Exceedingly Mundane

Fairly straightforward menu this week. I seem to just be pulling up recipes that I have made before, and I know we really like. I keep wanting to try some new recipes, but I can’t seem to get either motivated or organized or inspired enough (or something!) to get them added to the menu. So, here’s the general plan:

Sunday– rumien

Monday – Honey Mustard Chicken sandwiches, coleslaw, parmesan potato wedges

Tuesday – Mini Meatloaves, garlic smashed potatoes, sauteed cabbage

Wednesday – Light night before Tim weighs in – eggs, oatmeal, toast

Thursday – Cheeseburger Soup, homemade bread

Friday – Sloppy Joes, oven fries

Saturday – Date Night or Spaghetti

Be sure to hop on over to Laura’s site and check out the rest of the menus. There are tons of links to some really good-sounding menus, a lot of them with recipes or links to recipes. Go check it out, and play along if you would like! 🙂

I don’t have much of a menu to post this week. Tim is going to be out of town some on business, and so I won’t be cooking a lot. He doesn’t really want me to advertise when he’s going to be gone, so I won’t do it by day, but here’s the general idea for the week:

Grilled Salmon (me)/Grilled Chicken (Tim), steamed green beans, rice or potato
Leftover take-out Chinese food
Ribeye Steaks, Baked Potatoes, salad
Spaghetti

I will probably also have one night where I’ll just have something easy like a bowl of cereal or oatmeal and some cinnamon toast.

Be sure to hop on over to Laura’s site and check out the rest of the menus. There are tons of links to some really good-sounding menus, a lot of them with recipes or links to recipes. I’m sure everyone’s menu looks a lot better than mine this week! 🙂

Hope everyone has a great week!

I’m really late today with my menu, but there’s a reason. I have a refrigerator overflowing with food left from our Super Bowl party yesterday! I probably don’t need to cook that much this week, but hey, let’s face it – this is all junk food, and as much as I’d like to live off of chips and dip, sausage balls and Lit’l Smokies for a week, I don’t think that’s very prudent. 😀

So, here’s a basic plan for the week:

Monday – Super Bowl party leftovers (Taco Soup over Fritos, hot dogs)

Tuesday – Chicken Stir Fry, Egg Rolls (trying to use up the carrots, broccoli and sugar snap peas in the veggie tray from the party)

Wednesday – Light Night before Tim weighs in at work…. either Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese or a big Grilled Chicken Salad

Thursday – Crockpot BBQ Chicken, Smashed potatoes, Sauteed Green Beans

Friday – Date Night or Spaghetti (didn’t have this last week)

Saturday/Sunday – TBD

As always, be sure to cruise on over to Laura’s blog and check out the other participants’ menus. Last week, there were over 80 that were posted!!!

I didn’t post a menu last week, and believe me, I’ll be glad to have one this week, so I at least have some idea of what to fix each day. We may not stick to it 100%, but at least I have an idea 🙂 I still have to finalize my Super Bowl menu, but I have the bulk of it figured out, I think. We’re having a lot of family and friends over, so I’ll be busy on Saturday, getting the last of the food, fixing dips and mostly – cleaning the house up 🙄

Hope everyone has a good week!

Monday – Slow Cooker Thai Chicken, whole wheat spaghetti noodles, broccoli or green beans, maybe a salad. We’re having a buddy over to watch 24 🙂

Tuesday – Soft tacos, pinto beans, spanish rice

Wednesday – tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches

Thursday – Crockpot Chicken with Potatoes, butter peas, salad, homemade bread

Friday – Date Night or Spaghetti with Meatballs, garlic bread

Saturday – TBD or pizza

Sunday – our Super Bowl party, menu coming soon, but the bulk of it is taco soup, burgers, hot dogs, dips, chips, veggie platter, fruit platter, cheese and sausage platter, Li’l Smokies, and Tim’s prized bacon wrapped deer backstrap. I’ll skip that one 🙂

First, I thought I would do a couple of quick updates from last week’s menu. I didn’t make the new recipe for the Taco Pie, so I’ll have to move that to another time and week. We had the Golden Potato Soup on Thursday, while my sister Gail and her husband were here, and I think they enjoyed it. I usually add diced ham to that soup, but this time I didn’t have ham and just browned 1 lb of ground meat and added it. I think we both liked this better, so I may just do that from now on. We did have our Date Night on Friday, and I blogged about that here.

