I am in love

I'd like to start out by saying "I am in love" Truly I am.

A friend gave me this magazine and I've been inspired! So far, since Saturday, we've tried out a recipe from her magazine each night, and let me tell ya! Delish and so simple. I cut out all the recipes that looked good for the week and taped them to my recipe cards. Then Dave and Caleb went grocery shopping for our dinner items, and so starting this weekend I knew what we'd be having all week which takes off the pressure and gives us something to look forward to! Saturday was tomato/didilini soup with celery, carrots and onions; Sunday was steak sandwiches stuffed with bell pepper and a potato apple salad on the side; Monday was a curry chickpea and spinach veggie dish; and yesterday was pork chops with apples and squash. I feel like excitement has come to our dinner table! I know it sounds kind of silly to say how excited we are about this, but I just lost the motivation and creativity with our meals. I'm just so happy to have new meals to try out! Chicken with some sort of pasta roni or rice a roni or potatoes and some sort of frozen veggie was just getting so boring! With a capital B! We're eating fresh veggies that are in season, we're having different types of meat almost every night or some sort of veggie dish, and the best part is that the recipes are so simple and cheap and I don't have to rack my brain trying to come up with something to cook, or ask hubs what he's in the mood for (or what he wants to cook. lol). I've never found great recipes in magazines before, I've always looked but they are either too complicated or way too time consuming. I also hate to cook so this is a big deal. A really big deal! (Ok, so I still don't love to cook, hubs has made two of the meals already this week! We also both admit that not only does he enjoy cooking more, he actually is a much better cook!) But anyway, A year's worth of subscription is $12. Crazy! (That's a dollar an issue, just to be clear)
Have I mentioned?  I am in love!!!