Cold Cereal for Dinner?

What's for dinner tonight?  It's one of those inevitable things about being a human being.  We all need to fill our tummies at least three times a day.  I love to cook, but there are days that I'm so busy or tired by dinnertime, that I kind of wish we could just skip dinner and eat again the next morning when I know I will have more energy.  NOT GOING TO HAPPEN WITH KIDS!!  Today was an extremely busy day and we were out a lot.  The house was pretty untidy when we got home and I hadn't even decided on a plan for dinner.  We started to tidy and tried to think of our options, which were not looking good considering we had three boys who had to be at the church pretty quickly.  Finally I said, "We are having cold cereal and homemade pina coladas for dinner tonight. Someone go grab a box of cereal from the 72 hour kit stash."  (We rarely eat cold cereal because filling our children's bellies with it on a regular basis would break the budget, but we do keep some in our 72 hour kit.  This proved to be a great opportunity to "rotate" our storage.)  Fortunately we had Frosted Mini Wheats in storage this time, so at least they would get a little whole grain to go with their dinner.  Once we decided on our menu, things lightened up and we were all smiling and laughing again.  I joked with the kids that I was probably their #1 hero that night for serving such a yummy dinner.  Seriously! - they love cold cereal and they love homemade pina colada.  Tonight's thrown together meal probably ranked right up there with hamburgers or pizza for my kids. 

I realized tonight though, that it's time to get some more "ready to go" meals in the freezer.  Periodically I'll have spurts of a couple of weeks at a time where I will double and triple lots of our dinners, and freeze the extra for days like today.  I guess it's been a while since I did this because I couldn't find a single thing in the freezer tonight to just pull out, thaw, and serve.  I will definitely wait until after Thanksgiving for this project though….tomorrow we're making pies!!!