Weekly Meal Plan

Sorry I am so late getting this posted! We have had a busy week. Sunday we laid around the house and accomplished nothing. :o) We have to have one of these days every once in a great while. We spent the day listening to Morgan Spurlocks "Don't Eat This Book" on audio CDs. It has been great so far, we still have two disks to go. Monday we got up really early to beat the heat and took a long walk! We walked to the grocery store to pick up alum for the pickles and then two dollar stores to pick up invitations and paper plates/napkins/balloons/cups/forks/etc. for "L" up coming 1st birthday. Oh my, where did a year go? Then Monday evening we went to the library and listened to a group of steel drum players from Bloomington, Indiana play some wonderful music! "L" had a blast and was dancing to the music. Today (Tuesday) we have been out to eat at a small diner for breakfast (a rare treat!), been to the cell phone store to look at a new phone for me (yeah for upgrades!), and worked in the yard a bit. Zach got the mowing and weed eating done and I got the tomatoes re staked as the rain and muggy weather had made them a little droopy. The rest of the day, I don't know. I need to the the peppers re staked, wash dishes, do a load of laundry and then maybe I might get to sit down and enjoy a little quite time before starting dinner. Phew! I need a nap! :o)

CSA bag contents this week:

• 3 medium cucumbers (added to the first ones from our garden, in the process of making them into sweet pickles, yum!)
• 5 small hot peppers
• 3 green bell peppers
• 1 purple bell pepper
• 1 bunch of greens
• 7 small onions
• 1 large zucchini

Saturday dinner: grill out: chicken breasts, grilled onions and peppers, and potato salad

Sunday Lunch: Salads

Sunday dinner: Chicken noodle, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots

Monday Lunch: left over grilled chicken, potato salad, and Kenyan style greens and tomatoes

Monday Dinner: Spaghetti- no meat but LOTS of veggies!, salad, cheesy bread

Tuesday lunch: salads

Tuesday dinner: whole chicken in the crock pot, pan cooked squash,zucchini, tomato, thyme mix and sauteed green beans

Weekly Meal Plan

We hit the mother load! :o) And so begins the FULL bags of God's abundance from the CSA! I am so excited!

This weeks bag contained

• 1 bunch of cauliflower
• 3 small hot peppers
• 1 medium bag of salad
• 1 small bag of arugula
• 2 medium cucumbers
• chives
• 1 medium cabbage
• 12 ears of corn!

We also still have a small amount of green onions and 1 bunch of broccoli left from last week since we were gone for a good part of the week.

We also got two quarts of raw goats milk this week as next week she is going to be busy at her county fair. But we (Zach and I) have also discussed it and we are going to start getting 2 quart from her every week and Zach is going to start drinking it as well. Raw milk and goats milk are just so packed with nutrition! And ours is hormone and antibiotic free and is from organically and pasture fed local goats. So why should only "L" and I be getting those benefits? It is more expensive ($2 a quart) but food (and our health, which is directly related to what we eat) isn't something we should scrimp and "save" on.

Anyway, onto the meal plans for this week...

Saturday dinner: Zach's week to work.

Sunday Lunch: Breakfast for lunch: scrambled eggs with green onion, minced hot pepper, cheese, and bacon

Sunday Dinner: Cook out! I found some yummy looking turkey sausages at the grocery store this week so we are having those with Cole slaw, grilled onion and roasted corn on the cob

Monday Lunch: Pasta arugula with chicken

Monday Dinner: Freezer meal- creamy broccoli casserole with corn on the cob, fresh bread with butter and jelly

Tuesday Lunch: Stir fry- broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, cucumber, carrots, onion, corn? all over brown rice

Tuesday Dinner: Enchiladas (replacement freezer meal) with salad topped with cucumber

Snacks for the week: homemade granola bars and crackers with chive/garlic/cream cheese spread and cottage cheese with crushed pineapple

