Weekly Meal Plan

[3catslady]

3catslady's meal plan for 2-15 to 2-21:

Breakfasts:  2 sticky rolls, 5 rice cakes with peanut butter, hot tea.
Lunches:  1 Chicken and veggies, 2 sloppy joes and fries, 4 bologna and swiss sandwiches.
Snacks:  2 yogurts, 1 cottage cheese, 4 Fiber One bars.
Dinners:  1 bologna and swiss sandwich, 2 Pizzas, 4 chicken and veggies.

[Iggy aka IG]

Well, I can tell I'd been side-tracked with my birthday party.... 

Sunday:  Leftover party food
Monday:  Ditto
Tuesday:  Smoked sausage with Zoodles
Wednesday:  Mongolian lamb w/ steamed baby bok choy
Thursday:  Teriyaki chicken w/ steamed, riced cauliflower
Friday:  Dinner w/ Dad and fam for a belated birthday
Saturday:  Fundraiser dinner

[marvholly]

1/21-28

I am doing pretty good at using up some stuff in my freezer. However, deals have been too good this week and am adding some stuff.

Breakfast: egg, yogurt, bread+, cereal x 2, waffles or pancakes, fast (dr appt)

lunch: chicken x 3, tuna, ground meat, egg, junk

Dinner: veggie x 2, cottage cheese x 2, meat, tuna, ??

[Iggy aka IG]

Last night:  Low carb enchiladas
Tonight:  Chicken gumbo
Tuesday:  Cod w/ eggplant parm
Wednesday:  Leftover enchiladas
Thursday:  Leftover gumbo
Friday:  Out in the big city
Saturday:  IDK yet
Sunday:  DH will cook a pork loin in his smoker, he just doesn't know it yet. 


I was a busy bee yesterday and made 1.5 pans enchiladas, a tray of eggplant Parmesan, boiled and processed eggs, rinsed and put strawberries, radish, celery with sides of cream cheese into individual containers, assembled 5 burritos for DH's lunches (put 3 in the freezer), and made a 7 layer salad.  This morning I filled the slow cooker full of gumbo ingredients.  Yummy!  I kept thinking:  I am turning groceries into meals. 

[marvholly]

Feb 23, 2015 11:30:20 GMT -5 Iggy aka IG said:

Last night:  Low carb enchiladas
Tonight:  Chicken gumbo
Tuesday:  Cod w/ eggplant parm
Wednesday:  Leftover enchiladas
Thursday:  Leftover gumbo
Friday:  Out in the big city
Saturday:  IDK yet
Sunday:  DH will cook a pork loin in his smoker, he just doesn't know it yet. 


I was a busy bee yesterday and made 1.5 pans enchiladas, a tray of eggplant Parmesan, boiled and processed eggs, rinsed and put strawberries, radish, celery with sides of cream cheese into individual containers, assembled 5 burritos for DH's lunches (put 3 in the freezer), and made a 7 layer salad.  This morning I filled the slow cooker full of gumbo ingredients.  Yummy!  I kept thinking:  I am turning groceries into meals. 

Great job w/the batch prep/cook.  I like to do the same and am currently trying to use up freezer stuff so I can make a couple more for the freezer batch meals.

[marvholly]

Most of my local store ads are out. Looks like next meal plan will include a number of soup or sandwich /salad days. Romaine hearts, radicchio & leaf are all on sale at one of my stores or another. Turkey bacon is on sale at 2 places.

Today I will be doing some batch dooking: broccoli soup, rice, turkey burgers and browned ground turkey. 

[marvholly]

Week 3/1-7

Breakfast: cereal x 2, cottage cheese, yogurt x 2, bread+, waffles

Lunch: egg x 3, fish x 2, veggie, junk

Dinner: chicken x 3, veggie, cottage cheese x 2, ground meat

After YEARS of meal planning I suddenly realized that some weeks are WAAAY more $$ than others. Those are generally the weeks I have fish 2x vs the week I do tuna salad 2x. So changing my ‘general’ plan. Will do 1 fish/shellfish and 1 tuna each week.

[Iggy aka IG]

Holy heck!  March already...

Some of this week's recipes will consist of last night's leftover smoked pork loin:

Tonight:  Honey sesame chicken w/ little smokies in BBQ sauce, leftover turnips
Tomorrow night:  Pork burritos (I'll make extra to freeze) w/ Alfredo green beans
Wednesday:   Cowboy Beans (pork, pintos, sauce, coffee) w/ shredded cheese
Thursday:  Leftovers
Friday:  Take out from?
Saturday:  IDK yet
Sunday:  Out w/ friends at a Cajun restaurant

[chiver78]

did up a 2lb pork loin in the crockpot yesterday, intending to make burritos yesterday....and the whole thing dried way out.    I broke it up into chunks and have it stored in the fridge in a pond of chicken stock right now, in the hopes that I can save it. in any case, now I have the full 2lbs of pork to work with for the week since we ended up ordering pizza instead.

if the chicken stock works some magic by the time I get home, I'm having a burrito tonight. the asian slaw came out amazing, which was why I was so pissed about the pork drying out. otherwise, I might grill up some chicken breast tenders and make the burritos anyway.

