Meal Plan(9/26-10/2)

Here is this weeks meal plan! Are you making anything good this week? I have started adding a few fall recipes to our meal plans. Even though it is still in the low 80's here for a high.

Breakfast: sausage egg & cheese cups (x3), pancakes (x2), probably fill in with cereal or toast the other days

Lunch: 7 layer tostadas(x2), ranch turkey roll ups (x2), out, leftovers. Lunches filled in with pretzels, fruit, & veggies

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Dinner:

Monday- pulled BBQ chicken sandwiches, coleslaw, veggie

Tuesday- Crockpot Chicken fajitas & rice

Wednesday- leftovers

Thursday- Shepherds pie

Friday- baked potatoes with toppings

Saturday-leftovers

Sunday- Fair Food(yea for the fair being in town)

Menu Plan(9/12-9/18)

Another week of menu planning. I was bad about it last week. I went to the grocery store twice for meals those days. And the rest of the week was either left overs or sandwiches. I just wasn't in the mood to cook & nothing sounded good. Crazy how I can go from one week of craving tons of things to the following week have a desire for nothing.

Breakfast-pumpkin chocolate chip muffins(x2), cereal(x2), egg & cheese burritos(x2), eggs & toast

Lunch-turkey wraps(x2), sandwich skewers(x2)...not sure what else. Lunch has kind of been a play it by ear thing.

Of course fruit & veggies will be added to lunch & fruit to breakfast as well...depending on what I get at the grocery store.

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Monday-BLT Salad & bread

Tuesday-Crescent chicken, green beans & mashed potatoes(dinner for a neighbor who had a baby doubled for us to eat too)

Wednesday-Leftovers

Thursday-Sloppy Joe Loaf & veggies

Friday- oven baked Chicken fingers(buffalo for Jason) & salad

Saturday-leftovers

Sunday-Braves game (if home for dinner southwest cornbread casserole)

Menu Plan (8/29-9/4)

Another week of meal planning. By far breakfast & lunch are the most difficult to plan. It is so easy to want to fall back on cereal & sandwiches. Those don't take much work or thought. So I am really trying to plan better breakfast & lunches with some variety.

Breakfast- eggs, toast, & fruit(x2), cereal & fruit(x3), english muffins & fruit(x2)

Lunch-Turkey ranch pinwheels(x2), grilled chicken on salad(x2), macaroni & cheese...all lunches served with fruit & veggies

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Monday-marinated chicken, veggies & brown rice

Tuesday-tacos & black beans

Wednesday-left overs

Thursday-Baked ziti,(a family favorite) bread, & salad

Friday-out

Saturday-leftovers

Menu Plan (8/22-8/28)

Once again I will be linking up with Desiring Virtue & sharing our menu plan for the week with her Menu Mayhem. A great place to get ideas if you are stumped for dinner ideas. I know it really helps me because sometimes it feels like we have eaten the same things for months. I really do enjoy cooking and like to try new things, but we fall into the pattern of eating the same things. I notice this more as seasons come to an end. Summer is ending & I feel like we are just circling our summer meals. Because some of the things I am ready to eat are too fall to eat in summer. Do you have foods you only eat during certain times of year? I know I could make them whenever, but something about soup that is just right for cool nights & so wrong for super hot summer evenings.

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Ok on with the meal plan for the week. Changing it up a little. I am just going to list our plan for breakfast & lunch together not a specific day. As it seemed last week we just ate what we felt like not paying attention to what day I had assigned it. Dinner I mostly stick to the day it is planned, although you will see a couple things repeated this week that we didn't get to last week.

Breakfast-
eggs, toast, & fruit (x2), blueberry muffins(x2), breakfast burritos(x2), & cereal

Lunch-
leftovers, chicken salad(x2), turkey sandwiches, blts(x2), all with fruit, & veggies

Dinner-
Monday-Enchiladas, spanish rice, & corn(carried over from last week)
Tuesday-chicken tetrazzini, veggies, & bread
Wednesday-Left overs
Thursday-Chicken strips, potatoes, & veggie(carried over from last week)
Friday-pizza & veggies
Saturday-left overs
Sunday-dinner at my mom's

Menu Plan(8/15-8/21)

I am going back to sharing my menu plans for the week and will be linking up with Desiring Virtues, Menu Planning Mayhem. If you are looking for menu ideas check out her link party for some great ideas.