Weekly Meal Plan

Good morning! I am sitting here enjoying a smoothie with my sweet little girly. Mango, strawberry, banana and spinach! Yum! We've had a nice weekend here.We didn't end up going camping as it was just too hot and wet. We are planning to go home next weekend for the 4th though and we might camp out then. So instead we had a nice weekend at home. Saturday we spent relaxing around the house Just enjoying each others company and playing with our ever growing little blessing. Sunday was our 4 year wedding anniversary. My goodness, has it really been 4 years? We went out to eat at our favorite Chinese restaurant for dinner and thoroughly enjoyed a big storm that rushed by outside the large windows next to our table. Chopsticks and lightening. Great combination! All in all, it was a lovely celebration of our time together thus far.

This weeks CSA bag has quite a few new items in it. It contained

• lettuce mix
• Chives
• parsley
• a small bell pepper
• and two other small peppers (hot ones)

The day we got it I made breakfast for lunch and we had scrambled eggs with the bell pepper, a pinch of the finely diced hot peppers (Zach isn't much for hot things so they gave flavor but not heat,) chives and parsley, sliced peaches and chocolate chip muffins. It made for a nice lunch! So here are our meal plans for this week...

Saturday dinner: Cabbage casserole- we were supposed to have this last week but the night I had planned to fix it, the power went out. So I moved it to this week!

Sunday lunch: Salads

Sunday dinner: our anniversary, out for Chinese

Monday lunch: Tacos-flour tortillas, lettuce, cheese, tomato, sour cream, taco meat

Monday dinner: Freezer meal- Chicken Tetrazinni, salad, fresh bread and parsley potatoes

Tuesday lunch: Sloppy Joe's (using the new high fructose corn syrup free ketchup we got this week,) browned potatoes, and Cole slaw

Tuesday dinner: Meat loaf, chive carrots, and mashed potatoes

Wednesday lunch through Friday dinner: leftovers for me!

Weekly Meal Plan

Hello! I hope this post finds you well and happy this fine, over cast, stormy Monday. :o)

This week our CSA box contained:

• A small cabbage
• A bundle of green onions
• A bag of swiss chard (this is a totally new one for me!)
• A couple handfuls of green beans

Sorry, I didn't get a picture taken before we ate some of it! :o)

Meal plans for this week:

Monday lunch: Leftover grilled meat from Sunday, green bean and radish salad, and left over coleslaw from Sunday

Monday dinner: Chicken breasts, potato and swiss chard curry (wish me luck! We have never even eaten swiss chard!) and pan yeast bread (recipe to come probably Saturday)

Tuesday lunch: Chicken chunks, green onion mashed potatoes, and green onion corn (our breath will probably be lovely after this meal!)

Tuesday dinner: Cabbage roll casserole (new recipe that I am a little iffy about as Zach doesn't like cabbage any way but coleslaw and sour kraut but we can hope!)

Wednesday lunch-Friday dinner: Leftovers for me!

We are planning to go camping next weekend so we will be eating "camp-y" foods. More than likely hot dogs and the like and who knows what else. I am one of those odd people who really likes camp cooking. This will be the first time camping out with "L" so we shall see how she does. I am still trying to decide weather to brave cloth diapering while camping or not. Anyone done this before?

CSA bag and Weekly Meal Plan

Here is a look at this weeks CSA score. Once again, it is small but our farmer said next week it will start getting bigger and bigger. We might even have some bell peppers. Yum! This weeks bag contained...

• A LARGE bag of salad mix


• A small bag of spinach


• A couple hand fulls of snow peas

In the picture is also my weekly quart of raw goats milk. Yum!

And here is our meal plan for this week...

Saturday late lunch/early dinner: sweet potato burritos

Saturday dinner: Zach's week to work over time on Saturday so I had left overs

Sunday lunch and dinner: We are attending our first Home4Birth picnic at one of our midwives homes. We are SO excited to meet lots of other home birthing families and to see our lovely midwives again. We haven't seen them since "L" was born about 9 months ago. I am planning to bring these lovely Pumpkin Dinner Rolls from Tammy's Recipes (thank you Tammy for this yummy recipe!) I still have a good bit of pumpkin puree in the deep freezer from last fall that will be wonderful for these!

