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I started this a bit earlier this week since I think most of you are more on the ball than I am these days. I don't really have my meal plan done yet, but I thought maybe listening to yours would inspire me to knock it out earlier (I usually procrastinate until about Sunday afternoon!)

 

So if anyone has already got their meal plan for next week done and wants to inspire the rest of us please post! I will come back and post mine soon. 😀

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1 French Lentil Soup with Bread and salad

2 Chicken Picatta with Veg

3 Chicken and Bacon Pasta with salad

4 Shepherds Pie

5 Potato Corn Chowder with salad

6 Stromboli with Veg

7 Mimis Thai Wraps

8 Cheese Enchiladas with Salad

9 Twice Baked Potatoes with Veg

10 Roast Chicken with Yams and Veg

11 Salisbury Steak with Potatoes and Veg

12 Hoppin John with Veg

13 Butternut Squash Soup with Bread

14 Mu Shu Pork

 

Here is mine. I plan for two weeks of meals at a time but don't put them in any order just because some days turn out to be crazier than others. It allows me flexibility with a new baby. I plan both super easy and more time consuming meals so that if the day gets crazy I have easy options. I also plan some meatless meals so that our menu is budget friendly. For lunch we usually have leftovers and for breakfast I have staples (oatmeal, rice pudding, muffins, pancakes, etc.) that I always have the ingredients on hand for.

 

When I plan I just put in "Veg" as when I go to the store I just purchase whatever they have that is in season, or on sale, and looks nice. I just put in how much I need.

 

I am going shopping today so had to have my meal plan done. :)

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1 French Lentil Soup with Bread and salad

2 Chicken Picatta with Veg

3 Chicken and Bacon Pasta with salad

4 Shepherds Pie

5 Potato Corn Chowder with salad

6 Stromboli with Veg

7 Mimis Thai Wraps

8 Cheese Enchiladas with Salad

9 Twice Baked Potatoes with Veg

10 Roast Chicken with Yams and Veg

11 Salisbury Steak with Potatoes and Veg

12 Hoppin John with Veg

13 Butternut Squash Soup with Bread

14 Mu Shu Pork

 

Here is mine. I plan for two weeks of meals at a time but don't put them in any order just because some days turn out to be crazier than others. It allows me flexibility with a new baby. I plan both super easy and more time consuming meals so that if the day gets crazy I have easy options. I also plan some meatless meals so that our menu is budget friendly. For lunch we usually have leftovers and for breakfast I have staples (oatmeal, rice pudding, muffins, pancakes, etc.) that I always have the ingredients on hand for.

 

When I plan I just put in "Veg" as when I go to the store I just purchase whatever they have that is in season, or on sale, and looks nice. I just put in how much I need.

 

I am going shopping today so had to have my meal plan done. :)

I love this! I can barely think past the next couple of days lately!

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F- grab something out, we'll be in Chicago until 8 Pm or so. 

S- homemade pizza 

S- spaghetti

M-chicken and veg

T-Sloppy joes 

W- Tacos or chicken fajitas

T- orange chicken, rice, broccoli

 

I do the same as 4Kiddos- I write veg unless it's something specific. Broccoli goes w/orange chicken, butter beans would not. 

 

This is a weird week for us- dd's boyfriend will be visiting from California so I'm trying to make things a 20 something guy will like. Usually we have much less meat.  

 

4Kiddos, I love your menu ideas- I'm writing them down for later this month!

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So what time do you serve dinner?   :laugh:

 

That all sounds so good.  I'm in such a food rut lately. 

 

 

1 French Lentil Soup with Bread and salad

2 Chicken Picatta with Veg

3 Chicken and Bacon Pasta with salad

4 Shepherds Pie

5 Potato Corn Chowder with salad

6 Stromboli with Veg

7 Mimis Thai Wraps

8 Cheese Enchiladas with Salad

9 Twice Baked Potatoes with Veg

10 Roast Chicken with Yams and Veg

11 Salisbury Steak with Potatoes and Veg

12 Hoppin John with Veg

13 Butternut Squash Soup with Bread

14 Mu Shu Pork

 

Here is mine. I plan for two weeks of meals at a time but don't put them in any order just because some days turn out to be crazier than others. It allows me flexibility with a new baby. I plan both super easy and more time consuming meals so that if the day gets crazy I have easy options. I also plan some meatless meals so that our menu is budget friendly. For lunch we usually have leftovers and for breakfast I have staples (oatmeal, rice pudding, muffins, pancakes, etc.) that I always have the ingredients on hand for.

