Menu Planning- #205

We have a 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.

Our crazy schedule continues and last week was a little too overwhelming to be able to write up our meal plan. If I am candid, the meal plan went out the window by Wednesday. I am hoping to simplify our meal plans for the next few weeks, so we can eliminate the expense of eating out.

Meal Preparation Plan

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NOTE-

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

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

Breakfast Options:

Egg McMuffin

Yogurt

Breakfast Bars

Monday

Jambalaya

Salad

Tuesday

Pasta

With Homemade

Gravy

Salad

Wednesday

Burger

Cole Slaw

Buttered Noodles

Thursday

Eating out

Friday

Sandwiches

Fruit

Carrots

Saturday

Pizza

Salad

Sunday

Chicken Stir Fry

Brown Rice

M- Bratwurst

T- Pizza

W- Breakfast for Dinner

Th- Mexican

Fri- Sandwiches

Sat- Pasta

Sun- Steaks

* 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?

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