The Hillbilly Housewife Challenge - Day Two

Here's what our menu looked like today according to the meal plan:

Breakfast - Oatmeal, toast, margarine and jelly, orange juice, milk, tea.

Lunch - Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, carrot sticks, macaroni and cheese, milk.

Supper - Burritos with homemade refried beans and homemade tortillas, iced tea, fried onions.

Snacks - Jelly filled muffins, milk, tea.

Alright, so the good news first.  Before I went to bed last night I put a cup of steel cut oats in to soak with a handful of dried cranberries.  This morning I boiled them, drained them, and served Samuel and I the cereal with milk and a little bit of syrup.  We both ate it, and the leftovers got frozen to be tossed into muffins at a later date.  I don't know if steel cuts oats were exactly what the HH meant, but they're what I try and serve for oatmeal...

On the other hand, with a giant bowl of oatmeal no one needed the toast, so I didn't bother.

We had a date for lunch, and so the lunch portion of the menu got skipped today.  No big deal, I think, we've all eaten pb&j and KD before.

And that brings us to supper.  I made refried beans using the leftovers from last night's bean, garlic, butter and kale meal using this recipe.  I also made the tortillas, which were really surprisingly easy, using this recipe.  I may never buy tortillas again!  It is so incredibly hot that we just drank water and frankly, after making burritos from scratch I didn't even have the energy to fry a few onions.

David liked the beans, which was amazing!  I liked them, too, but seriously I have eaten some form of legume for every meal in the past two days - enough already.  Still, the recipe was amazingly simple and I imagine it will be a repeat for us.  Samuel wouldn't touch the beans or the tortillas, so he ate an orange.

Tomorrow I'm apparently making french toast for breakfast!  The boys should like that.  And then batter bread for lunch?  Batter bread?  Um....