Meal Plan Monday

Monday:: At Hershey Park, Kids will eat lunch and dinner Bentos
Tuesday:: Taco Night
Wednesday:: Lemon Garlic Chicken in Crockpot with Angel Hair Pasta
Thursday:: Out for a Graduation Party....GO ELISE!!!!  Taco bentos for the kids
Friday and Saturday:: Grill like crazy, two new Bobby Flay books at the library for me!
Sunday:: Sloppy Joe's  This is the Jessica Seinfeld version.

Meal Plan Monday

Monday:: Cooking a Roast.  The plan is to make some awesome sandwiches on my new deli slicer for the week.  On Monday I will serve hot roast beef sandwiches with au jus and fresh veggie sticks.

Tuesday:: Pasta with homemade sauce from the freezer.  I will reheat it in my crockpot.

Wednesday:: Chicken Nuggets... going to try yet again to make some from scratch that they will enjoy.   Plan to make a bunch and freeze some for our own easy version.

Thursday:: Roast Beef Sandwiches (or as Chelsea says Brown Meat please!) and Salad.  After this if there are leftovers I am going to attempt freezing some deli meat.

Friday:: Not sure, going to leave this night open to make something special for my husband.

Saturday:: Grilled Burgers, potatoes and Veg with a cilantro sauce ala Bobby Flay

Sunday:: Chili

Meal Plan Monday...an easy week for a tired mommy

Monday:: Steak Sandwiches on deli flats

 Tuesday::  Pasta night with noodles, sauce and meatballs
I make my sauce in the crockpot all day. Throw in meatballs before Chris comes home.  Easy!

Wednesday:: Turkey Burgers  on deli flats while Dad's out
I'll make extra noodles and do a big pasta salad to go with the burgers. 

Thursday::  Turkey Burgers on deli flats while moms at work then GNO
My kids don't seem to mind eating the same dinner twice and it won't be a repeat for me and the hubs.

Friday:: Pizza

Satuday: Birthday Dinner for Chelsea with Grandma...TBD

Sunday:: Easter tradition, homemade donuts for breakfast and semi traditional Easter dinner

Monday Meal plan...super easy and quick week

Monday:: I'm defrosting ground beef patties I made a few weeks back with extra beef.

Perfect for the warm weather.

Tuesday:: Chris and I are heading to Season's 52 for dinner...yum!
The kids will get to pick their dinner that night (they love playing restaurant, and I thought this would be fun before we head out at bedtime...plus doesn't every mom feel like a short order cook? why not make it fun).


Wednesday::5 Ingredient Chili
browned ground beef, crushed tomatoes, diced veg, beans and spices 

okay, so it's more that 5 but I use bagged combo veggies and a spice blend...super duper easy

Thursday::  I'm off to the For Pete's Sake Fashion Show  The family will have leftovers

Friday, Saturday and Sunday:: Off to the poconos!  I will bring leftovers, two already prepared frozen meals and probably get a meal out...yay for vacay!

Monday Menu Plan

Monday:Roast an entire chicken for use through the week ala Musings of a housewife.
We're going to have chicken, grilled potatoes and veg.

Tuesday:: Grill a very large flank steak for use through the week.   Chelsea has been loving brown meat.  We'll do Flank Steak, breadsticks and veg


Wednesday:; Salad with flank steak and breadsticks
 What is awesome about this week is we can have chicken and roast beef sandwiches all week!

Thursday:: Making Chicken wrap ups for the fam.  I am hosting book club going to make hungry girls chicken egg rolls and Kelsey's apple, pear tart. She was my fave on Food network star and I love her cooking channel show.

Friday::As usual it will be pizza night...can't wait.

Saturday: Date night...this means I either cook a take out fake out or we do takeout...who knows? I have been adoring Bobby Flay, so if the weather is good, we'll grill and have fun.

