Menu Plan for the Week

You know what I love about this time of year? The bounty! I’ve been overwhelmed by the blessing of having so much food in my kitchen I can hardly walk or find counter space. God is so good!! We’ve been really trying to help our kids understand what a blessing it is to have so much food (and so much variety) in our pantry, freezer, trunk, fridge…

And all over our kitchen floor.  We’ve been picking apples, pears and peaches from our friend’s trees. I also got to go pick raspberries and grapes! Right now, there is fruit everywhere in my kitchen!!! Time to make fruit leather and applesauce and canned peaches and pears. Ooh, and grape juice!

Menu planning right now is SO much fun. Here’s what we’ll be eating this week with our fruit:

Sunday, Sept. 20
Oatmeal, peaches
Lasagna, tossed salad, homemade bread and butter, sweet corn, death by chocolate (guests came over!)
Leftovers

Monday, Sept. 21
Homemade soft pretzels, mock frozen yogurt
Popcorn chicken, cottage cheese with peaches, green beans
Leg of lamb, mashed potatoes, gravy, steamed broccoli

Tuesday, Sept. 22
Honey whole wheat bagels,  pears
Tuna topped tomatoes, bell peppers, strawberry-peach slushies (with raspberries!)
Chicken and rice with carrots

Wednesday, Sept. 23
Peaches and cream, toast
Spanish rice with chicken, grapes
Beef stroganoff, green beans

Thursday, Sept. 24
Crepes with jelly, milkshakes
Lamb-burger patties, tomatoes, corn on the cob, okra
Creamy mac and cheese, peas, apple slices

Friday, Sept. 25
French toast with peach syrup and whipped cream
Cheeseburger zucchini boats, tossed salad
Homemade pizza, watermelon

Saturday, Sept. 26
Scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, pears
Grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, applesauce
Tacos

Based on the response from this post, I was planning on showing you how to cut little boy’s hair this week. Over the weekend, I got three boys lined up and the scissors ready. Then the camera battery died. Haircuts needed to happen anyway…but the post will have to wait until Asa has his hair cut in a couple of weeks. Instead, I’ll be showing you a “How to Make Homemade Bread” tutorial. It seems that many of you “kneaded” that tutorial just as badly as you wanted the hair cut tutorial. Thanks for understanding!
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