Now, for this week, I don’t have much of a plan, but thought I would post what I had. A lot up in the air this week, and not too much cooking on the horizon. You’ll probably get a lot of good ideas if you peruse the menus posted by other participants over at Laura’s blog, they should be a lot more inspiring than mine!

Monday – Chicken Squares, Tomato Soup

Tuesday & Wednesday – Free Days (Tim out of town)

Thursday – Spaghetti and Meatballs, garlic bread, steamed broccoli

Friday – Date Night

Saturday & Sunday – TBD

Planning this week’s menu was a little bit of a struggle for me. This week, I have several ingredients that I am trying to use up and I have a lot of them! I bought a huge bag of potatoes at Kroger last week, on sale, and we’re having potatoes almost every day! I also bought a big thing of portebellini mushrooms (baby portobellos) and those are going to appear in the first couple of meals. It turned out to be an odd menu, but I’m sure we’ll survive!

Be sure to stop by Laura‘s blog and see what everyone else is planning for the week!

Monday – Tortellini with Portobello mushrooms (I don’t have a jar of alfredo sauce, so unless I run back to the grocery, I may try it using this alfredo sauce recipe), Salad, bread

Tuesday – Baked Potatoes with Creamy Mushroom Sauce, Salad

Wednesday – Grilled Chicken Salad with homemade zesty Italian dressing

Thursday – Golden Potato Soup, homemade bread

Friday – new recipe for Taco Pie

Saturday – Frito Pie or Wings – it’s Playoff Time, baby! Saints play at 7 PM, Woo-Hoo!

Sunday – TBD or Breakfast Food

The Creamy Mushroom sauce for the baked potatoes and the zesty Italian dressing recipes are older ones I have on recipe cards, and are not entered in our recipe system. They’re pretty simple recipes, but if anyone is interested in them, just email me or leave a comment if you want to see them, and I’ll be glad to type them up. 🙂

Have a great week!

I am so ready to get back to normal, back into a routine, and also trying to eat healthier. You know, my days are so messed up with the holidays that I just now realized this is Monday. I guess I’ll be off track all week! Thankfully, Laura over at OrgJunkie is back with this fun menu meme. Pop on over and check out some of the other participants menus for ideas and inspiration!

Without further ado, here’s my menu for the week:

Monday – traditional NY Day food (ham, greens for Tim, cabbage and cornbread. Due to a scheduling snafu the terribly traditional black-eyed peas did not get made). For supper, we’re having Tim’s world famous Rumien 🙂

Tuesday – Easy Baked Fish, coleslaw, mashed potatoes

Wednesday – Grilled Chicken Salad (Lite Night before Tim weighs in at work)

Thursday – new recipe for a Sausage and Potato chowder, homemade sourdough bread

Friday – Spaghetti or Date Night

Saturday – TBD

Sunday – game day food; our alma mater plays in a bowl game that night and I hope to order pizza delivery 🙂

Well, this week is totally up in the air! I have no idea what we will be doing half the days and no idea if we will be here to eat, if others will be eating with us, or we’ll be out running around and will eat out. Sigh. A feeble stab in the dark is all I can make this week at a menu plan! Hopefully, we’ll be back on track soon, after the holidays!

Here’s what I have so far…

Sunday – we ordered pizza for the Survivor finale. Yeah Yul, I’m so glad he won!

Monday – the guys are going hunting, so a free night for me. I’ll eat some leftover pasta or leftover pizza

Tuesday – Italian Sausage soup (that I didn’t get to last week!)

