Weekly Menu Plan for Feb. 5-11, 2011

This week's menu is simply made from things that we already have. We are trying to stay out of the grocery store as much as possible.

Saturday - Grilled pork chops, pasta salad, green beans

Sunday lunch - Chicken strips, macaroni and cheese, speckled butter beans
Sunday (Superbowl) dinner - Steaks, potato salad - then later we had spinach dip with Hawaiian bread, boiled peanuts, chip and queso dip

Monday - out to eat

Tuesday - Hot wings, leftover potato salad, leftover beans

Wednesday - Hamburger Helper Lasagna, salad, rolls

Thursday - BBQ chicken, baby lima beans, cream corn

For some awesome meal ideas for this week, visit Organized Junkie for Menu Plan Monday here.

Weekly Menu Plan for December 12-18, 2010

I have got to get back to weekly planning - been spending too much lately with Christmas around the corner. Here's what I intend to feed the family this week:

Sunday evening: Grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, baked potatoes
Monday: Spaghetti, green beans, salad
Tuesday: Potato soup, sandwiches (or leftover hot dogs)
Wednesday: Chicken and dumplings
Thursday: Tacos or nachos
Friday: Beef tips with peppers and onions, rice
Saturday: Cubed pork chops, macaroni and cheese, macaroni and tomatoes (since my husband doesn't like mac/cheese), sliced fruit, Indian bread

Breakfasts:
Frozen waffles, stuffed french toast, ham biscuits, scrambled eggs/toast

Lunches:
Sandwiches, leftovers, soup, cup of noodles (something warm)

Weekly Menu Plan for October 24-30

It seems that I am posting when I have gone to the grocery store and spent too much money. I guess $80 is the spark, because I spent that again yesterday and now I feel as though I need a plan so we get the most use of the food that we bought. Two $40 visits don't seem to bother me, but that one $80 sets me to planning.

So here is what I intend to fix:

Sunday:
Cubed pork chops, speckled butter beans, steamed cabbage, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, rolls

Monday:
Grilled hamburgers, pork burgers and hot dogs, salad, corn on cob

Tuesday:
Chicken and rice, leftover butter beans, pickles and crackers

Wednesday:
Meat loaf, baked sweet potatoes and onions, pumpkin muffins

Thursday:
Catalina cranberry chicken (p 15 in Holiday 09 Food and Family), stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans

Friday:
eat at Halloween party

Saturday:

Sandwiches for lunch

Roast, potatoes, and carrots in crockpot (before trick-or-treating)

For more meal ideas, check out Organized Junkie this week.

Weekly Menu Plan for Sept. 12 - 18

$80 at the grocery store and I still don't know what we're going to eat next week? Didn't make a plan! Didn't make a list! I so know better than that. But the money is already spent, so now I need to backtrack and make a weekly plan. We sure don't need to be back in the store again tomorrow, because we have "nothing to eat."

I have been cleaning up in my kitchen this week and going through some Taste of Home, Quick Cooking and Kraft Food and Family magazines. I've gotten several good ideas floating around in my head, so I'm going to take the opportunity now to put it down. This will help me remember. Plus, I love putting this information on my blog, because I can access it anywhere I have internet access and be reminded what we'll be eating.

Sunday lunch:
Grilled hamburgers with french fries (maybe) or chips

Sunday dinner:
Fried cubed pork chops, butter beans, fresh cream corn, steamed cabbage (needs to be used), hoe cakes

Monday dinner:
Lasagna, green beans

Tuesday dinner:
Catalina cranberry chicken (p 15 in Holiday 09 Food and Family), stuffing (from the box, of course), cranberry sauce (my little one thinks this is a side dish rather than a condiment), macaroni and tomatoes (because my husband won't eat stuffing), biscuits (found packs of 12 frozen biscuits for 59 cents)

Wednesday dinner:
Meatball subs, Italian marinated vegetable salad (p 31 in Holiday 08 Food and Family or layered salad (p 40 in Summer 08 Food and Family)

Thursday dinner:
Garden frittata, sausage, cantelope

Friday dinner:
Beef taco skillet (Campbell's recipe), frozen grapes (see below)

Saturday lunch:
Meatloaf, leftover sides, mashed potatoes or noodles

Saturday dinner:
Shrimp pasta salad, peach crisp (in crockpot) - I love this site. She has such awesome food ideas.

