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Monday, November 21, 2011

Homemaking: Menu Routine and Intentional Living 11/21/11

Gorgeous picture from our front yard!
FYI - My homemaking goal is listed below my Menu Plan.

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Breakfast Menu Plan

Lunch - leftovers or whatever for me (kids eat school lunch and they typically provide lunch for my husband at work)

Recipes from Last Week
I'm one silly chicky! Last week I saw the recipe - Firecracker Chicken at SoSimplyGood and made it that night. As I made it I kept thinking it sounded sooooo familiar. Well goofy girl - that is called my OH MY GOODNESS lunch that I used to make all the time. The only difference is that I use curry seasoning. My family raved and raved and raved about this. Of course I didn't use chicken I used ground beef, but it was good!

I made pork chops using a recipe from MarksDailyApple (well, actually I used chicken) when I started to add the Dijon mustard I remembered that we don't like Dijon mustard so I added just a bit. We all really liked it. The ThePioneerWoman steak bites didn't go over so well. They weren't bad, but they took a lot of time...I'm lazy an energy conservationist in the kitchen. My husband thanked me for cutting his meat for him LOL.

New Recipes to Try
Comfort Roast and Horseradish Sauce - let me just tell you that I cannot WAIT to try these recipes from OnlyPenniesAPlate.

Menu Plan Routine

I'm changing things up just a bit this week. Instead of posting my menu plan I'm posting some kitchen routines that help us eat a primal diet.

Mondays and Thursdays: Bake 2 packs of sausages. My husband and daughter eat 2 sausages every morning. Occasionally my son or I will eat sausage for breakfast, but I prefer leftovers or a mini burger and my son prefers taco meat {strange folks aren't we?}

I always try to keep cooked ground beef crumbles in the freezer so I have "fast food" on hand. To the cooked ground beef I can add taco seasonings or tomatoes and Italian seasoning.

I posted my chicken routine last week.  Then I read {somewhere} that chicken has way more PUFA than pork so I may re-think my plan. For now, until I'm totally convinced, I'll stick with Chef Salad as our KISS night. Note: KISS night (keep it simple silly - same thing every week).  Chef salads: spinach, romaine, chicken, bacon, thawed peas, cheese, green olives and hard boiled eggs .

My homemaking "job" is getting easier because I added cooking routines. 



It was our first big snowfall of the year. We were all a bit excited to get out and play in it!


Homemaking Plan

Goal Setting posts:
My one word two word goal this week:

Lay Back

Love this song...why is it sooooo many women are completely exhausted? Is it because we don't allow ourselves to lay back and breathe?


Check out menu plans at:

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11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven always has a lot of homemaking posts to read as well!

1 comments:

  1. Thanks for the reminder to go play! We don't have snow but we have huge piles of leaves falling like confetti! It's a party waiting to happen! I'm thinking bonfire, warm drinks, and some smiling faces!!

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