Menu Plan Monday
With gas prices here at nearly $4 a gallon, it seems that I picked a good time for us to start trying to eat at home more. We’ve not eliminated eating out - I can’t see us ever doing that! - but we’re doing better at eating at home more often.
Here’s what we’re looking at this week…
Sunday - Spaghetti (We seem to be having this all the time, but the kids are eating it up & it’s got all of those Ninja vibes, so I keep making it.)
Monday - Smoked lemon pepper chicken, grilled zucchini, cucumber salad
Tuesday - Chicken and yellow rice (love that Crock-Pot!)
Wednesday - leftover Chicken and rice
Thursday - Mike, Griff and I are going to see the new Indiana Jones movie while Eliza stays with a sitter. I’ll have Mike pick up something for the girls, and the three of us will have movie food.
Friday - Hawaiian burgers (from Cat Cora’s recipe in yesterday’s Parade magazine … but with ground turkey instead of ground pork)
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April Dinner Experiment - MPM
We did remarkably well last week with not eating out (again, soooo hard for us). For right now, our April Dinner Experiment has become more about not eating out and less about trying new foods. Maybe that’ll be May’s experiment.
This week’s Menu Plan Monday theme is cleaning out the freezer. All of our meals are going to be directly drawn from the freezer. Here’s how the week’s shaping up.
Sunday - chicken & yellow rice, side of fresh fruit
Monday - homemade pizza (yummy fresh dough from Publix) with my Ninja spaghetti sauce
Ninja Spaghetti Sauce - take all of the leftover veggies from the top rack in the fridge and throw them into a sauce pan with all of the almost-icky veggies from the crisper bin… add some olive oil, onions, and green peppers.. saute till soft. Blend till smooth. Pour back into pan, add one big can of crushed tomatoes, a small can of tomato paste, and Italian seasonings. Simmer till ready to eat. — Made this one up myself. It’s Ninja sauce because the kids don’t see the veggies coming. They just enjoy the taste.
Tuesday - Ninja Spaghetti with the leftover sauce from Monday’s pizza… cheesy biscuits
Wednesday - Red Beans and Rice (Mike’s comfort food… reminds him of home) … cornbread
Thursday - leftover RB&R (it makes a ton) … and still more cornbread
Friday - We didn’t get to go out last week, but we do have to go to a dinner for one of Mike’s co-workers this Friday night. The kids/sitter will eat something easy … nuggets, ramen noodles, or sandwiches.
Saturday - Lemon Pork Chops (another My Girlfriend’s Kitchen meal) with fresh cucumber salad
Cucumber Salad — Peel and seed several cucumbers. Cut and seed several tomatoes. Add olive oil, sea salt, and black pepper. Mix well. Add several leaves of either fresh sweet basil or mint. Mix and chill for a bit before dinner. — Another of my own. You can add other fresh veggies, but these two are our favorites and such a pure, yummy combo.
That’ll do it. We only slipped and ate out once last week (you know, excepting my birthday), so for us, we did really well. We’ll aim for better still this week.
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