If you haven't had frozen grapes, you are in for a treat. Buy grapes when they are on sale, wash them, drain, place in zipper style bag and pop in the freezer. When ready to eat, just pop one in your mouth and enjoy a cool, summer treat. Everyone that we have introduced these to love them. We do prefer the green grapes to the red ones (of course, we also choose the seedless ones).

Check out other menu plans at Organized Junkie.

Weekly Menu Plan for May 2-8

Last week was so hectic and several items didn't get fixed that were on our weekly plan. We've got to incorporate some of those into this week's plan, because it is what we already have. So here goes:

Sunday lunch - Fried chicken and pork chops, mashed potates (homemade), speckled butter beans, and rolls.

Sunday pm - Sandwiches, chips

Monday pm - Chicken, fried okra, steamed cabbage

Tuesday pm - Meat loaf, leftover mashed potatoes, leftover beans

Wednesday pm - Crockpot fajitas, tortilla shells, refried beans, Spanish rice

Thursday pm - Fish/deviled crab, slaw, noodles

Friday pm - Pork roast, sweet potatoes, rice, tomato gravy

Saturday lunch - Spaghetti (sauce from freezer), garlic toast, green beans

Saturday pm - Grilled leg quarters, baked potatoes, cucumber salad


Breakfasts will consist of eggs and toast or French toast or frozen waffles.
Lunches will be made up of leftovers or sandwiches or ramen noodles.

Check out other weekly menu plans at Meal Plan Monday.

Weekly Menu Plan for April 17-23

Last week went really well. We ate by our plan almost every day which is amazing for us. We usually stray a bit, but it was so busy last week that we had to stick to it. I didn't have time to think about eating anything different.

This week we had to buy a couple of meats and I did bite the bullet and buy onions. We had a coupon for $2 off of $5 of produce. So here's what we have planned:

Saturday: BBQ pepper jack chicken, pasta salad

Sunday lunch: Chicken/rice, raw carrots, pickles (homemade), crackers

Sunday pm: Leftover hamburgers/hot dogs, leftover chicken and rice, raw carrots

Monday: eat out - Mexican

Tuesday: Pork chops, macaroni and tomatoes, macaroni and chees, butter beans

Wednesday: Crockpot fajitas (recipe found in last weeks MPM)

Thursday: Grilled cheese and nearly homemade tomato soup

Friday: Crockpot chicken and onions, mashed potatoes, collard greens

Saturday: Lasagna, green beans, garlic toast

For meal plans, visit Organized Junkie this week.

Weekly Menu Plan July 12-18

We found some great meat deals today at our local Harvey's and lots of garden items are coming in. Plus, I cleaned out the small freezer in the laundry room yesterday and found lots of "forgotten" items. So our menu this week will reflect all of that.

Sunday:
Chicken and dumplings, creamed corn, peas, sliced tomatoes - all found items in the freezer except for the tomatoes

Monday:
Blackened salmon (sale meat), baked potato, salad

Tuesday:
Fried bream and chicken gizzards (sale meat), cheese grits, coleslaw - my husband, father and little one went fishing today and caught 8 bream so we'll pair them up with some cheap gizzards and have a meal

Wednesday:
Salisbury steak (found item from freezer), Kraft homestyle macaroni salad, cucumber salad (garden)

Thursday:
Cubed pork chops (sale meat), stir fry vegetables, watermelon slices (garden)

Friday:
Taco salad with homemade salsa, ice cream bars (found item from freezer)

Saturday:
BBQ Ribs, corn on cob, (both found in freezer), fried okra (garden)

I would challenge each of you to dig through that freezer and refrigerator and locate some "lost" items for this week's menu. We recently found quite a bit of hamburger meat that had spoiled (freezer burned) because we had forgotten about it. Read about that here. That's just money being tossed away. So get up now and go check to see what you have that you have forgotten. You will thank me when you're saving money this week at the grocery store.

For more great menu ideas, visit Organized Junkie for Menu Plan Monday.

Weekly Menu Plan for July 5 - 11

This is what we are planning to eat this week. We have been working on vegetables all last week and eating from the freshness of our garden. In that process, we cleaned out the freezer and now know more what is available to eat.

Sunday - leftovers
Monday - Meat loaf, au gratin potatoes, sliced cucumbers
Tuesday - Fried turkey breast, stuffing, steamed cabbage
Wednesday - Chicken and rice, pickles, slaw
Thursday - Cubed pork chops, macaroni and cheese, steamed broccoli
Friday - Fish sticks, frozen french fries, leftover slaw
Saturday - Grilled something

For more menu ideas, check out the links on Organized Junkie.

