Meal plans 4/17-4/20

  This is a short week with a holiday being today.  I have tried to make my meals easy and less stressful.

  It so much easier to have a plan in place even if I don't label the days.  So this week my four meals will be randomly selected for the rest of the week.  Although it may only be 3 days as we still have leftovers from the weekend.

Chili this week will be my meatless meal:
https://www.budgetbytes.com/2013/10/chili-cornbread-skillet/

My chicken meal:
http://www.whatscookingintheburbs.com/2013/05/chicken-enchilada-skillet.html?m=1

Cheddar Bratwurst with homemade fries and veggies

Another meatless meal:
http://damndelicious.net/2016/05/23/garlic-butter-salmon-foil/

Happy eating everyone! What are you planning on eating this week?

Meal plan 11/21-11/24

  Thanksgiving is almost here.  All I have to do is just get to that day.  Then I am home free with leftovers for a few days; well depending on how much I make.  When you have a large family sometimes leftovers are hard to come by.

11/21 Breakfast in bed (mommas got a migraine)
Eggs and toast

11/22 chili and cornbread

Chili:http://wholesomemommy.com/meal-solution-6-chili-night/

Cornbread: http://wholesomemommy.com/beyond-beans-cornbread/

11/23 Chicken
https://www.campbells.com/kitchen/recipes/easy-chicken-and-pasta/

11/24 Thanksgiving Feast
Turkey dinner with all the fixings!

11/25 leftovers

#nablopomo

Meal Plan 9/26 - 9/30

  I have found that a meal plan works for so many reasons in my home.

1.  I know at 0800 what I'm eating and what time to start cooking because I will also know how long it will take me.

2.  Saves me an excuse of eating out as I already have a plan.

3.  Helps clear out my pantry.

4.  I can easily gauge groceries we need for the week or ahead of time based on meals.

5.  It does save money both with minimal or at least planned shopping.


  I surf the Internet and find new recipes as well as use some recipes from my favorite bloggers and tried and true recipes I have on hand.  The meals will vary weekly from slow cooker, vegetarian, seafood or good old breakfast for dinner.  I may have a random night out and a leftover night but for the most part everything will be done at home!


9/26 Tuna Casserole
http://wholesomemommy.com/real-food-remake-cheesy-mac-tuna-casserole/

9/27 Gnocchi Soup
http://therecipecritic.com/2016/09/creamy-chicken-gnocchi-soup-olive-garden-copycat/

9/28 Chili
http://mixandmatchmama.com/dinner-tonight-sweet-corn-chili/

9/29 Chicken
http://www.plainchicken.com/2013/05/chicken-lazone.html?m=1

9/30 Leftovers
It is every man and child for themselves!

  Ok there it is.  There are a couple things I still need to buy to make this work so we shall see how close I get this week.  After our grocery shopping I will plan for the month of  October.

Easy Chili from the Pot

  Yesterday I coordinated two meals for dinner.  I didn't prepare them both at the same time but I planned a day ahead.   While I was in the cupboard grabbing a can of tunafish and can of cream of mushroom soup I surveyed the cans for chili!

  Jumped on pinterest to see if I could easily dress up the tuna noodle casserole and decided no and just like always got distracted with everything else on pinterest and found myself looking up chili recipes.  Funny thing with chili and I is.  I swear I probably only make one kind several times (that's with corn) all the other times I make a new chili.  I saw one last night with chick peas; haven't tried that before.

So behold tonight's chili.  3 variety of beans and some spices in this chili.  Plus this was a meatless chili which I do alot.  Not because it saves money but you know what sometimes meat is just overrated.  Noone ever died from skipping a meat meal.

  The ingredients were thrown in the crock pot and you know the rest is history! Set it and forget it.  I was running around all day so I threw this in the crockpot at 2 on high to have it heat up and blend until 6.

  Proudly there were several trips to get more.  Maybe because they were not filled up due to the lack if meat or it was good.  I was pleased with it too.  I really need to break into making my own recipes so I can stand taller and prouder when my family likes the meals.  Likes the meals that I actually made up myself.

Proof is in the leftovers (although I did only use one can of each ingredient).  Funny how I am trying to grasp the concept of cooking more for my large family.  The two little ones don't count but on the flip side two individuals eat a lot.

Recipe credit goes to: http://lovelyolivia.tumblr.com/post/58916742376/so-now-that-im-24-days-away-in-theory-from