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what's for dinner?
I'm starting to draw up our shopping list for the week, and I need some inspiration for our meals. So far, all I have is burritos. 
Let me hear it, ladies - what's on your dinner menu?
Re: what's for dinner?
I've been feeling uninspired lately when it comes to cooking. Blah!
Last week we had sloppy joes, chicken with cream of mushroom soup, chicken stirfry, chicken with salsa, lasgna, taco salad, chow fun. that is the first time in weeks that we cooked for the whole week.
We're having some very standard, basic meals this week....nothing too interesting or adventurous.
I made homemade meatballs on Sunday, so we had spaghetti and meatballs, salad, and garlic bread last night. Tonight it'll be chicken tacos (the easiest things are usually MH's favorites!), at MH's request. Tomorrow we're having a beef pot roast with red potatoes and carrots cooked in the slow cooker all day. Is it weird that pot roast is one of my favorite foods (brings me back to childhood, I guess!), and I always make it for my birthday each year? (My bd isn't until Saturday, but MH and I don't always get to have dinner together due to his work hours, so it must be tomorrow. Saturday we're going out.)
I made really tasty chicken marinated in chillies, lemon juice and mint yesterday, threw them in a pita with tahini and lettuce. Sooo tasty! I'm really into the chillies + citrus + garlic combo right now.
Today: I have no idea - probably some kind of soup or salad
Weds: Sausage and potato pie
Thurs: Crispy Tofu Pad Thai
Fri: Thai Chicken Satay sandwiches
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Yesterday: Homemade philly cheesesteak sandwiches
Today: Ribs and asparagus
The rest of the week: Buffalo chicken wings/strips with homemade fries (baked in the oven), Turkey tettrazini (so easy and SO tasty), Chicken black bean soup (a crockpot recipe that we haven't tried yet)
Usually 5 meals for the week for us is enough for leftovers on other days. I've been making out of meal plan for the month and sunday's before we grocery shop, we've checked out the week and made adjustments/changes if we want something different. This is working REALLY well for us! Before we'd go to the store and then come home and have nothing to go together for a meal
I actually made a dinner plan for this week, which is great since I have been slacking lately.
Tonight - Shredded chicken enchiladas
Wed - Lasagna Rolls w/ salad
Thurs - Leftovers
Fri - Sheppard's Pie w/ salad
I love Hawaii!
Tara & Ian . 4/24/2008 . The Kahala Planning . Married
Usually some type of rice whether is basmati, jasmine, brown, wild long grain or quiona or multigrain pasta is on our menu, at least every other day. It is very rare that I make sauce except for Buttter Chicken or a Marinara Sauce.
Not sure what tonights menu will be, but I do have some beef strips that I just bought and always love a good Stirfry with peanuts or cashews.
For the rest of this week, here is what we are having:
Chuck roast in crock pot w/taco seasoning = shredded beef tacos
Chicken breast w/cream of chicken soup in crock pot served over fettuccini
Grilled chicken on Foreman grill, mexican rice (MH makes it so good!)
My son makes the best homemade pizza - Friday night baby!
One of our faves is tostadas. Beans, ground turkey with seasoning, shredded lettuce, toms, avocado.
I always have a green salad or light ceaser and fresh fruit for the kids w/dinner. I make some sort of veggie every night, right now we are hooked on green beans and corn on the cob. Oh, and we sure make and eat a ton of guacamole. Everyone is loving avocados these days. Even with our crazy after school sports schedule, we don't do fast food very often. A couple times a month at most. I HATE them eating that crap!
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we buy a load of veggies at the farmer's market and cook accordingly-
last night we sauted broccoli cauliflower, asparagus, and pea tendrils with olive oil garlic and spices and put that over brown rice pasta-i put a little hemp seed vegan raw pesto on mine-will have leftovers that i can probably eat on wed. tonight out for dinner but it will be vegan-wed maybe we will juice thursday probably more veggies and brown rice and some salad friday juice.
no idea... i am really bad at meal planning even though things go much more smoothly when i do it. i'm sure that'll have to change once miss A is on solids
but speaking of mac n cheese, i haven't made the french onion mac n cheese in my blog in a while and it is sooooooo tasty
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
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Amen to this! I HAVE to have a meal plan and a shopping list...otherwise it's just badness lol.
I'm also bad at meal planning. I don't follow recipes, so I just stock up on the basics and improvise from there. And I always make enough for leftovers, so I only cook 3-4 times a week.
Looking in the fridge, it looks like we're having Asian veggie/pork stirfry, tacos, and pot roast this week. That, and we have salad or a side of veggies every night with our meal.
I'm so impressed by everyone who makes so many different meals each week!