Y’all want to hear a funny story?

My daughter wants to bow up. Like, she’s going to the gym and working with a trainer to get ripped. She’s eating right, drinking lots of water, and trying hard.

So I started trying hard, too. Last night, I decided to not only get my meal plan squared away for the week, but that I would cook extra everything and package the extras up in nice little containers for lunch all week. She and I would have pre-portioned lunches ready!

Talk about prepping! Who even am I?

So I cooked shredded Buffalo chicken over sweet potatoes with green beans on the side for dinner. So good!

I cooked extra chicken and green beans. There were no extra sweet potatoes, so I decided to throw some brown rice in the rice cooker to add to our lunches. 

I was excited about getting it all portioned and packaged, and I was even going to get to bed extra early. It was only 8:30 pm. Pumped! The rice cooker was bubbling, so I headed to do other things while it finished.

I bet I wasn’t out of the kitchen for 3 minutes, and something was wrong. I heard it.

I returned to find that our German Shepherd had pulled the prep containers off the counter and ate all the extra chicken and green beans. Gone. Four containers worth. He was polishing off the last of it on the floor when I walked in.

Containers everywhere. No food left.

Uuuggghhh.

So I started over.

I washed everything thoroughly and put more chicken into the pressure pot.

(By the way, pressure cookers don’t go “chooka chooka chooka” like they did back in the day, and I miss that.)

I cooked more green beans, too. Thankfully, the rice went untouched. I guess the cooker was covered and too hot.

So I ended up going to bed at 11:15 pm, not early. But I did get lunch prepped for me and my girl despite the shenanigans of our goofball dog.

He went to bed full and happy at 11:15, too.

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