Menu Plan Monday ~ September 8th

I'm only doing a dinner menu this week! =(

In the past I've added breakfast, lunch and a nightly activity! I'm just not very organized this week! I'm so wore out from our busy weekend up at the lake house! I just don't have it in me! So here is what I have:

Monday - Left Over's from my dad's- Roast and Potato's

Tuesday - Chicken & Buttermilk Biscuits

Wednesday - Taco Night Old El Paso Stand N Stuff Taco Kit

Thursday - Wings-N-More

Friday - Crab Cakes, Rice & Frozen Steamed Veggies

Saturday - Grilling Hamburgers (If "IKE" the storm doesn't come this way)

Sunday - Who knows? I do know that I'm cooking a big breakfast! Maybe we'll eat so much that we won't be hungry for dinner! HA! I doubt it!

Menu Plan Monday ~ August 25th

Our menu is nothing to brag about this week! It's very blah! Sorry! We are moving out of our apartment 09-27-08 and we don't want to pack up all the "Fridge Food"!

So here is our Menu for the week:

MONDAY:

Breakfast - Oatmeal ~ Real Maple & Brown Sugar

Lunch - McDonals FREE Chicken Sandwich & Sweet Tea

Dinner - BBQ Ribs (dad made for us & froze), Sweet Corn on the Cob (from Paw-Paw's Garden) & Honey Glazed Carrots!

Activity - Riding Bikes & Red Box FREE Movie Monday

TUESDAY:

Breakfast - Bacon, Egg, Grilled FF Cheese Sandwich (YUM)

Lunch - I'm going to lunch with some OLD high school friends!

Dinner - Smart Ones Dinner - Spaghetti Bolognese & Texas Garlic Cheese Toast

Activity - Riding Bikes & Cooling Off At The Pool

WEDNESDAY:

Breakfast - English Muffin with Brummel and Brown Simply Strawberry Creamy Fruit Spread

Lunch - Smart Ones Dinner - Spaghetti Bolognese

Dinner - Halibut - Asian Style with Kiy's recipe ~ Click HERE & Oriental Salad

Activity - Packing up the apartment - Red Box FREE Movie Night!

THURSDAY:

Breakfast - English Muffin with Brummel and Brown Simply Strawberry Creamy Fruit Spread

Lunch - Smart Ones Dinner - Meat Loaf

Dinner - Crab Cakes, Rice & Frozen Steamed Veggies

Activity - Riding Bikes and Going to the Pool

FRIDAY:

Breakfast - Oatmeal ~ Real Maple & Brown Sugar

Lunch - Left Over Crab Cakes - Made into a Crab Cake Sandwich

Dinner - Eating on the Road!

Activity - None

As you know our weekends are crazy busy working at the lake house so we don't plan our menu for the weekends! We just eat on the go! This coming weekend is Labor Day weekend! PARTY! I do know we are grilling out on Sunday! Which will consist of BBQ Ribs, Beer Butt Chicken, Sausage, Baked Beans, Potato Salad & Peach Cobbler! I'm hoping I can work all these calories off! HA!

Our menu is looking a little BLAH this week for two reason!

#1. We are trying to save money!

#2. We are trying to cook the foods we have in the pantry, fridge and freezer so we don't have to move them! The lake house is an hour drive from our apartment and I don't feel like loading down all the ice chest with "FRIDGE FOOD"!!!

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Menu Plan Monday ~ August 18th

It's MONDAY and it's time for MENU PLAN MONDAY!!! Woooooooooooooo-Whooooooooooo!!!!

I'm not as ORGANIZED as I would like to be this week! Dang it! =(

We were at the lake house working later than normal yesterday and we didn't feel like going to the grocery store on our way home!!! So we are going to hit it up tonight and get back on track!!!

