It's another week of menu planning!
We have salad with every meal, which I don't typically list, unless we've turned the salad into the dinner itself (salad with grilled chicken or salmon on top, etc). Just in case you think we're light on our veggies. ;-)
- Friday - wings + pot stickers
- Saturday - Date night for me + M, Nick & Sam on their own (frozen pizza)
- Sunday - Korean beef & rice
- Monday - chicken parmesan
- Tuesday - leftover Korean beef & rice
- Wednesday - leftover chicken parmesan
- Thursday - M is in charge (I have my class)
- Friday - TBD
What about you? What's on your menu for the week?
Probably a lot of chicken but trying to get more vegetables into my meals. I'm thinking stir fry one night, risotto perhaps. I've got a list of meals as possible but playing the exact day to day.
ReplyDeleteLots of chicken as it is more affordable and healthy with lots of protein. Chicken Parmesan sounds good.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember what I planned, but I am trying to eat down the stuff in the freezer before it goes bad. I would also love to make a chilled broccoli salad this week. Still trying to get my cooking mojo back...
ReplyDeleteWe have salad with just about every meal too, because with few exceptions, I dislike vegetables.
ReplyDeleteLast night I made slow cooked beef machaca and turned that into burrito filling, and made burritos. Tonight the kid who just started his summer job asked for beef stroganoff when he came home. He has a birthday coming up, so that night’s meal will be decided by the same kid. There’s a pan of leftover burritos which, assuming the hordes don’t get to them beforehand, will be dinner one night. Going forward: Baked salmon, lasagna to use up a lurking container of ricotta, fish and chips, roast chicken and whatever the Birthday Boy requests. I also have two birthday cakes to bake, kid’s and my own. Birthday boy hasn’t picked his yet, and I thought I would make a marble pound cake with chocolate glaze for mine. I would happily go without a cake, but then they sneak out and buy me a cake, and store bought cakes, (and cake mix cakes) go to waste here.
Then there is Easter on the horizon. DD’s professors excused her from the last week of classes, as all her finals are papers/presentations, so she is returning the 24th. There is a movement about in the house to hold Easter dinner for her arrival, but I think we will just do another celebratory meal. I am planning on a ham for Easter (not my favorite, but DH and the boys love it) for Easter, and DD is a pescatarian now, doncha’ know, so I figure I will have a kid grill mahi mahi for her return meal.
Gosh, it sounds like all we do here is eat! I also don’t want to come off as a better cook than I am. The meals I regularly cook are not very labor intensive. Most things either go in the slow cooker or the oven with little prep. My lasagna is about the most labor intensive, but even then, start to finish, including browning the meat, grating the cheese and boiling the noodles,I can have it assembled within 30 minutes. It’s baking that I really enjoy.
Have a great week! Welcome home to you Sam!
-Meg B.
Your menu always sounds so good to me. Around here... well it is tech week for 2 kids for the Spring Musical with performances this coming weekend, another kid has 2 track meets, etc. so I am not really sure what is going on. Tonight we are having family over for Ben's birthday so it will be chicken from Kroger's deli section, salad and pizza and breadsticks from Little Ceasars (using up gift cards that we have had forever). Tomorrow maybe a new pasta dish that I saw on another blog or it might be some kind of fish dinner. Then I can save the pasta for Tuesday. Wednesday and Saturday the kids are with their dad. Thursday and Friday will probably be something super quick and they can make on their own.
ReplyDeleteI try and get a salad into each of our meals, but there are a few that salads or veggies just do not fit into.
ReplyDeleteYour menu sounds awesome.
God bless.