Meal Plan Monday

Just a quick post to share my meal plan for this week.  As always, if you want to join in, or if you just want to check out other meal plans to get ideas and/or recipes, hop on over to Organized Junkie’s Blog.  Here’s my plan for the week:

Monday – Chicken Parm Bites with Mac & Cheese and Green Beans.  

(We didn’t end up doing these last week, so I bumped them to this week)

Tuesday - Hot Dogs and Chips – both my kids have ballgames, so it’s a quick and easy one!

Wednesday – Steak Bites, Cheesy Ranch Potato Skins and Lima Beans

Thursday – Potato Soup

Friday – Zesty Grilled Pork Chops, Baked Beans and Rolls

Saturday – BBQ Ribs, Steamed Brocolli and Potato Wedges

Sunday – We’ll be eating at my inlaws!
Hope you had a great weekend!

Meal Plan Monday

It’s Meal Plan time!  I’m not always good at posting my meal plan, but I do make one each week…usually I sit down on Saturday or Sunday and plan out the week’s meals.  It just makes dinner time so much easier – no stressing out about what I’m going to make, and no getting one dish started only to find out I don’t have what I need to finish it!  No.  None of that anymore.  Now, I just figure out what I have in my pantry/fridge, and make my plan accordingly.  If it’s grocery week (we go every other week) then I’ll just make out my grocery list according to what I need for my meal plan.

So, here’s what we’re eating this week:

Monday:  Farmer’s Pasta, and Lemon Crumb Muffins for dessert

Tuesday:  Fettucini Alfredo

Wednesday:  Mexican Cornbread, and Baked Applesauce for dessert

Thursday:  Baked Chicken Ziti

Friday:  Mexian Pork (Sliced and stuffed into tortillas!) and Spanish Rice

Saturday:   Chicken Parm Bites, Cheesy Ranch Potato Skins, and Lima Beans

Sunday:  Pork Loin in the crockpot, Green Beans, and Corn

Don’t forget to check out the other great meal plans and recipes over at Organized Junkie’s blog!

Meal Plan Monday…er…Tuesday

Yes, I’m aware that I’m a day late and a dollar short.  I DID get my plan done over the weekend, but I just forgot to post it yesterday.  Oopsies!!  Anyway, it’s going to be a very busy week for us, so I my plan is pretty basic.  We have baseball games on Tuesday and Thursday, church on Wednesday, and it’s very likely one or both of the kids will have baseball practice over the weekend as well.  Plus tonight I’m fixing a meal for a family in our Bible Study group.    Please don’t chastise me for having hot dogs for dinner one night. 

 

Monday – Artichoke Chicken with Rice and Cranberry Sauce. 

Tuesday – Lasagna with Garlic Bread (Fixing a double batch, taking one batch to our friends)

Wednesday – Tacos and Mexican Pizzas

Thursday – Hot Dogs with Baked Beans

Friday – Whiskey River Burgers and Crash Hot Potatoes

Saturday – BBQ Ribs with Mini Potato Gratins and Steamed Brocolli

Sunday – we’re probably going to the inlaws…if not…leftovers or something.

 

Don’t forget to check out all the other Meal Plans here.  Join me tomorrow for another great recipe and…maybe a little somethin’ special for one of my readers?!?!  Tell your friends to stop by too!

Meal Plan Monday {August 17}

It’s Monday again!  Time for meal plans!  If you haven’t tried doing meal plans before, I highly recommend it.  Once you get your recipes organized, you simply spend ten or fifteen minutes at the beginning of the week and plan out your meals for the next 7 days.  After I make out my plan, I make a quick grocery list with any items that I might need for this week’s meals.   And that’s it!  You’re done!  Each night, you come home, look at your plan and cook.  No more racking your brain trying to figure out what to cook tonight, and no more “What’s for dinner” from your husband and kids – because they can just look at your meal plan (I hang mine of the fridge so we can all see it at a glance).  I’ll be sharing more details about how to start planning your meals later in the week, along with sharing some photos of my kitchen and how I have things organized.

But for now…here’s our meal plan for this week…

Monday:  Beef Roast with Parmesan Knots &  Green Beans

Tuesday: Personal Pizzas on Focaccia Breads

Wednesday:  Monterey BBQ Chicken with Corn and Rolls

Thursday:  Kentucky Hot Browns

Friday: Chicken Penne Rustica

Saturday:  Whiskey River Burgers with Potato Wedges

Sunday:  No cooking…eating at inlaws.

If you want to see more meal plans, head on over to Organized Junkie’s blog.

Meal Plan Monday

I just realized that it’s Monday and I need to post my menu for this week!  As usual, I’m linking up to Organizing Junkie’s MPM.  Be sure to jump over to her blog and check out some of the other participants…I’ve found some great recipes that way!

Our menu for this week is…

Monday-  Tacos

Tuesday-Chicken Picatta Pasta

Wednesday-Pork Loin with Potato Latkes & Green Beans

Thursday- Steak Bites with Potato Wedges

Friday- Island Chicken Skewers with Steamed Brocolli and Rice Pilaf

Saturday- Pot Roast with Rolls and some kind of vegetable…not sure what.