Wednesday – TBD or maybe breakfast for dinner – eggs, biscuits, bacon and grits or oatmeal

Thursday – TBD or Crockpot Creamy Italian Chicken, homemade bread

Friday – TBD or Date Night or maybe Tacos

Saturday – Out of town for Christmas at my in-laws. I’m taking meatballs and some other finger foods

Sunday – Christmas Eve… not completely sure, but probably the ham I didn’t bake last week

Merry Christmas everyone!

Laura was on vacation last week, but is back now and once again hosting Menu Plan Monday. Cruise on over to her blog and check it out! I love surfing everyone’s menus for the week and getting some good ideas and good recipes 🙂

Here’s the tenative plan for the week at our house:

Sunday – we had meatballs subs for Game Night 😀

Monday – Grilled honey mustard chicken on wheat sub rolls, pasta salad, glazed carrots

Tuesday – baked ham, Pineapple Casserole, mashed potatoes

Wednesday – Light Night before Tim weighs in. He voted for tomato soup and grilled cheese last week, so I’ll insist on breakfast food this week (eggs, oatmeal, cinnamon toast)

Thursday – whole wheat pasta with alfredo sauce and grilled chicken, homemade bread, veggie

Friday – Date Night or maybe Italian Sausage Soup and bread

Saturday – out of town for a family get-together

Sunday – Game Day food, maybe buffalo wings or burgers, not sure yet

Laura is on vacation this week, and so is not doing the Menu Plan Monday this week. However, doing the menus really helps me, so I’m going to go ahead and at least sketch one out for this week. The weekend is a bit up in the air, but hopefully we’ll end up cooking at home some. We ate out a lot this past week and weekend while Tim was on vacation and we were running around most every day. I have to really curtail my eating out or those extra pounds will really start showing up soon! 🙂

Here’s the general idea:

Monday – Turkey pot pie, mashed potatoes, corn (probably using this recipe as a guideline but using leftover turkey from last week’s Herbed Turkey Breast)

Tuesday – Maple BBQ Chicken Sandwiches, Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges

Wednesday – Light Night before Tim weighs in at work. His choice – either eggs, Gail’s Crockpot Oatmeal, cinnamon toast OR tomato soup and grilled cheese

Thursday – Spaghetti with meatballs, broccoli, homemade bread

Friday – either Date night or possibly a new recipe for a chicken taco soup

Saturday – TBD

Sunday – Game Day food, probably Buffalo wings and chips and dip

It’s that time of the week again, to post our menus and check out the other ones at OrgJunkie ‘s blog. My menu is going to be up in the air yet again this week! Last week it was the Thanksgiving holiday, and now this week, my husband is off on vacation for the whole week. It’s his birthday and he is taking off to play golf and go hunting. I don’t know which day he will do which and be here to eat (he hunts at his family’s land). So, my menu is fairly tentative. 🙂

Here’s the general idea for the week:

Sunday – We had Buffalo wings with this blue cheese dip for lunch, and breakfast burritos for supper.

Monday – Cook’s Night off (hunting for Tim, he’ll eat at his folks, I’ll probably have cereal!)

Tuesday – Herbed Turkey Breast, new recipe for sweet potato dish, veggie

Wednesday – Tim’s birthday – ribeyes, potato, salad, bread

Thursday – Probably another hunting trip – Free Night for me!

Friday – our football team’s conference championship is on TV – Taco Soup or we’ll order pizza 😉

Saturday – out of town for hunting/family stuff

Sunday – Game Day food – probably burgers this week 😀

It’s that time of the week again, to post our menus and check out the other ones at OrgJunkie ‘s blog. My menu is going to be really up in the air this week, with the Thanksgiving holiday, and the fact that my husband wants to go hunting, but he’s not sure when and which days. Hunting season always throws a kink in my menu planning 🙂

Here’s the general idea for the week, but a lot of these may not make it on the table this week and will be pushed to next week.

