We actually had a calm, stay-at-home weekend. I’m not sure the last time that’s happened. Well, I guess I should interject here that our boys are preparing for Leadership Training for Christ (LTC) in April, so there’s always a lot of running back and forth to practices on Sunday afternoons. Therefore, I’m sure if Matt or the boys read that statement, they’d think I was nuts to call this weekend a calm one. I just mean that we didn’t travel anywhere. We were home more than we were away. We got a little laundry caught up. We had friends over. Busy is relative, right?! :)
Here’s what our menu looks like for this week:
Sunday, March 11
Oatmeal, fruit
Italian stew with potatoes and green beans
High School Huddle – Chicken enchiladas, tossed salad, spanish rice, chips and salsa, cookie tray
Monday, March 12
Whole wheat pancakes, applesauce
Baked potatoes with butter, cheese, and sour cream, fruit salad
Tuna casserole, peas
Tuesday, March 13
Cheesy scrambled eggs, clementines
Homemade pizza pockets, tossed salad
Bbq chicken, fried potatoes, okra
Wednesday, March 14
Banana bread, apples
Corndog muffins, peas, carrot sticks
Chicken alfredo, steamed broccoli and carrots
Thursday, March 15
Breakfast burritos, oranges
Sloppy joes, ranch potato wedges, carrots with ranch
Lasagna, tossed salad, corn
Friday, March 16
Peanut butter honey toast, bananas and apples
Tuna salad on crackers, fruit/yogurt smoothies
Hamburgers with homemade onion rings
Saturday, March 17
Breakfast cake, applesauce
Leftovers
Homemade pizza
If you’re interested in knowing more about my menu planning method, I encourage you to read: Why My Whole Foods Menu Plan Might Be Overwhelming.
What’s on your menu this week?
Isn’t it nice to have those down times?
I recently purchased a Nutrimill and know from reading that it does not grind corn (except popcorn). Since you also have a Nutrimill I was wondering how you grind your corn mill. (I think I read somewhere on your blog that you do this.) Hopefully, I’m not mistaken.
I was up early enough to order one of your vanilla extracts and am looking forward to receiving it. I did wonder why the recipe uses such a high alcohol content. Most of what I have read about pure vanilla shows water as one of the ingredients. Have you tried it with less vodka and some water, and if so is there a difference? I was thinking about trying your recipe and just wondered.
I do grind whole corn in my Nutrimill with no trouble. Using a high alcohol content in our vanilla means that you have a much more potent vanilla and can use less than the recipe calls for, which makes the vanilla last longer – bigger bang for your buck!
Here is what is on our menu this week: http://simplymykitchen.com/on-the-menu-3-12-12/
Thank you for continuing to show us your weekly menu. It helps me so much in planning mine (although, depending on the type of day I have at work, things can change).
My 20 yo son and I absolutely love your breakfast cake. We enjoy it with dried cranberries and chopped walnuts. I always double the recipe and freeze individual portions wrapped in waxed paper, then in a freezer bag.
I am new to the whole foods game and I have just spent so much time on your blog. Your recipes look AMAZING and I can’t wait to try them.
Thank you so much for your blog and all the effort you put into it to help others. You are truly a blessing!
By the time I get to Thursday we usually have too many leftovers and I’m too burned out with cooking. Does that ever happen to you? “Just have a sandwich!”
I’ve tried to start planning that into the menu with easy things at the end of the week. This week we may have company over so that wont work.
Yes, I often get burned out by the end of the week and IF we have them, we rely on leftovers!
This problem happens at my house too! I have started planning in leftover night/lunches and if there should happen to be no leftovers to serve, I pop a batch of popcorn or two and serve that with fruit (my kids are little and think that is an amazing meal option.) Also, you could try “freezing half a meal” as in making Laura’s amazing “cheesey beef and rice” and baking half for dinner and freezing half for a night you dont want to cook! I also have started circling the meals that get skipped so I dont forget which ones I have all the ingredients for and then those meals go on the following menu.
Hi Laura!
My children are almost drooling as I read your menu plan. Thanks for the encouragement to eat simple/ body(our temple) building recipes. I use to cook like this 7 babies ago. As my 10 children have gotten older and we are staying home more ( almost no extra curricula activities ) I think we can do more cooking from scratch. Since I came to your site, I rarely need to look up many recipes. I just look for your healthy version. Thanks again!