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So, what's for dinner this week?
What are us busy moms making for dinner this week? I'd love some new ideas! We're having:
Sunday: Teryaki chicken with sauteed veggies along with seaweed, rice and kim chee
Monday: turkey meatballs (I buy a big bag frozen at Costco) and MIL's homemade marinara with salad and roasted broccoli
Tuesday: Soup and sandwich night (or some variation of that) b/c DS has class at 6 pm
Wednesday: leftover roast from the freezer, sweet potatoes and salad
Thursday: breakfast for dinner
Fri/Sat: out
DS1 age 7, DD age 5 and DS2 born 4/3/12
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Re: So, what's for dinner this week?
our menu this week is:
Chili Spaghetti
Beef barbacoa for tacos in the crockpot
Chicken and Dumplings
Black Bean Burgers & Oven Fries
Chicken Flautas & refried beans
Greek Chicken & salad
Tonight, we're having baked beans and hot dogs. Fancy!
Tomorrow we're having dinner with my parents (they're cooking - woot!)
Weds. I'm making Chicken and Asparagus Risotto
Thursday I'm out with girlfriends so it'll be an easy cereal and fruit night for DD and DH
Friday ???
Monday - Taco Soup
Tuesday - Chicken & veggie Stir Fry
Wednesday - Crock pot beef & veggie stew
Thursday - Baked Ziti
Friday - out
Saturday - Salmon, rice & steamed veggies
Sunday/Monday - Hawaiian Meatballs with rice
Tuesday/Wednesday - Machado (a filipino dish with beef, potatoes and tomato sauce)
Thursday/Friday - Chicken Stir Fry
Saturday - Pizza for the kids. We are having an adults only dinner with some neighbors!
Sunday - TBD
My twins are 5! My baby is 3!
DS#2 - Allergic to Cashew, Pistachio, Kiwi
DS#3 - Allergic to Milk, Egg, Peanut, Tree Nuts and Sesame
sunday: spaghetti with spicy italian sausage
monday: leftovers
tuesday: barbecued chicken w/ rice
wednesday: leftovers (lol)
thursday: veggie beef stew
friday: whatevers left in the fridge (LOL)
Wow you guys are organized! I usually try to plan dinner during my lunch break lol. But here's my ideas for the week:
Tatertot Casserole
Chicken Enchilada Soup
Spaghetti
Taco Casserole
Sunday: Hamburgers, Baked Beans & Macaroni salad
Monday: Nachos for adults, tacos for kids (these are using the leftovers from Sat night)
Tuesday: French Dip Sandwiches (via the slow cooker), Sweet Potato Fries and a frozen Green Giant microwavable veggie
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Spaghetti, Salad and brocolli
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: Out
I feel inadequate. I go home and poke around in the freezer every night. How do you all know what you will feel like eating on any given day?
It's funny - your taste buds get set for what you know is coming that day. At least mine do.
Planning meals for the week also helps with shopping. I used to buy a bunch of stuff at the grocery store then not use it because I didn't have a plan. This way I shop for what we need that week and it helps keep the cost down as well. We used to thaw meats then not prepare them. We threw so much money away!
My twins are 5! My baby is 3!
DS#2 - Allergic to Cashew, Pistachio, Kiwi
DS#3 - Allergic to Milk, Egg, Peanut, Tree Nuts and Sesame
We just started trying to plan weekly meals again after basically giving up a year ago. Last week we made 3/5, so I'll call that a success, usually we're eating takeout every night
Mon: crockpot mac & cheese
Tues: chicken nuggets (DH makes these, so contingent on him not getting stuck at work)
Weds/Thurs: my dad is coming through town one of these nights on business so we'll take him out to dinner. The other night we'll do crockpot chicken enchilada chili
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: go out
Sunday: ?
But I'm on transplant call all this week anyway so I can be called in anytime, which is why all my meals are crockpot and not anything that requires significant prep.
Let me try to remember what we put up on the chalkboard for this week:
-pork chops
-spaghetti w/ turkey meatballs
-chix breasts (baked from frozen) w/ artichoke hearts
-Trader Joes spare ribs w/ egg noodles
-Trader Joes chicken lasagne
We usually make a spinach salad on the side.
We make a list of 4 or 5 dinners, shop for them on the weekend, and then pick one each night. If we didn't do this it wouldn't matter what we felt like eating because the kitchen would be full of random crap!
Sun&Mon - lentils with chicken
Tue&Wed - beef bourguinion
Thu&Fri - pasta fagioli
Sat ?
I go back to work next monday so I'm practicing. And this is how I do my meal plan... 3 meals to last 2 days each.