Menu Plan / Routine How To Jan 23

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Menu Plan AKA Menu Routine

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

Dinners (we eat a primalish /paleoish diet  - limited grains/sugar).

I wrote more about menu planning over at my blog WeeklyGroceryShopping.Com...here it is in action:

1. Outside Activities
What will conflict with supper preparations this week?

• 2 basketball games
• 1 friend spending the night
• 1 basketball game that I'm not going to, but need to send some food with my daughter

2. Pantry
What's in my cupboards, fridge and freezer?

• 1 hunk o' salmon
• Pork Chops
• Hamburger
• 3 pounds of cooked burger...add some taco seasonings to 1 1/2 pounds
• pinto beans - add to taco meat
• Stew Meat
• Roasts
• Rice
• Frozen veggies and fruit

3. Ideas for Dinner

• What can I make that my son loves?
• What can I make that my daughter loves?
• What can I make that my husband loves?
• What can I make that I love?
• What recipes have I found online that I want to try?

4. Make a Plan

1. 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 . 
2. Tacos and salad  (friend spending the night)
3. Bball game 1 - leftovers or out to eat
4. Asian Beef or salmon serve with salad and sweet potato fries
5. Bball game 2 - eating it at the game...lunch meat slices in romaine lettuce wrappers and hard boiled eggs.
6. Popper Potatoes, with burgers or pork chops and  roasted veggies
7. Hubby cooks - I always try to have meat on hand and he's great at whipping stuff up. Last week he made German brats and variety of leftover veggies. Kids had take out pizza. Football day!

Other recipes I want to make soon/tried and true recipes:
Qdoba's steak - SimplyRecipes , Cheesy Chowder,Italian Cream Cheese Chicken, Whiskey BBQ Sliders, Chicken in Cream Sauce, Josie's Shepherd Pie, Comfort Roast and  Horseradish Sauce

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Check out my cute purchases for the area above my kitchen cupboards:

Disclaimer ~ I am not a decorator at all. In our home I don't like to have many decorations out, but I saw a post over at ThriftyDecorChick a long while back and I couldn't resist buying the cute little step stool. No idea what I'm going to do with that or the big fish bowl thingie, but I have visions of mini Christmas ornaments in the big fish bowl thingie.

I probably should have checked the prices before I bought them, but I try not to look at prices when I'm shopping at the consignment store. Seems like I've bought waaaaay too many items simply because they were cheap. Thankfully my total was $9.00 and I had a credit of $88! Whooo hoooo!

Can anyone help this decorating doofka? That is my daughter's word for idiot...I'm sure she meant that in the nicest way when I asked her what another word for idiot would be. What do I put in the fish bowl thingie right now? I'm loving the area above my cupboards right now, but soon I'll have to take down the pine branch garland and put up my step stool ladder with ???? hmmmm the fish bowl thingie?

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Check out other menu plans at:

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