Monthly Menu September 2013

I'm starting a class on Tuesday nights, so Tuesdays will become an easy kid friendly dinner for Mike to make.  Thursdays are my new crock pot night, since the kids don't like most of my crock pot recipes.  We'll see how it works, and if its too rough, we'll try another day. 

August 2013 Monthly Menu

We had Mike's mom in town some of the last two weeks of July, so I left the menu open and didn't plan past that.  It took me a few days to then sit down and plan out the whole month of August.  I have a couple new recipes to try.  I tried to plan crock pot for Tuesday because we are the least busy that morning, and I tried to plan out the sides for when we go shopping.

Monthly Menu July 2013

Didn't add in all the sides yet.  Also, we have company coming, so we had to leave a week flexible, but we have been saving frozen meals to make that week good, yet easy. 

Monthly Menu June 2013

I have been focusing on needlepoint and reading recently and haven't been blogging as much, so I've been behind on posting the weekly menus.  Yet, I finally sat down and tried a monthly menu, which was a goal of mine.  With a little help from Mike, it really wasn't that hard! 

So here is June:

I didn't include the veggies since those will depend on what is available at the farm stand each week.  Our veggies usually rotate through green beans, peas, carrots, broccoli, corn, and salad. 

To make the menu, I looked at the following:

• What we already had made and frozen in the freezer.
• What meals we'd like to make fresh that take time and thus needed a weekend day.  
• Spreading out meals, but letting things we really like to repeat more often.  
• Trying to have fish once a week.  
• Trying not to have things that are similar close together.  
• Remembering what the kids love and what they won't eat.  (Usually I supplement meals they don't like with sides they do, such as bread and butter, corn on the cob, peas, apple slices, biscuits, etc). 

Weekly Menu 5/19/13

Sunday - Hot dogs, Mac and Cheese, Corn on the cob

Monday - Ham (oops! forgot to buy this - might need to rethink)

Tuesday - Hash brown soup (frozen) and chicken nuggets

Wednesday - Chilli (crock pot)

Thursday - Maple chicken sausage and bacon maple baked beans

Friday - Meatballs (last of frozen)

Saturday - Pork roast

Weekly Menu 5/12/13

Sunday (Mother's Day) - Sloppy Joe Bake (frozen)

Monday - Cube steak and au gratin potatoes (frozen)

Tuesday - Chicken and corn chowder (frozen)

Wednesday - Pot roast (crock pot)

Thursday - Tacos (Read Dragons Love Tacos a lot this week!)

Friday - Salmon

Saturday - Meatloaf, winter squash (fresh)

Weekly Menu 5/5/13

Sunday - Pork roast

Monday - Steak (first use of the grill this season!)

Tuesday - Mac and Cheese and Kielbasa

Wednesday - Hash brown soup (crock pot); kids ate assorted left overs

Thursday - Meatballs (frozen)

Friday - Italian sausage

Saturday - Fish sticks, fresh corn on the cob!

Weekly Menu 4/28/13

Sunday - out at Applebea's!

Monday - Chilli (from frozen)

Tuesday - Maple chicken sausage and bacon maple baked beans

Wednesday - Meatloaf (last of frozen)

Thursday - Salmon

Friday - Lasagne roll ups (frozen)

Saturday - Chicken nuggets

Weekly Menu 4/21/13

Sunday - Fish sticks

Monday - Pizza (frozen)

Tuesday - Kielbasa and au gratin potatoes (crock pot)

Wednesday - Pork roast

Thursday - Chicken nuggets

Friday - Hot dogs and corn chowder

Saturday - Meatballs (fresh)

Weekly Menu 4/7/13

Sunday - pork roast, white rice, peas

Monday - salmon (fresh; freeze other half)

Tuesday - Pizza casserole (last of frozen), leftover peas

Wednesday - Corn Chowder

Thursday - Chilli (frozen)

Friday - Chicken

Saturday - Lasagna rollups

Weekly Menu 3/31/13

Sunday - Adults hash brown soup (frozen), Kids chicken nuggets

Monday - Italian sausage, Bob Evan's mashed potatoes

Tuesday - Cheeseburger Macaroni (frozen)

Wednesday - crock pot - Pot Roast (meat frozen)

Thursday - Chicken (maybe BBQ sauce?)

