Menu Planning #169

Meal planning is essential to eating healthy, keeping the grocery bill down and maintaining your sanity throughout a work week. In addition to meal planning, I try to meal prep as much as possible over the weekend. This helps to lower my stress during the week. However, if we have a particularly busy weekend, I try to plan simple or crockpot meals.

NOTE- If you want to see the recipes, just click on the picture to see the link.

Breakfast Options:

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Yogurt

Cereal

Hard Boiled Eggs

Bagels w/ cream cheese

Monday

Kielbasa

Peppers and Onions

Salad

Tuesday

Baked Chicken

Stuffing

Green Beans

Salad

Wednesday

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Pasta

Salad

Thursday

Hamburgers

French Fries

Vegetable Sticks

Friday

Cheese steaks

Macaroni Salad

Vegetable Sticks w/ Dip

Saturday

Potluck Event

Macaroni Salad

Vegetable Sticks

Brownies

Sunday

Bratwurst

Macaroni Salad

Vegetable Sticks w/ Dips

This week’s rough plan:

M- Ribs

T- Quesadillas

W- Grilled Cheese

Th- Cajun Chicken Pasta

Fri- Pizza

Sat- Chicken Kabobs

Sun- Bean and Sausage Cassoulet

* Indicate that the recipe is a new one for our family.

What is your family having this week for dinner?

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