with black beans on the side when we have taquitos or Annies Mac and Cheese when we make fancy mac and cheese, etc. And, yes, sometimes they get a serving of 'I-give-up-just-have-some-chicken-nuggets-or-PBJ' while we eat our grown up dinner.  We do ask them to try everything that we eat; and I think that slowly, but surely, they're coming around.

If left to their own devices, they'd subsist on Jimmy John's alone.  I don't blame them, really.

• Monday - Pizza
• Tuesday - Gnocchi Soup with Sausage and Spinach
• Wednesday - Thai Turkey Meatballs
• Thursday - Fire Roasted Mac and Cheese with Feta (new recipe via Everyday Reading)
• Friday - Barbacoa Beef Burrito Bowls (we use this Skinny Taste recipe for the beef and load up bowls of brown rice with toppings Chipotle style)
• Saturday - Spagetti with Meat Sauce (trying Eat Live Run's version, probably with ground turkey)
• Sunday - Crockpot Cheesesteak Chicken Sandwiches and Marinated Tomato Salad (trying this new recipe from How Sweet It Is AND a new salad recipe I just pinned via the Pioneer Woman)

Linking up with Mommy Run Fast and Jill Conyers, as well as Rachel at In No Simple Language - be sure to check out all the great weekly menus!