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Post your weekly meal plan here.
Honey Ginger Grilled Salmon: http://www.delish-blog.com/2006/11/honey-ginger-grilled-salmon/
Taco Night. (no link necessary)
Tilapia with Salad: (links to my blog, and shows how I cooked it at the bottom: http://lighterleaf.blogspot.com/2010/05/return-of-lighter-leaf.html)
Salmon and Asparagus in foil packets: http://lowfatcooking.about.com/od/fishandseafood/r/salmonasparagus.htm
Peppered Fish with Vinaigrette: (links to my blog when I cooked this a while back ago: http://lighterleaf.blogspot.com/2010/04/well-hello-there-portion-control.html)
anyone else want to share their weekly plan?
Re: Post your weekly meal plan here.
I haven't planned mine yet but it will include lots of grilling outside and using the crock pot because our AC is not working and I don't want to make the house any hotter by using the oven or stove top.
Finally decided on a menu and went to the grocery store.
Mon- blue cheese turkey burgers
Tues-crock pot country ribs and sweet & sour green beans
Wed-Steaks, grilled potatoes, wedge salad
Thurs-crock pot pork chops and potatoes
stir fry with orange sauce and brown rice (just bought frozen stir fry veggies and panda express orange sauce at costco - will mix that with cubed chicken pieces)
ground turkey tacos with black beans
slow cooker bbq chicken sandwiches with side of caesar salad
tarragon turkey burgers with garden salad & sweet potato fries
I need to start planning meals, mine for the past week was:
M. Taco Bell
T. Chick Fillet
W. Toast and Nutella
T. Toast and Nutella
F. Left over Pizza from Lunch
S. Cold McDonald Sandwich
S. Left over of the left over pizza
Really healthy!!!
Mon. Hamburger Helper and snap peas
Tues. Tacos
Wed. Italian Crockpot Chicken and Broccoli and Cheese Rice
Thurs. Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo and broccoli and cauliflower salad
Fri. Porkchops and red beans and rice
Can I just say that I'm impressed with you all that cook every night during the week?!? I work late at least two nights a week (as I know you do do Shan), so I try to cook a lot on Sunday then have leftovers or stuff you can throw together for the other nights. I'm also impressed, Risa, that you can get your DH to eat the whole wheat pasta! Mine won't touch it!
So this week I cooked Tamale Pie and Creamy Pasta Salad and we will have leftovers all week. I also have stuff to make Caprese sandwiches and frozen pizza as backup.
Recipes (forgive me that they are double spaced, I don't know why it insists on doing it when I enter.)
Tamale Pie:
Ground beef (or meat of your choice)
1/2 each Red and green bell peppers
1/2 onion
1 Can pinto beans
1 Can diced fire roasted tomatoes with green chilis
box of cornbread mix (and whatever else that brand calls for to make it)
1-2 cans of green chilis
I served it this week with leftover grilled veg. Yum!
Creamy Pasta salad- so simple!
Saute halved cherry tomatoes, chopped zuchinni and basil leaves while pasta cooks (I like little shell shaped ones)
Mix cooked pasta with ricotta then fold in the veg
DONE! Savory when hot but also good cold as a pasta salad.
Sarah, every time I try to sneak whole grain pasta in, DH wrinkles his nose. He'll eat it but reminds me he doesn't like it. I can't taste a bit of difference!
Last night we had some steak that was on sale at HEB (steak for 2 people for $5.50? yes, please!) with green beans and pesto pasta.
Tonight: BLTs
Tomorrow: KA chicken tacos I believe, except this time, I'm making my tortillas
Wednesday, probably leftover tacos
Thursday: Chicken breast (if I remember to defrost) with pasta and a veggie, probably corn and green beans
Friday: I'm going out, he's on his own!
My Bio (wedding pics added 7/6)
My 101
Sunday: leftover KA chicken tacos
Monday: pan-seared colossal scallops w/ roasted broccoli and brown butter sage sauce
Tues: bar food - going to happy hour
Wed: panko-crusted tilapia w/ broccoli.
Thurs: bar food - fancy happy hour @ Tre Wilcox's restaurant
Fri: roasted tomatoes w/ shrimp and feta
Was also going to make fresh cacio e pepe linguini w/ pan-seared chicken but may have to save that for next week since we'll be out so much and out of town this weekend.
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
That's why I make stuff in the crock pot. Sometimes I work till 9 or 10 so I'll do a meal in the crock pot before i got to work. Then DH has something ready when he gets home and I have leftovers for lunch the next day.
1. We eat laaaaaate. Way too late, I'm sure for those healthy people in the world. When I get home on an early night (at 7pm) I'll walk in the door and immediately start dinner so we'll eat around 7:30pm or so. On a traditional night, I'm home around 8pm, and we eat at 8:30 or 8:45 at night. It's terrible because I'm always staaaaarving by then and I swallow my food whole.
2. DH won't eat whole wheat pasta unless I cover it in some kind of sauce, so he doesn't notice when I put it down in front of him. And then he always makes it known he does not like it.
3. Thankfully, all the things on my list can be prepped and cooked in about 30 minutes. They're all really easy to do, and if it isn't easy and fast - I don't cook it. Otherwise I'd be working in the kichen for an hour and we wouldn't eat until 9:30 at night. That doesn't leave me a nice person!
4. I'm going to start going to that class again on Friday mornings starting this week. Are you still going??? I'm a terrible gym buddy. Terrible. But I can do Friday mornings and I'm commiting to it!
"The House We Built."
A journey of building the dream.
how funny, I JUST made this last night (but w/spaghetti) - did you happen to watch no reservations? we saw the rome episode and it inspired me. I used this recipe, I SPH smitten kitchen:
http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/02/spaghetti-cacio-e-pepe/
I cut the recipe in half and we're still going to be eating pasta for a week.
If it makes you feel any better, we typically eat around 9:30, which I hate but can't help. Home at 6, feed and spend time with Rufus, head to the gym, take Rufus for a quick jog after the gym and then shower. I'm ready to start cooking around 8:45.
If I skip the gym, it doesn't matter. DH doesn't get home until 8 or 9 anyways.
My Bio (wedding pics added 7/6)
My 101
Yep! That's what inspired me too. That was a great episode. I wanted to use fresh pasta and they didn't have fresh spaghetti at central market so I'm going to try the linguini. I think I might try that recipe you referenced... Lupa is my fave NY Italian restaurant and I figure anything Batali must be good.
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012