Monday

Hey, Monday already. Sunday was a blur of fun. We were out all day, so the only things eaten were toast and cereal for breakfast and toasted sandwiches and cereal for tea. Not good I know, but I was exhausted after being out all weekend.

Today was better. More like normal. The usual breakfasts were had by all. this includes cereal - rice bubbles or cornflakes, porridge and toast. Juice and coffee and tea were the beverages of choice. We only buy two bottles of juice for the week, so it is for breakfast only.

School lunches by three and I took lunch to work.

Dinner was spaghetti bolognaise. We had seven for dinner tonight, since there was one extra boy floating about at dinner time, so we fed him too.

I have worked out that over the course of a normal week I serve a minimum of 42 dinners, make 22 school and work lunches, make 25 breakfasts, and feed anything up to 10 people at each meal on the weekend (excluding breakfast). We use at least four dozen eggs in a typical week, about 20 litres of milk, eat 10 loaves of bread, consume 1 kilo of bacon, 1 kilo of cheese, and no meal that includes meat is made with less that one kilo of the stuff (except stir fry, but that's about 700 grams of chicken). Fruit consumption includes about 3 kilos of apples, 3 kilos of oranges, 1 kilo of bananas, and this week because it was affordable, we have pineapple, apricots and nectarines. Vegetables include broccoli, fresh corn, tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, cucumber. We always have onions and garlic in the house.

That's enough of the number crunching for tonight. I am looking forward to summer and the plums getting ripe, because then we can make enough to last until next spring. I have to start doing more baking again too. I have got lazier as the year has progressed. Time to change me thinks.