Monday lunch: Sweet potato burritos

Monday dinner: Stir fry- chicken, peppers, CSA snow peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, onion, garlic and soy sauce on top of brown rice

Tuesday lunch: Sloppy Joe's, oven fries, and peas

Tuesday dinner: Chicken breasts (maybe chunks), mac and cheese, Lima beans and salad

Wednesday lunch - Friday dinner is leftovers as usual!

Saturday lunch: Leftovers?

Saturday dinner: Freezer meal, salad and garlic bread

Sunday lunch: Salad, hard boiled eggs, extra chicken from Tuesday

Sunday dinner: Father's Day! Grill out, deviled eggs, grilled peppers and onions

Weekly Meal Plan: June 7th-11th

We got our first CSA box this week so I got to try out my new meal planning. I think it went well and we get to try lots of new recipes with our yummy food!

Monday lunch: leftovers from Sunday ("L" had her 9 month baby wellness check up today and is doing great!)

Monday dinner: Chicken Soulvaki (new recipe using some of the oregano from our CSA box), potatoes with cilantro (new recipe using the cilantro from our CSA box) and the salad mix (from the CSA box.)

Tuesday lunch: Pasta arugula (new recipe using the arugula from the CSA box)

Tuesday dinner: Roasted Greek chicken (new recipe-also on the oregano site) and green bean and radish salad (new recipe)

Wednesday lunch: bean burritos (making extra for in the freezer), fresh salsa (using the green onions from the CSA box), and blue corn chips (a new favorite in the house.)

Wednesday dinner through Friday dinner is leftovers as usual.

Weekly Meal Plan: 05/15-05/21

I am late getting this done this week. I've had a couple "feeling pooy" days and just didn't get it done. Have to go to the grocery store tomorrow afternoon to do the shopping for the week. Not my idea of a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Lesson learned?

Saturday dinner: BIG pizza. I happened to find one of those huge pizzas you can get at the grocery store on sale (it was "out of date" the next day) for $3.00! They are originally like $10. BBQ chicken. Yum!

Prep for Sunday: thaw ground turkey

Sunday lunch: Left over pizza? I am not kidding, this thing is huge! :o) Or maybe a freezer meal?

Sunday dinner: Swedish meatballs (making a double batch to freeze 1/2 for later use), mashed potatoes, cooked carrots and fresh bread. May come up with a special dessert. I need to get back into the habit of that. If all else fails, cookies and ice cream!

Prep for Monday: cook hard boiled eggs, thaw chicken breasts/thighs

Monday lunch: Tuna salad in homemade pita pockets, potato salad and hard boiled eggs

Monday dinner: Chicken tetrazini (making a single batch but freezing half for later use, one batch makes two 8x8 inch pans), peas, "daddy" potatoes and buttered bread.

Prep for Tuesday: soak beans, thaw chicken breasts

Tuesday lunch: Chicken fingers, mac and cheese, and Lima beans

Tuesday dinner: crock pot pizza beans

Prep for Wednesday: Check to see if first batch of kombucha is done!

Wednesday lunch: left over chicken fingers in pita pockets with lettuce, tomato, and honey mustard

Wednesday dinner, all meals for Thursday and Friday: Leftovers!

Weekly Meal Plan: 05/08-05/14

Saturday lunch: leftovers (we had more this week than I could get though on the days Zach worked so this will be "clean out the fridge" day.)

