Dipping my toes into meal planning - need some ideas!
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Monday: Baked ziti
Tuesday: Leftovers
Weds: Out for Dinner (my mom is watching the babe)
Thursday: Broccoli and cheddar soup in bread bowls
Friday: Italian chicken, potatoes, and carrotsWe almost always eat out on Saturday and Sunday. If not, I will make Skinnytaste chicken nuggets and pierogies with a veggie of some sort.
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Monday: Sweet and sour pork
Tuesday: Spaghetti
Wednesday: pork spare ribs in black bean sauce
Thursday: Honey Walnut Shrimp
Friday: pork stew with green chilesWe also normally eat out on Saturday and Sunday, but if we don't, I try to make something from whatever ingredients were leftover earlier in the week. I have ground beef for meatloaf as a backup this weekend.
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Monday: Leftover pasta
Tuesday: Possibly out/Breakfast Hash from What I Gather
Wednesday: Leftover Hash
Thursday: Tex-Mex Rice Bowl from What I Gather
Friday: Out. -
Spaghetti with salad; Chicken tacos with rice & black beans; Hamburgers with grilled corn, sweet potatoes & green beans; BBQ grilled chicken with baked potatoes & steamed broccoli. That's as far as I've gotten for this week!
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You all are so darn organized. I want to meal plan but each week I plan to I find it exhausting
During my grocery store outings I buy a bunch of produce [we buy our meat / fish from Costco] and then based on the weather and how the day went I decide what I'll be making.
Example: today its rainy humid and kinda gross so I'll be making a center cut pork tenderloin [marinaded in my own teriyaki type marinade] w/ cauliflower and brown rice. Tomorrow I'll be making salmon w/ polenta and spinach bc thats what I had planned for today. Thursday I'll probably do chicken and some Asian inspired salad cause I am currently obsessed w/ Miso dressing and Mayo Sriracha! Friday, who knows maybe left overs!?!?
Do you have a go-to for meal planning recipes?
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@filly: I use http://www.tastespotting.com. My old co-workers used to tease me that it was my food "porn" website. It's amazing though, and so easy to search for by cut of meat or ingredient for a recipe!
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Mon: steaks, grilled veggies
Tues: dinner with friends: DH & DD will have stir fry
Wed: crockpot salsa chicken
Thurs: no idea
Fri: going to family opening of cousin's restaurant. -
Sunday: Grilled chicken, corn on the cob, cucumber/tomato/mozz salad.
Monday: Stuffed zucchini (with ground turkey, mushrooms, onions, marinara sauce, and cheese.)
Tuesday: Leftover stuffed zucchini with tossed salad.
Wednesday: Tossed salad with hard-boiled eggs.
Thursday: Baked mahi mahi with rice and beans.
Friday: Homemade pizza.
Saturday: Either fend for yourself or going out. -
@Tanjowen: thank you i'll have to check it out!
i do like supercook.com and often use that to rid of ingredients that need to be used!
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Last night we had:
Bacon-wrapped halibut with grilled asparagus with a lemon aioli.Tonight:
Carnitas tacos with avocado and spicy cabbage slaw. Maybe black beans or pinto beans on the side.Not sure for the rest of the week. Ideas: grilled chicken Caesar salad; burrito bowls (minus the shell/chips), spicy lettuce wraps, grilled salmon and a baby kale salad with red onion, feta and avocado.
We’re having leftover Mexican meatball soup this week for lunches and/or Paleo meatballs with spaghetti sauce and marinara sauce.
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@filly: Ok, that website you listed is amazing. I am trying it before I shop next week!
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Lots of poultry!
Monday: baked chickenparm with whole wheat ziti
Tuesday: crock pot pulled chicken sandwiches, tater tots, and coleslaw
Wednesday: panko chicken fingers, corn on the cob, roasted potatoes
Thursday: thanksgiving in the crock pot
Friday: Turkey burgers and French fries -
@Tanjowen: yes its pretty great and lead me to our of our current favorite meals!!!!!
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Sunday: Asian salmon and shrimp, rice and broccoli
Monday: beef tacos/quesadillas
Tuesday: Applebee's oriental chicken sandwich
Wednesday: homemade pizza and salad
Thursday: BBQ pork sandwiches, corn on the cob, coleslaw -this may change as we are now going out to dinner at a BBQ restaurant on Friday for DH work.
Friday: out
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Sunday: Crockpot salsa verde chicken, served as tacos
Monday: Crockpot GF macaroni and cheese with smoked sausage and steamed broccoli
Tuesday: Crockpot chicken fajitas, spanish rice
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: MILs
Friday: Crockpot honey sesame chickenDo you sense a theme here?? LOL
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Lots of beef this week! Baby is needing iron I guess!
Sunday: Olive Garden copycat recipe for pasta fagioli soup with bread.
Monday: Leftover soup and leftover homemade pizza.
Tuesday: Two entrees from our freezer meal stash. One is spaghetti and the other is cashew chicken stirfry.
Wednesday: Thai basil beef stirfry with rice.
Thursday: Date night?
Friday: Bible study dinner. Chicken parmesan bake with pasta and a trio of sauces (jarred pesto, alfredo, and marinara). Salad. -
@Alivoo01: Can I come over for dinner?? Mmm all that sounds yummy!
Monday: Cracklin' chicken (from nomnompaleo)
Tuesday: Chicken curry
Wednesday: Kimchi stew
Thursday: Taco/mexican night
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday/Sunday: No idea - winging it! -
quinoa noodles, chicken breast and roasted broccoli
ratatouille and stir fry chicken
taco bowls
salmon in lemon butter and a vegetable - maybe some quinoa noodles too? not sure yet
chicken and vegetableThis week I didn't meal plan very well so I have some chicken and stuff in the fridge and some days I may just be winging it.
