This week was a no swap week for Shalinee and I. It is Kavya’s 5th birthday week– with her school birthday Thursday, and her big at-home dinosaur party (none of us in either family can wait!!!) on Sunday, there was just too much to do this week… swap just couldn’t fit in. And that is totally o.k. because sometimes it just can’t happen, and that is just real life. I did a Food post this week instead (see below). And now… phew!… onto the weekend (it has been quite a week here in J-M-land… lots of movin’ and shakin’ goin’ on… hopefully will be able to post about all that sometime soon…).
A No Swap Week
| November 12, 2010
Hello ladies! I just wanted to drop a note and tell you that the swap I started with my neighbor has turned into a three family dinner swap and we are all loving it! So far we’ve traded meals three days a week (one per family) and its such a huge thing to have those two dinners provided for each week. Even when things are a little hit or miss, it’s still NEW meals, no cooking, very little work and it is just so nice to have someone hand you a bag of cooked homemade food all ready too go. I think we should all start a swapping revelation! Families unit! Cook together and support one another! We could write a book about it….what do you think?
So far the meals we’ve exchanged have been:
Yaki soba and vegetables
Chicken Pot Pie
Quiche
Linguine w/chicken, spinach, broccoli
BBQ Chicken, Rice, Salad, Fruit
Pesto Pasta w/bread and red pepper slices
Egg rolls with shrimp and rice
Beef stew & bread
Lasagna w/salad
Baked chicken with roasted potatoes and carrots
Eggplant Parmesan
Taco salad
Tortilla Soup W/chips, avocado, cheese
Corned beef hash & bread
Beef stroganoff
Lobster chowder & bread
Chili & corn bread
Raviolis & Salad
Wow!!! This is so exciting to read this! Shalinee and I have talked for a long time about all these things you mention: how everyone should do it (the SWAP REVOLUTION!!!!), how we should make a book about it, and how awesome it truly is! We have also talked about making a separate blog just focused on The Swap, where readers would have a way to participate by telling us their own swap stories and posting what they’re making and exchanging each week. We are very serious about all of these things and they are hopefully on the horizon soon!
Keep us posted on your swapping, ok???!!!!! Maybe you guys could chime in each week on our swap posts telling us what you made out there on the other side of the country! A cross-country swapping community! đŸ˜‰ Love, Heather