Paring it down....

So when you get older.....like retired.....a big challenge is to make less food to eat.....after all...there's only two of you ....right??

Easy to say....not so easy to do. My excuse is that I make enough for two nights, so I don't have to cook the next night for dinner. However, that still leaves the temptation to eat far more than is good for you on the initial night. Take for example last night.....

I thought I was being relatively simple...and I was...in the variety of food, just not in the quantity.  It was after all an Easter Dinner. We had ham, scalloped potatoes with 3 cheeses and steamed veggies with chocolate layer cake for dessert.

Two nights of ham and cheesy scalloped potatoes, as delicious as they were, is just too much. The rest has now gone in the freezer, although DH drew the line at freezing the chocolate layer cake. Funny thing...although the ham and potatoes were a hit....it was the veggies that there was the least of after last night's meal. (There were four of us). So I either cooked less veggies (although I thought there was a huge amount) or  I cooked far too much potatoes and ham. Methinks it was the latter.

When it comes down to it....I am really content with a meal of one half a chicken breast, half a potato and a salad and no dessert.

I just have to get into that mindset.  It's been six years since we started the retired life.....you'd think I'd have it down pat by now.

I guess not....it definitely needs some work.
Slainte