Whoops...Meal Plan...Wednesday

***I forgot to post this on monday...so its meal plan wednesday... oh well**

The way I meal plan is just to come up with 5 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 5 snacks, and 7 dinners. I dont plan a certain meal on monday, tuesday, etc. I just make what I feel like making, or what makes sense. Some of you may remember that I am doing in-home daycare for a 4 yr old boy. he is at my house from 6:45-8:30 and then again from 12:15-4. Anyways, I plan the breakfasts, lunches, and snacks basically for him.

I also thought Id mention the "theme" we are talking about this week. I cant help it, the preschool teacher comes out in me...if anyone is curious as to what activities we do weekly, feel free to ask.

Weekly Theme: Fire Safety

Breakfasts: (always includes some sort of fruit, and milk or juice)
Toast with Jelly
Waffles with sausage
Bagel with cream cheese
Cereal with milk
Oatmeal and raisins

Lunches: (always with a fruit, veggie, and milk)
Mac & cheese
PBJ
Pizza
Chicken Alfredo
Grilled cheese and tomato soup

Snacks: (usually with water or juice)
Goldfish crackers
Pretzels
Graham crackers w/ pb
Granola bars
Smoothies


Dinners:
Chicken Alfredo with Corn
Brinner (Breakfast for Dinner) Sausage & Egg Sandwich on Bagel
Veggie Stir Fry
Chicken and Sweet Potatos
Chili and Cornbread
Out for our Anniversary
Leftovers

I plan on getting back onto pinterest and having more interesting meal ideas soon. We'll see how that goes. :)

Meal Plan Monday

I am going to start writing my menu plans every Monday, hopefully this gives you some ideas. Please feel free to comment your meals or link your blog if you meal plan as well.

The way I meal plan is just to come up with 5 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 5 snacks, and 7 dinners. I dont plan a certain meal on monday, tuesday, etc. I just make what I feel like making, or what makes sense. Some of you may remember that I am doing in-home daycare for a 4 yr old boy. he is at my house from 6:45-8:30 and then again from 12:15-4. Anyways, I plan the breakfasts, lunches, and snacks basically for him.

Breakfasts: (always includes some sort of fruit, and milk or juice)

waffles and sausage
toast
cereal
bagels and cream cheese
english muffins


Lunches: (always with a fruit, veggie, and milk)

mac and cheese with hot dogs
ham and cheese sandwiches
pizza wheels
quesadillas
PBJ


Snacks: (usually with water)

pretzels & pears
crackers and cheese spread
animal cracker and applesauce
graham crackers and peanut butter
soft pretzels


Dinners:

BLT's
Sloppy Joes
Grilled Chicken and sweet potatoes
Chicken cesar salads
Pasta
Hamburger helper
leftovers

Meal Plan Ideas 8/5-8/11

Here are some of my meal plan ideas for dinner this week: 

Sloppy Joes
Complete with homemade pickles and steak fries :) YUM!

Click here to find recipe

 

 

 

Taco Braid
Salsa, sour cream, and guac on the side.

Recipe

Chicken Pot Pie
We have carrots and beans in our garden, I'll add some frozen corn since our corn isnt quite ready yet. I will also probably use a crescent roll crust, I'm not sure yet.

Recipe

Loaded Sweet Potatoes

Recipe

Lemon Bars
I also plan on making these! I love love love lemon baked goods!

Recipe

Banana Bread
And we need to use up some bananas, so I cant help myself...The lemon bars may get pushed off until next week, depending on if we eat this up. 
This is by far the best banana bread recipe I've ever had! Moist and delicious!! We sub 1 cup of local honey for one of the cups of sugar, and Scott doesn't like nuts, so we use chocolate chips! Even better IMO!

Recipe

Well there ya have it. We also do a day of sandwiches or Brinner (breakfast for dinner) and of course a day of leftovers. If we have lots of leftovers then we will have one of these the next week. Now to make my shopping list.

Meal Plan 10/22/12-10/29/12

Yes, I know, it's been awhile since I've done a meal plan on here. What can I say...things have been crazy! Plus I never really  know what I'll be hungry for now that I'm pregnant. I can start making something, and by the time I'm finished, I have absolutely no desire to eat it, smell it, or watch Scott eat it! Anyways, I have been writing them out in my little meal planning notebook and try to buy the groceries according to my plan.

Here's the next week:

Breakfasts:
cereal
bagels
yogurt
oatmeal
fruit

Snacks:
V8
Almonds/walnuts/peanuts
Fruit
Pretzels w/ peanut butter

Lunches/Dinners:
Rice and beans with veggies
Chili & cornbread (this will make tons of leftovers)
Grilled Cheese and tomato soup (my all-time favorite soup!)
Sloppy Joes, veggie, chips
Baked Chicken, Mashed potatoes w/ gravy, veggie
left overs
left overs

Meal Plan 8/25/12-8/31/12

I pulled two meals from last week into this week because we simply had so many leftovers that we didn't want to make more food. (I'm funny about leftovers, once it hits day 3, I'm done.) So here's this week's meal plan:

Meals:

Scrambled Eggs
Turkey Sausage Links
Hangover Potatoes
OJ

Baked Chicken & Spinach Flautas
Spanish Rice
Sour cream, salsa, beans

Crock pot BBQ Pulled Pork
Buns
Mashed Potatoes
Corn

Turkey and Veggie Wraps
Hummus & Crackers

French Bread Pizza (Gluten Free crust for me)
Sauce
Cheese
Pepperoni
Side Salad

Leftover Mac & Cheese


Shopping List:
Orange Juice (I dont know why i'm totally addicted to oj right now!)
Sour Cream
Salsa
Pork Chops
Gluten Free Wraps
French Bread

meal plan for 8/18-8/24

I'm planning ahead this week since I'm trying to hit all the sales at the grocery store. Here's next week's meal plan. I'm super stoked to try many new things!

