Tired Mommy Tales

I’ve overplanned myself this week. Keith will be out of town over the weekend and Brooke and I have Fall Festival at her daycare Friday night so I most likely will not need all of these meals. Knowing my tendencies, I was better off to have too much planned though.

Mini-Meatloaf (from the freezer)
Sausage & Peppers (red peppers are on sale this week!)
Mac n’ Cheese (a Brooke request)
Cheesy Tortellini Casserole**
Sloppy Joes (crock pot)
Tuna Twist Casserole**
Tex-Mex Chicken Soup**

**Meals from my e-mealz subscription

What’s your strategy for getting dinner on the table at night? Do you plan weekly, two weeks at a time or monthly? Do you fly by the seat of your pants? Or do you know the phone number to every take-out place in a 5-mile radius by heart?

I was a busy momma today!! Not only did I get the menu plan done, I cooked the chicken for two meals in the crockpot and made two batches of the meatloaf mixture – one is ready in the fridge for dinner tomorrow. On top of that I browned up two pounds of ground beef for the freezer. The only thing I wish I would have accomplished is the grocery shopping but I can do that tomorrow after work so no big deal!  I also wanted to make the enchilada sauce for our Bean and Cheese Enchiladas but that should be easy enough to do some night this week.

While I was getting the recipes for the week into Ziplist to generate my grocery list, I came up with the idea to pin all the recipes on Pinterest since they came from all different sites. Now I don’t need to remember on which site I found a recipe, I’ll just go to my “On the Menu This Week” board.

On the Menu This Week:
Mini Meatloaves, Mashed Potatoes, Veggies
Buffalo Chicken Wraps, Chips, Baby Carrots
Shredded Thai Chicken Salad
Bean N Cheese Enchiladas
Down Home Mac N Cheese

For links to any recipes, check out my Pinterest board, On the Menu This Week.  You can also check out other bloggers’ menu plans at Org Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday.  This post will be linked there.