I have been getting suggestions for enchiladas and quesadillas, I'm not sure these are hte best idea with dried out pork. what would you do? do you think the chicken stock has a shot at saving anything?

[Iggy aka IG]

chiver78, that has happened to me when I attempted to make chicken broth from a carcass in an apparent rice/slow cooker/all in one apparatus.  The water steamed out and the results were indescribable.  What was your issue do you think?  Not enough liquid?  Good call about bathing it overnight in the stock.  When you warm it back up, I'd do it slowly on the stove.  Good luck and keep us posted.

[chiver78]

that's gotta be it, either that or it was still frozen in the middle when I put it in the crock and it thawed/cooked too quickly? the whole thing was really cold when I was trimming some of the excess fat off before cooking. I really don't know, it's never done that before.

I think what I'm going to do to test tonight is what you said - warm up a piece on the stove, slowly. if it reconstitutes okay, I'm good. I'll just freeze the whole thing in portions WITH stock in the ziploc bag. I'll make some chicken for the slaw for the week, and deal with the pork some other week.

[Iggy aka IG]

Yeah, not sure it's because it was still frozen.  I know some people put frozen food directly into the slow cooker and not have an issue.  Either way, crazy and a super bummer for you. 

[chiver78]

I put frozen chicken straight in when I do black bean pulled chicken, so it does definitely work. I will say that the overnight bath of chicken broth seems to have done the trick. I poured more over the tupperware container, and will just portion the pork out for freezing tomorrow night.....broth included. we cooked extra chicken before saucing the stirfry tonight, I'll use that in place of the pork for burritos this week.

sent from my electronic distraction

[marvholly]

3/2 Mon

Monday is scheduled for veggie. I DID eat veggie but pulled a tofu dish made in late Dec out of the freezer-no idea of cost. Cooked lunch from scratch and here is the breakdown:

0.37 faux crab

0.40 veggies

0.10 pasta

0.25 EVOO, minced garlic

TOTAL 1.02

[marvholly]

Plan for 3/8-14

Breakfast: cereal x 2, cottage cheese, yogurt x 2, bread+, pancakes or waffles

Lunch: egg x 2, chicken x 2, fish, veggie, junk

Dinner: meat ($$$), veggie, tuna, cottage cheese x 2, ground meat, chicken

[Iggy aka IG]

This week:

Tonight:  Leftovers from last night's Cajun out meal
Tuesday:  Chicken burritos from slow cooker chicken
Wed and Thurs:  Leftovers from the freezer
Friday:  Take out from?
Saturday:  IDK yet
Sunday:  Blue cheese burgers.  Maybe. 

[marvholly]

i do NOT understand people who do not have time to meal plan. I sat down this am and did min in 10 minutes, made some changes and was done in a total of 15 minutes. Maybe it is because I have a basic outlin. Maybe it is because I plan this week based on what is already in house. My ads change on Wed or Thur depending on the store.  those items will be bought late in the week or over the weekend & be the basis of the following week's plan.

3/15-21

Breakfast:  Bread+ x 2, cottage cheese, yogurt x 2, cereal, pancakes or waffles

Lunch: egg x 2, fish x 2, ground meat, meat, junk

Dinner: chicken x 3, veggie x 2, cottage cheese x 2

[Iggy aka IG]

This week:

Last night:  Smoked ham w/ fresh spaghetti squash and cowboy beans from the freezer
Tonight:  Chicken eggplant casserole I assembled yesterday
Tuesday:  Corned beef and cabbage in the slow cooker with Irish soda bread I made last night
Wednesday:  Beans with yesterday's ham hock
Thursday:  Leftovers
Friday:  Take out from?
Saturday:  Coconut shrimp with zoodles (zucchini noodles) Oops, forgot we have a dinner to go to
Sunday:  IDK yet

The usual boiled eggs for breakfasts and Romaine w/ trimmings for lunches. 

[marvholly]

Week of 3/22-28

This week’s menu is written very lightly in pencil. The weather is taking a bit of a cold turn. I have 3 meals out (only paying for 1) already on my schedule over the next 8 days and may ADD another if I get a nail appointment. I will most likely change it up quite a bit. Wrote up this menu in 8 minutes.

NOTE: plans calling for salad, sandwich or soup are interchangeable in this changeable weather or activities.

Breakfast:  french toast, cottage cheese x 2, bread+, yogurt x 2, pancakes or waffles

Lunch: sandwich, chicken x 3, egg x 2, out (FREE)

Dinner: fish, veggie x 2, egg, cottage cheese, ground meat, out (to DD1)

Also going out on Sun 3/29 and paying that time.

