Meal Plan: Roller Skating and Broken Dishwashers (Week 173)
We’ve had a broken dishwasher saga around here lately. When you have a family that is our size, having a dishwasher that works is pretty important.
How does this relate to my meal plan for the week? A broken dishwasher means I have two carry-over meals from last week’s menu because our dishwasher stopped working midweek. In the dishwasher’s defense, it really has had a hard and sad life at our house.
Here is our new dishwasher. We stuck with the same brand since ours had been so good to us. I mean, if an appliance can survive in this home, it is a brand to keep around. And our old dishwasher’s untimely death (it was only 6 years old) was of no fault of the brand.
Want to know how it died? Keep reading. But first meet our new beauty.
A couple of months ago my husband was roller skating in the kitchen (yes, you read that right) and the dishwasher door was down.
Let me insert here, my husband is a product of the 70’s and 80’s when roller skating was the coolest thing on the planet. He is a sporty, athletic and a very coordinated guy. If you follow Crystal & Co., on Instagram, you know that we go roller skating pretty regularly as a family. It is kind of our family hobby.
Well, we all have our own skates and my husband had just ordered some new skates for himself online. They were delivered to the house and he was “trying them out” in the KITCHEN one night a few months back.
I hear this insane noise as I am trying to get kids bathed and to bed. I seriously thought the wall came down.
I walk into the kitchen and broken glass is shattered on the floor, my husband is in a compromised position and the dishwasher is pulled out of the wall.
Pulled out of the wall. The front of the door and the inside of the door were pulled apart as well.
I laugh uncontrollably in situations like this after I flip out because the dishwasher has been pulled out of the wall. He swears the dishwasher door was not down when he started skating. Hint, he thinks we were out to get him.
There is never a dull moment in our house. Can you tell?
Needless to say our dishwasher has been broken for a few months, but I could jam it and kick it and push it until it would finally lock and start. Until Wednesday of last week. It stopped draining.
A broken dishwasher that will not drain, or start for that matter, is kind of a big deal here at Crystal & Co. I scream in horror when something says handwash only, for the record.
So yesterday we made trips to the home improvement stores on a dishwasher hunt. You can see our Home Depot and Lowes journey over on Instagram. One experience was much better than the other. {{wink}}
Meal Plan
Lentil Tacos– this is a carry-over from last week. I am going to try to make the filling in the crockpot. Inventive, right? Served with Puerto Rican Rice and refried beans.
Lentil Nachos– using the leftover taco filling above. This is my other carry-over.
Crockpot Ravioli– served with dinner rolls and a side salad.
BBQ Salmon– if you’ve never tried this you should. Easy in the oven or on the grill. Served with couscous and frozen veggies.
And that concludes our menu this week. We are headed out of town end of the week.
What are you serving your family?
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I’m laughing so hard right now! lol Thanks for the laugh and linking up your very tasty menu in my menu plan linky today!!! We love that crockpot ravioli here, too!
Susie- it was an interesting experience that roller skating in the kitchen event….. let me tell ya.
I was pretty sure that you were going to say that one of your kids was roller skating in the kitchen. Too funny!
Lisa- nope, the hubs…. not the kids. You read that right.
Although the kids do skate in the kitchen too, they have never taken down the dishwasher in the process.
I found out our dishwasher was dying when I saw the black smoke coming out of it!
It’s actually 97 degrees in Vegas today. Yikes! It’s like we’ve skipped spring this year!
Your menu looks delicious!
Priceless, Rona!
I love your story about the dishwasher. I think I will be seeing that in my mind for a while. In a good way. I also know what you mean about Home Depot, we went in, hubby to buy carpet, I to buy a fridge. The employees were all sitting in the kitchen model area deep in discussion of what party they were going to that night. We ended up leaving and then came back a few days later. When we went back, the first place we stopped was the service desk to speak to a manager about our last visit and to request that we could get help called back to those areas. The manager went back there with us and made sure we were taken care of. Still don’t have the fridge, they didn’t have what I am looking for, but we do have two of the three rooms with new carpet.
I should have taken a picture of our broken dishwasher. It was pretty ugly. And, no one has been roller skating in our house since. 🙂
Home Depot always seems to be our first stop, but this go-round really insulted me. They were two grownups- a man and a woman. At least 40 years old each. They were feet away and could hear our conversation. They knew we were there to buy. But they just sat, gossiping. The man, his back partly to us, and the woman starring at us every now and then as she continued her conversation with him. We were the only customers in the appliance area.
I did talk to the store manager before we left. I let him know we were there to get a dishwasher- as in walk out today with one. I told him what transpired and why were were going across the street to their competitor. He offered to help us, but my husband was not interested at that point. He felt like we had already spent enough of our time in the store not being addressed or helped.
Makes me wonder why employees treat customers that way.