Weekly Menu Plan for June 14-20

This is our weekly menu plan for this week. We're back from our camping adventure and now it is back to working at home (plus a few days of training at school).

Sunday - eat at Mexican Restaurant

Monday - BBQ chicken, fresh green beans from the garden, new potatoes, fresh corn on cob

Tuesday - Grilled hamburgers, frozen fries, salad

Wednesday - Fresh pork roast and rice, butter beans, sliced tomatoes, creamed corn

Thursday - Fried fish, coleslaw, cheese grits

Friday - Spaghetti, garlic bread, leftover green beans

Saturday - Sandwiches or breakfast food

For more summer eating this week, visit Menu Plan Monday.

Weekly Menu Plan for June 7-13

This week we will be camping out at our old house. Boo has swimming lessons and bible school and camping there makes us closer to these activities. Our weekly menu won't change much except that we will probably do more crockpot meals and meals that are quick and easy to get together because bible school starts at 6:00 p.m. I am also going to be adding a little more detail to our menu starting this week because our exchange student will start checking these menus out. We wanted her to be aware of the things that we generally eat.

Don't forget to stop by on Thursday to join up to my new meme entitled 5 Things I Can Live Without at my decluttering blog.

Now for this week's plan:

Sunday - Ham sandwiches, twice baked potatoes, leftover salad

Monday - Boneless, skinless chicken thighs and yellow rice, coleslaw, sweet pickles, saltine crackers

Tuesday - Creamy Crockpot Ham and Broccoli (recipe from Current's Fix and Forget: 50 Crockpot Recipes), sliced tomatoes, watermelon slices

Wednesday - Grilled hot dogs, leftover coleslaw, baked beans

Thursday - Crockpot roast, potatoes and carrots, biscuits or rolls (whichever we already have)

Friday - Fresh pork and rice, peas, steamed cabbage

Saturday - Leftover buffet

To see what everyone else is eating this week, visit Organized Junkie's Menu Plan Monday.

Weekly Menu Plan for May 31 - June 6

We didn't stick too close to our menu plan for last week. Lots of changes were made to our week and we just rolled along with them. I decluttered my freezer space inside today, so I now know what I have available for us in these locations. I am going to try to spend very little this week and eat some of the things that we already have. I have seen numerous posts lately about eating out of the freezer and pantry, and this needs to be done at our house - to save money and the food that is getting older.

Here are the plans for the week:

Sunday - eat out (Mexican Restaurant) - my husband took us out to eat since I was still not feeling well and he's cooked all weekend so he was ready for a break, too

Monday - Fried, cubed pork chops, leftover field peas with okra, boiled new potatoes

Tuesday - Chicken and yellow rice, sweet pickles, cabbage slaw

Wednesday - Pancakes and sausage

Thursday - Crockpot roast and potatoes (I may buy some carrots for this and may not), collards (from the garden), yeast rolls

Friday - Chicken with fettucine and peppers, fried okra, garlic toast

Saturday - Chicken strips, sweet potato fries, corn on cob

For breakfasts this week, we will alternate between oatmeal, sausage biscuits, cereal, and eggs, toast and grits. Lunches will consist of sandwiches with soup or salad and leftovers.

To see other menu ideas, visit Organized Junkie's Menu Plan Monday.

Also, plan to join in with my new meme this Thursday at my declutter blog, 5 Things I Can Live Without Thursday.

Weekly Menu Plan for May 24-30

This week is our last full week of school (for the kids) and graduation is over. I'm hoping that it will be a little slower this week. We still have t-ball and plenty around the house to get done. This is what we're planning to have:

Sunday
eat at friends' home - more birthdays in our circle of friends
Monday
Fried turkey breast, sweet potatoes, speckled butter beans
Tuesday
Grilled hot dogs, cucumber salad, broccoli salad
Wednesday
BBQ Chicken Packet (found blog hopping the weekend), potato salad, collards from garden

Thursday

Crock Pot Roast, new potatoes from our garden, Italian green beans

Friday

Hot wings, macaroni and cheese, cole slaw (cabbage is ready in the garden)

Saturday

Fajitas, Spanish rice, refried beans, salsa and chips

Stop by my declutter blog and join my new meme on Thursday entitled 5 Things I Can Live Without Thursday.

For more weekly meal plans, visit Organized Junkie each Monday.

Weekly Menu Plan for May 3 - 9

With only a few dollars left in my $30 a week challenge, I'm going to have to get creative with this week's menu. I do have quite a few things in the freezer, the pantry and on hand. Now it's just a matter of putting together what I have to make meals.

