July 2010 Weddings
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Meals for Dinner
I feel like my husband & I eat the same things for dinner all the time. It's time to start doing some different stuff. Lets try something & I'm sure it will help others out too. List maybe a weeks worth of meals (5-7) that you like to fix or that you have regularly. If you want to include recipes for them that is fine, if not that is fine too! 
-- Shane & Kristen <33 --<br>
Re: Meals for Dinner
Some easy recipes that I like to use are:
Chicken parm
baked BBQ chicken
ham and twice baked potatoes
stir fry
And I LOVE allrecipes.com. You can find pretty much any type of recipe on there and they have tons of reviews so you generally know if it's going to be good or not. You can also save recipes to a "recipe file" and refer to them later.
Main go to's for us are
Sloppy Joe's (homemade)
Hamburger Helper
Spaghetti
Turkey (the banquet frozen ones and we just make open faced sandwiches)
Polish Sausage and Perogi
Hot dogs & burgers
Chicken Cord en blu (the barber frozen ones)
Goulash
Porkchop abracadabra (made in the crockpot)
You Grew in My Heart instead of My Tummy
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I try hard to make enough to get leftovers or to use what is left to make something different. I tend to make something in the crockpot once a week that leads to another meal.
Here is my menu for this week
Last night: homemade spaghetti and meatballs
Tonight: meatball sandwiches
Tuesday and Wednesday: salsa chicken in the crockpot and rice
Thursday: parent/teacher conferences (DH is on his own)
Friday: chicken cheese steaks or dinner out
Other foods I make regularly are shrimp and pasta, bbq pulled chicken in the crockpot, rotisserie chicken in the crockpot, pot roast, and tuna steaks. Often times I make baked potatoes or rice with dinner. Then I add some veggie or fruit.
DH could eat the same foods all the time, so I switch it up for me. I have realized how much easier making enough for leftovers makes my life. I love when dinner is basically already made when I get home!
I tend to make one-dish meals more often than not. They're quick and easy to clean up after. We aren't vegetarian, but we don't cook meat very often. A few of our favorites are:
Grain and veggie salad - grilled or sauteed veggies (onion, grape tomatoes, zucchini, squash, peppers, etc) mixed with a grain (pearl couscous, quinoa, farro, winterberries, etc) with salt, pepper, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. We usually add some cheese too (mozz, fontina, gouda). It's quick, healthy, and good.
Black bean or lentil burritos/tacos - with all the fixin's.
Homemade burgers (turkey, chicken, or black bean)
Homemade pizza or calzones - we use our bread machine to make the dough
Potato and pea curry - this is from my favorite Indian cookbook, called Entice with Spice. I took a class from the author. She has a lot of easy, amazing Indian dishes, and they all use the same curry base, so you can make that ahead of time and freeze it.
Penne with vodka sauce and broccoli - Vodka sauce is super easy to make and so much better than jarred sauces. I add the broccoli for crunch and healthiness.
DH does the majority of the cooking but here are a few of our regular go to meals
Tacos (in a kit or using the El Paso seasoning mix, beef, cheese, and tortillas or hard shells...easy and quick)
Jambalaya (DH uses the Zatarans package and adds chicken or sausage or both)
Chorizo and black beans
Buffalo chicken wraps (bake or microwave frozen chicken breasts or tenders, heat up a tortilla, put chicken on tortilla with bleu cheese or gorgonzola cheese and some buffalo sauce, wrap up and eat..delicious!)
We also add rice to meals. DH makes chicken (frozen General Tso's or something that he heats in the oven and then he makes rice in the rice cooker and we eat the chicken over rice)
This is a GREAT idea!