Rainy Night Dinner

All this rain in the northeast has been saturating in more ways than one. I spent some quality time with my ShopVac draining my basement this morning, "hosted" a Temple meeting, and at one point had 5 kids in the house playing at once. So although I was out of fresh vegetables I was determined to make a good dinner without leaving the house to go food shopping. We had friends join us which gave me increased motivation.

Here's what was in my bowl tonight:

• 4 oz tilapia
• paprika
• dried dill
• oat bran
• skim milk
• 6 oz frozen spinach
• 3 oz frozen lima beans
• 3 oz Trader Joe's Wild Mushroom Rice
• 1 T Smart Balance Light
• 1 T tartar sauce

To be honest, I should have had another 6 oz of vegetables too. If it had occurred to me earlier, I would have added grape tomatoes to my bowl

To prepare, I did the following, half hour before we sat down to eat:

• Poured skim milk over frozen Tilapia (thanks, Costco) in a baking pan. Sprinkled each filet with paprika, dried dill, and oat bran. Baked at 400 degrees until cooked (probably 15 minutes - a toaster oven works great for this).
• Prepared Trader Joe's Wild Mushroom rice in the microwave.
• Heated frozen lima beans in microwave.
• Heated frozen chopped spinach in microwave.

Nothing fresh about this dinner but it was quick, nutritious, delicious, *and* I have leftovers for tomorrow.

What did you have tonight?