Weekly Menu Planning

[foolofatook]

I loved this thread over on TB, and I want to revive it. Although I DO think this should be a weekly set-up instead of an all-the-time thread because it's just HARD to keep track when it hits thirty thousand pages. 

This week I'm super excited about the food I have planned. I don't have days assigned yet, but...

--Pioneer Woman homemade pizza
--sausage and apple rolls
--chicken bundles (chicken, cream cheese, basil, and green onions wrapped in crescent roll dough and baked until perfect)
--baked ziti
--spaghetti with homemade sauce

[errsbear11]

Now that I can somewhat eat, I'll join in! I love new meal ideas! For this week coming up I'll be on the road most nights, so lots of leftovers and super easy meals for DH...but here's what I've got.

Stuffed chicken (premade by the Amish), squash, cous cous
Bacon and Brussel sprouts
Eggplant rollatini
turkey noodle soup (frozen turkey from christmas!)
Beef and snow peas stir fry with quinoa (or rice if DH makes it)
Jambalaya

[wineandcake]

F- homemade pizza night
S- pulled chicken sandwiches and salad
S- roast pork, rice, veggies
M- probably leftovers since I'm at work till 11 and DH till 7.
T- taco Tuesday!
W- no idea, maybe stir fry with sausage
Th- beef stew since DH has been asking for it for weeks now.
F- Friday tradition of homemade pizza.

[hormonesavage]

I just sat down to do my grocery list!

Tonight will be ceasar salad and chicken Alfredo thanks to another thread!
Chicken parmesean
Chicken enchiladas with green chili sour cream sauce
Baked cream cheese taquitos
Lemon chicken with white wine sauce
Creamy broccoli chicken shells and cheese (closest I can get to Mac n cheese)
Zappa Toscana, if I'm lucky enough to find kale.

[bshelly]

Love this thread and had somehow missed it over in the #placethatshallnotbenamed. I'm still pretty sick, so I'm pretty sure every meal will consist of grilled chicken salad or baby carrots. That seems to be all I can stomach at this point. I MISS cooking and am looking forward to getting to do so again! Hopefully, I'll have more to contribute in the coming weeks

[mtsue]

Somehow I missed this before, too! I do my meal planning on Saturdays, so I'll post mine then. I always run out of ideas - this is great!

[petrichor14]

Tonight we're going to visit some friends who just had a baby and I'm heating up a lasagna I froze a couple weeks ago to take. And this weekend I'm planning on making samosas. Other than that I haven't planned any meals yet. I did really good the last couple weeks but our grocery costs have been outrageous so I'm thinking it will be a budget focused week regardless.

[emwithpeanuts]

Yay! I have to make mine still for the next week but will post it when I get it together.

[dancinbeans27]

I meal planned this week....

Yeah. Made nothing on the plan. Failed. oh well..

[shopgirl]

I"m so jealous that you ladies feel up to planning/cooking. I used to be really diligent about doing this, but I haven't cooked for the last 7 weeks! I hope to be feeling better soon and can join you here!

[pixiepink24]

I feel so unorganized. I feel like I plan what I make for dinner day by day, minute by minute lol! But you guys are giving me great ideas!!

[brummy14]

Not sure what will be which day, but here's kinda what we're thinking:

Friday - Take out of some sort
Saturday - Pasta with Chorizo and Chickpeas (I made months ago, and had freezer portions, so here we go!)
Sunday - Quinoa Fiesta Lasagna Bake
Monday - Kung Pao Chicken Zoodles For Two (no one will likely eat this but me, but that's okay)
Tuesday - DH bringing home Gyro Sandwich, Oven Roasted Potatoes, Fresh Fruit from his work (yum, and only $4/meal!)
Weds - Maryland Crab Cakes, Rice Pilaf, Mixed Vegetables - also from DH's work
Thurs - Leftovers of whatever we've got.

[andindria]

I am thinking there may need to be a recipe thread started very soon. I eventually will have a healthy kid and will start cooking again.. Hopefully....

[lindslew91011]

You all sound so healthy! Ours is never that healthy.

Baked potato bar
Baked cheese ravioli
chicken cordon blue

then generally we do left overs one night and the other night is either wings/pizza or cereal.

[laylamamma2013]

I haven't meal planned yet for this week but last week we had fish tacos and homemade Spanish rice, hotdogs and fries, build your own pizza night, BBQ chicken wraps and fruit salad, and tonight we went out.

[steen9713]

Pre pregnancy I cooked all the time! I pay myself on the back because I think I'm a good cook, not a chef but I have some pretty Awesome recipes. Now being pregnant it's been very difficult. This week is budget and easy meals since we are moving. It's simple hamburgers and fries and. A veggie. Some times I skip the bun and just have a meat patty and veggie. Maybe next week I will have some different and more interesting meals to contribute.

[tiamiaxx]

Jan 16, 2015 13:35:24 GMT -5 @pianolove said:

Also I think it was sandybananas? Were you the one who had lentil sloppy joes? Someone had lentil sloppy joes, did you ever find a great recipe?

