A new challenge for next week

April 24, 2010 pamsbumblingthoughts

I haven’t yet discussed this with Marc but I can do this in a way that everyone won’t know what’s going on. My challenge is to make it entire week, weekends included to eating at home and not go out to eat. The only exception to this that I’m going to have to break is I’m helping my friend Laci move. Her husband is in the Army and they are moving to Ft. Benning. I’ll be helping packing and she said that she will get a pizza for lunch. I’ll chip in for the pizza But besides that little exception I’m going up for the challenge. The reason I would rather not tell the family is because we will end up going out and if I cook and suggest we grill out this weekend because we’re suppose to have nice weather and I want to grill out dang it. I might even make the little ants that I blogged about on the “what’s been happening” blog.

The main reason I want to take up this challenge is because we spend so much money on eating out. I’m sitting at the restuarant and yes it does taste better when someone else makes it, but I’m thinking to myself…I can make this. And I could make it without all the extra fat, sodium, etc, etc. We eat out alot on the weekends and I think we could save that money for something else. Plus I’m getting tired of eating out and the same thing.

I’ll keep everyone posted on how the challenge is going. I just need to make sure when I plan my menu for the week, I stick to it. Now I just need to figure out what to have this week. I’m open to any suggestions.

Until next time, happy eating.