Menu Plan Monday January 12

You may notice that I switched my 'week' and moved the weekend to the front of the line. I shop on the weekends and it just makes more sense for our family right now. Maybe when I am not working any more and go back to shopping at the beginning of the week I'll go back to Monday through Sunday again.

Dinners
Saturday: Spaghetti, green salad
Sunday: Baked chicken drumsticks, rice pilaf, and corn
Monday: Lasagnia and green salad
Tuesday: Shredded pork loin crockpot, twice baked potato and broccoli
Wednesday: Leftover night
Thursday: Turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and green beans
Friday: Tacos

Reality is the days will get shuffled around but as long as Saturday and Monday happen then everything else is good.

Again this week I will make a breakfast bread and a sweet (most likely it will be Magic Bars).

Looking for more menu ideas? Check out I'm an Oranizing Junkie. Have a great week!

Menu Plan Monday January 5

Menu Plan for January 5, 2009

It will be a busy and changing week so the plan is to keep things simple and dinner going on the table so we stay out of the restaurants.

Monday: Spanish Rice, Tossed Salad -moved to Thursday

Tuesday: Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Corn, Salad - Moved to Monday

Wednesday: Chicken Cacciatore (crockpot), Rice, Salad - Didn't happen

Thursday: Leftover Buffet

Friday: Chicken ala King, Puff Pastry, Cranberry Sauce

Saturday: Lasagna, Tossed Salad, Garlic Bread - moved to this coming Monday but did make spaghetti so the sauce is ready for Monday. ;)

Sunday: Roasted pork, twice baked potatoes, broccoli - moved to this coming Tuesday made baked chicken and rice with corn

I also plan to make banana bread, regular bread to go with some tuna salad to take care of lunches, and perhaps some croutons to use up so going stale bread. Banana bread was a great idea, tuna salad didn't happen so the reg bread became bread pudding Saturday night.

Looking for more menu ideas? Check out I'm an Oranizing Junkie. Have a great week!

Menu Plan Monday August 18th

What's new for this week? I am starting to add recipes for some of the meals. If you need them scaled larger please let me know as I have that done since I enjoy freezer cooking. Also note that I will play with recipes. What that means is if I am short on something or have a bit more I will adjust to make it work for what we will enjoy.

Last week had a few bumps and it caused some problems but it is a new week and a new menu. I will be going shopping today and in an effort to avoid some of the issues from last week I plan on correcting the menu if I am unable to get the needed items. I will not wait and hope to get them later in the week since that didn't work last week.

Here goes:
Monday - Steak, seasoned potato cubes, and broccoli (hold over from last week)
Tuesday - Italian sausage with peppers over spiral pasta, Side salad

Wednesday - Rice bowls (using pork and broccoli)

Thursday - Chicken with wine sauce, side salad

Friday - Leftover night as I'll be busy prepping for Saturday

Saturday - Block party no real cooking just "doing it all, LOL!"

Sunday - Birthday party so no cooking :)

Looking for more menu ideas? Check out I'm an Oranizing Junkie. Have a great week!

Menu Plan Monday August 11

As you can see by the missing menu week we ended up with that emergency trip out of town for 11 days and during that time we had a power outage. :( I checked the freezer and it must not have been out too long as the ice cream in the freezer shows no sign of ever softening but as I check refrigerator items I wondered just how long it was out. DH & I together decided to error on the side of caution and pretty much pitched everything from the fridge that would spoil. Talk about putting another dent in a much dented budget!

Oh BTW, I am actually linking up to MPM on "I'm an Organizing Junkie" this week!!! I had planned on doing this a couple of weeks ago but it took me some time to figure out how to do links and such so I waited and I played and then I went back and fixed some previous weeks so welcome!

Anyway, on to the meal plan for the week! Note that we will have guests here for a few days so I will do my best.

Dinners: (yes, I included Sunday as I wanted it planned since I didn't get a menu done last week)

Sunday - Chicken Cacciatore served over rice with a side salad - Went over well with the company including a picky teenager.

Monday - Lemon & Pepper Hamburgers, pasta salad, & fresh fruit salad ~moved to Tuesday since company ordered a pizza for lunch at 4pm

Tuesday - Grilled Steak, slice & bake seasoned potatoes, & broccoli ~ moved to Friday as we had leftover buffet of pizza, hamburgers, and Chicken Cacciatore

Wednesday - Turkey & gravy with mashed potatoes, salad, & cranberry sauce

Thursday - Grilled Pork chops, rice pilaf, corn, & applesauce ~ messed up and made the Taco Ring here

Friday - Taco Ring ~ became pork chop night

Saturday - Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, & broccoli ~dinner out

Sunday - Freezer buffet

I do want to mention here how I plan to deal with the other meals of the day since I have extra people in town this week and dh may or may not be working the whole day all week.

Breakfast choices:

Hot cereal

Cold cereal

Toast

Pancakes

Bagels and cream cheese

eggs & bacon

fresh fruit

Lunches:

Leftover buffet

PB & J

Macaroni and Cheese

Canned soups

Salad

Menu Plan Monday July 28

As you can see, last week did not go as planned but at least I had some ideas available to me and the stuff to make them. I will have company again for a good part of the week so we will see how that all plays out.

Monday- Chile with corn chips (Yeah! We followed the plan!)

We however got an emergency call out of town and did not return for 11 days so the rest of this week went out the door. I froze what I could but.....
Tuesday - Leftovers / sandwiches since dh is on call and I am supposed to be out
Wednesday - Stuffed peppers and salad (hold over from last week)
Thursday - Pork chops, rice pilaf, applesauce, and broccoli
Friday - Lemon Chicken recipe I found on this MMP site
Saturday - Dinner out or leftovers
Sunday - Spaghetti with salad

Menu Plan Monday July 21

It is time to get back in the habit of meal planning so I thought a post would be the best way to help with accountability. Of course this first week we are having company from out of town but we don't know when so I decided to just put up the menu that would be if it was just us and roll with the punches.

I picked up the idea of posting my menu at http://orgjunkie.com/ hop over and take a look.

Monday - Stuffed Peppers and rice - Switched with Spanish Rice meal
Tuesday - Steak, cubed potatoes, and salad - Didn't happen :(
Wednesday - Pork chops, rice pilaf, applesauce, and broccoli - Didn't happen
Thursday - Chile - Nope :(
Friday - Leftover buffet
Saturday - Dinner out
Sunday - Spanish Rice and salad - used earlier in the week so made Turkey w/ Mashed potatoes and corn