What Works for Me

What works for me (or my family) might not work for yours. Here is what works for us as far as menu planning goes.

Monday: some type of crockpot dish

Tuesday: TACO TUESDAY (we don't always do tacos, but we do do some kind of "taco" take on dinner. ie: burritos, taco soup, chicken tacos...you get the idea)

Wednesday: another crockpot dish or sometimes I try something new

Thursday: breakfast for dinner

Friday: pizza

Saturday & Sunday: we play it by ear. sometimes we do breakfast, sometimes we do a soup or sandwich. On special occasions we eat out and a lot of Sunday's we eat at Mimi & G-pa's house (family dinner night).

We have really been trying to stay on a strict food budget, and since January we have eaten out twice (ordered pizza from dominoes on customer appreciation day...can you beat $3 pizzas?? and montezuma's mexican restaurant last Friday). For two weeks of dinner, not including the extra milk I'll need to get, I spent $110...not too bad. That also includes breakfast foods, lunches and a few special treats. Gotta love those coupons :-)

So, do you want to know what we are having for dinner during the next two weeks??

Week 1:

Monday: no crockpot dinner tonight, just hotdogs, mac-n-cheese and greenbeans

Tuesday: Mexican Stew & cornbread (switched my crockpot to Tuesday to keep the "taco" theme)

Wednesday: Roasted chicken with potatoes & side (probably corn or wax beans)

Thursday: with the left over chicken, we are having Artichoke Chicken Linguine (a friend shared the recipe and I knew we were having chicken...so why not)

Friday: Pizza (it's dance night, pizza is the easiest since we don't get home until 5:45 and the girls are pretty strict with dinner around 5:15)
Saturday: we have plans Saturday night, so the girls will have chicken nuggets, applesauce and yogurt

Sunday: what's on the menu mom?? :) we might be traveling to see some friends, so Cathy...what's for dinner??

Week 2:

Monday: Flank steak stuffed with rice

Tuesday: Cornbeef & Cabbage...HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!

Wednesday: (switching taco tuesday to waco wednesday...lol, just trying to be funny there!)

Thursday: Tilapia with corn & rice

Friday: you guessed it...Pizza

Saturday: the in-laws will be in, so I'm almost positive we'll get crabs...which is fine with me :) I'm in the mood to be a little crabby...

To top it off, the girls and I like to make brownies or cookies here and there, and that will last throughout the week, so we get a little dessert :-) YUM!

There you have it...if you have a delicious recipe you would like to share I am open to suggestions. I love a new recipe, especially one that my family will love.

Paul is at a lax booster meeting, so I'm going to scrap, here's what I've worked on recently:

These are 6x4 LOs that I created for my uncle for his birthday...I made him a really cute little mini-scrapbook documenting a family vacation we took in 2007. I plan on adding to that book through out the year :-)