Meal Plan: First Week of 2009

Well here is my menu plan. I guess late is better than never this week. I am still struggling with how to cook healthy, simple, frugal meals for my family. I have been researching buying local produce, dairy and meats lately. I will write another post on that, but this is one of my hot topics for the moment. It is not as easy as you would think to know exactly where your food comes from. If you are buying locally please leave me a comment with any tips for me as I try to provide local foods for my family.

Menu Plan

M: Open faced Cheeseburgers on homemade bread, salad, sweet potato fries
T: Chicken cacciatore over brown rice *this is a wonderful almost one pot meal where the veggies are in the main dish so no side dishes
W: Make your own cornmeal crusted pizzas, loaded with veggies
TH: Frozen Meal (this is my third day on at work…I need a little reprieve)
F: Homemade soup, salad and bread
S: Hubby is cooking (I am going out with the girls to celebrate a friend’s birthday)
S: Main Course will be some sort of salad with chicken thrown in for protein

Meals for the last week of 2008

This is a simple meal plan for the week because I really didn’t know what to serve. I am still recovering from all the holiday festivities. I have no appetite for anything, which makes meal planning difficult. I am just trying to keep it simple, mostly healthy, inexpensive and kid friendly.

Meals for the last week of 2008
Sunday: Pizza and salad with family
Monday: Left over buffet night
Tuesday: Some kind of salad as the main course
Wednesday: Something special for New Year’s Eve. I just don’t know what. Growing up my family would have appetizers all night as we counted down the hours and minutes to the new year.
Thursday: Chicken cacciatore served with brown rice and a dinner salad
Friday: Soup and salad with homemade bread
Saturday: A freezer meal

Menu for June 30th through July 6th

Being a California native, I really love the sun and enjoy being outdoors. However, I have never liked weather that is above say 90 degrees. Well here in the good old Puget Sound area we are having a little bit of heat wave. It would be considered nothing in California; however, with the humidity here it is almost unbearable. It feels hotter than it is. Today was a little cooler, but still over 80 degrees this morning when I woke up. What does all this weather talk have to do with meals? Well my meals for the beginning of the week are cooler meals that won't heat up my house.

Dinner
M: Quesadilla Salad
T: Grilled Dover Sole, seasoned rice and a salad
W: Spicy beans, rice and veggies
Th: Turkey burgers (special recipe from a cousin's hubby) with fixings and salad
F: BBQ/Grilled chicken and brats, grilled sweet potato fries and rice crispy treats for dessert (It is the Fourth of July...this menu is tentative because my in laws just arrived back into town for the summer and I am not sure when we are getting together)
S: Appetizers for dinner (smoked salmon appetizer, won ton wrapper appetizer, fresh veggie appetizer, maybe one more)
S: The Corn Chowder Soup I still have yet to make

I had this post all typed up this morning, but unfortunately, I am having network trouble and it was lost when my office computer would not connect to our network. I had breakfasts in that post. I will try to add them back in later on. For now I just want to get this posted. :)