Sloppy Joes (ground turkey), chips, raw veggies and hummus Made these with mashed potatoes instead of my GF bread, Delicious!!!

Baked Chicken & Spinach Flautas and Spanish Rice Added these to the next week's meal plan

http://healthy-delicious.com/2012/03/baked-chicken-and-spinach-flautas/
omg, these look so freakin good!!
also salsa, sour cream, and beans.

Scrambled Eggs, Turkey Sausage, and "Hangover" Potatoes & OJ Added these to next week's meal plan
(the hangover potatoes are my specialty, definitely not healthy, but delicious...and great for hangovers)

Homemade Mac & Cheese, Broccoli, and Chicken The chicken was awesome! Marinated for two days in the fridge, in some herb and garlic marinade mix! YUM! the mac and cheese was decent considering i didnt use a recipe.

Tuna salad Sandwiches, Hummus & Veggies Made these into wraps instead. Delicious!!

Crockpot Ranch Pork Chops, Mashed Potatoes and Corn AMAZING!!! Soooo easy and delicious!!!
http://www.livinglaughingandloving.com/2012/01/crockpot-ranch-pork-chops-finger-licking-good.html

Only 3 Ingredients for the chops!


Here's my shopping list for this week:

ground turkey
baby carrots
buns for scott
chicken breast x2
spinach
corn tortillas
melting cheese
salsa
gluten free noodles
sharp cheddar cheese
eggs
turkey sausage
red potatoes
orange juice
thin cut pork chops
hidden valley ranch season mix
cream of chicken soup
tuna
mayo
celery
bread

I also need to get many other items for Scott's lunches and snacks as well as my lunches for work.
That's it for now!

Meal Plan 7/15/12-7/21/12

This week I swapped my original chicken cesar salad for chicken stir fry from last week. So here we have this weeks plan. I will update it next week with what we actually ended up having.

Chicken stir fry (instead of chicken cesar salads)

Gluten free gnocci w/ red sauce and parmesan cheese & steamed broccoli **recipe to follow**

Pizzas (have to finish up my crust i made from last week)

Sloppy Joes

Pancakes and sausage (I LOVE breakfast for dinner!)

Grilled cheese w/ hummus and garden veggies

Meal Plan week of 7/8/12-7/14/12

So when I meal plan, I dont decided what day we are going to have such and such meal. I just decided what we have in the house, what I feel like making and I plan 6 dinners. From there, I make my grocery list, and get the required items. Then, depending on my mood, cravings, and the weather; I decided what we will have for the evening's dinner.  So when I say "Meal Plan" I am referring to the 6 dinners I have planned for for the week.

Here was last week: (7/8-7/14)
*meal planned in black, actual meal made is red

Chicken Stir Fry with jasmine rice (made monday 7/16 instead)
Quesadillas
Pizza
Hamburgers with sweet potato fries
Tuna salad sandwiches with chips
Grilled Cheese with Hummus and Veggies (grilled cheese and salads w/ garden veggies)
           We ended up having chicken caesar salads sunday instead of chicken stir fry.

Having this plan was really very nice! I knew what I was doing when I got home from work. I have been using up my veggies and fruits that may have gone bad if I had waited too long. So it was nice to know I wasn't wasting food, and I was giving Scott and myself a healthy fresh meal! :) Plus I've been using more protein! Wahoo!

Nikky

accomplishments

Today was pretty successful! I woke up pretty early and ran to Walmart to get the last few things I needed to can pickles. Also a few things we needed for this weeks meal plan. I love that i am meal planning, Everything flows, and I really enjoy having something ready. Usually I figure I could cook something, but never really feel like it, and I usually end up making something weird. But now that I'm planning 6 out of 7 dinners for the week, I feel super accomplished and feel that I have provided for my husband. My "wifely duties" I suppose (not that he thinks that, I just enjoy doing these things). 

Anyways, so after Walmart I did the dishes, and got the water boiling in my canner. I sterilized my jars and lids. Scott and I went out to the garden to pick cucumbers. (Garden photos coming, I swear.) We picked two gallon buckets full, and I got to work cleaning and cutting them. We ended up with 5 quart jars of dill pickles! Wahoo!!! Scott also picked some beans and carrots that we cleaned and cut and got in the freezer for future meals. After I got everything cleaned up, I decided to make chicken caesar salad (hold the croutons). So I grilled up come chicken breast, and got a gigantic salad going. Delicious! (I also had enough left for two huge salads for work this week.) Once I finally sat down I realized it was only 12:30! Dang! I got so much done! 

Cycle Day 4. I actually haven't temped the last two days. Mostly out of sleeping in and having to pee so bad that I didn't have time to temp when I finally did wake up. Back to it tomorrow though.

So as far as the fitness goes. My phone is a POS. The new app I downloaded for my fitness/diet was taking up too much space and my phone freaked out. So I had to delete it. So I will need a new way to stay accountable. Yesterday was a street fair we have every year in our town. Scott and I walked it twice and then back home. So I will use that as my workout. 

I think I will post my menu plan for the week in the next post. :) 

Take care everyone!

Nikky