Saturday dinner: Lemon garlic drumsticks, creamed spinach, and corn

Sunday lunch: Tuna salad in home made pita pockets, cottage cheese, and hard boiled eggs and probably a fruit

Sunday dinner: Roast chicken with potatoes, lemon and asparagus, served with brown rice

Monday lunch: Beef taco skillet and salad

Monday dinner: Chicken enchiladas (making a double batch to have an extra batch to put in the freezer)

Tuesday lunch: Tacos and blue corn tortilla chips with salsa

Tuesday dinner: Crock pot Lima bean casserole

Wednesday lunch: Baked potatoes with broccoli and cheese

Weekly Meal Plan

Saturday lunch: "L" and I are going to the Indianapolis Children's Museum with a dear friend of mine and her brood of three handsome fellas. Going to have a simple picnic lunch there.

Saturday dinner: taco salad

Sunday lunch: Italian chicken pasta

Sunday dinner: Pizza pasta pie and garlic bread

Monday lunch: picnic at the park with Daddy) toasted tuna salad sandwiches, cottage cheese, deviled eggs

Monday dinner: baked salmon, hard boiled eggs (mashed with butter on top), green beans, and fried potatoes

Tuesday lunch: baked potatoes and salad

Tuesday dinner: baked chicken, scalloped asparagus, and Lima beans

Wednesday lunch: chicken chunks, homemade mac & cheese, and peas

Wednesday dinner- Friday Dinner: leftovers

Weekly Meal Plan: 4/25-5/01

Sunday lunch: Baked potatoes and side salad.

Sunday Dinner: Chicken noodles, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots and fresh bread

Monday lunch: Home made pizzas, salad, and green beans

Monday dinner: Pasta pinwheels, salad, and garlic bread

Tuesday lunch: Sloppy joes, home made potato wedges and cottege cheese

Tuesday dinner: Cheese-it chicken, home made mac and cheese, and peas

Wednesday Lunch: toasted cheese sandwiches and tomato soup

Wednesday dinner: leftovers

Thursday and Friday: leftovers, bean burritos, and baked potato

Saturday lunch and dinner: not sure yet because Zach has to work so it will come down to last minute on when he works.

This weeks meal plan

This is something I've been meaning to get back into the habit of doing. I used to make weekly meal plans faithfully, but around the Super Bowl, Zach's schedule gets so messed up that I finally just gave up. Never knowing when he was going to be awake, at work, hungry or asleep made it very difficult to plan anything. So, I am getting back into the habit, I hope!

Zach is home for lunch Monday-Wednesday but then Thursday and Friday he works 3rd shift and isn't up in time to share any meals with me (he is eating his breakfast while I am eating my lunch) so those days I will just post what I am having for dinner. He also isn't here for dinner on Wednesday. On days that he works I usually just have leftovers for lunch.

Sunday dinner: black bean and rice casserole- this was a new recipe and, although I needed to add some more seasonings, we were quite pleased with it. I want to make it once more before posting the recipe so I can actually measure the extra seasonings I put in as I just kinda eye balled it last night. :o) We also had ice cream cookies using a new cookie recipe that I will also post in the coming future.

Monday lunch: green bean/sausage/potato stuff, buttered bread, tea and lemonade
Monday dinner: Chili sausage bake- new recipe, if it turns out good, I will post it!
(Just realized we are having sausage twice in one day. Will have to watch out more closely for that in the future!)

Tuesday Lunch: baked potatoes, light salad
Tuesday dinner: Lemon chicken, garlic and onion potatoes, and sweet peas

Wednesday lunch: toasted tuna salad sandwiches, deviled eggs, fruit
Wednesday dinner: Leftovers

Thursday: baked potato and soup

Friday: leftovers

Saturday: we will be gone all day on a local farm tour! Yeah! We are so excited about this! It should prove to be lots of fun and packed with information! For dinner I will probably plan a crock pot meal that can be left at home all day to cook while we are gone.

I usually do my meal planning on Friday morning and my grocery shopping Friday afternoon or Saturday with the hubby.

I would really like to get back in the habit of this! It saves us money, saves me time and keeps us from hitting fast food places for the convenience.