Menu Planning #175

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

Banana Bread

Lunch Salads

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:

Yogurt

Hard-Boiled Eggs

Banana Bread

Cereals

Weak August 9-15

Monday

Mississippi Roast Beef

Mashed Potatoes

Corn

Tuesday

Beef Street Tacos

(W/ LO Beef)

LO Corn

Salad

Wednesday

Pasta Bake

Salad

Garlic Bread

Thursday

Leftovers

(Pasta Bake)

Friday

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Pizza

Baked Mushrooms

Saturday

BBQ Chicken

Baked Potatoes

Salad

Sunday

Salmon

Rice

Spinach

This week’s rough plan:

M- Kielbasa

T- Tacos

W- Lemon Shrimp Pasta

Th- Cajun Chicken Salad

Fri- Cheese Steaks

Sat- Boy Scout Potluck

Sun- Steak

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

What is your family having this week for dinner?

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