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When I get bored of kid friendly dinners I start to make two versions, the plain one and the tasty one. So kids get noodles and butter, which they like, and Cody and I get our noodles tossed with mushrooms, garlic, basil, and feta.

I'm watching this week's Grey's Anatomy, and I loved Burke's "Tell Meredith I said hello."

Mmm, hotel room bathtub.

I need to do my work. I have one thing that MUST be done today (and several others that SHOULD, but...) and a doctor appointment I have to leave for in 90 minutes. Ugh, self!

With us it is making the meaty version and my version. Sloppy Joes with burger for them and fake crumbles for me. Stir fry with meat cooked on the side and added after I take out mine. Things like sandwich bars or tacos are easy because we all can take what we like and skip the personally ucky stuff.

When we have extended family we have vegans, vegetarians, and committed carnivores so we are used to variety in menu.

Mmmmm food, now I'm hungry.

With us it is making the meaty version and my version.

I am far too lazy to make a vegetarian version and a meat version of things. If I can easily add in meat (like throwing meatballs on my dish of pasta), then I generally do, but when it's something like lasagna, I won't make 2 versions. (Friends of ours had us over for dinner one time, and for the 4 of us, they made FOUR different lasagas -- for me, gluten-free with meat; for Tim, regular noodles but no meat; for Friend 1, regular noodles and meat; and for Friend 2, gluten-free and no meat. I told the chef she was nuts and that Tim and I would BOTH happily have eaten the gluten-free + no-meat version, but she is determined to meet all her guests' needs. And, truthfully, I do prefer lasagna with meat, and that was KILLER lasagna.)

With lasagna it never bothers me to make a few at once. Some lucky people get to try them all! I like to make an Alfredo sauce one packed with yummy veggies as an option too. Then again I like the big gatherings so I can have the fun of cooking lots of things. Cooking for kids or cooking for just a couple gets boring quickly.

With lasagna it never bothers me to make a few at once.

I should have mentioned that I make mine in a crockpot, rather than in a pan in the oven, and I only have 1 crockpot, so making more than 1 would be hard.

An Italian grocery/caterer here offer's something called Mama Carlino's Traditional White Lasagna. I've never tried it, but it looks like it uses alfredo sauce instead of marinara.

I moved 5K from savings into checking when we went out to go car shopping. Sidenote: Why is car shopping so hard! Why can't I say what I want and have people show that to me? Why have cars listed on your website that actually aren't even in your possession? "Oh, that's still at the auction. No, we don't own it, it's waiting to be auctioned." Tell people you're a shill for the auction company, people!

Anyway, we gave up on car shopping for the day, after talking to someone who said, "No, you don't want to buy that yet, I'm putting a new engine in it next week, look at it then." Hubby likes him, so I guess I'm buying a Rav4 next week. But we're headed home, and I say, "I'll move that 5K back to savings." Hubby: "Why bother? it's not like it's going to make any more interest either place." A few minutes later I say, "I'd like to stop by Michael's, there are some things I want to look at." "Move the money first!" he cries.