Monday, February 15, 2010

Menu Monday

Well, it's "Menu Monday", so it's time to plan out the meals for the week. As I have done with the blog, I am going to attempt to use "themes" to organize our meals for the week. Hopefully, doing this will help me decide what to plan for dinner. I find it is much easier to make a decision when you have choices that have already been narrowed down.

First things first. Here are the proposed "themes" for the days of the weeks. I'm going to be flexible here. Most days will have a couple of things to choose from and if we decide to eat something completely different one day, that's fine too. I am going to also try to maybe make a "recipe box" or something to keep track of the recipes we like (maybe a recipe blog? haha), so I will have a place to go for ideas.

Monday - Crockpot/Casserole
The idea here is to have leftovers for lunch for the week. And I will be home most of the day on Monday to make sure the Crockpot doesn't explode or anything like that ;)

Tuesday - Italian/Mexican

Wednesday - Breakfast/Chicken

Thursday - Burgers/Pizza
Eventually, I would like to try homemade pizza...

Friday - "Meatless"
This is in quotation marks because it will probably very rarely be meatless. This could be fish, a vegetarian dish or a salad (even if the salad has meat in it).

Saturday - Steak/Pork Chops/Grill

Sunday - Make up/New Recipe/Free day
If we go out to eat one day, I can simply move that day's menu here or move everything back one day. Or we can go out to eat on Sunday, or I can try a new recipe... whatever.

Okay, so this week's menu...

Monday - We have family portraits in the evening, so we will probably pick up something quick afterwards. No cooking.

Tuesday - Spaghetti, salad, garlic bread

Wednesday - Eggs and biscuits

Thursday - We already have buns, so we will do burgers this week.

Friday - Maple Salmon, green beans, apples

Saturday - Maple-Garlic Marinated Pork Tenderloin, broccoli, oranges

Sunday - Easy Salsa Meatloaf, corn, black-eyed peas

Alrighty, that's the plan. We'll see if we stick to it or not.

1 comment:

Deloris said...

Wow! Can I come eat with you?