Weekly Menu/Meal Check-In! (Mar-5)

br0co1ii · March 2016

What's your menu this week?

GTKY: Do you love cooking? Hate it? Meh?

br0co1ii · March 2016

What's your menu this week?
I can't be bothered this week to make an actual menu. After a week of benadryl, I decided to stop taking it, and MS came back in full force today. Maybe I'll start it up again...

I just know I'm making those spaghettios from last week's discussion. Probably a really big batch too so I can eat it all week for lunch.

GTKY: Do you love cooking? Hate it? Meh?

I'm not a fan of cooking on a regular basis. It's fun when there's a good reason to do it, like a holiday or some special occasion. I like to go all out for that. But as far as actually coming home from work and doing it Every. Single. Day... I'll pass. Except I can't pass. It must be done or we will starve.

jt0707 · March 2016

Menu this week: eating everything in the fridge before we leave for the Bahamas on friday!!!!!!

Which includes steak, chicken, squash, tomato basil salad (my favorite) and probably have to turn to some good old spaghetti towards the end of the week!

Do I like cooking? Sometimes. Not for just myself though. I enjoy it when DH enjoys it and I'm pretty sure he'd eat dirt if I put it in a bowl, I'm very thankful he's not picky!

SuperNerd42 · March 2016

Ugh. Trying to avoid a week of frozen pizza, but food is so not appealing right now. I was supposed to hit Costco today and just didn't have it in me. Hopefully I'll feel like meal planning tomorrow.

Carbs have been my friends lately, so probably a week of pastas lol.

jillianpardo · March 2016

mon:some kind of stirfry udon noodle dish tues: salmon/sweet potato/grilled tomato/asparagus.
weds:crockpot chorizo chili
thurs: stuffed bellpeppers withleftover chili
fri: mixed veggies with rice
sat: frozen pizza haha
sunday: chicken withsweet onion sauce, sweet potato, either asparagus or zucchini (whatever isn't rotted by Sunday)

nlane0723 · March 2016

Last week y'all inspired me.

Monday: Homemade Zuppa Tuscana Soup
Tuesday: Tacos
Wednesday: Grilled Chicken and asparagus
Thursday: Rosemary & Garlic Lamb Burgers
Friday: Cobb Pasta Salad

Michi1382 · March 2016

This thread is giving me so many ideas because I'm the absolute worst at meal planning!

GTKY: I hate cooking. I want to like it and I've tried to but I just don't.

But I know I have to because my children must eat somehow.

klv · March 2016

In no particular order:

chicken pot pie
grilled pork chops
spaghetti with broccoli and chicken
salmon cakes
Beef and broccoli

Piperella · March 2016

I made a very poor decision on food for today. DH has been cooking so much I wanted to give him the night off on Sunday. I have been cooking a pork boston butt in the slow cooker since midnight last night and the smell is making me gag.

I'm about to put the crockpot in our hall bathroom.

I bought cobb salads for lunch Monday - Wednesday as I will be going to WDW on Thursday!

For dinners this week we are doing the slow cooker pork boston butt, cheeseburgers, pizza, and most likely some kind of fish.

GTKY: Do you love cooking? Hate it? Meh? I hate cooking because I am always paranoid about cooking something thoroughly enough without making it charred. My DH does most of the cooking, although I am a pro at the crock pot. I'm an excellent baker, though!

mommymaggieh · March 2016

The plan this week:
M: meatloaf muffins, mashed potatoes, peas
T: tilapia wraps, corn and black beans
W: grilled pork chops, butternut squash, green beans
Th: grilled chicken, asparagus/squash/mushroom sautee
F: chicken, broccolli, cheese and rice casserole

GTKY: I love to cook, but have been so exhausted when I get home from work that I've only been putting in the minimum effort. Also, the smell of cooking meat is not doing it for me. So, I'm going to prep what I can today, and let the hubs do most of the meat on the grill this week.

ejmo68 · March 2016

What's your menu this week?
Sun-Grilled Chicken and baked homemade fries
Mon-Zucchini and Sweet Corn pie
Tues-Veggies
Wed-Breakfast for dinner
Thuds-Leftovers
Friday-going out to dinner to celebrate our wedding anniversary.

GTKY: Do you love cooking? Hate it? Meh?

I love cooking especially new recipes and I love to bake!

ChefWalker · March 2016

Menu this week:
Monday: swedish meatballs with buttered noodles and salad
Tuesday: some kind of grilled fish, probably salmon and quinoa and salad
Wednesday: roasted leg of lamb and roasted potatoes and broccoli
Thursday: leftovers
Friday-Sun: Chicken fried brown rice on one of these nights, will do leftovers or go out on the other nights

GTKY: Do you love cooking? Hate it? Meh?
I love cooking! Menu planning can definitely be a challenge for me. I find that if I plan out a whole week of dinners, I usually end up over or under buying. I have found what works better for me is to plan 1-2 recipes to cook and to get the ingredients with my Sunday shopping. Then mid week I will stop at the grocery store on my home from work and pick up ingredients for 1-2 more recipes once I have a better sense of what the week will look like. I also try to cook in bulk and we eat a lot of leftovers. I don't love leftovers but it's better than cooking every night!

jillianpardo · March 2016

@Piperella I can't stand the smell of Boston butt cooking even when I'm not preggo. sometimes it smells worse than others. I can't imagine during pregnancy.