Needless to say I didn't get up at 6am and cook breakfast or pack our lunches this morning as planned!!! I feel bad for skipping out on my plan I blogged about on Friday! I'm already screwing it up!!! =( Plus the forcast is showing rain all week so that is going to screw up our after work workout plan!!! =(

So here is our Menu for the week:

MONDAY:
Breakfast - Oatmeal ~ Real Maple & Brown Sugar (YUM-O)
Lunch - We are both eating out! =( I ate Olive Garden Soup & Salad
Dinner - Any'tizers Pork Mini Ribs (don't look at the fat grams), Baked Beans and Baked (not fried) Tater Tots
Activity - Depending on the weather we will be riding bikes, going to the pool or packing up the apartment

TUESDAY:
Breakfast - Bacon, Egg & FF Cheese Taco with Homemade Pico
Lunch - BLT and Sun Chips
Dinner - Wheat Pita with Boar's Head Mesquite Wood Smoked Turkey Breast, FF Cream Cheese, Green Leaf Lettuce and Homemade Pico with Sun Chips
Activity - Depending on the weather we will be riding bikes, going to the pool or packing up the apartment

WEDNESDAY:
Breakfast - Bacon, Egg & FF Cheese Sandwich
Lunch - BLT and Sun Chips
Dinner - Wheat Pita with Boar's Head Mesquite Wood Smoked Turkey Breast, FF Cream Cheese, Green Leaf Lettuce and Homemade Pico with Sun Chips
Activity - Depending on the weather we will be riding bikes, going to the pool or packing up the apartment

THURSDAY:
Breakfast - English Muffin with Brummel and Brown Simply Strawberry Creamy Fruit Spread
Lunch - Tuna Fish Sandwich and Chips
Dinner - Wheat Pita with Boar's Head Mesquite Wood Smoked Turkey Breast, FF Cream Cheese, Green Leaf Lettuce and Homemade Pico (These Pitas are YUMMERS) with Sun Chips
Activity - Depending on the weather we will be riding bikes, going to the pool or packing up the apartment

FRIDAY:
Breakfast - Bacon, Egg & FF Cheese in a Whole Wheat Pita
Lunch - Tuna Fish Sandwich and Chips
Dinner - Frozen Pizza - It's just Fast & Easy! I will make it and we will eat it on the way to the lake to save time and money!
Activity - None


As you know our weekends are crazy busy working at the lake house so we don't plan our weekends out! We just eat on the go! This past weekend I cooked a really good breakfast and it gave us fuel to work through lunch and just eat dinner!!! It consisted of scrambled eggs with tomato and onions, grilled potatoes and onions, ham, sausage links, bacon, biscuits and FF pepper gravy , homemade salsa, milk and orange juice! It was a breakfast fit for a king!

Our menu is looking a little dull this week! We are trying to cut down on what we eat at night because we ALWAYS go over board and eat way toooooooooooo much at night! That is why we are doing the Pita's 3 nights a week for dinner! I'm also trying to do something easy so we can eat and head out the door on our bikes! It's healthier and it will cut down on kitchen cleaning time which I'm all for!!! =)

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Menu Plan Monday ~ August 11th

Here I am today submitting my menu on Wednesday and it should have been done on Monday! I put it together Sunday but I was so sick I didn't mangage to log in to post it! I will get there!


MONDAY:
Breakfast - English Muffin with Brummel and Brown Simply Strawberry Creamy Fruit Spread (it's Butter made with 10% Natural Yougurt) This stuff is the BOMB!
Lunch - PB & J Sandwich
Dinner - Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti (recipe is posted at the bottom of this post)

TUESDAY:
Breakfast - Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal
Lunch - PB & J Sandwich
Dinner - Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti (from left-overs) & garlic toast

WEDNESDAY:
Breakfast - Cap'n Crunch with fat free milk
Lunch - PB & J Sandwich
Dinner - Frozen Pizza Night (YUM) I love the $1.00 pizza's

THURSDAY:
Breakfast - English Muffin with Brummel and Brown Simply Strawberry Creamy Fruit Spread
Lunch - Ham sandwich, chips/salsa (recipe below) and water
Dinner - Baked Pork Loin with Sauteed Onion and Mushrooms, Black Eye Peas (fresh from Paw-Paw's garden), Mash Potatoes and Gravy

FRIDAY:
Breakfast - English Muffin with Brummel and Brown Simply Strawberry Creamy Fruit Spread
Lunch - Tuna Fish and Crackers
Dinner - On the road ~ We will be headed to the lake house to work, work, work ~ I'm sure our dinner will consist of fast food (I'm thinking about Jack In The Box ~ Have you seen the ad for the NEW Smoothies made with Real Fruit and Non Fat Yougurt ~ I'm thinking Mango)!