Friday - Pork roast (oops, forgot to buy that! Might have to revise). 

Saturday - Meatloaf (fresh double batch), winter squash (new batch)

Weekly Menu 3/24/13

Sunday - Shepherd's Pie (new mashed potatoes)

Monday - Annie's Gluten-Free Mac and Cheese with kelbasa

Tuesday - Crock Pot Chili

Wednesday - Apple and maple sausage with maple bacon baked beans

Thursday - Meatballs (last of frozen) with white rice

Friday - Tuna sandwiches with raw veggies

Saturday - Family dinner

Weekly Menu 3/17/13

Sunday - Sloppy Joe Bake (second half from frozen)

Monday - Meatloaf (last of the frozen I messed up with 90/10)

Tuesday - Chicken

Wednesday - Beef stew (from frozen)

Thursday - Fish (from frozen)

Friday - Kids - chicken nuggets, adults eating out for Mike's birthday

Saturday - Pizza (wheat and egg free from crust mix)

Weekly Menu 3/10/13

Mike wrote the menu this week because I was sick.  He did a great job!


Sunday - Chicken with pasta sauce, white rice, carrots

Monday - Pizza casserole

Tuesday - Fish sticks

Wednesday - Hash brown soup

Thursday - Italian sausage, Bob Evan's mashed potatoes, broccoli

Friday - Cube steak, Annie's Gluten-free mac and cheese

Saturday - Pork roast, rice

Weekly Menu 3/3/13

Sunday - Pork roast, mashed potatoes (from frozen), winter squash (last of frozen)

Monday - Hash and corn (quick and easy so I can go out to a late afternoon meeting)

Tuesday - Fish

Wednesday - this was supposed to be hash brown soup, but we never got the hash browns!  We replaced it with maple and apple chicken sausage with maple baked beans which was supposed to be for Friday. 

Thursday - had to change the menu around and no longer know what we ate this day. 

Friday- meatballs

Saturday - Family dinner

Weekly Menu 2/24/13

Sunday - Cube steak, Mac and Cheese (Annie's Gluten Free)

Monday - Italian sausage, white rice, broccoli

Tuesday - Meatloaf (frozen), Mashed Potatoes (frozen), green beans

Wednesday - Corn Chowder (last for frozen), peas

Thursday - Pizza (probably a frozen Red Barron)

Friday - Honey Mustard Chicken (using gluten free bread crumbs), chicken rice, beets

Saturday - Sloppy Joe Bake

Weekly Menu 2/17/13

Sunday - Chicken, chicken rice

Monday - Mrs. Leeper's Cheeseburger Macaroni (gluten free)

Tuesday - Fish sticks

Wednesday - Chili (from frozen)

Thursday - Pizza casserole

Friday - Beef stew (from frozen)

Saturday - Meatballs (fresh)??? Not sure, might have company

Weekly Menu 2/10/13

Sunday - Shepherd's Pie, peas

Monday - Lasagna roll ups, zucchini

Tuesday - Salmon, carrots, rice

Wednesday - Maple chicken sausage, maple bacon baked beans

Thursday - Meatloaf, broccoli, biscuits

Friday - Wendy's (after the rhumetologist)

Saturday - Mac and cheese (Annie's gluten free), kielbasa (second half from frozen), green beans (which Natalie helped snap for the first time!)

Weekly Menu 2/3/13

Sunday - Pizza casserole (first frozen portion) - chose this because we were babysitting and it was easy make quickly after the kids left

Monday - Grilled cheese (altered plan due to illness)

Tuesday - Fish sticks (I had Ian's gluten free)

Wednesday - crock pot - Beef stew

Thursday - Meatballs (last of frozen), white rice

Friday - Chicken

Saturday - Hash brown soup, mini corn on the cob

Weekly Menu 1/27/13

Sunday - Lasagna roll ups (finally!)

Monday - Italian sausage, white rice, green beans

Tuesday - Mac & Cheese with Kelbasa, frozen corn on the cob (Natalie's request)

Wednesday - crockpot - Chilli

Thursday - English Muffin Pizzas (Mike working late)

Friday - Meatloaf (frozen), mashed potatoes (frozen)

Saturday - undecided