[3catslady]

3catslady Meal plan for March 22 to March 28.

Breakfasts:  7 (2) rice cakes with peanut butter, 7 cups of tea.
Lunch: Chicken sliders w/ff, 3 bologna and swiss sandwiches, 3 cottage cheese with fruit.
Snack:  rice krispie treats, 5 Fiber One bars, 1 yogurt.
Dinner:  Baked potato with chili, 4 chicken and veggies, 2 Pizzas.
Water:  Trying for 5 bottles (16 oz) a day.  That includes my tea since I use bottled water for it.
Before bed:  Fruit or pudding

[Iggy aka IG]

Dinners this week:

Last night:  Taco bake w/ rutabaga on the side, fresh strawberry angel food cake
Tonight:  Cajun pork chops, spaghetti squash
Wednesday:  Not sure yet
Thursday:  Leftovers
Friday:  Take out from?
Saturday or Sunday:  DH might make carne asada for the first time

The usual boiled eggs for breakfasts and kosher dogs in Romaine "buns" for lunches.

[marvholly]

Between a busy weekend & my holiday starting Fri eve I don’t have it quite together this week. Plan, so far, is: (know I am missing 1 lunch & 2 dinners)

Breakfast: cereal, cottage cheese x 3, yogurt, x 2, egg
Lunch: chicken, ham, egg x 2, salad plate, bread+
Dinner: out, veggie, nachos/tacos, chicken, fish

Like pretty much everyone, I have a TON of food prep to do going into the holidays.

[Ombud]

I had to spend 2.99 for 3 artichokes today & 40c per ear of corn .... that's nothing but the top of thistles & a version of grass. Food will be expensive this summer

[Iggy aka IG]

This week:

Last night:  DH made carne asada for the first time.  YUMMY
Tonight:  Leftovers
Tuesday:  I've been invited to a tasting event, so DH will have slow cooker chicken.
Wednesday:  DH and I are taking the day off together, so probably dinner out after we finish ATVing.
Thursday:  Leftovers
Friday:  Take out from?
Saturday?
Sunday:  Easter steak and potatoes

A fun menu to put together. 

[marvholly]

Mar 30, 2015 10:21:51 GMT -5 Iggy aka IG said:

This week:

Last night:  DH made carne asada for the first time.  YUMMY
Tonight:  Leftovers
Tuesday:  I've been invited to a tasting event, so DH will have slow cooker chicken.
Wednesday:  DH and I are taking the day off together, so probably dinner out after we finish ATVing.
Thursday:  Leftovers
Friday:  Take out from?
Saturday?
Sunday:  Easter steak and potatoes

A fun menu to put together. 

Also, and probably most important, an easy on the primary cook menu.

[marvholly]

week of 4/5-11

The entire week is still Passover.

Not sure exactly when I will eat which but here are my ideas for my this week’s meals; some will be eaten twice.

Breakfast: yogurt, matzo & spread cheese, cottage cheese
Lunch: salmon patties, chopped liver, eggs & onions, fried matzo
Dinner: gefilte fish, apple kugel, cottage cheese
Other possibles would be zucchini fritters, tuna salad, salad plate and/or carrot kugel.

NOTE: Lunch & dinner are interchangeable.

I already have leftover broccoli, feta & cheese pie and roast chicken on hand to eat.
Salad, veggies & fruit to be added to most meals.

[Iggy aka IG]

So totally not ready for a new week...

Last night was homemade smoked prime rib
Tonight will be leftovers
Tomorrow night chicken something maybe?
Wednesday night leftovers?
Thursday I'll be out of town on business so IDK yet
Friday is the agent convention dinner
Saturday take out from?
Sunday?

[marvholly]

After a week of NOT doing routine menu planning this week took me MUCH longer – about 45 minutes. Most likely in for a LOT of adjustments will be done this week (LOVE erasers). 1 or 2 new recipes are in the plan.

4/12-18

Breakfast: cereal x 2, cottage cheese, yogurt x 2, bread+, waffles

Lunch: egg x 2, ground meat, fish x 2, chicken, junk

Dinner: salad plate w/protein, veggie x 2, meat, cottage cheese x 2, chicken

[marvholly]

Wish I had known Sun was National Grilled Cheese day EFORE I did my menu plan. Got to find a calendar with all these weird (fun) days.

[Iggy aka IG]

Woo hoo!  Another new week!

Last night:  Smoked ribs w/ green beans
Tonight:  Freezer leftovers (we need the plastic containers, LOL!)
Tuesday:  Freezer leftovers
Wed:  IDK?  Grocery shopping night
Thursday:  IDK
Friday and Saturday:  Camping food.  Maybe.  Depends on the weather.
Sunday:  IDK