2025 Summer 4 – Tuesday

July 8, 2025 – by Carol in 2025, Summer 4, Tuesday, Weekly Meals

🍽️ The Menu

Main Dish: Supposed to be Beef & Lime Rice Salad
Side Dish: Supposed to be Chili Lime Sweet Corn Salad
Actual Meal: Wendy’s Takeout
Embedded: Quarter-cow ground beef that decided not to thaw 🙃

📸 Final Plate

🔍 About the Meal

The plan was zesty, lime-marinated beef over rice with chili-lime corn on the side. But when the ground beef — all 2 pounds of it, lovingly vacuum-packed from our quarter cow purchase — was still frozen solid at 5:11 p.m. on Tuesday after being moved from the freezer to the fridge on Monday, July 7 around 4:00 p.m., the plan officially unraveled.

Rather than panic-defrost in the microwave and ruin everything (including my mood), we opted for Wendy’s. Our order: junior cheeseburgers, fries, and one Frosty, because if we’re swerving off the meal plan, we’re doing it right.

The beef was rescheduled for Wednesday (hopefully). The rice and corn got a night off. And we enjoyed dinner with zero dishes. I’d call that a win.

📷 Photo Journal

📝 Tuesday Notes

Ground beef was removed from the freezer the day before and still wasn’t thawed.

The 2lb package will be portioned into 2x 8oz and 1x 4oz for future homemade spicy Italian sausage

That last 4oz? Might become a mini taco. Or a very lonely meatball.

Frosty was allegedly for Stephen, but I may have stolen a spoonful. Or four.

🎬 Behind the Scenes

I stood in front of the fridge for a full 30 seconds, willing the meat to magically thaw. It did not. The microwave was threatened. A delivery app was opened. Wendy’s won Tuesday.

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