Menu Monday

Not a very detailed, nor fancy, nor particularly healthy menu this week... but at least I did kind of plan out some meals and actually made it to the grocery store on Sunday. I went to a different store location because our store is being remodeled and it is incredibly hard to find things right now. I am never again going to the other location on a Sunday afternoon... it was insanely busy. And every day is "oblivious day" at the grocery store. I think I'm going to start going to the store on Saturday morning or some other non-busy time. I will not go into my grocery store etiquette rant, and will instead post my menu:

Monday - Eat Out

Tuesday - Pizza

Wednesday - Pot Roast

Thursday - Beef Enchiladas

Friday - Maybe Breakfast or another pizza

Saturday - Who knows

Sunday - We'll See

Yeah, I'll have to revisit the plan for the latter part of the week :) And I think I need to start thinking about my menus much earlier than Sunday. Last minute menus are not my forte (obviously). We'll see if next week is any improvement.

Menu Monday

We stuck to the plan last week! We found a keeper recipe for pork chops. The salmon was pretty good as well. If we try the meatloaf again, we are going to try to find a way to make it less mushy.

So here is the plan for this week:

Monday - Crockpot Pot Roast, Salad, Biscuits

Tuesday - Beef Enchiladas, Salad

Wednesday - Eggs and Biscuits or Eat Out

Thursday - Pizza (frozen this time, haven't figured out what recipe I want to try for the homemade pizza yet)

Friday - Baked Tilapia

Saturday - Burgers

Sunday - Eggs and Biscuits or Eat Out (whatever we don't do Wednesday)

I think I'm going to have to brainstorm a little earlier next time. I'm finding it hard to decide what to do when I know I have to go shopping in the morning. I need to make a list!

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.