To kick things off we got out our whiteboard and wrote out a basic plan of attack for the week. I work a normal 8-5 job, but James works 12-8, so we kinda have to do as much prep as we can on the weekends, so we tried to plan some of that in too.
Saturday afternoon after our shop we were excited to get going (even though at 1 wasn’t going to be until Sunday)! We made strawberry & banana pancakes with a chocolate drizzle (3 servings), a soda bread loaf and a bunch of tiny biscuits... all from scratch! We were pretty happy with how our first-time creations came out!
Then Sunday was a busy cooking/prep day! We started off each with a strawberry yogurt smoothie with cut bananas and some crushed strawberry wafer cookies, tea, water, and biscuits with jam for breakfast.
2 potatoes and spices made a nice bundle of wedges (we used our air fryer but they would have been good in the oven too). The lettuce head, cucumber and a bit of carrots made three big salads and 2 side salads with lots of carrots to spare for future challenge dinners.
Then we were eager to have some fun.. could we make schnitzel? We used one egg, flour and spices, and crumbled up some of the soda bread. We made as many schnitzel as 1 egg would do, which ended up being 4. 2 of these would later become dinner.
For lunch, we did some soda bread with butter as we weren’t really hungry.
Dinner was really tasty with pork schnitzel, salad and wedges for us both, followed by a yogurt & strawberry smoothie with wafer cookie base, all having sat in the freezer for an hour. Like poor man’s ice cream, it was really tasty! Great end to our day one challenge.
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