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Most definitely!!
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-Yesterday was grilled cheese and tomato soup (DH cooked).
-Tonight we had chicken casserole and a chopped kale salad.
-Tomorrow will be leftovers of the casserole plus green beans.
-Thursdays will be Asian marinated flank steak and "hibachi" onion soup
-Friday will probably be leftovers
-We'll be at my ILs on Saturday and my parents on Sunday, so looks like the grandmas will be cooking for us - yay! -
Monday:
Fish tacos, grilled squash and cabbage salad
Tuesday: teriyaki salmon, rice, roasted broccoli
Wednesday: grilled tri tip, broccoli, roasted potatoes and kale salad
Thursday: chicken gyros and Greek salad
Friday: burgers, roasted sweet potatoes and salad
Saturday: birthday party
Sunday: my husbands day to plan/cook -
Yesterday was skinnytaste light tuna noodle casserole and we ate the whole thing! (Usually each meal gives us at least two nights of dinner plus a lunch or two!) tonight was skinnytaste broccoli mac and cheese modified with cauliflower to disguise the veggies (my kids still found them). Probably Thursday I will make the crock pot broccoli beef that Ms. Paintbrush posted on the HB blog. I've done that before and it's delicious! That should get is through the week although I have some hotdogs and ingredients for skinnytaste zucchini tots just in case!
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I usually make a couple of big meals each week because neither of us minds leftovers. So:
Sunday: roasted pork tenderloin, Brussels sprouts, sweet
Potatoes
Monday: leftovers bc someone forgot to start the crockpot (ahem, DH)
Tuesday: crockpot Thai red curry and brown rice
Wednesday: ILs in town and making us dinner!
Thursday: leftovers
Friday: homemade pizza -
You guys rock! Soooo many good ideas. Now i'm drooling at my desk, thanks
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I need to steal some of these! I am making Skinnytaste Swedish meatballs tonight and the rest of my week is bare.
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M: Mustard chicken (tweaked a recipe online: added sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms, substituted Philly for the milk, lemon juice, fresh herbs, a touch of sugar). It was surprisingly good.
T: DH's BBQ day
W: Tuna fusion spaghetti (tuna, bacon, fresh lemon basil & parsley, onion, soy sauce, pumpkin blossoms, topped with Parmesan).
TH: Pizza or something store bought
F: Maybe seafood -
Tonight: Parmesan crusted chicken tenders
Tomorrow: not sure
Saturday: thinking of doing turkey stuffed peppers
Sunday: fish. I keep Target Simply Balanced fish in our freezer for meals in a pinch -
M: pickerel cheeks, sweet potato wedges and spinach salad
T: take out chicken, fries and coleaw
W: steak, bake potato, corn on the cob and green beans
Today: taco salad
F: BBQ hamburgers and veggies/dipNo plans for the weekend yet
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We are moving so our meal plan this week was pretty wonky:
Sunday - hot dogs/hamburgers (open house to say goodbye)
Monday - spaghetti and meat sauce
Tuesday - pizza (gift cert we hadn't used that expired that day)
Wednesday - baked pork loin with scalloped potatoes
Thursday - eat out because kitchen is packed
Friday - eat out because everything will be on moving trucks
Saturday - eat out (moving day)Normal week looks like the following because we are trying to eat healthier:
Sunday-steak with grilled veggies
Monday-baked chicken with steamed broccoli
Tuesday-grilled/baked pork with steamed veggie
Wednesday-spaghetti squash with meatballs
Thursday-chicken with steamed veggie
Friday-homemade pizza
Saturday-meatloaf with veggies -
Monday: shrimp salad
Tuesday: chicken curry
Wednesday: Raising Cane's chicken tenders
Thursday: pizza night
Friday: steamed fish & mix veggiesOn the weekends, we tend to order to go.
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@bpcmarj what is the thanksgiving in a crock pot... you got me curious?
If you have kids, it might be nice to hear how they ate the meals that you served to them, I always find it’s challenging to get my older one to eat what’s on her plate, she can be so picky, while my younger one is a more willing eater but she has her limitations too of what she won’t eat.
-Sunday: pan fried halibut, sautéed potatoes and green beans.
The kids ate the fish sparingly, gobbled down the potatoes and green beans.
-Monday: pressure cooker sweet & sour chicken, brown & white rice, hiyayakko (tofu w/soy dressing), stir fried pea sprouts w/garlic. The younger one ate up all her chicken, rice, and most of the tofu, and I gave her green beans instead since the pea sprouts are a little too stringy for her; the older one ate a little of everything, like 1 bite of each thing.
-Tuesday: creamy bowtie pasta with chicken, peas and carrots (this was from leftovers a month ago that we froze vacuum sealed meal, and boiled in the bag for 10 minutes). Both kids gobbled down the pasta, the younger one picked out all the peas, the older one ate it all.
-Wednesday: take out Afghan food—(borani) roasted eggplant w/yogurt and garlic and dipping bread, (bolani) flatbread filled with potatoes, leeks, and yogurt to dip, (sabzi challow) lamb shank and spinach. The older one ate some of the eggplant, and some of the lamb shank and spinach, she said the flatbread was too spicy for her (it did have some spice), and the younger one ate everything and another helping (she’s generally a hearty eater) even the spicy flatbread
-Thursday: Asian sesame noodles, potstickers, pan fried chicken sausage, sautéed baby bok choy. I already know the noodles, potstickers will go well for both and they’ll eat, and the older one will eat the sausage and some of the bok choy; the younger one will maybe eat some of the sausage and she might eat the bok choy
Friday: slow cooker Swedish meatballs, broccoli
Saturday: tbd…
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