Menu Planning #174

Meal planning is essential to eating healthy, keeping the grocery bill down, and maintaining your sanity throughout a workweek. 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.

Meal Prep Plan

Hard-Boiled Eggs

Yogurt

Energy Balls

Apple Spice Oatmeal Bake

Coffee Cake (Pot Luck Breakfast)

NOTE- Although all prices were correct at the time of the blog posting, the current cost of preparation of these dishes may be higher due to inflation and/or location.

Breakfast Options:

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Yogurt

Hard-Boiled Eggs

Oatmeal Bake

Poptarts

Weak August 9-15

Monday

Cheese Steak Sandwiches

French Fries

Vegetable Sticks

Tuesday

Street Tacos

Salad

Wednesday

Cajun Shrimp Pasta

Salad

Broccoli

Bread

Thursday

Kielbasa

Potato Cubes

Peppers and Onions

Friday

Bratwurst

Mac and Cheese

Cauliflower

Saturday

BBQ Chicken

Baked Potatoes

Salad

Sunday

Out to Dinner for my

Birthday Dinner

This week’s rough plan:

M- Mississippi Roast Beef

T- Burrito Bowl

W- Pasta Bake

Th- Left Overs

Fri- Pizza

Sat- BBQ Chicken

Sun- Salmon

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

What is your family having this week for dinner?

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