Meal Plan

Sat: leftover lasagna and pizza with garlic bread
Sun: Mexican Style Chicken Chili with corn bread
Mon: Taco pie with broccoli
Tues: leftover or grilled cheese
Wed: Easy Garlic Chicken with quinoa and broccoli
Thurs: breakfast, pancakes, sausage
Fri: pizza
Sat: no-meat broccoli alfredo - wow that's a lot of broccoli in one week

Practice Hospitality

I found this great website about fondue-ing

5 Fondue Pots and a mini crockpot

1.) Chocolate Marshmallow - tea light pot
2.) Cheddar Cheese Fondue - electric pot
3.) Blue Cheese Fondue - mini crock pot
4.) Au Jus with Mini Roast beef sandwiches - tea light pot
5.)

Mondays Menu

meals this week:
day 1: Parmesan Crusted Chicken (from Pinterest)
day 2: Double Crunch Honey Garlic Chops (from Pinterest)
day 3: Perogies
day 4: Baked Chicken and Spinach Flautas (from Pinterest)
day 5: Pizza
day 6: eating at 11th grade girls sleepover, so no planning for me!
day 7: leftovers

lunches:
tuna sandwiches
grilled cheese
salad

Justin's Weekly Lunch Menu

It's hard to pack lunches fro a picky kid who would just assume not eat then eat something he doesn't feel like or just straight up doesn't like. Where some people, and some kids can make themselves eat something they don't feel like, he will not.

He has decided that he wants a schedule, a certain food on each day; so here goes nothing...

day 1: wrap
day 2: lean cuisine
day 3: sub
day 4: pb and j
day 5: unsure?? maybe one of the above

also for snacks: nuts, cheese, chips, granola bars

frozen water bottles

Meal Plan Monday

Gonna try to cook soley from Pinterest this week;
here goes to living life with the internet, how ever did my grandmother survive!!! LOL

day 1: Hawaiian Sweet Roll Ham Sandwiches
day 2: Honey Bar-B-Que Meatloaf -- opted to make Taco Pie
day 3: Crockpot Honey Bourbon Chicken -- yummy
day 4: Pizza- homemade recipe and Cheesy Garlic Bread -- cheesy garlic bread super yum
day 5: leftovers
day 6: Sarah cook
day 7: date night, family is on their own

snacks:
breakfast:

Meal Plan Monday

Meals this wee:
French dip crescents, easy and yummy
Strawberry mango Salsa with chicken
Monte Cristo Sandwiches

and honestly that's all the planning I have in me in the meal department

Monday's Menu

OK so no matter the planning it just seems like my dislike for cooking some days far outweighs the need to cook. See the trouble with loving cereal, if I had it my way we'd eat Multi-grain Cheerios at least once a week.

So taking a stab at a new routine this fall, I have a spreadsheet and everything (Katie will be proud).
So here we go with this weeks meals.

swiss cheese chicken
jambalaya
some kind of crockpot chicken
sweet and sour meatballs
homemade pizza

Menu

day 1: baked chicken parmesan
day 2: chicken gyros
day 3: roast
day 4: eggplant panini with pesto
day 5: chicken pot pie
day6:

Menu for the Next 6 days

day 1: Shepherd's pie
day 2: homemade pizza
day3: sweet and sour meatballs
day 4: baked broccoli penne pasta
day 5: cresent rolls au ju 
day 6: bruchetta chicken

for lunch I made these ham and cheese muffins from 5 Dinner in One Hour's Summer Lunch Ideas post - they were good, different, unsure if I'll make them again or not.

Another Step Back to the Blog

So I tried this 5 Dinners in One Hour free meal plan and it was great.


When I stumbled upon it via Pinterest I was thrilled because with graduation week, out-of-town guests and a grad party to throw, party side note: pictures to come, it was a Pinterest inspired party for sure!


Anyway, back to the meal plan...
The meals were yummy,
only tool an hour to put together
was cost effective.


With summer upon us I will be taking back over as the main cook so I'll be around here more often.
I like a blog when it helps keep me organized.
Hopefully our weekly menu will get posted before I sleep tonight.


Until then I recommend you go over to the 5 Dinner in ONE Hour website.

Attempt to Get Back on a Meal Plan...

Upcoming meals and snacks:

lunch Friday:
Banana Boat Melts
Black Bean Salad

dinner Friday:
homemade pizza for family
Steve and I will go out

Saturday:

Pot Roast

I really like coming home from church and having a nice yummy dinner waiting for me.
My favorite recipe is for this pot roast by Paula Deen.