 

When I plan I just put in "Veg" as when I go to the store I just purchase whatever they have that is in season, or on sale, and looks nice. I just put in how much I need.

 

I am going shopping today so had to have my meal plan done. :)

 

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Finally got mine done.  Nothing was appealing to me so was having a hard time making decisions

 

Sun: Italian Sausage Tortilini soup

Mon: Shepherd's Pie

Tues: Fresh Thai Spring Rolls and Spicy Beef Steak Salad (recipes I learned from Thai cooking class last Friday)

Wed: Tacos

Thurs: Stuffed Baked Potatoes

Fri: Spaghetti for everyone else, Thai food (whatever we are learning to cook in class this week) for me.

Sat: whatever leftovers are the fridge/freezer that need using up.

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Monday:Hot Chicken Salad, green beans, peaches

Tuesday:Pork Posole, cornmeal biscuits, salad

Wednesday:Slowcooker Chicken Mulligatawney soup, Naan, mango

Thursday: burrito bowls, guacamole salad, clemantines

Friday:Barley vegetable soup, fluffy dinner rolls

Saturday: homemade pizza, salad

Sunday: Mojo marinated Flank steak, rice, broccoli

 

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Not current, but when I am planning here's a list I keep to refer to.  Excuse the notes that remind me where the recipe is.  ;)

 

Beef meals
hamburger/rice hot dish (with tomatoes) hamburger cookbook

round steak rollups, mashed potatoes
Gerri’s hamburger rice dish

mazetti
pot roast
beef/pork ribs with BBQ sauce
meatloaf, baked potatoes, scalloped corn
Hungarian goulash CP
Polish cabbage rolls CP
Cabbage burger bake-in notebook

Hungarian cabbage stew
Beef stew
Hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes
Hamburgers, beans, coleslaw, fried potatoes
Meatballs and ‘gravy’ over noodles JB
Pizza hotdish (Rigatoni casserole) St Matts
Shepherd’s pie

Porcupine meatballs CP
Beef Stroganoff StM

Roast beef hash

Swedish meatballs

Chicken/Turkey meals
chicken and dumplings (also CP)
honey curry chicken SD
turkey dinner
turkey tetrazzini
smothered chicken- Fanny Farmer
Chicken enchiladas
Lacquered chicken CP
Teriyaki chicken

Chicken and noodles CP
Baked breaded chicken
Chicken and barley bake JB p. 420
Garlic lime chicken SD

Ginger chicken delight StMatts
Chicken cacciatore CP or Savory Chicken casserole FFarmer

Hawaiian rainbow chicken StM
Sweet and sour chicken StM

Foreign/pasta
beef/pork chow mein, eggrolls, fried rice
tacos, spanish rice (double)
spaghetti/lasagna (sauce CP)
pepper steak
sweet and sour pork over rice CP
crock pot lasagna
Chinese beef and pea pods CP
Quick stir-fry sauce –notebook
Stuffed shells
Pizza

Wet burritos
Japanese curry
 

Pork meals
pork ribs with BBQ sauce
ham, scalloped potatoes
ham/French fry hotdish
tangy pork over rice CP
baked pork chops SP
Caribbean pork ribs (need teriyaki sauce)
Chalupa (need dry pinto beans)-notebook
Stuffed pork chops
 

Fish
orange seared salmon with almonds—notebook

salmon patties
tuna noodle casserole                                                  tuna cheesy mac
mahi/mahi, tilapia, walleye
SL ideas in notebook

 

Soups
tomato soup

Bean with ham soup
split pea with ham soup
chicken noodle soup
hamburger vegetable soup
chili
Wild rice soup

Beef barley soup
Cream of cauliflower soup JB
Pb vegetable chicken soup JB
Lentil and brown rice soup JB

black bean and rice soup CP
wonton soup WTM-- in notebook


Asian soup-notebook (need bok choy, pork strips)
Baked potato soup-notebook
Savory lentil rice tomato soup-notebook
Lynette’s tortellini soup-notebook
Minestrone soup-notebook (with tiny meatballs)

 

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