Koalamomma3 · March 2016

What's your menu this week?
Craving comfort food lately

Chicken noodle soup
Steak w/ salad and Brazilian cheese rolls
BBQ pulled pork with greens
Grilled chicken w/ broccoli salad
Parmesean crusted pork chops w/sautéed green beans and cherry tomatoes

GTKY: Do you love cooking? Hate it? Meh? Love cooking! I also have the privilege of having an amazing sous chef

DD2 is quite the little helper in the kitchen

agogo1 · March 2016

I'm getting some good inspiration from this thread!

M: Whole roasted lemon herb chicken with roasted carrots and cauliflower
T: Chicken Caesar salad with cheesy garlic bread
W: Personal chicken pot pies (made with Monday's chicken)
R: Pork stir fry with napa cabbage, mushrooms, onions, water chestnuts, and spinach over rice
F: out!
S: Carnitas tacos
S: Homemade pizza

GTKY: I love cooking, for the most part. I enjoyed it a lot more before my daughter was born. Now I try to cook a lot more speedy meals because time with her/down time as a family is really important for my sanity. My appetite has been really wonky in first tri, which kills my desire to cook some nights. Fortunately my husband is a good cook and a good sport, so he's been happy to fill in for me.

greenlia · March 2016

I have a cold and weird food aversions so I'm blessing myself for putting together a bunch of freezer meals a few weeks ago. I couldn't look at the red pepper chicken and rice DH and the kids had last night so I had leftover lentil soup. Tonight is quinoa broccoli chicken casserole (fingers crossed I can handle that), then will do a chickpea curry, ground turkey and veg soup, and definitely fish and chips from freezer bags at least one night DH is out of town, since pregnancy is making me crave processed crap and my kids love it but I'm feeling guilty about it. Also probably tacos, and maybe baked chicken legs with potatoes and asparagus since my son insisted on buying two bunches of asparagus yesterday. Yay for asparagus season! And more lentil soup since that is all I want to eat right now.

I generally love to cook. Especially interesting ethnic dishes with 9 million specialty ingredients. I hate everything right now, though. I generally dislike baking (so many dirty dishes!) but I do more of it when I'm pregnant. Maybe that's why DH wanted a third.

LGW2015 · March 2016

Hey all. For those suffering from MS, I just wanted to suggest Outshine fruit popsicles. They're made with fresh fruit juice and they're really refreshing and have helped with my MS a bit. They have different flavors like lime, strawberry, tangerine, lemon, etc.

Cubslove12 · March 2016

What's your menu this week?
Monday- Steak Salad
Tuesday- Stuffed Bell Peppers
Wednesday- Leftovers
Thursday- It's our first US apt so we will probably go out!
Friday- Tilapia

GTKY: Do you love cooking? Hate it? Meh?

I LOVE cooking and baking, my husband is also a decent cook so that makes life a lot easier.

E=Mc3 · March 2016

I'm going to have the following:
M- pork pad thai
T- hubby going in to hub village and will bring back take out food.
W- Stuffed peppers with caribou
Th- spaghetti because I have a late class for work
F- teriyaki salmon with fried rice and steamed broccoli.

E=Mc3 · March 2016

chickpea curry

Yum!!!! Curry!

dam0ne4 · March 2016

Sun: Turkey meatballs and rigatoni

Mon: Beef stroganoff

Tues: Enchilada orzo

Wed: Fig Balsamic pork tenderloin w biscuits and roasted zucchini

I love cooking!

emmaaa · March 2016

I'm really bad and don't usually have a "menu." Especially right now, it depends on what sounds good at the moment. I'm thinking for this week;
-cheeseburgers
-chicken pie
-tacos or fried burritos or enchilada casserole
-grilled chicken salad
-pulled pork/.BBQ

GTKY: I generally love cooking! but right now I'm too drained by the time i get home so DH has been doing it for me.

lilylover27 · March 2016

All you ladies make me so jealous! I love to cook and eat but ever since getting pregnant everything seems like a chore to eat! No MS but horrible horrible food aversions. I can't even think of what I am going to eat before I eat it because it make my stomach turn. I am hoping after the first trimester my food aversions go away and I am back to normal and can join this board!

br0co1ii · March 2016

I worked up the energy to put a Stauffer's frozen lasagna in the oven today. Miraculously, I was able to eat it, and it was good! Sadly though, I still haven't learned to slow down and chew more, because 5 minutes later, I'm so bloated I could explode.

Hopefully I remember tomorrow when I have it again for lunch...

jillianpardo · March 2016

I was tired and opted for frozen pierogies tonight. I ate too fast too. bleck

nlane0723 · March 2016

DH made rice and bulgogi. So I basically failed. Haha.

mpunger · March 2016

Managed to stick to meal planning so far, my husband is VERY picky and would happily eat Dominos pizza every night if I let him. Tonight is pizza night though I might just eat fruit. I've had an aversion to heavy fats and oils lately (I have no gallbladder and IBD so this isn't new). I did eat some eggs this morning but the majority of my diet has consisted of oranges, lemons, grapefruits, and carrots. Made an amazing Lemon Pound Cake last night so that was a good fix for my citrus cravings.

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