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Belated midweek meal planning 7/3/15

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Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 7/3/15! It’s more traditional to meal plan on the weekend, but since our Chicago grocery deals mostly flip midweek, and since Wednesday hump day is when many of us start running out of steam, we buck the trend here and go with Wednesdays. Or somewhat ridiculously on FRIDAYS — oh my gosh, you guys, I am so thrown off lately with the kids out of school and completely lost track of the days this week. So this is kind of silly and belated, but I thought I’d post it anyway since I love hearing about your meal plans and hope we can inspire each other.

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So here’s what we ate this week.

  • Sunday: Last week’s meal plan got pushed around and I actually ended up making the Saffron Road chicken tikka masala with the free simmer sauce from Fresh Thyme on Sunday (instead of Saturday as originally planned). It had a nice flavor but was very mild, so when I make the other pouch I bought I’ll definitely spice it up more. We also had Easy Spicy Curried Chickpeas (I wilted in some fresh spinach near the end, which made them better!), Tasty Bite Madras Lentils, naan, rice, fruit, and corn on the cob.
  • Monday: Leftovers from Sunday — that was a lot of food. 🙂
  • Tuesday: Costco rotisserie chicken, baked potatoes, broccoli.
  • Wednesday: Leftover chicken, potatoes, and various other leftovers, salad, fruit.
  • Thursday: Salsa Chicken in the crockpot with the cheap Yucatan guacamole from Jewel.
  • Friday: MashupDad is off for the holiday so we may actually go out for an early family dinner — he is pushing for BBQ…
  • Saturday: Leftover salsa chicken.

Your turn

How’s your week of meal planning going? Are you cooking mostly out of your pantry, or are you taking advantage of this week’s grocery sales? Let’s inspire each other!

christine

Saturday 4th of July 2015

Sunday: Went to a Grad party on Saturday so we had leftovers. (lots of graduation parties this year!) Monday: Korean tacos (with chuck roast from Jewel sale long ago) I love these and super easy in the crockpot! http://www.ayearofslowcooking.com/2011/11/slow-cooker-shredded-korean-beef-tacos.html Tues: Caprese pasta: pasta, brie (or fresh motz.), basil from the garden and cherry tomatoes, lots of chopped garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper and save some pasta water to mix with the marinated garlic cheese, tomatoes, basil. Mix together and serve. My kids like chicken in this, but I did not have any handy/unfrozen! Wed: Burgers from $1 pub burgers at Jewel awhile back, fruit, salad, roasted potatoes Thurs: BBQ pork sandwiches (meat in freezer) fruit, salad, Friday: Company over so we had citrus Asian grilled salmon, cilantro lime rice, Asian chopped salad from Costco, Costco apple pie. Easy! It appears I am on an Asian kick... Sat: Grilled salmon, Italian sausage, leftovers from yesterday. Relaxing by our pool :-) Happy Independence Day!

rachel

Saturday 4th of July 2015

Those tacos look very good!

Jaci

Friday 3rd of July 2015

Friday ribs jewel b1g2f, grill frozen fries foil packets cheese and bacon fries aldi corn on the cob. Dessert I'm trying waffle cones that you stuff with marshmallows berries chocolate put a piece of foil over opening roast over fire. Hip 2 Save recipe.

SoapboxTray

Friday 3rd of July 2015

Jaci let me know how those cones go! I was going to try that camping!

Lovin Savin

Friday 3rd of July 2015

Thurs. chicken on the grill and friday chicken foil packs on the grill. Hubby just asked me if we are having chicken for our next meal.

BeckyG

Friday 3rd of July 2015

Mon - Actually bought cube steak so we had Chicken fried cube steak, dehydrated potatoes (add milk, water, butter), gravy (I didn't make it with milk - I found some chicken broth in the freezer and added flour, etc. to make the gravy), and green beans Tues - Chicken leg quarters - cooked and then last half hour add some bottled BBQ sauce to it, served with frozen green beans and garlic bread with cheese on it Wed - I had an old recipe from George Stella (low carb) (was called Pork Soulvaki, but I substituted chicken) - Take chicken thighs (2 lbs.), cut up about 1 inch cubes (obviously deboned and no skin), add some olive oil, cut up red onion (or yellow), salt, garlic cloves, and about 1/2-1 Tbsp. dried oregano - let marinate at least one hour. Thread onto metal skewers, cook about 10-12 minutes total (this recipe has zero lemon juice in it), served with brown rice, homemade tzatziki sauce (sour cream, garlic, salt, deseeded cucumber), and zucchini Thurs - I had some falafel mix in my freezer that I got from a friend. All I had to do was add water. Formed into shaped disks, cooked in oil. Then I had warmed pita halves. Stuff some spring mix lettuce into bottom of each pita half (two halves per serving) add three falafel disks, and leftover tzatziki sauce from the other night. Very yummy. Fri - I am making a variation of a Hamburger Help Us meal using the stroganoff flavor - I'm making a stroganoff soup, adding some stuff and I can't remember what because I still have to look for my recipe - I browned the ground turkey (not hamburger) and I'm adding sauteed onions to it and sour cream at the end - Sat. - We are having Tex-Mex fajitas - McCormick card for "lime fajitas" plus adding 1 Tbsp. chili powder, lemon juice and oil for about 2 lbs. cut up chicken thighs (cut into strips). Will cook those later - then put onto whole wheat flour tortillas, along with slightly cooked green pepper and onion, cheese, sour cream, salsa Sun - Will use the grill - more chicken leg quarters, some cheaper steaks (no bone), and hot dogs (to be used later with that wunnerful grill taste and smell, corn on the cob (Aldi sale) and salad or vegetarian baked beans

SoapboxTray

Friday 3rd of July 2015

This week has been a whirlwind. I can only remember last night of Costco Rotisserie Chicken and mashed potatoes, hubby has been cooking while I try and get caught up for work. I am focusing on meal planning for next week since I am off work and going to be helping at VBS all week as will our 4 boys. Looking through some of your easy crock pot type all in one meals! :-)

I would love any suggestions! Also if anyone has any good camping type food, we are renting an RV the following week and heading to the smokies! Trying to meal plan that out too we don't plan on eating out when were there, maybe just driving there.

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