momdays

TAKE TIME to plan a menu!  Although I am not 100% faithful to my menu, my menu has saved me quite a bit of time in my week.  I like to plan my menu on word in chart form.  I have breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned.  Each week I only alter one or two things under breakfast and lunch and then change up all of the dinners.  I like to alternate my chicken nights with my beef, my rice with my noodles and potatoes, and I often throw in a soup night.  Each week I copy and paste the chart from the week before so I don’t spend hardly anytime with the details.  Also that allows me to view the weeks before so I can steal dinner ideas.  Another common menu practice I have involves the phone and some favorite recipe blogs.  I often call my sister and have her read her weekly menu to me.  My favorite recipe blog, which I frequent the most, is www.sweetpeasrecipes.blogspot.com.  I have to admit that my time in the grocery store is MUCH less time consuming if I have my list in hand off of my menu! 

Oh and of course I am including my not very exciting menu for this week!  For some reason it won’t let me paste my entire menu so here is my menu in non-chart form! Slashes differentiate between meals.

Sunday: german pancakes/roast/leftovers

Monday: cereal, hard-boiled eggs/grilled cheese, tomato soup/crockpot italian chicken and pasta, sweet potatoes

Tuesday: chocolate banana muffins/macaroni, peaches/baked potatoes and topper, chili

Wednesday:toast and eggs/burritos, apple/chicken divan (2-freeze one)

Thursday: oatmeal/PB&J, applesauce/beef pot pie

Friday: french toast/alfredo pasta side, chicken nuggets, pears/spaghetti

Saturday: pancakes/sandwiches, oranges/salsa chicken, rice, tortillas

Those chocolate banana muffins turned out more like cupcakes (I should  have known by the chocolate) but they still made a fabulous breakfast.  Anything that my little angel girl eats without a fight is an instant hit in my book! 

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