I haven’t planned my menu in three weeks. I have no real excuse.
And I regret it. During week one, I realized that I’d made a mistake, and by week 3, I was desperate to get back to it. Last week, I did think through my menu for the week, but not having it written down meant that the stress was still lurking.
Baseball season is upon us, so meal planning is more important than ever. I CAN’T wait until 5:00 to think about supper when we all fan out to baseball practices at 6:00.
So here goes:
Monday – Chicken Stir Fry (check out my detailed tutorial), but I’ll serve it with ramen noodles instead of rice.
Tuesday – Beef and noodle casserole using my pre-cooked ground beef.
Wednesday – Skillet Lasagna using pre-cooked ground beef.
Thursday – Chicken Chunks and whole wheat pasta w/steamed broccoli
- Chicken Chunks are my kids’ new favorite! Recently, when pressed for time, I’ve started cutting up boneless skinless chicken breasts into chunks, to help them cook more quickly. I put a little olive oil in the bottom of the skillet and season the chunks with salt and pepper. I just stir fry the chunks, and they are delicious. In the kids’ minds they are like chicken nuggets, but much healthier. They eat them up like crazy.
Friday – Dinner out
Saturday – Birthday party
Sunday – Soup and sandwiches
Whew! I’m glad to have that done!
I’ll be linking this up to Menu Plan Monday at Orgjunkie.com.
OK, don't bother to publish this comment – it's a blogger tip. When you run spell check, don't hit publish before you click to resume editing (or whatever it says). If you do, you end up with yellow highlights on the unrecognized words like in this post! (Yup, I've done it, too…)
I so need to menu plan, but our eating is way too sporadic with just three of us (including the three year old) and I never know when my hubs is going to be in a tractor until all hours. I go in spurts where I do better and then not so well. Maybe this will be the summer I'll get it together… :>)
AAAAHHH! I did publish the comment just so I can say that I had no idea that showed up for everyone. So frustrating! I did figure out how to fix it in not-yet-published posts, but I can't seem to be able to go back and fix it since this one was already published. Thanks for the advice!
Isn't menu planning great for feeling a little more organized? I definitely need to check out your blog… I'm on a quest to get more organized as well… okay, honestly, to get organized at all. I've been posting Menu Planning for a few weeks, but just linked up with orgjunkie.com this week too.
To fix it, try going to edit post and the view the HTML instead of Compose. There is some sort of gobbledygook around the misspelled words, I can't remember what it is now, but delete the junk before and after each one. If there are a lot, you might try to do CTL F which brings up the find function, enter the text (for some reason, I'm thinking STRONG, but maybe that's bold? Dunno) and keep clicking Next then deleting what it finds, click next, delete, etc. Then publish. That should do it, I think. Let me know if you have questions!