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What's on your Menu? 9/26/16
I'll try to make this a regular Monday thread and will label it with the date so hopefully we don't get confused if prior weeks get bumped.
So what do you have on the menu this week?
What are you doing/making to make sure you stay within your grocery and eating out budget?
So what do you have on the menu this week?
What are you doing/making to make sure you stay within your grocery and eating out budget?
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
www.5yearstonever.blogspot.com
Re: What's on your Menu? 9/26/16
Monday - Grilled Pork Loin w/ Green Beans and Mashed Potatoes
Tuesday - Baked Chicken Wraps with Rice
Wednesday - Pulled Pork Sandwiches (our friends gave us left overs after their daughters party on Saturday)
Thursday - Leftovers for H and I'm meeting my sister and cousin for dinner out
Friday - Meatloaf
Saturday/Sunday - I'm not sure yet. H is working weekend nights, so we may try to go out on night before he goes to work or make something else.
We are typically pretty cheap for groceries because there are only 2 of us and generally we eat most of our left overs so we get multiple meals out of one. this week we spent around $115 for groceries including a little extra to have friends over for the game and we brought a dish to a birthday party this weekend.
Today we have crock pot chop suey cooking at home. I love that it'll be ready to eat when we get home so we don't have to rush to make dinner after work. I don't have the rest of the week planned yet.
I usually meal plan off of meat sales and coupon clip. I've also been starting to buy the large portions of meat and freezing what we don't use right away. Last week, whole pork loins were on sale for $1.69/lb. A 10lb portion cost us $16.90, and will give us about 4-5 meals at roughly $4 or so per meal. I cut most of it into chops, and the rest of it, mostly the dark meat part, into cubes for today's chop suey. I'll probably freeze a couple meal portions of the chops.
Tuesday - Leftovers from Monday.
Wednesday - Baked chicken stuffed with cheese and asparagus, rice.
Thursday - Leftovers from Wednesday.
Friday - Leftovers from Wednesday.
Saturday/Sunday completely up in the air since H is supposed to camping with friends. Pretty sure I have a box of Kraft Mac n Cheese in the pantry. Yum.
Savings - I spent $250 at Costco yesterday, mostly on food, but some on replacement homegoods essentials. It should easily bring us through the next two weeks with the veggies and fresh meat I bought without having to supplement at the grocery store.
Tonight: Brats, pasta salad, and fruit.
Tuesday: Tuna noodle casserole
Wednesday: Guaconachos out with MIL.
Thursday: Leftovers before church class
Friday: Unplanned
I'm trying really hard to get even more fresh fruits and vegetables in our house, and cut out the processed crap a bit more. Now that we're no longer in survival mode with DD and I feel like we can actually function a bit, I can focus on us eating less quick meals.
I'm also planning around things we have in the pantry and freezer. We get a whole pig this week and 1/4 of a cow in December. So I'm trying to make room.
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
www.5yearstonever.blogspot.com
Dinners:
Sunday - Ground beef tacos with mexican rice
Monday - Chicken shawarma with yellow rice, homemade pita, sauteed zucchini
Tuesday - Sour cream noodle bake
Wednesday - nothing planned here. H is going to a hockey game so I'll probably just pick through leftovers or have a sandwich or something. Nice to have a night off from cooking during the week!
Thursday - Asian marinated chicken drumsticks, rice, spicy snap peas
Friday - No plans yet. It's my payday so we may just go out to eat.
Lunch: (these are just my lunches, H is on his own LOL)
Monday: leftover pizza. We took home a whole pizza after helping our friends move because they over ordered.
Tuesday: leftover chicken shawarma
Wednesday: leftover sour cream noodle bake
Thursday: Not sure yet. I have a frozen meal in the work freezer I need to eat before my last day, so maybe that
Friday: We are having lunch provided at work.
This week, I did a really good job of planning around what I had in the fridge and freezer. I only spent $36 at the grocery store.
Saturday - curried tofu and delicata squash with rice
Sunday - sundried tomato and goat cheese ravioli with mushrooms and tomatoes
Monday - shrimp and veggie stir fry with rice
Tuesday - leftovers
Wednesday - grilled chicken and veggies
Thursday - minestrone soup and crusty bread
Friday - out
Mon - Bacon wrapped chicken with frozen vegetable
Tues - Dinner out
Wed - breakfast for dinner: scrambled eggs with cheese and onion, bacon, tater tots, fruit smoothie
Thurs - going to a pizza party
Fri - going to a benefit party
Sat - dinner out
We'll be using coupons and gift cards for the dinners out. Also trying to use up some eggs and cheese that are in the fridge getting old.
Is the bolded the TS green tea peppercorn seasoning?? If so, I LOVE that stuff. It's becoming one of those I put that S*** on everything kind of seasonings for me. It even got my H to eat vegetables.. and he has not eaten vegetables in the entire 12 years I've known him.
The mango lime pork chops is chops with their mango lime sauce on top. So good.
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
www.5yearstonever.blogspot.com
Tuesday - Cheeseburger casserole (bought ingredients)
Wednesday - Crock Pot BBQ ribs (from freezer stockpile)
Thursday - leftovers
Friday - dinner out
Weekend - TBD
Sunday: salad with arugula, bacon, red cabbage, carnival squash, apple, goat cheese, bacon, and warm dressing
Monday: had the same salad for dinner since it was easier to make at home; I had homemade roasted tomato basil soup for lunch, and H had pasta with onions, braised greens, and bacon
Tuesday: eating leftover for lunches and dinners out of the salad, soup, pasta dishes I made
Wednesday: chicken sausage rissotto with garden salad
Thursday: burrito bowls with black beans (cooked with tomatos and onion), rice, avocado, and salsa with sauteed peppers and onions
Friday: homemade pizza dough with beet pesto, chopped kale, mozzarella, and goat cheese with a garden salad
Saturday: salmon and whatever veggies need to be cooked up for me; H usually buys dinner at work
Lunches (H works evenings so he technically takes dinner...) are leftovers from those meals.
Breakfasts are a big batch of steel cut oats cooked with apples & banana and peanut butter added for the first part of the week, and a leek goat cheese quiche with a sweet potato crust for the second part of the week.