Our boys’ musical is this coming Saturday. Their costumes are coming along…I’ll be sure to get some pictures to show you what I came up with. Again, making costumes? Not my gift. Nodding yes when someone offers to help me. Oh yeah, I can do that.

Somewhere in between about nine soccer games, three soccer practices, and one musical dress rehearsal…here’s what we’ll be eating this week:

Sunday, April 18
Oatmeal, pears
Potluck after church – angeled eggs, easy butterscotch bars, pea salad
Sloppy joes, mashed potato pancakes, fruit salad

Monday, April 19
Simple soaked pancakes, blueberries
Salmon patties, creamy mac and cheese, peas
Hamburgers on whole wheat hamburger buns, onion rings

Tuesday, April 20
Scrambled egg sandwiches, creamy orange cooler
Pizza casserole, tossed salad
Chicken and noodles, carrot sticks

Wednesday, April 21
Chocolate chocolate chip muffins, apples with strawberry yogurt fruit dip
Lamb chops, cream scalloped potatoes, green beans
Turkey sausage and egg casserole, honey wheat muffins, fresh pineapple

Thursday, April 22
Homemade whole wheat funnel cake, bananas
Grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup
Shepherds pie, tossed salad

Friday, April 23
Fruit and kefir smoothies, homemade honey oat crunch cereal (recipe in Think Breakfast…Outside the Box eb-ook)
Beef and Cheese Burritos, oranges
Homemade pizza, strawberry peach slushie

Saturday, April 24
Giant breakfast cookies, applesauce
Tacos, cantaloupe
Carnival food after the musical

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I’m posting my menu plan a little bit early this week because I’ve got bunches of posts to get up in the next few days. Sorry that I’ve been bombarding you all weekend! 

So many of you are wanting to know more about some of the things we’ve tried to help our son’s severe eczema and I don’t want to leave you hanging because that’s just not nice. ;) 

So, be watching for more of Our Healthy Eating Journey posts very soon…and in the meantime…here’s what we’ll be eating this week:

Sunday, March 14
Oatmeal, pears
Leg o Lamb, potatoes, carrots, gravy
Alphabet soup , honey whole wheat bread and butter

Monday, March 15
Simple soaked pancakes, blueberries
Pizza Casserole, tossed salad
Meat and cheese Burritos, pineapple-orange slushies

Tuesday, March 16
Scrambled egg sandwiches, oranges
Skillet meatballs with BBQ sauce, ranch potato wedges, carrot sticks
Oven baked chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas

Wednesday, March 17 (Join us for the little Green Project!)
Green smoothies, toast
Black Bean Taco Salad, apples
Spicy avodado dip, corn chips, fruit and kefir smoothies

Thursday, March 18
Mini apple pies, sliced cheese
Cheeseburger macaroni, steamed carrots
BBQ deer tenderloin, rice and veggie stir fry

Friday, March 19
Breakfast burritos, clementines
Grilled cheese, tomato soup, carrot sticks
Homemade pizza, fruit

Saturday, March 20
Whole wheat sourdough biscuits, turkey sausage gravy
Leftover buffet
Beefy vegetable soup, banana muffins

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You all know that food makes me excited. Can I tell you about my latest little fun food thing? I found these cute mini chocolate chips at Amazon. They don’t have any soy lecithin in them (my reason for looking). They’re so stinkin’ cute and fun to bake with. Yep, doesn’t take much to entertain us all around here. (And yes, I often do make my own chocolate chips, but sometimes a girl just needs a little chocolate chip convenience.)

I’ve also got to tell you about how we tried Valerie’s Bacon Cheddar Meatloaves  last week! We’d been excited all week long because, hello? Bacon, cheddar cheese and beef all together in one dish? How would that not be good?

So Saturday night came and I had the meatloaves in the oven baking…went to the fridge to get out the bacon to wrap around the loaves for the last phase of baking…and DIDN’T HAVE ANY BACON. I knew I had some bacon in there. Except that I didn’t.   And I was WAY too scary looking to run to the store (which thankfully I remembered before I went). 

So we had Cheddar Meatloaves , which were still amazingly wonderful, by the way.

Here’s our menu for the week, and here’s hoping I have all the ingredients this time:

Sunday, March 7
Oatmeal, pears
Fund raising meal for youth mission trip
Creamy mac and cheese, steamed broccoli and carrots

Monday, March 8
Chocolate chip pancakes, bananas
Homemade corn dogs , apple slices
Roasted chicken, potatoes, carrots, gravy

Tuesday, March 9
Mini breakfast pizza, oranges
Grilled turkey and cheese sandwiches, strawberry peach slushie
Sloppy cornbread, tossed salad

Wednesday, March 10
Orange muffins, fruit and kefir smoothies
Cheddar ranch burgers, green beans
Chicken and noodles, carrot sticks, fruit salad

Thursday, March 11
Fried eggs, cinnamon swirl bread, clementines
Turkey sausage, mashed potato pancakes, peas
Italian stew with green beans

Friday, March 12
Peanut butter honey toast, canned peaches
Taco potatoes
Lamb-burgers on whole wheat hamburger buns, onion rings

Saturday, March 13
Mom is Great breakfast Cake
Leftover buffet
BBQ meatballs, baked potatoes, asparagus
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