I'm only going to do "our" menu plan Monday - Friday! Our weekends are just crazy busy working on the lake house for me to plan out our Saturday and Sunday!

This is my 2nd entry! I'm having so much FUN! I like the way it holds me accountable to COOK these meals!!! =) It feels so good to plan things out!!!! Even though I've been sick this week and haven't ate very much, I have managed to keep our menu on track!

Recipe Time:

Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti
Serves 12 ( one cup each) - This makes a lot!!!

16 oz. dry spaghetti, cooked and drained (Next time I will use 1/2 - 3/4 of the dry spaghetti)
1 lb. Velveeta Light (2%) Cheese
12.5 oz can chicken breast, drained & flaked (I added extra chicken)
1 can 98% FF cream of mushroom soup
1 can 98% FF cream of chicken soup
10 oz. can diced tomatoes & green chilies (Rotel)
4 oz can mushroom stems & pieces, drained
1/2 cup water
1 small onion, diced
1 med. green pepper diced (I did not add...I added some fresh chopped cilantro for a Mexican flare)
Salt & Pepper to taste

Combine all ingredients in a large pot, stir to mix well, cook on medium heat till heated thoroughly!

Homemade Salsa
2 Cans of diced tomatoes (Rotel)
Fresh Cilantro
Chopped Onion
Salt - To Taste
Pepper - To Taste
Garlic Powder - To Taste

Toss all ingredients in a blender or a food processor and mix until it looks like salsa! I've seen other variations that add jalapenos, fresh garlic, roasted bell pepper! Make it your own! I did!

Menu Plan Monday

Okay, this is a first for me! So bare with me! =)

I found "I'm an Organizing Junkie" over at the Bloggy Giveaway and I fell in love with her site where I seen a tab for her "Menu Plan Monday" and boy did it hit home...it was JUST what I was looking for!!!! Just last week Mr. "S" and I were trying to set up a menu plan for our dinners so we would be more ORGANIZED, SAVE MONEY & EAT HEALTHIER! Then BAM, I stumbled across the Menu Plan Monday looking around Laura's blog!

So here I am today submitting my first menu! I put it together last night so it's not a great week! I will get there! I can't wait to go look around at all the other weekly menu's and get some ideas for next week!

MONDAY:
Breakfast - Cap'n Crunch with fat free milk
Lunch - Ham sandwich with fat free cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and red onion on a onion roll, chips and water
Dinner - Meat Loaf, Mash Potatoes and Corn

TUESDAY:
Breakfast - Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal
Lunch - Ham sandwich with fat free cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and red onion on a onion roll, chips and water
Dinner - Meat Loaf Sandwiches (from left-overs)

WEDNESDAY:
Breakfast - Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal
Lunch - Ham sandwich with fat free cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and red onion on a onion roll, chips and water
Dinner - Taco Salad Bowls (which I found on Laura's menu from last week), Refried Beans and Spanish Rice!

THURSDAY:
Breakfast - Cap'n Crunch with fat free milk
Lunch - Ham sandwich with fat free cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and red onion on a onion roll, chips and water
Dinner - Frozen Pizza Night

FRIDAY:
Breakfast - Cap'n Crunch with fat free milk
Lunch - Ham sandwich with fat free sharp cheese, low fat miracle whip, lettuce, tomato and red onion wheat-white bread, chips and water
Dinner - *DATE NIGHT* - Movie Tavern - Dinner and a Movie - The Dark Knight

I'm only going to do "our" menu plan Monday - Friday! Our weekends are just crazy busy for me to plan out our Saturday and Sunday!

So this is it! It was FUN! It will also hold me accountable to COOK these meals!!! =)
It feels so good to plan things out!!!!




HELP - Does anyone have a good chicken and dumpling recipe?