I hear you. I know. Where’s Week 21? How can I just leave it back there, unscored and unloved?  What kind of cruel mayhem is being wrought?

In the interest of looking forward I’m just abandoning it. The Internet Accountability Project has survived larger hits than this, and I know we’ll muddle through somehow.  We’ll just put it down to Spring Fever and get on with our bad selves.  The Complaint Department looks forward to your letters.

Here’s the goal, as a reminder:

• Mon:  baked chicken leg quarters, grapes, broccoli, spinach salad with strawberries, potato salad
• Tues: fried rice, egg drop soup, apples, frozen veg.
• Wed: fresh pasta with sausage, onions and peppers, Caesar salad, fruit, 
• Thurs: BBQ chicken wings, rice, peas, fruit
• Fri:  pizza, fruit, salad

The actual:

• Mon: see above (benefits of writing after eating. 3 points.
  

  Look how pretty!

• Tues: pork fried rice, carrots, apples, cooked spinach. 3 points.
• Wed: ziti with peppers and sausage, Caesar salad, grapes. 3 points.
• Thurs:  P Terry’s. 0 points.
• Fri: Leftover Buffet! 1 point.

The end of the week was a bit of a mistake, but I rocked the beginning of the week.  

Everyone ate the pasta dish on Wednesday, even though there were vegetables touching meat touching noodles!  Tiny wasn’t thrilled about it, and separated everything, but I was a happy camper.  One pot dishes are my favorites. Along with crockpot dishes. And things grilled in foil packets. And casseroles.  I may have a problem in this area, so we’ll just agree I like a lot of things and move on to the scoring.

10 points is a good week. A solid B- or so. I was happy with the meals, and even Friday was a plus to me because we’d stacked up a lot of leftovers and it’s nice to not cook for a night.  It was also a frugal week because nearly everything was either in my house already or was a sale item. Cheepie is a fan of weeks where that happens!

I’ve slipped a good bit on the goal of having Boy and Tiny each take a night to cook dinner.  The effort required to walk them through it at the end of the day was a drain at the end of the day that had me losing my patience, which wasn’t helping them learn how to put a meal together but more learning how to get out of my way.  While that is an important skill, it’s not the one I was hoping they’d learn. So we’ll keep trying, and I’ll note when they are involved and how it worked out.

Cheep Cheep!