I wanted to check in this morning to bring some normalcy back into my life. While I often share a recap of our weekend on Mondays, today that would look like a lot of at-home shenanigans and walks around the neighborhood, so I opted to shift the focus away from our weekend and onto our eats!
I typically don’t snap pictures of our food on the weekend for no reason other than the fact that I fell out of the habit years ago and feel like my weekend recaps are long enough without a food focus. However, today I’m sharing a glimpse into breakfast, lunch and dinner from Saturday and Sunday. Since our weekend eats tend to look a little different than our week day eats (we rarely eat out Monday through Friday), I thought it might be a little interesting to see how our meals differ a bit on the weekends from time to time (snacks not included). So let’s dive right in, shall we?
Saturday
Breakfast
Saturday morning began with French toast! Pancakes are a breakfast staple for our family on the weekends but lately we’ve been veering from our usual routine and changing things up a bit with French toast. I almost forgot how delicious French toast is, but I’m so glad it’s back in my life! We paired our French toast with some unpictured sliced strawberries as well.
Lunch
Lunch on Saturday was an easy throw-together meal. We had some leftover chicken sausage and roasted Brussels sprouts on hand and I quickly whipped up a batch of air fryer breakfast potatoes to bring our lunch together and give it a little more substance. It should also be noted that as the potatoes were cooking in the air fryer, I ate my body weight in kettle corn because we had a bag out on the counter from earlier in the day and I cannot be stopped around that stuff.
Dinner + Dessert
Dinner was a simple one but so good! Our boys love pizza with our weekend movie nights so we paired a frozen pizza with green beans and blackberries for the boys. Ryan and I had our pizza with some sliced brie cheese and crackers as well as a pesto white bean and shredded carrot salad. I made the salad by following a recipe in the How Not to Die Cookbook and loved the pesto sauce so much. It was also really easy to whip up! I simply combined the following ingredients in a food processor to make it: 3 garlic cloves, 3 cups fresh basil, 1/3 cup raw almonds, 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast, salt and about 1/3 cup of chicken broth. I think this would also be a great sauce to use in my lunchtime grain bowls during the week!
Oh and we cannot forget about dessert! Movie night in our house always includes dessert and 95 percent of the time this looks like ice cream. I topped my ice cream with crushed macadamia nuts for a little crunch. Yum!
Sunday
Breakfast
On Sunday morning breakfast was a two-parter. I was up before everyone and needed something to eat before our family’s breakfast so I made myself an egg white and oatmeal protein pancake topped with hemp seeds to tide me over. (Clearly the pancake did not flip well in my skillet. Ha!)
Part two looked like green smoothies for the whole family!
Lunch
We spent Sunday morning with the boys at a local deserted baseball field, running around, throwing balls and playing games. On our way home, we swung through the Jimmy John’s drive through and picked up sandwiches, pickles and cookies for lunch. Our boys are 100 percent pickle-obsessed and both can easily eat an entire Jimmy John’s pickle without batting an eye. Ryan and I have learned to order at least three pickles cut into quarters for our gang if we want some for ourselves!
Dinner
Our kids lucked out with pizza two nights in a row this weekend, mainly because I was craving mozzarella sticks and Ryan wanted lasagna. We ordered everything from Brooklyn South, one of our favorite local restaurants, and Ryan picked it all up to bring back home while I handled the boys’ bath time. We also had some green beans and strawberries with our take out feast so some unpictured color and nutrition managed to make it into our meal.
Question of the Day
How often do you typically eat out every week?
Are you more likely to go out to eat or get take out on the weekend or weekdays?
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We usually try to eat in Sunday – Thursday. If we get takeout or go out it is usually Friday or Saturday. By Friday, my brain is all out of dinner ideas so I just give in and get takeout or meet up with friends for dinner.
We are always so busy running around on Saturdays with various sports that run later that we just go somewhere or pick up something on the way home.
With the weather finally starting to warm up, we usually grill out with friends that live close to us atleast one time during the weekend too. I don’t consider that eating out since we all pitch in and help with a dish and clean up!
Your comment just made me feel all the more excited for grilling season! Woop!
Love seeing your weekend eats! I’d say we normally eat out only once a week. And it normally happens on the weekend when I’m running low on groceries or am so exhausted from other weekend activities. Normally it’s ordering some Chipotle to go or ordering chicken wings from our local bar.
What’s more common is “scrounge night” 🙂 aka.. rough day at work, no energy, let’s have some pancakes, scrambled eggs, or whatever else you can find in the house!
Love the ‘scrounge night’ name — that’s definitely what it feels like when we do the same thing! Breakfast for dinner is our go-to as well when we’re low on food
All of your food looks delicious! Because my husband has Celiac, it makes it a little more difficult to order takeout. Otherwise, we would enjoy a few times here and there. Right now, we do go out to eat on occasion but rarely order to-go. Pizza does sound amazing, and you’ve reminded me that I need to make French toast soon!
I am pregnant and my doctor specifically told me to order pizza! It is the safest thing because no germs can survive a pizza oven. So you can help local businesses while still being safe!!
Love that! Any excuse for more pizza, right!? And big congrats to you!! <3
We are a Friday night pizza family for sure! It’s fun to look forward to and we try different places and styles. We usually order out and bring it home and it feels like a treat to get into PJs early and unwind. We also have a 1 year old so eating out looks a little different now than it once did.
Happy to hear from you during this wild time, Julie. Wishing you and your family health and peace and safety. Thanks for being here, it helps combat isolation to know you’re blogging.
Oh yes, I swear every time we eat our with our kids, it makes take out seem ALL the more appealing! Haha! Hope you’re doing well right now — thank you for your kind comment, Meghan! <3
We tend to eat out about 2 meals on the weekends and do meals at home during the week.
i eat out prob 2 lunches/2 dinners a week and we eat out as a family prob 2 a weekend (on a normal basis) but right now im pregnant, and almost out of the first trimester (11wks tomorrow!) and my cravings and food aversaions, have caused me to eat at home less and eat out a bit more.
Pizza nights are always fun. We gorge on them, sometimes fighting on who gets the last slice. It’s my contention that our little dog gets the most fun and most out of pizza nights. She is right in the thick of action demanding some from everyone person.
With these challenging times we MUST “eat in” from restaurants, shop online, run through the drive through and not hoard toilet paper. If we want to keep the economy alive for when businesses are able to reopen this is the ONLY way. I work for a large financial institution and everyone is scared. But as a society we determine where our dollars go and spending = people keeping jobs and being able to pay bills. Thoughts?
I agree very much! A lot of our local restaurants have turned to pick-up and delivery and we’ll absolutely be supporting them. I’ve also heard people recommend buying gift cards to local businesses to support them through this time and think that’s such a good idea.