Meal Plan Monday May 14

Linking up with Laura @ OrgJunkie today!

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PS. Getting on her website on Mondays is tough. Bandwidth issues.

With very few days until the move actually starts in earnest I've got to get back into meal planning so I can get the most tasks done with minimal effort.

I have packed up my kitchen, keeping out what I thought I would need and in cooking a full, SIMPLE meal on the stove I kept reaching for things I had packed up. So this week I'm going back to the crock pot - ALL WEEK!! I'm also using what is already in the freezer (less to move!) so that means lots of chicken!

Monday & Tuesday: Second Chance Meals Chicken Enchiladas & Enchilada Bean Soup
Wednesday: BBQ Rubbed Crock Pot Chicken
Thursday: Chuckwagon Stew
Friday: Four Bean Chili
Saturday: MOVING DAY #1! We'll eat somewhere, at some time... I promise?
Sunday: Leftovers or Creamy Farmhouse Garden Soup

I'll also be adapting a few of these recipes. I pulled these from OLD blog posts before we started eating healthier, so I am going to do my best to adapt them to something a litte more suotableto match teh P90X@ meal plan we've been eating.

• Less salt (the BBQ Rub has 1/4 cup!!!!!)
• Less fats (including whole milks, butters, & creams)
• More whole grains, like brown rice, etc.

I'll update the recipes in a new post if I make any major changes, otherwise I'll just add a note to the original. :-)

Meal Plan Monday - September 15

This Week's Meal Plan
Crock Pot Fun!

I got a new crock pot and I am LOVING IT! I am expecting LOTS of leftovers this week since these recipes seem huge, so some may be repeated on next weeks MPM so I get to cook them :)

BBQ Rub Chicken & Rice
(About $4 with a whole chicken and instant rice)

Creamy Farmhouse Chicken and Garden Soup
($4 for recipe - 1 soup dinner + a soup/sammy leftover dinner - $2 per meal!)


Four Bean Chili (Mom's Diner Recipe!)
($6 for recipe/2 dinners - $3 per meal!)


Chuckwagon Stew
($4 for recipe.. 2 dinners! $2 per meal!)

Ropa Vieja
($6 for recipe - beef is expensive right now)


This week's Meal Plan

Meal Plan Monday - August 24, 2009

Make it Better Monday
(comfort food)
Meatloaf & Mashed Potatoes

Roastable Tuesday
(something that can go in the oven)
Unstuffed Bellpeppers
Going to alter another MPMer's Recipe :)

daily blog will explain why ;)

What is it? Wednesday
(something we've never eaten before)
Pasta Meatball Soup
got this from a MPMers blog... but I can't remember who :(

Traditional Tuesday
(classics & casseroles)
We're having a family night out this week!
CHINESE

FFF-Friday
(fast, fun, or freezer foods)
Spanish Cheesy Rice Casserole

Scrappy Saturday
(leftover buffet)

Brunchy Sunday
(family brunch and light evening snacks)
Hamburger Potato Casserole
another MPMers recipe lol!!

Meal Plan Monday August 17, 2009

Check out the MPM ar Orgjunkie.com

Laura has an enchilada casserole this week - it will make my MPM soon :)

The planning breakfast & lunch thing didn't work so well. With a 3 yr old all I can do is offer some suggestions and let her pick something to eat. She did just LOVE the breakfast muffins!

Monday

Shepherds Pie

Tuesday

Corn Chowder

Wednesday

Baked Chicken

Thursday

Meatloaf w/mashed taters

Freezer Friday

ChiliMac

Saturday

Leftovers

Sunday

Pannekoeken
(German Pancakes)


Last week's Meal Plan

Meal Plan Monday - August 10, 2009

remember he links to orgjunkies mpm

I'm trying it the way the others do for a week.... Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Kid Snack.

Don't expect much for breakfast or lunch, LOL! It's usually just me and Kaelyn. Weekends are a late brunch as it is the only breakfast we all get together...after we sleep in :) and we usually skip and lunch and eat again for dinner.

