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Weekly Meal Plan & Goals – Getting Back to “Normal”

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Sarah Marshall

Weekly Meal Plan & Goals

The new year is here. Okay…it’s been here awhile. Life around here has been such a whirlwind that one day we slept through the ball dropping and all of a sudden the first month of the year is 3 weeks in. Can anyone else relate? Keith and I are logging more hours at work, Brooke is busy with Girl Scouts (it’s Cookie Season!!) and swim class, kids Worship team at church and of course, school.

All the more reason to have a plan ahead of time. If I had to come up with dinner ideas at 5:30 when the girls & I walk in the door, we’d have cereal every night. Taking a few moments to make a plan on what we’ll eat takes the pressure off. Better yet is when I can take an hour or two over the weekend and prep anything I can.

For example, my chili recipe is quick and easy enough for weeknight dinner if you start from scratch. But if you take some time to throw it together ahead of time, you really can’t beat grabbing it out of the fridge, plopping it into a pan and just heating it up. If you’re feeling ambitious, mix up a box of Jiffy cornbread. Sit down with the kiddos and look at school papers or ask about their day with those extra few minutes. Lose the business suit and change into those yoga pants!! Take advantage of those extra minutes you’ve given yourself!

Meal Plan

Breakfast

Waffles – made a double batch over the weekend to heat up throughout the week
Eggs – scrambled, with toast in a bowl, in the hole…we change it up everyday

Lunch

Tuna Salad Sandwiches/Wraps – made a double batch of this over the weekend based on this recipe
Salads
Leftovers

Dinner

Ready-to-Eat Seasoned Pork Loin
Hamburger Steaks with Gravy
Crockpot Chicken Fajitas
Grilled Cheese Night
Goulash
Cheeseburger Stuffed Peppers

Prep-Ahead Plan

Mix and shape hamburger steaks
Make gravy
Slice onions & peppers
Make goulash
Mix meat mixture for stuffed peppers

This menu plan is linked to Org Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday link up.

Goals

I’m going to keep my goals light this week. Work is very overwhelming for both Keith and I right so surviving each day is my first priority. I don’t want to set myself up for failure by committing to too many things.

Send 2 Thinking of You cards – I want to make connecting with family & friends more of a priority this year

1 (more) blog post & 1 video published – I have so many topics & ideas in my head and I just need to allow myself to take for me and get them out there!!

Join in with my church’s Bible/study devotional book – We were in Tampa for the Outback Bowl on the first day of this reading plan and so I got behind from the first day. I felt like it was too late to catch up but after service yesterday I’m just going to jump in where they are. It’s better than nothing!!

We are still tiptoeing into normal life after the holidays. I know January is more than half over but I’m subscribing to a “Better Late Then Never” mentality.

Weekly Meal Plan & Goals – November 9, 2015

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Sarah Marshall

Welcome to my weekly meal plan & goals. The main purpose of these posts are for my own record keeping & accountability however I hope others can find them useful as well.

Weekly Meal Plan & Goals

Like always seems to happen to me, after a couple good weeks of meal plans I get complete planners block. I have just no idea what to cook for dinner the upcoming week. Saturday I carved out some time to go through my folder of recipes to make sure there weren’t any go-to recipes I’d forgotten to enter into my Plan to Eat recipe book. While I did come across some that needed to be imported, I still felt stumped.

My biggest hurdle was Monday night. Every other Monday is Girl Scouts night. We have to be at the meeting at 6pm. The girls and I typically get home around 5:30pm after work/school/daycare. The meeting lasts until at least 7pm. Not really enough time for dinner before hand and after the meeting is kinda late for us since we typically start bedtime routines as close to 7pm as possible.

And most weeks it really isn’t too much of an issue because at some point Keith will take Leah and they can have dinner while Brooke & I are at her meeting. Then she & I will eat a quick dinner when we get back home. Not an ideal situation but good enough.

Unfortunately, Keith’s first women’s basketball game conflicts and mama is tacking it solo. I had to come up with a solution that would allow us to get home, eat and be ready to head back out in 20 minutes. I tried to find a slow cooker dinner but nothing would work and I thought were gonna end up with PB&Js for dinner.

Then, during worship at church, the perfect idea popped into my head – salad in a jar!! All the ingredients could be prepped & assembled, didn’t need to be heated up and the girls are pretty much guaranteed to eat (please don’t say I jinxed it!) especially since I cooked up some taco meat to make them into Taco Salads!!

Once I got that figured out, the rest of the week seemed to easily fall into place.