Meal Plan Sunday

Meal Plan for this week!

[A] Flautas | Avocado Orange Salad [B] Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas | Black Beans with Cumin and Cilantro [C] Colorful Black Bean and Shrimp Salad | Herbed Flatbread [D] Couscous Stuffed Peppers | Black Bean & Corn Relish [E] Grilled Vegetable and Orzo Salad | Herb Bread

Courtesy of Relish!

A Discovery...myrecipes.com

So I have discovered myrecipes.com 1 list 5 meals. All the work of meal planning in 60 ingredients or less! It features recipes from magazines like Cooking Light, All You, Health, and more. My family has thoroughly enjoyed the food. It is a little more work that usual as far as prep but we are eating a lot better and a lot less processed food. We had Fish Tacos for the first time this week and EVERYONE loved them. Fish is never an issue with Eric or I but for the kids it gets iffy. I am staying on budget with the list as well which is awesome because groceries for a family of 7 is a huge deal. So if you are having meal planning issues check it out. It has helped me immensely.

Meal Plan Tuesday

I am behind what else is new right? Seriously I think this has been the roughest weekend we've spent as a family in quite some time so it is no wonder I haven't gotten much done. I must say I love allyou and the allyou website. They have a meal plan 1 list 5 meals on their website you can get and download the shopping list. It is so easy and the recipes are simple and usually cheap and tasty which is a must. I like that most of the recipes I used last week had a lot of things that a kitchen normally has so you didn't have to buy a whole lot. My total shopping list including this list totaled $117 now that total included all my other items I needed for the week as well like baby items, toiletries, etc. and I didn't use coupons so that made me pretty happy. I am sticking to once a week or twice a week budgeting for groceries as I think it works better for our family. I am also keeping a log to help me keep track and see where things are going. I am almost at the point where I am ready to go to the envelope system but I haven't made it totally out of my comfort zone yet.

So knowing it is Tuesday already my meal plan for this week looks sort of like this.
Tuesday-Chicken and Brocolli soup since we are still fighting flu around here :(
Wednesday- Pork Loin from the Allyou website
Thursday- Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
Friday- Beef Stew and Cornbread
Saturday- If everyone is feeling well we will have breakfast. Pancakes, Eggs, Bacon such a treat!

BBQ and Birthday Week-Meal Plan

BBQ and Birthday Week September 5th-11th

Monday-Pork Steaks and Brats
Tuesday- Smoked Meat of some sort
Wednesday- Leftovers
Thursday- Egg Sandwiches and Funnel Cake
Friday- Birthday Lunch with Eric(Leftovers from Red Lobster!)
Saturday-Cheese Enchiladas and Cinnamon Rolls for my Birthday! Eric cooks them I just enjoy them isn't he a sweetie?

Meal Planning Monday

Last week we did awesome on our meal plan this week it looks to be even better. We stayed on track and on budget.
My goal for my family of 6 is $10 a meal or less which leads to $50 a week if all goes well(for dinner). I am not sure I will ever get to the point of spending less than a hundred a month like some women do but I am doing the best I know how with the time I have so budgeting $100 in a two week span seems about right for us. I do not include diapers and wipe in that budget this is my food only budget.

here is this weeks meal plan.

M-Hamburgers and Hotdogs on the grill

T- Angel Hair pasta with zucchini

W-Salmon Cakes

Th-Skillet Tacos

F-Beef Cheese Noodle Bake

Meal Planning sort of.

Oh the cravings this week! Will have to come back and edit when I get a hold of this weeks ads.

Turkey Sandwiches with Chipotle Mayo. I gonna try to copy Panera's and get some of that Asagio Cheese.
Served with Apple Walnut Salad

Chicken Enchiladas-Recipe from Food Network magazine maybe.

Beans and Rice-?

Apple Cinnamon Pancakes