Have a great week everyone, and a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

Monday – new recipe for a Crockpot Butternut Squash soup, salad, bread

Tuesday – Chicken Soft Tacos (using this recipe for doing the meat in the crockpot), refried beans

Wednesday – this may or may not happen! I have to make my Broccoli Casserole to take to our family get-together, and my dad may or may not be here. Anyway, the plan is to make Golden Potato Soup for supper

Thursday – Thanksgiving get-together with my husband’s extended family. Probably 60-80 people will be there!

Friday – not sure, if hunting is involved, I probably won’t be here to cook. Otherwise, I’ll make Taco Soup

Saturday – TBD / Spaghetti

Sunday – Game Day food – buffalo wings, blue cheese dip, chips and dip

It’s that time of the week again, to post our menus and check out the other ones at OrgJunkie ‘s blog. Doing a weekly plan really helps me, especially when it’s time to go grocery shopping. So, I really love doing this, and I really enjoy checking out everyone else’s menu and recipe ideas. 🙂

Sunday – we had leftover pizza at lunch and breakfast for dinner

Monday – Hearty Beef and Barley Soup, Parmesan Cheese Muffins, salad

Tuesday – Grilled Pork Chops, potato mix (from the pantry), green beans. Note – if it’s raining or not great grilling weather, I will throw the pork chops in the crockpot with some Italian dressing.

Wednesday – Eggs, Skiier’s Swiss Cereal, toast

Thursday – recipe from the Taste of Home website, I think someone else posted it on their menu previously, probably Laura herself!! Golden Chicken and Noodles, shoepeg corn

Friday – Date Night

Saturday – out of town either for hunting or a birthday party probably; TBD

Sunday – Game Day Food – Frito Chili Pie

It’s that time of the week again, to post our menus and check out the other ones at OrgJunkie ‘s blog. I love seeing what everyone else is cooking, and getting some good ideas for meals. Love seeing new recipes too! 🙂

Sunday – Game Day Food …we grilled burgers and turkey burgers, have enough left for lunches for a couple of days.

Monday – new recipe for Crockpot Cranberry chicken, couscous or egg noodles, fresh green beans

Tuesday – Grilled Salmon (Stacy)/Grilled Chicken (Tim), baked sweet potatoes, butter peas

Wednesday – Light Night (Tim weighs in at his weight loss group on Thursday morning) – Grilled Chicken Salad

Thursday – Sausage Corn Chowder, bread

Friday – probably Date Night

Saturday – undecided…we might be out of town for the day

Sunday – Game Day Food – buffalo wings, oven fries

I’m also hoping to make a batch of baked oatmeal for myself for breakfast and snacks this week. I’ve made one before (this recipe) and while I liked it, I think I am going to try a different recipe. I found a Cooking Light version posted at their message boards that uses raisins, walnuts, applesauce, oatmeal, etc and I’m going to try to make that one to compare. If I get industrious, that is! Good intentions and all 😀

I really love this menu meme that Laura over at OrgJunkie does each week. Be sure to check out all of the other menus posted this week!

OK, I really don’t have a lot to contribute this week. My husband has to be out of town on business for an undetermined number of days. When he’s not here, I don’t really cook. I’ll eat cereal or oatmeal, or maybe a can of soup, or if I get really industrious, I might microwave me a frozen eggroll!!! 🙄

Monday – Crockpot Chicken Santa Fe over tortilla chips. Yes, I’ve had this on the menu a lot. It’s a favorite go-to meal that I can throw together quickly and easily. But I haven’t made it in a long time, it is always one of those things on the menu that slides. 🙂

Tuesday – Free Night

Wednesday – Free Night

Thursday – TBD… either Free Night, or if Tim gets back from his trip, we’ll probably have spaghetti and meatballs and homemade bread

Friday – TBD … either Free Night, or if Tim is home, we may go out for date night

Sat/Sun – I’m not even going to try to plan. We have ended up eating out a lot on the weekends lately. I’d prefer to be home and cook, but Tim loves to go, go, go and eat out. If we are here, I might make the Taco Soup that I didn’t get to this past weekend