Upstate NY Nesties
TinaL99
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Weekly Menus?
Is anyone interested in sharing their dinner menus each week? Feel free to share recipes, too! I know I'm always looking to make something new!
Su: Sheppard's Pie, garlic bread
M: Grilled cheese on rye, tomato soup, veggie
Tu: Pierogies, salad
W: Leftover Sheppard's pie
Th: Taking pizza to my Aunt & Uncle's
F: Pork chops w/ blue cheese gravy, brown rice, peas
Sa: Buffalo Chicken sandwiches, chips, salad
DD1: 3/31/10
DD2: 9/7/11
Re: Weekly Menus?
I wish I could make up a weekly menu but schedule is so hectic. For example:
Tonight - probably left overs since I am only home for a few minutes before I go see my cousin sworn in as sergeant of police.
Tomorrow - dinner with a friend at the Standard
Wednesday - something quick since I'll be famished after my hair appt probably soup
Thursday - something light, maybe a salad, before zumba
Friday - probably take out with the family
This is sad lol.
Here's ours:
M- roasted chicken with sweet potato fries and broccoli
T- pork chops with pierogies and garlic spinach
W- spaghetti with meat sauce and salad
T- chicken enchiladas and rice
F- tilapia with corn relish
S- out to dinner
I love new ideas... its so hard with my 2 jobs to come up with a weekly meal plan.
I have to work Mon, Tues and Fri this week job #2 so I am not even home to eat so I usually just grab a lean cuisine or sandwich.
for the rest of the days I know I want tacos, stew in the crockpot (sunday), BBQ pork chops (Saturday), Then I have 1 day I am not sure of so that will probably be pasta or some sort.
I always say I am going to plan a menu but then I get too busy and/or lazy. I came up with a system that seems to work fairly well. On Friday nights or Saturday mornings I look at the online sale ads to get inspiration and then make the menu for the upcoming week. To keep it simple, I usually do the same type of food on the same day every week.
For example:
Sunday - Home Cookin'/Comfort Food - meatloaf, roasted chicken etc.
Monday - Crock Pot - Mondays are always extra tiring so I like to have dinner ready when I get home.
Tuesday - Mexican
Wednesday - Italian
Thursday - Chinese - you can stir fry almost anything!
Friday - Fish or Brinner depending on my mood
Saturday - Wild Card - a good night for trying something new
I basically never am sure when I am going to get home so it's hard to plan a perfect menu. We are even more disorganzied with meals right now as I am on the South Beach Diet (phase 1) and obviously DH and the little one are not.
One thing I always do is make one big dish on Sunday that can serve as a pinch-hitter if I am running late (big pot of chicken noodle soup, lasagna, scalloped potatoes and ham) and/or make a big pot of sauce and meatballs and feeze them in one meal portions. That said, this was this week"
Su - Rosemary salmon with steamed broccoli for me with couscous for DH
M - Taco mac and cheese for DH, Chicken and veggies for me
T - Ham and scalloped potatoes for DH, Chicken and veggies for me
W - Cod with scallion ginger marinade with cauliflower for me with noodles for DH
Th - Baked chicken with roasted veggies
F - Steak and spinach stuffed mushroom caps
Sa - undetermined