Sunday- We’ll be eating with our Bible Study group

Meal Plan Monday

Yeah, I know…it’s only Sunday.  But I promised a giveaway tomorrow, and I have a recipe that I wanted to do along with my giveaway, so I decided to go ahead and post my Meal Plan tonight.  As usual, I’ll be linking up to Organizing Junkie’s Meal Plan Monday, which is being ‘guest hosted’ by The Happy Housewife this week..  Be sure to check out some of the other links on her site…I’ve found some yummy recipes through links on MPM!

 

This week’s plan looks like this:

Monday:  Italian Chicken with Cheesy Potato Skins  (we add Ranch Dressing to our P.Skins!) and Salad

Tuesday:  Potato Soup

Wednesday:  Meatloaf with Macaroni & Cheese and Green Beans

Thursday:  Zesty Grilled Pork Chops with homemade “Rice-A-Roni” and Steamed Brocolli

Friday:  Garlic Lime Chicken (in crock pot) with Fiesta Black Bean Salad and Sliced Avocados

Saturday:  Personal Pizzas on Mini Focaccia Breads

Sunday:  Eating at Bible Study Group

 

 

And don’t forget to come back tomorrow!  I’m sharing a to-die-for cookie recipe, and I’ll be having a GIVEAWAY!!!

Meal Plan Monday….on Saturday!

I’ll be out of town on Sunday, and I have other things I want to blog about on Monday, so I decided to go ahead and post my meal plan today…Saturday.  Although I’ve been doing my weekly meal plans for months now, I haven’t been blogging them lately.  But I decided to start doing that again, and I’ll be linking up to Organizing Junkie’s Meal Plan Monday.  Be sure and hop over there to check out more meal plans and recipes!   And I’ll try to share recipes with pictures as often as I can!

On to this week’s Menu:

SUNDAY:  Eating at the in-laws

MONDAY:  BBQ Ribs (they are really easy and delicious!) with Roasted Potatoes and Rolls

TUESDAY:  Pasta with Browned Butter Sauce (and regular sauce for the hubs)

WEDNESDAY:  Chicken Picatta Pasta – a quick dish that’s ready in under 30 minutes!

THURSDAY:  Steak Bites (a la Pioneer Woman) with cheesey mashed potatoes and steamed brocolli

FRIDAY:  Monterey BBQ Chicken with sweet potato crunch and rolls

SATURDAY:  Eating at a birthday party -  my best friend is turning 40!

SUNDAY:  Zesty Grilled Pork with homemade “Rice-A-Roni” and green beans

 

I’ll be sharing recipes and pics throughout the next week or so!  Have a great week, and be sure to check out more meal plans on Organizing Junkie!

Menu Plan Monday 10.20.08

If you haven’t checked out Organized Junkie’s Blog, you need to RUN over there now!  She is the one behind this great idea of Menu Planning Monday.  My life is so much easier…well, the dinner making part now that I am doing the menu planning.  There are over 200 (maybe even 300!) people that participate, and some share recipes, so be sure to check out some of the links too!

One more thing — I’ve created a new blog just for my recipes, so from now on, the links will be to the new blog.  I will leave the recipes that I currently have on this blog here until I get them added to the new blog.

So, here’s my menu for this week:

MONDAY:  Chili (brr…it’s been in the 60’s here, so just the right weather for chili!)

TUESDAY:  Pancakes with bacon and eggs

WEDNESDAY:  Chicken Picatta Pasta

THURSDAY:  Italian Pasta Bake with Homemade French Bread

FRIDAY:  Chicken A La King (A Crock Pot recipe)

SATURDAY:  Steaks with Roasted Potato “Fries”

SUNDAY:  Taco Salad

Menu Plan Monday

(I’m having issues with the logo, so I’ll try to add that later!)

I know, I know…it’s actually Tuesday (it’s 12:40 am), but I’ve been editing photos for the last 3 hours, so I’m just now getting to post this!   So, here’s my MENU for this week.  For more ideas, check out Organizing Junkie’s blog

Monday – I just had a Lean Cuisine (my hubby and kids are out of town, so no need to cook!)

Tuesday – I’ll have something simple again, either a Lean Cuisine or just a sandwich

Wednesday – Pizza

Thursday – Pancakes, Bacon and Eggs

Friday – Crock Pot Chicken & Dumplings

Saturday – Camburgers & Roasted Potato Wedges

Sunday – Chicken Picatta Pasta Toss

 

I’ll add the recipes tomorrow…I need to get in the bed, gotta work in the morning!

God is so good! We have great news…

My son accepted Jesus into his heart last week and he will be baptized this Sunday!  Isn’t that exciting?  I am so happy for him.  It has made me look at our family and our home-life in a whole new way.  I can’t put into words how it made me feel to find out that he understands that Christ died for him and that He now lives in my son’s heart.  I’m about to cry just typing this out.  We are having a big get together here on Sunday after church to celebrate, I can’t wait.    I’m going to be switching up my menu plan a bit, moving meals around to accomodate the party…I think I’m going to do Taco Soup on Sunday b/c I can throw everything in the crock pot that morning and it will be ready in time for lunch.  Easy peasy.

Anyway, I just wanted to share our excitement! Have a blessed day!