Meal Plan #1

I am by no means an organized put together person. One thing is for sure though, I love a good meal plan. I seriously do not know how people do it without one. Even though there are days or weeks where we don’t have a plan and I can tell you that the struggle is a real challenge trying to decide what to make for dinner. On most occasions, I try and have a meal plan laid out for 2 weeks at a time. It makes it easier when it comes to grocery shopping but without fail we go to the grocery store more than every other week. We have lived off a meal plan for years now and it works well for our family.

When trying to put a meal plan together I try and stick to the following but by no means is this our holy grail. Some nights I just want to try something new or I want Mexican more than once a week, etc.

Sunday: Traditional Sunday dinner

Monday: Pasta

Tuesday: Mexican

Wednesday: Left Overs

Thursday: Salads/Sandwiches

Friday: Crockpot meal/International

Saturday: Eat Out/Left Overs

So here we go this is what was on our meal plan last week

Sunday: We had my parents over for dinner, both of their birthdays are in the month of February so we had steak, baked potatoes, green beans, and bread. The grocery store Chad and I shop at sell bacon wrapped filets 2 in a pack. You can easily pan sear the steaks in butter (or coconut oil) with just a little salt and butter. Chad has been on a ‘fresh’ green bean kick so I will purchase the green beans from the produce section recruit Grady to help trim the ends off the green beans boil them until soft, drain. And then drizzle with butter and salt.

Monday: Sausage with peppers. One of my favorite food blogs of all time is the “Girl who ate everything” I have gotten a lot of great recipes from her including this one

Tuesday: Chimichangas with Mexican rice. I have to be honest here, 8 times out of 10 I always forget about the sides so normally we will just have Chimichangas and no rice!

Wednesday: My favorite night of the week! This night is normally when we try and do a load of laundry and tidy up the house a bit plus get some extra play time in with our babies. When I was little my parents nominated Tuesday to be our take-out night with was great and I always looked forward to it. So Wednesday I have nominated as our night off of cooking.

Thursday: Caesar Salad sandwiches with chips. Did I mention I love the Girl who ate everything blog. Yea, I wasn’t kidding. So confusion, I do not like having the crockpot on all day at the house while we are not at home so if there is a recipe that calls from shredded chicken I will normally make it in the crockpot on the weekend and either freeze it or store it in the refrigerator. I will put chicken breast in the crockpot with chicken broth and cook on low for 4-6 hours

Friday: Pita pizzas, I bought whole wheat pita bread at the store and simply added marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperonis. Chad put some of the Caesar chicken on his. I love making anything that Grady can help me with so these are perfect!

Saturday: We went out and got Rib Crib. One of my favorite salads of all time is from Rib Crib. The smoked chicken salad. It is yum yum good. But of course, you can always do any other salad of your choice.

We also try and cook breakfast for the week on Sunday but ever since Audrey was born our breakfast as more times than not been a bag of oatmeal. This week we had eggs and toast for breakfast!

There you go a simply meal plan for us busy individuals.