What's on your Saturday menu RNYers?

Amazing! Congratulations on making it officially across the finish line.

thanks!! It did seem for awhile there that it was never going to come!!

Can you share the blackberry/blueberry sauce recipe?

I just cook down a couple of boxes of each with a little SF Torani syrup (I use either a fruit-flavored one (any fruit) or the Vanilla Cinnamon). If you have enough blueberries, sometimes there's enough pectin in the berries to thicken it up nicely - but other times you might have to throw in a little cornstarch or guar gum or some other kind of thickener to get it to thicken enough to put on yogurt (or whatever) (the berries throw out a lot of water when cooked!!!). I'll usually add a little vanilla extract and/or cinnamon to taste, too.

it'll last for quite awhile in the fridge - a couple of weeks, maybe (ours is usually gone by then, though!)

Have you officially crossed the retirement line or is it early next week? Isn't it weird? Did you ever think you'd get here (and be young enough and healthy enough to enjoy it)???

my retirement date is officially Aug 1, but I had enough accrued vacation to walk away on Friday (June 29). BUT, even though it wasn't required, I wanted to close out the fiscal year (I do a lot of financial stuff because no one else likes to do it) rather than pass it on to someone else to close out when we're just talking one day short. So I took Friday off, and I'm going in on Monday instead to finish up. Hopefully it'll just take me a half day or so - but we'll see.

Congrats on the retirement!

Good morning! I'm having breakfast then DH and I are going to get ready to help some friends move. In this sweltering, humid lovely weather. I'm not looking forward to it, but hopefully enough people come to help that it will go fast.

Qotd: I go to my grandparents, they live on an average outside of my hometown. We have a BBQ, and all of us "big kids" spend way too much money on fireworks, and proceed to act like children for the day. Roman candle fights, artillery shell hot potato, and we usually try to put on an amature show at night for the rest of the family involving extra wick stringing all of our big nighttime display stuff together so that we can just light one end and it will all go off while we sit back and watch. It very rarely all works, but we have a lot of fun trying.

Breakfast: breakfast sandwich wraps using some egg white thins I found at Walmart, bacon, and cheese

lunch tbd (moving friends, not sure when we'll be done). We might grab some protein water.

dinner: putting some chicken in the crock pot with cream cheese and a packet of dry ranch mix.

I saw those egg white thins but I'm so weary of pre-packaged anything. Please give a review!

They worked fairly well for the little breakfast sandwiches I made, but they didn't really taste like much of anything, and I was hoping they would be more egg-like for my purposes. They are bound with flour, so they have 4g of carbs, and 4g of protein, so they aren't anything truly amazing nutritionally, but alright if you want a lower carb wrap thing. Though honestly, you could probably make these at home without the flour somehow.