Sunday - Ham salad (made with leftover ham, cream cheese, and mayo) - it's very similar to this recipe except I add a little bit of mayo to make it more spreadable, boiled eggs, green salad

Monday - Hamburger Helper (haven't decided on the flavor yet - it was on sale a few weeks ago at our local grocery), fresh broccoli from my garden, rolls

Tuesday - Swanson Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore (didn't have this last week), noodles, salad, garlic bread

Wednesday - Boston butt slices, green beans, consomme brown rice

Thursday - Hot dogs, baked beans, slaw, potato chips

Friday - Grilled leg quarters, mashed potatoes, speckled butter beans, creamed corn, deviled eggs, pecan pound cake (this will be our Mother's Day feast for our moms - I'm being treated to a trip to the beach on Sunday)

Saturday - Ribs (loved the way this recipe looked), baked potatoes, salad or slaw (whichever is left from the week)

Visit Menu Plan Monday at Organized Junkie after 11:00 p.m. Eastern Sunday for more meal plans and ideas.

Weekly Menu Plan for April 26 - May 2

This week I am going to challenge myself to spend no more than $30 for groceries. That will include trips for milk, bread, etc. This may be a little difficult because on Tuesdays and Thursdays (our t-ball nights) I am trying to feed 7 people instead of just 3. We have invited my little one's grandparents over each night before the game (or after as the case may be on this Thursday). We call him "Boo" so I may refer to him at times by that name. Anyway, here's the plan.

Sunday - Grilled cheese sandwiches, Tomato Soup (or I may try this recipe) - freeze leftover soup for later in the week

Monday - Tacos

Tuesday - Campbell's Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings, Field Peas, Fruit Salad

Wednesday - Quick Beef and Rice, Steamed Cabbage, Biscuits

Thursday - Swanson Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore, Ceasar Salad, Garlic Bread

Friday - Easy Hodge Podge Soup (this recipe is from the ebooks available from my blog - I have listed this one below) - I'm going to use any leftover tomato soup and vegetables from earlier in the week instead of the canned items that it calls for

Saturday - Grilled steaks and hot dogs, roasted potatoes, salad


Easy Hodge Podge Soup
1 lb Hamburger
1 Chopped onion
Salt and pepper
1 cn (10.75-oz) tomato soup
1 cn (16-oz) mixed vegetables
1 cn (16-oz) kidney beans
1 Box (14.75-oz) spaghetti
Brown hamburger and onions. Drain excess grease. Add tomato soup and half a
can of water. Stir in vegetables. Run knife through spaghetti to cut strands. Add
to soup mixture. Bring to boil, simmer 15 minutes.

For more Menu Plan Monday, visit Organizing Junkie.

Menu Plan Weekly for April 19-25

These are the plans for this week.

Sunday: Ham, rice with pork backbone (my mother-in-law cooked this for us), leftover potato salad, sliced tomatoes

Monday: Baked flounder, cheese grits, baked beans, fresh pineapple slices

Tuesday: Spaghetti, cucumber slices, garlic bread

Wednesday: Grilled pork chops, speckled butter beans, stir-fry mushrooms and onions, fresh sliced strawberries and bananas

Thursday: Hamburger casserole with potatoes and carrots (I'll post the recipe later as an update - this is something a lady at work cooks and she's going to get me the recipe early in the week)

Friday: Grilled chicken breast sandwiches, potato logs (oven fried), marinated tomatoes and cucumbers (the tomatoes at our local produce market have been wonderful)

Saturday: Fried venison steak, mashed potatoes, creamed corn, steamed baby okra

Oh my! My mouth is watering already!

To see other wonderful meal ideas for this week, visit Menu Plan Monday at Organized Junkie.

Menu Plan Weekly for April 12-18

This week is going to be a bit of a struggle for us. We are starting t-ball and have several practices and games coming up. I also want to try and stay out of the grocery store. I've scoured the frig, freezers and cabinets and here's what we'll be having.

Sunday lunch - Grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, coleslaw, cookies
(we had lunch with the grandparent and decided grilling would be easy for after church)
Sunday dinner - Grilled chicken fajitas, homemade pico de gallo, tossed salad
Monday - Leftover hotdogs, chips, sliced cucumbers
Tuesday - Pork chops and consomme rice with mushrooms, field peas, corn bread
Wednesday - French's Crunchy Onion Chicken, broccoli, baked potatoes
Thusday - Blackened salmon, stir fry veggies, leftover coleslaw
Friday - BBQ pork sandwiches, oven fries, fried okra
Saturday -Spiral sliced ham, pasta salad, green beans

If you'd like more meal planning ideas, visit Meal Plan Monday.

