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Meal Plan Monday – January 9 – 15

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

Its probably not a shock that with the new year here, I’ve re-committed to meal planning. We’ve kept up with eating at home majority of the time but we were still spending more than we had to because due to not planning ahead I found myself making last minute stops at the grocery store.

So here’s the plan for this week:
English Muffin Pizzas
Crockpot Chicken & Dumplings
Taco Pie (my forum friend Amanda told me about this one – excited to try it!!)
Meatballs over Noodles
Paninis
Leftovers

I have to say meal planning and grocery shopping would be a trillion times harder if I didn’t use ZipList. Are y’all familiar with it? Would you be interested in a post about it and how I use it? Drop me a comment and let me know!!

Menu Plan Monday – November 7

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

Keith has lots of events this week so it will be just Brooke and me for dinner most nights. I considered using that as license to not do any planning but decided that probably isn’t a great idea. Then I thought I would plan mostly small, easy meals but realized then there might not be anything for Keith to eat when he finally got home. If I make the same meals I would normally, best case scenario is that he can warm it up when he gets home and worst case scenario will be that will have leftovers for lunch or another night.

Another reason I had no excuse to skimp on a plan this week, we didn’t get to all our planned meals last week. So I’m carrying over a couple of those to this week!

Cowboy Spaghetti
Goulash
Chicken Broccoli Rice Casserole
Mac n’ Cheese
Pumpkin Pancakes
Quesadillas or Grilled Cheese

How you do handle dinner time when its only you and the kiddo(s)?

Menu Plan Monday – October 17

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

Menu Plan Monday

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
I <3 Emealz

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?