Healthy & Delicious Meals From My Pantry #4

 

I created a lot of delicious, simple and healthy meals this last month.  It always amazes me how much I enjoy my meals when they are simple and basic.  Like tuna salad.  Simple, easy and delicious.  I opened a couple cans of tuna and drained the juice into the kitty’s bowl for them to lap up.  To the tuna I added a couple diced hard boiled eggs, some homemade sweet relish and a blob of mayonnaise.  I used this to create grilled tuna sandwiches using low carb bread for four different lunches.  Very good!

 

Grilled tuna sandwich w/sliced peaches

Simple, yet delicious!

Easter Sunday I prepared a special dinner to enjoy mid afternoon complete with dessert.  I grilled a London broil and made macaroni salad, seasoned green beans and deviled eggs to have alongside.  Dessert was strawberry rhubarb shortcake.  It was so good and I had plenty of leftovers to enjoy in the coming week.

 

This was so amazingly good! 😋

One evening I paired leftover macaroni salad and green beans with a grilled salmon fillet and dill sauce.  Divine!

 

Cobb salad

Taco salad

Dinner salads were a biggie this month, especially the Cobb.  I dressed my salads with olives, marinated artichokes, pickled beets, sliced hard boiled eggs (I even pickled some in the beet brine) and my own homemade salad dressing or my favorite store bought blue cheese.  Perfect spring meals on a busy day.

Bacon & cheddar omelet with a slice of toast

 

This is one of my very favorite meals - Pot roast!

I prepared a chuck roast sprinkled with au jus seasoning in the slow cooker.  I added red potatoes, carrots and broccoli.  Then I made a delicious gravy out of the rendered juices and a cup of beef broth I had in the freezer.  This meal was so wonderful and I had enough roast left to put away in the freezer for a future batch of my delicious bolognese.

 

Beef & barley soup w/cornbread muffin

Homemade soup with a side salad and a cornbread muffin were perfect after a busy work day.  I enjoyed minestrone soup and beef barley on two occasions.

 

I made chocolate chip, cranberry oatmeal cookies too

I am so grateful to be blessed to have so much delicious and nutritious food to eat on a daily basis.  I am also very grateful to have the ability to prepare these meals, preserve food, plan and shop for my food and be able to keep my overall costs relatively low.  I am truly blessed.  God is very, very good to me.