Wow i want in on this recipe!

[tiamiaxx]

Jan 16, 2015 13:30:36 GMT -5 shopgirl said:

I"m so jealous that you ladies feel up to planning/cooking. I used to be really diligent about doing this, but I haven't cooked for the last 7 weeks! I hope to be feeling better soon and can join you here!

Me too. I'm loving all these ideas but at the same time reading with caution so they don't make me feel ill.

[foolofatook]

This is the pizza I mentioned.

I also decided that we're going to have sausage, potato, and green pepper hash for dinner one night this week. It's just SO. DELICIOUS.

[sandybananas]

Lentil sloppy joes were ok, but I went about it wrong. I searched for lentil sloppy joes but SHOULD have just found an amazing sloppy joe recipe and substituted lentils. Aka I need to perfect my sauce. DH liked them but I was meh. Could have been just an aversion, but I'm sure my sauce could use some tweaking!

[babymakes5]

Sat/Sun: chicken quesadillas and Spanish rice
Mon/tues/wed: pulled pork sandwiches and red potatoes
Thurs/fri: burgers and some kind of pasta

We are definitely leftovers people - cooking during the week is too stressful!

[caymarks]

Today - Roast w/mashed potatoes and gravy
Sunday - Hamburgers and French Fries
Monday - BBQ & chips
Tuesday - Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup
Wednesday - Hamburger Helper
Thursday - Chicken Stir fry & Rice
Friday - Pizza Burgers

Lots of Hamburger this week so I'm not sure if we'll stick with these or if some of them will change but as of now that's our menu.

ETA: DH will be cooking most if not all of these. He's seriously the best! He's always been the cook in our marriage but he's really doing double/triple duty lately with everything and I appreciate him so much

[lindslew91011]

Jan 17, 2015 12:16:50 GMT -5 babymakes5 said:

Sat/Sun: chicken quesadillas and Spanish rice
Mon/tues/wed: pulled pork sandwiches and red potatoes
Thurs/fri: burgers and some kind of pasta

We are definitely leftovers people - cooking during the week is too stressful!

Chicken quesadillas sound super good!!!

[foolofatook]

Recipe for sausage rolls because I'm making them right now and they smell SOGOOD.

1 lb of breakfast sausage (I'm using Jimmy Dean original)
half a large onion
1 small Granny Smith apple
a sheet of puff pastry

Chop the apple and onion up small. Mix all the stuff together except the puff pastry (obviously, sorry). Slice the puff pastry into three sections, fill with sausage mixture. Fold over and use a fork to pinch closed. Bake at 400 degrees F for about 25-35 minutes, depending on done-ness.

[slurpeelove]

I used to menu plan each week to save money and totally fell off the wagon. You guys inspired me to get started again!

S - Grilled Chicken Breast
M - Ziti
T - Leftovers
W - Rosemary Chicken Breasts
T - Leftovers
S - Ribs

I'm going grocery shopping today so I just have to see what I have to add to my list now.

[petrichor14]

Ok, I finally got my week plan together.

S- samosas and some kind of salad
M- fish tacos
T- pan-fried chicken with cheese grits and sauteed greens
W- leftover chicken turned into chicken parm, don't know what for a side
Th- DH is visiting his parents so I'm on my own. Some kind of crappy carryout.
F- this Malaysian grilled vegetable rice salad: www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Grilled-Vegetable-and-Rice-Salad-with-Fish-Sauce-Vinaigrette-51104380 (so good!)

[bookitup]

Jan 17, 2015 10:59:21 GMT -5 foolofatook said:

This is the pizza I mentioned.

I also decided that we're going to have sausage, potato, and green pepper hash for dinner one night this week. It's just SO. DELICIOUS.

Thanks for posting this! Everything we've tried from the PW we've loved, so DH and I went ahead and made this dough for later in the week! Yum!

[tashala107]

Sunday- Turkey Burger salads
Monday- Mexican lasagna
Tuesday- Sausage, kale, white beans over pasta
Wednesday- Turkey chili and corn bread
Thursday- Left overs
Friday- Pizza- take out or homemade
Saturday- Date night

[emwithpeanuts]

People!!! My oven broke. I swear I will never buy a Viking again. SO, all I have is a stove top and a grill. Crockpot is kind of out of the question for a few reasons. Anyone have any meal ideas for the stove top or grill? I do basically chicken and ground beef.

[emwithpeanuts]

Jan 18, 2015 14:35:14 GMT -5 emwithpeanuts said:

People!!! My oven broke. I swear I will never buy a Viking again. SO, all I have is a stove top and a grill. Crockpot is kind of out of the question for a few reasons. Anyone have any meal ideas for the stove top or grill? I do basically chicken and ground beef.

Forget the stupid grill idea, too. I went outside chicken in hand, and turns out the horrible wind the other day blew the thing over and totally busted up the insides. My grill is dead. I'm going to starve.