Red Eggs

Every year for Greek Easter we dye a bunch of eggs a deep red.
This year i was given the task and decided to kind of figure it out on my own,
here's what I did:


Put eggs in a pan of 3 cups cold water and 3 Tbsp vinegar enough to cover the eggs.
Brought the water to a full boil over high heat.
Removed from heat and added 6 Tbsp of Scarlet Rit Dye
Covered and let sit for 15 minutes.


I removed the eggs and placed them on a paper plate, letting them cool for a few minutes.
Then I wiped each egg with olive oil and placed in an egg container for Greek Easter dinner.

Egg Salad

With all the eggs around from Easter I tried my hand at my own egg salad recipe.
Steve really likes 7-11's simple egg salad so we tried to reproduce that as best we could.
Of course we ended up with our own version.


8 hard boiled eggs
1/3 c Miracle Whip
< 1/3 c. Ken's Steak House Honey Mustard
1/2 tsp garlic powder
< 1/2 tsp onion powder

Cooking Again

OK so Sarah is gone for a few days so that has me back in the kitchen.

Friday:
Dr Seuss snack for after school 
date night- Thai food for Steve and I, kids with friends and family


Saturday:
sandwiches 
Green Chili

Sunday:

mozzarella, plum tomato, basil pesto, grilled cheese sandwiches
turkey dinner

Monday: 

cressent roll au jus



Tuesday:
Chinese for Justin's 16th b-day meal!!

Wednesday:
leftovers


Thursday:
Sarah can take the wheel

Chocolate Filled Croissants

So I discovered these on Pinterest and linked to this site for the recipe and the above picture.
I did however make a few changes.
First I used chocolate morsels instead of a Hershey bar, not that I don't love Hershey- cause I do!
And...
I filled some with chocolate AND peanut butter morsels-- yummy!


The cool thing was we can make 1 or 2 or 3 or 9!
Custom warm snacks to satisfy a sweet tooth or two

A Season Ending

Yesterday I handed the grocery budget over to my daughter-in-law Sarah.
It has been 18 and a half years of cooking and meal planning for my family and now this season in my life has come to an end.


While some seasons end with a sad or heavy heart this one is welcomed with a joyful heart!


I like coming up with creative Family Night meals but the actual cooking part-- not so much my favorite.


Actually,
I could say I do not like cooking at all.
I've always said if I could I'd hire a cook.
I'll do laundry,
dishes,
clean floors and bathrooms;
but cooking...
not so much my favorite.


Baking I like enjoy, cooking :/


Now I will be responsible for 2 nights a week.
Wednesday and Sunday, so I'm not off the hook all together,
I can do anything I don't like for only 2 nights a week.


So no more Meal Plan Mondays--
hip, hip, horray!


What's your least favorite daily, household duty?

Menu Plan Monday

I am typing this a week early because Steve and I will be getting back into town on Monday from a weekend away, alone- with no kids :)

Monday: Pizza- hey I just returned from vacation
Tuesday: Sarah
Wednesday: Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken
Thursday: Family Night: Bowling Night, sweet and sour meatballs
Friday: Hot dogs and mac-n-cheese-- date night for Steve and I
Saturday: Steak & chicken on grill
Sunday: Roast

more menus' over here

Hoho Fruit Kabobs

These are too yummy to not post on here. Healthy and sweet all on one fun stick!
HOHO FRUIT KABOBS
Items Needed:

• 1 box (10 ounces) Hostess HoHos (10 HoHos)
• 2 medium ripe bananas
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 cups fresh medium strawberries
• 1 cup fresh pineapple cubes
• 1 package (10 ounces) frozen strawberry halves in syrup, thawed

Directions: Cut each HoHo in half. Cut bananas into slices about ²-inch thick. Very gently and quickly, toss bananas in lemon juice, stirring to coat evenly; drain well.
Alternately thread pieces of HoHos, bananas, strawberries and pineapple cubes onto 8-inch skewers. (Leave one end of skewer to use as a handle.)
Place thawed strawberries in blender or food processor; blend until it forms a smooth sauce. Serve strawberry sauce with kabobs.
A jar of chocolate topping makes a great optional dipping sauce or for drizzling over the kabobs.
Makes 10 kabobs.

Meal Plan Monday

OK so this weeks' meals are up and ready for the family to refer too when they ask 800 times, "What's for dinner?"

Monday- Beef Stroganoff- Sarah
Tuesday- Chicken a la King- Sarah
Wednesday- Corn bread chicken
Thursday- Family Night: Island Night, pork kabobs
Friday- Pizza, Dominos delivered
Saturday- gone- Sarah
Sunday- gone- Sarah

view more menu's at Organizing Junkie