Menu for week of 9/21/09
I started menu planning last spring as a way to save money. We eat out entirely too much, as was proven by our end of the year statement from our Visa. To cut down on that expense, I started scouring my cookbooks, the internet, and friends family recipes to find things that were easy to make and that my family would eat.
Over the summer I lapsed into the processed foods/eating out again. Bad mommy. But fall is here. School is in full swing. I am ready to get back on the wagon....the chuck wagon that is!!
I've never blogged about my meal plans before...but there is a wonderful site that has Menu Plan Mondays so I think I"ll start posting and link it up there for all my blogging friends who want to try out meal plans themselves.
Our plans are always M-F since we run around too much on weekends and that is when leftovers get eaten or we go out. I feel like if I plan meals for these days it will probably just throw my whole schedule off since we rarely see the inside of our house on weekends.I also have meals on Tuesday and Wednesday that require less work and/or cooktime since those are days that I teach *and* we have afterschool activities (soccer and choir) so we don't have as much time on those days for cooking.
My kids are very basic eaters - beef, chicken, pork. One eats shrimp, the other eats fish - but not both of them. They do like vegetables and fruits, so I have good luck and a large selection of which of those to make, so not using seafood and fish really isn't that big of a deal to me.
So....here is the menu for this week:
Monday: Roasted Chicken and veggies
Tuesday: BLT (Bacon, Leek, Tomato) Mac & Cheese
Wednesday: Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken and broccoli
Thursday: Skillet Beef & Potatoes
Friday: 1-2-3 Chicken
4 comments:
Hey Michele,
Your menu sounds great. Me I serve the same five things every week, steak, pulled pork, chicken patties, spaghetti & Meatballs, and one other pasta (tortellini or ravioli)We too don't bother on the weekend. When I alter the menu, chaos insuses! Hope you'll share some of your recipes, I would love to change things up a little!
That mac n cheese sounds awesome. I hope you will post the recipe soon. I do hope you will post your crock pot recipes to Crock Pot Wednesday at diningwithdebbie.blogspot.com. Mister Linky is up and ready for you now. Thanks for posting.
Good for you! menu planning is so worth it! I even plan one night for leftovers, so I understand your weekend lack of plan. :)
I'm with you on the Monday-Friday thing. It took me a while to realize that my husband and I just don't eat enough to plan for seven days of cooking. Or we're out of the house and cooking isn't going to happen. It took a lot of stress off me to just plan 3 or 4 meal ideas that I would aim to cook over the next week rather than go into excruciating detail about everything we might eat. Anyway, kudos to you for recognizing that right away. :)
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