Monday Meal Plan and Makeover

This weeks meal plan  

Monday: Mushroom soup and homemade wheat bread

mushrooms, onions, water, spices

Tuesday: Chicken Chopped Salad

cooked organic chicken with a mess a veggies and homemade chinese honey mustard dressing

Wednesday: Pasta with sauce

Wheat pasta and homemade tomato sauce (tomato, garlic, onion, spices)

Thursday: Beef Stew

Grass fed beef, water, veg ( turnip, carrots, celery and sweet potato)

flour to thicken

Friday: Homemade pizza dough and sauce

dough: flour, water and yeast  sauce:tomato and spices

Saturday:Vday dinner out!

Sunday: Soup and dip night

Organic vegetable stock with noodles, vegetables and beans.
Homemade fries and veggies to dip into homemade bean dip and guac.

Just finished reading Food Rules by Michael Pollan.  Loved it. The basic principal is eating more simply.  Try foods with the least ingredients, foods from nature in their simplest form...sounds easy. Then I looked in my cupboard....yikes.  Why do so many foods that should contain just a few things, have tons of ingredients? The author explains that eating this way will make you feel loads better.  I already feel great about all my walking, so why shouldn't my eating follow suit.  Going to dip my big toe into trying recipes that have little or no processed foods in them.  For myself I'm trying for every meal.  With the family I am just changing dinner.  This week I came up with this  set of meals.  I am hoping just a few weeks and I'll be hooked.

Meal Plan Monday

Monday: Turkey Tenders, honey orange glazed veggies and crescents

Tuesday: Pasta with sauce and a side salad

Wednesday: Pork Chops, home made chunky applesauce

Thursday: Leftovers

Friday: Warm Sandwiches

Saturday: Chris's Chili

Menu Plan Monday

 This week is busy.  I have something going on every night of the week.  In addition, our freezer is too full.  So this week, I'm trying to use up some of our food and be inventive with our meals.  Wednesday we're going to bake a bunch of cookies for school and upcoming parties.  I love to freeze cookies too, makes me feel less obligated to eat them.  So we'll need some freezer space for this too!  Thursday I'll be having a few friends over and want to try out a new recipe.  With these things in mind, I made it an easy week on myself.

Monday: Manwich Sandwich with green salad

Using my organic ground beef from the freezer.  Bought on sale, perfect in manwiches.

 

Tuesday:Chicken Pasta Italiano and breadsticks

This is from one of the 5 chicken dishes I made from the Frozen Assets book.  It is served warm the first day.  But I think I will add lettuce and use it cold another day for a Salad Works type salad.

Wednesday: Hot Ham Sandwiches with veggie fixins and fruit salad

I have been trying to make our own deli meat.  Last week I made a turkey roast and cut it thin.  This week I have a turkey ham with no nitrates to try out.  I make it in the beginning of the week, which lets Chris bring it for lunch and we can use it for lunches too.  But on Wednesday I will heat it up and probably pull out some fun sandwich fixins.

 

Thursday: Leftovers

We are bound to have a ton of all this stuff leftover, so Thursday I will put together some leftover plates or bentos for us.

 

Friday: Homemade Hot Pockets, fresh veg and dip

 I love making dough on Friday for Pizza.  This week we will use some of the manwich or ham as a filling for our own hot pockets.  

Saturday: Chili 

Sunday: TBD soup...I love experimenting

Nothing like having a meal in the crockpot for lunch and dinner on busy or lazy weekend (who knows which type this weekend will be).  We can put Chili on hot dogs or eat it as is or turn it into a dip.  And soup is great with salad, bread or a baked potato!

Breakfasts this week: Cold Cereal/ Muffins/ Hot Cereal/ Waffles/ Smoothies/ Breakfast cookies/ Soy Yogurt Partfaits

Lunches this week: Tofutti and jam sandwiches/ ham, fruit and veggies cubes/ hummus and chips/ leftover pasta salad/hot dogs/leftover hot pockets