During all this time I haven't been blogging, I have been keeping myself busy. The kitchen is almost done (waiting on a backsplash - 10 week backorder). The cooking, it is happening a lot. The laundry is caught up. My children are being educated. I'm involved at church and two Bible studies. I'm the "greeter" for my homeschool support group. The seeds for my spring garden just arrived. And I'm reading a Hannah Coulter.

However, my children really need a toenail and fingernail trim. It's disgusting.

Ew.

I really don't have a lot of blogging time since getting my ducks in a row, but I don't want to quit blogging, because I sometimes have very important things to say and I don't want you to miss out on that. That would be so sad. For me.

So today, in an attempt to make this blog useful, I thought I'd share my menu plan for this week. I love to read menu plans because they always give me new ideas, and I have occasionally gotten into a slump with my cooking. Okay, if picking up a rotisserie chicken and steaming some broccoli several nights a week is a slump, then it's more than occasionally.

My meal plan starts on Saturday. I find that if I try to make it begin on Monday, it's too much preparation going on on Sunday evenings between that and school. So I plan my menus on Friday afternoons when we've wrapped up for the week, and try to shop that afternoon, too.

Also, I always make a big salad for dinner. I try to put a lot of stuff on it - variety of lettuces, carrots, tomatoes, nuts, peppers, citrus fruit, etc. And if the main course doesn't have a veggie or two built in, I put a side of veggies on the table. Usually something steamed with lemon, salt and pepper.

For breakfast and lunch, if I don't have fruit planned, we just grab fruit out of the fruit bowl and have that as a side. I don't mention these things on the meal plan because I don't plan very precisely for them.

I know, words, words, words.

Here it is:

THIS WEEK'S MEAL PLAN
Saturday
Breakfast - Coffee cake made by Peyton (recipe from America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book)
Lunch - out at Dickey's barbecue
Dinner - leftovers from Friday night (it was chicken soup)

Sunday
Breakfast - Coffee Cake again
Lunch and Dinner - Garlic Potato Soup and homemade parmesan flatbread. (Cooks Illustrated is a subscription website, so if you don't have a subscription and want the recipe, let me know. ;)

Monday
Breakfast - pancakes, bacon and blueberries
Lunch - buttered noodles with green peas
Dinner - pot roast - it's pot roast, I don't really use a recipe. But if you want one, The Pioneer Woman has one here.

Tuesday
Breakfast - cinnamon toast and fried apples
Lunch Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup (I like Pacific brand soup - it comes in a box like broth)
Dinner - pot roast pasta - shred up the roast and serve it with alot of its juice over penne pasta. The pieces of meat will get caught up in the penne, so it's a good noodle for the dish. If you want a thicker sauce, put it in a sauce pan and cooke with some flour to thicken it. That's what I do.

Wednesday
Breakfast - cold cereal - some days I'm mean like that
Lunch - leftover pasta
Dinner - Jambalaya pasta- Bud's request - this is my first time to make this recipe so I'll let you know how it goes.

Thursday -
Breakfast - biscuits and sausage, berries
Lunch - leftover jambalaya
Dinner - pan pizza This recipe has a bit much olive oil taste for me, so I use half olive oil and half butter in the pan. This method makes a really wonderful crust!

Friday -
Breakfast - cereal - mean again
Lunch - leftover pizza
Dinner - And finally, enchiladas for both our neighbor who just had a sweeeet baby boy and for us. And we'll probably invite someone to eat with us.

So there ya go. What are you eating this week?

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