easy menu

I like trying new recipes out but I'm also trying to simplify my life. So I think I'll write out an "easy" menu which will be my regular menu I can always fall back on, cuz it's stuff that's fast, easy, and tasty enough to me I can eat it daily and be filled & happy:

breakfast:
- McDougall cup of oatmeal (the one with cranberries is my favorite)
I know I can make my own for cheaper but I haven't practiced the recipe yet, and this one I only have to add hot water from the water cooler.
- fruit (this is if I've bought it from Whole Foods the day before)
- or vegan quesadilla (corn tortilla/homemade hummus (thus oil free - blended chickpeas and salsa or roasted red pepper)/nutritional yeast) This is also tasty but involves more preparation. Still doable at work though.


my favorite lunch:
- Whole Foods kale salad. This is sooooo good. Who knew? I don't eat the avocado (fattening cuz it's oily) and I worry a little about the flax seed oil in it (same reason - oils are fattening) but the rest of my diet (when I'm good) is generally healthy so I guess I should be fine.
- McDougall's cup of lime black beans
- premade brown rice (cook in bulk and fridged)
- Casa Sanchez salsa
- sliced bananas
The rice/black beans/salsa is good mix, and easy to prepare at work (nuke the rice, add hot water to the black beans cup, and a scoop of salsa to the mix. I seem to have this lunch a lot because it's so tasty and convenient. I wanted to try making my own beans but I have to work out the recipes for that. At least I've stopped buying the brown rice from the Whole Foods food bar. That was pricey, $7.99/lb and rice is heavy.

dinner:
varies, but favorites include:
vegan french toast
pasta & sauce
yam and black bean chili (Amy's brand)
Amy's brand soup (low-fat/dairy free) and extra veggie or brown rice added

Dinner I have more time so I don't mind cooking. When I eat out typically it's rice and veggies or baked potato and veggies.

I also want to throw in sweet potatoes into the mix (the white kind, I call the red/orange ones yams to differentiate.) Sweet potatoes are yummy and fairly quick to cook in the microwave. And I can eat them plain and they're filling.

So hopefully this'll help me remember to stop wasting $ on time-consuming items that take forever to get out of my cupboards.