It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and I hadn’t given the food a 2nd thought this year. Thank goodness I’ve partnered with Foodily—they’re on top of it, for sure!
It’s a family affair at around here. We’ve never had much luck with sitters (although the hubby’s parents offered babysit tonight—hooray for date night!) and rather than be disappointed year after year, we just make the day about the girls. No gift expectations, no stress over fitting a date night in on a certain date.
We just make it a fun, silly day for the girls. We’ve enjoyed candlelight dinner for five, heart-shaped pizza and red soda floats. I’ve made them heart-shaped pancakes, baked cookies and served cereal in heart-shaped bowls. This year, I have a few new tricks up my sleeve.
Strawberries are on sale this week, so I’m thinking parfaits! Of course, it’s easy to get carried away with Valentine’s Day desserts. The real trick is coming up with a family dinner everyone can enjoy—without going overboard on the grocery budget. It is No Spend Month, after all.
Sticking with the red theme, I can go with tomato or pepper based items. Maybe tomato-basil soup or chili—both are inexpensive, and I already have most of the ingredients on hand. I was also considering lasagna—I can use my mini-heart cookie cutters to carve designs into the noodles. The girls would get a huge kick out of that one.
While I’m cutting heart shapes, I think I’ll have a little fun with the girls’ lunches. Heart designs in their tortilla wraps, heart-shaped sandwiches. Oh, I love the cheesy! And, I think I’ve just decided to go with crusty grilled sandwiches, cut into heart shapes, for Valentine’s Day. I can pair it with tomato-basil soup for a light, festive meal. It should be fun.
What’s on your Valentine’s Day menu this year? Tell Foodily for the chance to have your selections featured on their site.
How to Share Your Foodily Menu:
- Go to Foodily.com and login with Facebook Connect (or create a login).
- Play around with recipes and find your favorites to create a perfectly delish Valentine’s Day meal!
- Once you’ve selected a recipe save it to a menu:
- From the recipe, select the “save” button, save it as an appetizer, main, etc., and then it’ll ask you to name your menu. Create your special Valentine’s menu title.
- Continue adding recipes and saving to that menu
- View your menu (either from tab at top or from your profile) and grab the URL (you can also share your menu on Facebook and grab the URL there). Note: the URL will look similar to this: http://foodily.com/m/1234
- Tweet the following and be sure to include the #foodilyvdaymenu hashtag at the end:
Check out my @foodily Valentine’s Day menu! Create one of your own! http://foodily.com/m/2791 #foodilyvdaymenu
(Note: You can also enter by sharing your menu on Foodily’s Facebook wall.)
- Foodily will be watching and selecting menu winners daily to be featured on the Foodily site!
I was selected to be a Foodily Brand Ambassador by Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity. This is a compensated program, but all of the opinions I share are my own.
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