DON'T FORGET TO ENTER MY GIVEAWAY!

I'm extending it to Friday, April 24th.

Menu Plan Weekly for April 5-11

Here's what we'll be having this week. I picked the Chicken and Pork Bag 1 from Kraft Foods 1 Bag 5 Dinners - see earlier post. We stopped by the grocery store on the way home from church for some milk and a few other items and found pork chops and chicken on sale. Hence, that is what we'll be eating this week. Since the Kraft site only gives 5 dinners, I had to come up with 2 of my own.

Sunday lunch: Hamburger steaks (from leftover grilled hamburgers), gravy, rice, steamed cabbage, garlic toast

Sunday dinner: Steaks, oven fried potatoes, salad

Monday: Saucy Italian Pork Chops, brown rice (tomatoes and mixed vegetables are included in pork chops)

Tuesday: Creamy Chicken Macaroni with broccoli, apple slices

Wednesday: Stove Top One-Dish Chicken Bake with Mixed Vegetables, fruit salad, relish tray

Thursday: Quick and Easy Pork Chop Skillet, scalloped potatoes, green beans

Friday: Digiorno Thin Crust Spinach, Mushroom and Garlic Pizza, salad

Saturday: Smoked ham (got on sale from our Sunday morning grocery visit for $6 - originally $21 - was marked down), sweet potato casserole, collard greens, creamed corn

If you want more menu planning ideas, visit Menu Plan Monday over at I'm an Organizing Junkie. And don't forget to check out my giveaway that was added this week.

One Bag and 5 Dinners from Kraft Foods

If you are in a money crunch and/or menu planning crunch, try the 1 Bag 5 Dinners at Kraft Foods. There are 4 choices of types of dinners: Chicken and Beef, Chicken and Pork, Chicken and Seafood, and Healthy Living.

Once you choose which types of dinners you want, then you have several samples within that choice. Five dinners are included with recipes and a shopping list for Monday - Friday. Everything that you need should fill one grocery bag.

We've used this before and most of the meals are good. Best of all, the service is free and you know that when you leave the store you have everything you need to cook for the week. If you're in a money crunch, try to pick dinners that include things you already have on hand.

I am going to use this site for my next week's menu planning. Check out their site and then back here on Sunday to see what we'll be eating this week.

Menu Plan Weekly for 3-29 - 4-04

Sunday - Grilled hamburgers and hotdogs (we do this a lot on Sunday evening and then eat the leftovers for lunch during the week - we usually grill some venison sausage links and eat those as well), baked potatoes

Monday - Hamburger Goulash (ground hamburger, stewed tomatoes and elbow macaroni), salad

Tuesday - Fried cubed pork chops, broccoli casserole, 3 bean salad, bread

Wednesday - Grilled chicken, potato salad (will we ever finish all these potatoes), corn on cob, fried okra

Thursday - Pancakes, leftover sausage, fruit

Friday - Fried fish (bream from the river), coleslaw, cheese grits, hushpuppies (I've been eyeing these fish in the freezer for several months and now that it has warmed up we'll pull them out and have a feast).

Saturday - Garlic lime chicken (browse toward the bottom of the link for the recipe), scalloped potatoes, sauteed spinach with garlic, bread

You can check out other menus at Menu Plan Monday over on I'm an Organizing Junkie.

Menu Plan Weekly for 3-22 - 3-28

This week we are planning to eat the following. I may rearrange the meals some, but this is the general plan.

Sunday: Grilled hamburgers, fried new potatoes, salad

Monday: 3 Packet Roast, potatoes, onions, carrots and mushrooms, homemade bread

Tuesday: Crockpot Boston butt slices, macaroni salad, broccoli

Wednesday: Grilled chicken wings (my husband has been wanting these for several months but they are sooo expensive), green beans, garlic mashed potatoes

Thursday: Sloppy Joe's (these are wonderful in the crockpot), corn on cob, coleslaw

Friday: Breakfast for Dinner - pancakes, sausage and fruit

Saturday: Pork chops, pasta and cheese, speckled butter beans

For lunches we usually have leftovers from the week, simple sandwiches or soup that has been previously frozen.

For breakfast it's either cold cereal, oatmeal, ham and egg muffins, or grits and biscuits.

So what are you having? If you don't have any idea, head on over to Menu Plan Monday and get some more great ideas.