Well SO beat me to the stove last night, so we had baked chicken breast and potatoes for dinner, with a green salad with hardboiled eggs, green onions, croutons and gabanzo beans. SO made chocolate cup cakes for desert.
So we are having my oriental snow pea dish tonight. I am sauteeing the thinly sliced beef in olive oil with some sesame seeds. i am adding carrots and snow peas. Then I'll add the marinade of ginger, garlic, honey and soy sauce and let it steam. just before serving I will thicken the sauce and add green onions. I have already cooked the rice.
This afternoon I used over ripe bananas that FIL had brought by yesterday to make banana bread. My recipe calls for wheat germ, which I don't usually have in the house since it goes rancid before I use it up. I substitute oatmeal. I feel it is a good healthy alternate and gives a nice flavor. I also ground up some whole wheat to add to the flour mixture and used the lemons from one of our lemon trees.
We usuall don't have to buy sweet treats, since FIL brings us so much. He either buys it for us, or gets it free (when it is beyond the sell date). If we actually ate all he brings us we would be huge and very unhealthy. I don't know why he thinks we need to have that many sweets? I suspect he gets them, because he wants them, but he is not supposed to eat any of it.
I rarely eat sweets; I stay away from processed sugars and processed carbohydrates. SO eats maybe one or two cupcakes, but doesn't even have that every night. Stepson is rarely home, so he doesn't eat them. Most of the time we throw them out, because even the chickens don't eat them.
If we eat sweet treats, I'd rather have them be home made, because then I can put good healthy stuff in them and keep the unhealthy chemical stuff out.