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Menu Plan Monday – My First Time

August 31, 2009 By Dana White | 12 Comments

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I’m soooo excited. This is my first time to do Menu Plan Monday!!! And my first time to participate in anything like this. And maybe . . . just maybe . . . someone will visit my blog! Of course, I do have mixed feelings about that.

But if you are here, I say “Welcome!”

So I’m trying to get our home under control. You know, to the point that I don’t tell all the kids to go hide in the garage and pretend we’re not home if the doorbell rings. I do love to cook at home. It’s very important to me, so I do make it a priority, but it’s amazing how when I actually have a plan, it frees up so much more of my day to do the other things that need to be done around here. So here goes. My plan.

Monday – Round steak with gravy served over rice. I just trim and cut up some round steak with my handy-dandy kitchen scissors and dump it in the crock pot. Add some cream-of-something soup and a package of onion soup mix and put it on low for the whole day. It creates its own gravy which is great served over rice made in the rice cooker. A definite favorite!

Tuesday – Baked Chicken Breasts with buttered noodles. Sometimes these plain-Jane meals hit the spot. (I’ll also cook extra chicken breasts to use on Thursday.)

Wednesday – Hamburger Patties (made them last week in my One BIG Mess Cooking Night) and oven fries (slice the potatoes and toss in olive oil, salt and pepper and cook at 400 til they’re done)

Thursday – Creamy Corn and Spinach Enchiladas using the leftover chicken from Tuesday night. I’ve made these before and they are AWESOME!

Friday – Dinner Out!

Saturday – leftovers

Sunday – Not-So-Sloppy Sloppy Joes – The word for the day on Sundays is easy. If it isn’t easy and quick, I’ll find some reason to spend money on fast food. But I will have to rename this. My husband has issues with Sloppy Joes. I know from the ingredients that he’ll like this if I call them something else. Maybe Messy Marvins? Nope, I think he might be on to me if I did that. How about Beefy Biscuits? There you go!

And of course, we’ll have a veggie with every meal.

 

Check out all the other menu plans at orgjunkie.com

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  1. Laura says

    September 1, 2009 at 1:30 am

    Welcome to Menu Plan Monday!! So glad to see you here 🙂

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  2. Anonymous says

    September 8, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    Congrats on your new BLOG and good luck with your project.

    Karen

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  3. JoAnn says

    August 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    The sloppy joe link doesn’t work. Hopefully I will be adating some of your techniques to get going on my home!

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  4. Shirls says

    November 6, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    Oh dear, this blog is so addictive and I have three years to go and I should be cleaning my kitchen and it’s so late. But I’ve made a note of the date and plan to to come back tomorrow and carry on reading. Naturally I have now subscribed through a feed, but I want to read it all the way through.

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    • Nony says

      November 6, 2012 at 1:09 pm

      Your comment made me giggle! Welcome!

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  5. Brittani A. says

    September 30, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    I just began rereading your blog from the beginning, again. If it’s good enough for an ebook, it’s good enough for me! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  6. Kristy says

    March 13, 2017 at 10:13 pm

    Hello, fellow slob here, and it’s gotten to the point that if I don’t get my home under control I will go nuts. I just discovered you a couple of hours ago and I can already tell you’re going to be one of my virtual BFFs. It’s past midnight and I need to go to bed but I’m reading your blog ‘backwards’ and just can’t stop! But I will. After this message.

    I’d love to see your recipe for the Not Sloppy Joes, but the link is broken. Would you mind sharing the recipe?

    OK, off to bed now, I promise.

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    • Dana White says

      April 5, 2017 at 6:23 am

      Hmmm, I don’t even remember that recipe! So sorry the link is broken!

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  7. AnnB says

    June 18, 2017 at 2:29 am

    I google Not So Sloppy Sloppy Joes and got several results. This was published in 2005, so perhaps this is the recipe?https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/not-so-sloppy-joes

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  8. Barb D says

    August 31, 2020 at 5:40 pm

    Congrats on still blogging. 11 years! OMG! And still hilarious!

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  9. Jo says

    February 16, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    Dana, I’m so happy for you! It really does start with a decision for people like you and me — a decision and a resolve.

    I had to laugh about you Sloppy Joe’s rename. I also renamed mine several years ago. And since my name is Jo and I have also been a lost minimalist (aka slob), I renamed my Sloppy Joes, “Sloppy Mama’s.” lol

    My kids loved the new name, and now that they are married with kids of their own, they are still calling them “Sloppy Mama’s ”

    Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration. I have also read FlyLady and created my control journal with 2-3 weeks of menus but I don’t read her emails or watch her videos. I just can’t handle the feeling of a “wall of words” coming at me.

    I’ll stop talking now. 🙂

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  10. Guli says

    March 16, 2023 at 9:32 pm

    Do you always just have pre-prepared veggie side-dishes in your freezer, or salad stuff in the fridge? I see your comment about having a veggie with every meal, but it’s not part of your meal plan. So seems like you have some sort of system that allows you to be spontaneous with the veggies? (Also, this may be part of your future posts, this slob here only just started listening to your audiobook and reading the blog from the beginning – only 14 years to go, lol :D. I have big hopes that it will slowly but surely change my life though. Started small with making the bed ever day 🙂 )

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