Monday-
B-Sausage, egg breakfast casserole & fruit
L-Turkey sandwiches, pretzels, & fruit
D-rotisserie chicken, peas, & fruit

Tuesday-
B-sausage, egg breakfast casserole & fruit
L-Chick-fil-a with friends
D-Weeknight enchiladas, spanish rice, & corn & black bean salad

Wednesday-
B-waffles & fruit
L-chicken salad & fruit
D-Crock pot bbq sandwiches, coleslaw, & beans

Thursday-
B-waffles & fruit
L-turkey sandwiches, veggies, & fruit
D-leftovers

Friday-
B-breakfast casserole or waffles(whatever is left from earlier in week)
L-veggies & dip with fruit
D-chicken strips, veggie & potatoes


Saturday-
B-eggs, toast, & fruit
L-chicken salad & fruit
D-Leftovers

Sunday-
B-cereal & fruit
L-out after church

D-at my mom's

What's for Lunch?

What do you eat for lunch? For me lunch seems to be the hardest meal to plan.

Breakfast is easy: usually I make a big batch of waffles to have in the freezer for easy toasting, some mornings we do cereal, or oatmeal, and others we do eggs.

Dinner is fun to plan! I enjoy cooking and have fun going through blogs, cookbooks, and other recipes deciding what to cook for dinner that week. I do a weekly menu plan and it works great.

But then there is lunch. Lunch is usually just Jake & I. And really I don't want to have to "cook" another meal. I want something that is easy to put together, but tastes good. Sometimes we eat leftovers, but I am really not a big leftover fan. Lately lunch has been sandwiches, with a veggie, pretzels and fruit. The sandwiches aren't too fancy tuna, chicken salad, or turkey. We have been know to switch it up and make the sandwich into a wrap instead of eating it on bread. But still pretty boring and normal.

This sandwich option is easy. The ingredients last us most of the week. With a lunch out here and there or leftovers. And doesn't add a whole bunch to our weekly grocery budget.

Through the wonderful world of internet & The Ultimate Blog Party going on at 5 Minutes for Mom I have discovered several blogs with tons of great lunch ideas. Most of these lunches are fun for Jake, but are adaptable for me (you know I don't really need my food cut out into shapes, but I can still eat the ingredients).

Do you struggle with lunch like I do? I have put together a small list of blogs or other online resources that list great lunch ideas. I haven't tried any of these recipes yet, but will be adding some to our meal plan. Some of the sites might contain info I don't agree with or use ingredients that I would not. Since I was only looking for lunch ideas I didn't look around a lot on the sites. And ingredients I wouldn't use will be replaced with stuff we like.

Have you heard of bento lunches? They are kind of becoming a big deal in America. Read here to see what it is all about. You can search and find tons of bento lunch ideas. For this reason I am only linking to one bento lunch menu blog. But really there are tons! 

Bento Menu Library at Laptop Lunches
20 quick & easy lunch recipes
The Kid Can Cook -we are not nut free, but some of these sandwiches looked fun & yummy
Once A Month Mom-doing something like this might work too cooking everything one day and having lunches available

Ok, that is only a few lunch ideas. Really there are tons!! And when I try some good lunch recipes I will let you all know. In the mean time share with me in the comments...what do you do for lunch at your house?

Menu Plan (5/19-5/25)

                                     Last years anniversary cake(recreation of wedding cake top)
                                                                         made by spoonful of frosting


Wednesday:
Breakfast: eggs & toast
Lunch: out
Dinner: Chicken Tetrazzine, squash & whole wheat biscuits (carried over from last week)

Thursday: 
Breakfast: banana bread waffles & banana
Lunch: turkey sandwiches & cantelope
Dinner: sloppy joe loaf, homemade fries, & veggies

Friday:
Breakfast: banana bread waffles & fruit
Lunch: bean & cheese burritos & cantelope
Dinner: left overs to clean out fridge

Saturday: Happy  6 year Anniversary
Breakfast: cereal

Lunch: hot dogs, macaroni salad, & fruit
Dinner: Little Caesar's pizza (this is where Jason & I met)

Sunday, Monday, & Tuesday-Jason & I are out of town to celebrate 6 years of wedded bliss...all meals in Savannah!!!

