Menu Plan {Two weeks!}

Well, look at me, being all domestic and stuff! I made a two week menu plan taking us through the end of June.

With accompanying grocery list, natch. This spring I’ve reallly fallen off the menu planning bandwagon, but I’m ready to hop back on. It just makes life easier and it really is a key to eating real food on a budget.

I’m in awe of those women who shop once a month, and I’ve even run across a couple of blogs where they go shopping once a year! (They grow their own vegetables and fresh produce). I think 2 weeks is our max, and even then we’ll have to pop into the store for more fruit and milk. My kids eat a lot of fruit.

Husband asked for Scotch eggs on Sunday, for Father’s Day, but since he didn’t ask until 1pm he has to wait until Monday night. I didn’t have any sausage in the house! I’m going to boil the eggs instead of baking them because it’s already crazy hot down here, and sadly my super easy egg peeling trick won’t work because the eggs have to be whole.

Our meals are usually rounded out with frozen veggies. We go through 15-20 lbs. per week. Also, you can see we love Mexican food and flavors, we are happily in TexMex country!

Menu Plan, June 18-30
Monday- Scotch eggs, salad
Tuesday- pasta salad
Wednesday-Swiss Steak over rice
Thursday – white bean “rice a roni” from The Everyday Bean Book
Friday- chana dal (split chickpeas) with pitas, tzatziki, and cucumber salad
Saturday- taco mix (pintos, ground beef, corn, taco seasoning), served over salad or in tortilla shells.
Sunday- Roast chickens

Monday- Black beans and rice (make extra beans)
Tuesday – chicken tortilla soup, corn muffins (leftovers from Sunday)
Wednesday-BBQ beef burritos (or maybe sandwiches), coleslaw or salad, corn
Thursday- Thai chicken salad (hope to get some pics for you and post the recipe, this is super yum!)
Friday- Burrito bowl with black beans and corn
Saturday – Fish tacos, orange onion bean salad
What are you eating this week?

Linking up!

Kaira June 18, 2012 3:54 pm edit
I’m not typically a menu planner – I wish I was but I lack discipline. That said, I did make a menu plan today because we have such a busy schedule ahead of us that I need the structure.

Our menu, in no particular order:

Stuffed shells
Bean & Rice burritos
Baked Pasta
BLTs
Twice Baked Potatoes
Open faced chicken sandwhiches
Chalupas
Taco wraps
Potato Bar

It’s going to be so yum!

Ronda June 19, 2012 1:12 pm edit
I am not a meal planner. I keep my pantry stocked (usually shop once a month, with an in-between local run for milk and produce) and then I cook whatever I’m in the mood for that day and have the ingredients for. I’ve tried, I really have, and I usually have a few ideas in mind, but never assign a particular meal to a certain day. Somehow, it never seems to work.

Anyway…I am looking at the recipe for Bean Rice-a-Roni, and I can’t find anything that tells how much chicken broth you use. I’d like to try it. In fact, I’m rather tempted by that book. I love beans!

- Milehimama June 19, 2012 2:23 pm edit
  I replace the water I’d use with the rice, with chicken broth. So if I were cooking 2 cups of rice, I’d use 4 cups of broth (because you use 4 cups of water to cook 2 cups of rice.) Then I add another cup to cook the noodles and give it that rice-a-roni-ish soft texture.
  
Ronda June 19, 2012 5:15 pm edit
Wait, wait wait. What noodles? I am definitely missing something here! All I see in the recipes is beans and rice!

- Milehimama June 19, 2012 10:28 pm edit
  Oh! Sorry. I started putting fideo noodles in to put the “roni” in the rice a roni! (See, this is why I link to OTHER PEOPLE’S cookbooks instead of writing one of my own. My recipes are always changing and evolving.)
  
Martha June 21, 2012 4:17 pm edit
I go to the Kroger at the end of our street often for milk, and perishables. They often have manager’s specials on expiring meat and dairy, and I have often been able to get milk for $1.50 a gallon (it’s usually several days out, so I’ll get a couple of gallons). I can also get some good deals on meat, and just chuck them in the freezer. Since I have to drive by the store to go anywhere, I don’t waste gas, plus I am not an impulsive shopper, so I don’t buy things not on the list that are not a great bargain. Then again, I only have two kids, so it’s not too bad to run in with them, or run up there when my husband is at home and they are in bed.

Grandma Margie July 3, 2012 9:53 pm edit
Orange onion bean salad sounds wonderful. Will you share the recipe?

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