Menu Planning #201

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 prepare meals as much as possible over the weekend. This helps to

lower my stress during the week. However, if we have a busy weekend, I try to

plan simple or crockpot meals.

The past two weeks have been crazy busy for us. Today’s menu planning will

cover the past 2 weeks.

Meal Preparation Plan

Cut Vegetables

Stuffed shells

NOTE-

1- Click on the picture and get a link to a post sharing the recipe.

2- Although at the time of the blog postings all prices were correct, the current

cost of preparation of these dishes may be higher due to inflation and/or

location.

Breakfast Options:

Egg McMuffins

Yogurt

Bagels

Monday (4/25)

Tacos

Salad

Tuesday (4/26)

Leftovers

Wednesday (4/27)

Sandwiches

Chips

Vegetable Sticks

Thursday (4/28)

Leftovers

Friday (4/29)

Chicken Wings

Vegetable Sticks

Salad

Saturday (4/30)

Pizza

Salad

Sunday (4/31)

Lasagna

Salad

Bread

Monday (5/1)

Leftovers

Tuesday

Leftovers

(AKA Raid the Refrigerator Night)

Wednesday

Pasta

w/ Homemade Gravy

Salad

Garlic Bread

Thursday

Tacos

Salad

Chips with Salsa

Friday

Pizza

Salad

Saturday

Out of Town

Ate Out

Sunday

Salmon

Rice

Broccoli

M-Pulled Pork

T- Chili

W- Chicken Patty Sandwich

Th- Pasta

Fri- Pizza

Sat- Leftovers

Sun- Hamburgers

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

If you are interested in last week’s Menu Plan, the link is below.

What is your meal plan for this week?

Comments

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