Chicken Mojo and Kid Friendly Veggies

Every week we meal plan. It's for our sanity. To make a family run smoothly, something has got to give---and we gave up spontaneity! But, our meals are delicious, so it's not much of a sacrifice. We cook everything on the weekends in double batches. Sure it takes time on Sunday, but we don't have to cook anything during the week.

This week, our highlights were...

Mojo Chicken Avocado Cups from Rachael Bryant from Meatified. Think mango, avocado, lime juice, cilantro, and chicken walking into a disco and doing the electric slide on your plate. Amazing. And the kids liked it enough. They like all of the ingredients on their own, but in this plate, they didn't love it as much as I expected. Maybe they were having an off day--they didn't even eat all of the mango! Perhaps it was all of the cilantro.

Mac and cheese with....wait for it...beef and veggies. There is no official recipe for this. We have made it so much, it just comes natural. Maybe we like macaroni and cheese too much! We start by browning some beef. I prefer beefalo; it has more flavor in my opinion.Then we grab some veggies from the fridge or freezer, cut, and cook. We pick kid friendly veggies like carrots, peas, tomatoes, cauliflower, and potatoes. In a large pot we cook a whole bag of gluten free noodles...it does have to make 2 meals for the week...if it makes it that far. When the noodles are done, I put them in the strainer in the sink (bonus points if you don't have to take dirty dishes out the sink to put the strainer in it). In the now empty pot, we make the cheese sauce with almond milk, gluten free flour of choice, cheese, salt, and some other spices depending on our mood. We add the beef, vegetables, and noodles with the sauce, stir, and consume.