Share  This is week 5 on creating a meal plan for the week.  My husband and I have been talking about it and like this process.  The best part is we don’t have to think about dinner during the week and both of us can pitch in and fix the dinner scheduled.  If we have [...]

Share This is week 4 on creating a meal plan for the week.  I’m trying so hard to keep up with it.  I’m so proud that we have gotten to week 4. Monday: Lunch Hot dogs  Dinner: Spaghetti Tuesday:  Lunch PB&J, Olives and Seaweed Dinner: Potstickers w/edemame (Got a great deal on edemame from Giant this [...]

Share  This is week 3 on creating a meal plan for the week. Yesterday being a holiday has been nice.  It will make this week a little bit shorter.  Yesterday we worked a lot around the house cleaning like crazy. Now that meal planning is becoming part of our life.  I’m now looking carefully at [...]

Share Last week’s meal plan was a success!  It sure made the week planning easier.  I didn’t have to think about dinner since I knew exactly what I was going to make.   Now to repeat it again this week.  When we made something with enough leftovers we would have for lunch or dinner the  next [...]

Share   It has been years since I wrote up a formal meal plan.  With the twins being born last spring we were in survival mode whatever we could get our hands on for dinner was dinner.   Sometimes it was frozen pizza, left overs, or cereal.     Now that the boys are eating a lot [...]

Share Monday: Dinner: Sandwiches Tuesday:  Dinner: left over soup Wednesday:  Dinner: Shepherd’s Pie with Ground Turkey Thursday: Dinner:  Green Bean Casserole Friday: Dinner: Not sure yet. Any suggestions?  Will be making a cake for a bridal shower.  Sorry, can’t say what. Saturday:  Dinner: Girls night out!  The rest of the family – pizza. Sunday: Dinner:

Share I’m so late in posting this but I thought I would do it anyway. Monday: Dinner: Subs from Quiznos   Tuesday:  Dinner: Tysons nuggets, French fries and Cesear salad Wednesday:  Dinner:  Ceasar Salad and Turkey Burgers Thursday: Dinner: Slow Cooked Beef Chuck Roast – Make this into French Dip sandwiches Friday: Dinner:  Out to [...]

Share Monday: Lunch:  Left over Slow Cooker Chicken Parmesan  Dinner: Baked Teriyaki Chicken Dessert:  Black Bean Brownies- These are wonderful! I cooked black beans in the crockpot unlike these instructions I just rinsed them and put them in the slow cooker added 2 quarts of water and 4 hours on high and they turned out [...]

Share I’m spending the day with my daughter today inside since it is snowing!  We’re trying to relax but that’s not easy when she wants to run around.   Right now she is napping and I’m taking a break! She wasn’t interested in playing when I was preparing the crockpot for the  Slow Cooker Chicken Parmesan,  [...]

Share I’ve been thinking more and more about my goals for this year, besides 2010 Financial Challenge goals there are several organizational goals I would like to achieve. One of them is to start menu planning!   I’ve been reading about Monday Menu planning from so many bloggers that lead me to – I’m an Organizing [...]