Menu Plan (5/12-5/18)

                                                             Bean Salad Wrap
                                                          
Wednesday:
Lunch: bean salad wrap & apples
Dinner: meatloaf, rice & veggies

Thursday:
Breakfast: eggs, toast, & banana
Lunch: bean salad wrap & pineapple
Dinner: fajitas, home made pico de gallo

Friday:
Breakfast: cereal & apples
Lunch: chicken salad sandwiches, tangerines, & broccoli
Dinner: Chicken Tetrazzini & green beans

Saturday: 
Breakfast: apple & banana muffins
Lunch:  Welcome Baby shower
Dinner: left overs

Sunday:
Breakfast: apple banana muffins
Lunch: sandwiches, fruit & chips
Dinner: ribs, chicken, corn on the cobb, & salad

Monday: 
Breakfast: fruit salad & muffin
Lunch: out
Dinner: Jason cooking-I am sure something on the grill

Tuesday:
Breakfast: eggs & toast
Lunch: left overs
Dinner: stuffed cabbage rolls & whole wheat biscuits

Menu Plan (5/5-5/11)

                                                                     Tortilla Pie
Wednesday:
Breakfast: bagel & tangerines
Lunch: Chicken salad, pears, & salad
Dinner: Tortilla Pie (Happy Cinco De Mayo) & Spanish rice

Thursday:
Breakfast: cereal & apples
Lunch: Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars (never got around to making these last week), veggies
Dinner: Beef Stroganoff(carry over from last week) & green beans

Friday: 
Breakfast:  whole wheat waffles & fruit
Lunch: Chicken salad, fruit & veggies
Dinner: Spaghetti, salad & bread

Saturday: 5K day
Breakfast: protein bar
Lunch: out
Dinner: grilled chicken, corn on the cobb, ranch potato salad

Sunday: 
Breakfast: cereal
Lunch:PB & J bars & salad
Dinner: at mom's bringing carrot cake

Monday:
Breakfast:  whole wheat waffles & fruit
Lunch: tuna wraps & fruit
Dinner: steak, baked potatoes, & veggies

Tuesday:
Breakfast: cereal
Lunch: PB & J bars, veggies, & yogurt
Dinner: left over buffet

Menu Plan (4/28-5/4)

I get asked a lot what we eat around here. And I really enjoy planning menus and cooking food. Although, I do sometimes get tired of coming up with things to cook. I decided that I would share our weekly(hopefully) meal plan with all of you and possibly a recipe or 2 as well. Since we have started getting the Farmers Market Basket on Tuesdays I have had to move our shopping day to Wednesday instead of Monday. So my weekly menu will be from Wed-Tues each week. Please feel free to leave any yummy meal ideas in the comments...especially lunch ideas! This is the rough plan sometimes we change meals around depending on our schedule.

                                                           cilantro stuffed chicken
Wednesday:
Breakfast: apples & bagels
Lunch: visit Daddy at work, pizza
Dinner: cilantro & garlic stuffed chicken(using last weeks farmers market basket cilantro) brown rice & broccoli

Thursday:
Breakfast: cereal & banana
Lunch: sandwiches, veggies, yogurt & fruit
Dinner: Sausage & leek casserole, homemade hash browns, & green beans

Friday:
Breakfast: whole wheat waffles & bananas
Lunch: peanut butter & jelly bars, veggies & yogurt
Dinner: Deluxe hamburger salad & fruit

Saturday:
Breakfast: waffles & fruit
Lunch: chicken salad sandwiches, fruit & veggies
Dinner: mushroom stroganoff, salad, whole wheat bread

Sunday:
Breakfast: cereal & fruit
Lunch: out after church
Dinner: mom's house-bring homemade guacamole & chips

Monday:
Breakfast: oatmeal breakfast cookies
Lunch: peanut butter & jelly bars & veggies
Dinner: grilled hamburgers, baked beans, & salad

Tuesday:
Breakfast: oatmeal breakfast cookies
Lunch: peanut butter & jelly bars with veggies
Dinner: left overs again (usually plan this in 2x's a week)

Snacks we are eating this week: fruit (lots of it thanks to our farmers market basket we have oranges, apples, bananas, & pineapple), homemade chewy granola bars & veggies with hummus