Anything in italics you can get a printable recipe or expect a recipe to be linked ASAP;
All dinners will be photographed (if we remember lol) and critiqued on the blog :)

Monday
Scrambled eggs, Turkey/cheese sandwiches and apples, White faux-sagne, Watermelon

Tuesday
Cinnamon & brown sugar oatmeal, Hot dogs, Broccoli Soup, Kids finishing off the watermelon/Mom & Dad snacking on tomorrow's breakfast :)

Wednesday
Breakfast Muffins, Bologna roll-ups w/ fruit snacks, Enchilito, Apple


Thursday
Leftover Muffins, Cheese quesadillas, Meatball Subs (i'll have to create this recipe as I make it, too LOL), Fruit snacks

Friday
Cinnamon & Sugar Oatmeal, Turkey slices and apples, Country Captain over pasta, Jello

Saturday
Eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, toast, Boston Chicken, cheese sticks

Sunday
Waffles, Taco Salad, Sliced Tomatoes & Carrot Sticks (yes, they LOVE this!)



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Check out last week's dinner menu for other miserly mom ideas!
Last Week's Meal Plan Monday

Meal Plan Monday - August 3

Laura at I’m an Organizing Junkie started a blog "series" called Menu Plan Monday.

Since I menu plan I have decided to join the club of meal planners and share my menu on a weekly basis. Starting soon I hope to be able to offer a shopping list with my meal plan as well. Also, most of the ladies do all 3 meals of the week. Right now I'm only doing

So from now on, Mondays will bring you this cute guy (or a friend of his)

and he'll have a link back to Laura's weekly Meal plan (so click him!)and mine will be under him.

Mom's Diner Dinner
Miserly Meal Plan
August 3, 2009

Monday - Broccoli Beef
Tuesday - Chicken Florentine
Wednesday - Popover Pizza
Thursday - Orange Curry Pork
(edited wednesday to make a meal for extra kids i was babysitting)

Short week because I'll be out Friday-Sunday on my last mini-vacation of the summer!

All of these are from the Miserly Meals cookbook by Jonni McCoy (See tomorrow's blog for details). There will be more Miserly Meals next week. As always,I will link the recipes to my list as I create them.

Variety Menu (Under $100)

Other than pantry items like rice, spices, that sort of thing, this is the shopping list I took this week shopping.

(NOTE: I don't care how bad the weather is on any other day of the week, I am never going shopping on TUESDAY again.. rude people, empty shelves, picked over produce, UGH!)

As I blog the recipes I'll link their recipe to the title on here so you can make sure you have everything before taking this list shopping. No, I don't cook them in order. AND I don't always get to all of them. AND I even forget a few things time to time and have to run back... I am human after all...LOL!

I tried to take anything off the shopping list that wouldn't come up in the recipes, and I can tell you that with my personal odds & ends (household stuff, lunch, and snacks) this was only $126, so this may have only been about $85-90. When I tag prices in the recipe I'm doing it from memory, so it might not equal exactly, and I'm adding prices of stuff I didn't have to buy as well. It's all just an estimate.

I also try to separate my list by aisles, I hate to backtrack!

VARIETY MENU
(chicken/pork/beef/shrimp)

Cheyenne Burgers w/ herb baked fries
(we skipped the fried the burger was HUGE!!)
Ham & Broccoli Quiche
Pantry Pot Pie
Shrimp in Love Pasta
Meatloaf w/ mashed potatoes
Hobo Dinner
Chicken Mole
Creamy Chicken Stew
Chicken Spinach Cheesy Pasta
Creamy Chicken Macaroni

******************SHOPPING LIST******************

DRY
Flour
Sugar
2 boxes Mac n’ Cheese
Large shell pasta
Linguini

CANNED
1 Cream of chicken
2 jar spaghetti sauce
2 stewed tomatoes
1 can corn

BOTTLED
Canola

DAIRY
Eggs
Milk
Butter
16 oz cottage cheese
8 oz F/F Cream Cheese
4 c Mozzarella Cheese
Borden Bacon Cheddar Slices

MEAT
1 lb 90% lean turkey burger
2 lb 95% lean burger
1 bag b/s chicken
1 lb Shrimp
Diced Ham
SALE Pork
Bacon
Lunch Meats

FROZEN
2 bags Broccoli
Peas & Carrots
Stew veggies
Lg bag chopped Spinach
Pie crust

FRESH
3 lb red potatoes
3 lb Idaho potatoes
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Onions
Carrots
Tortillas