What's yours?




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Today was grocery day and I stuck to my list. This was a stock up day so the remainder of the month should just be perishables- fruit, veggies, eggs, yogurt & cheese.

It may seem like I'm religious about when meals are served but they do get switched a bit so long as we're not wasting or going to the store multiple times each week.

Thu-
B: Yogurt, apples & granola
L: Leftovers (various)
D: Roasted root veggies, salad, oat bread, peach sorbet for dessert

Fri-
B: Zucchini muffins (already made & frozen) (DH & I: eggs w/veggies)
L: Pasta w/bison, tomato & Basil, vegan "cheese" sauce (maybe bison & vegan don't fit together: Milk allergies here)
D: Stir Fry w/mushrooms, swiss chard, bell pepper, onion, garlic & tamari

Sat-
B: Vegan blueberry smoothies w/flax
L: Salad
D: Pizza (crust already made, frozen) w/pesto, tomatoes, onion & garlic

Sun-
B: Bagels & Fruit (Me: Blueberry smoothie)
L: Tuna sandwiches
D: Butternut squash, salad and blackberry cobbler

Mon
B: (DH: eggs w/veggies & flax) Kids: Zucchini muffins
L: (DH absent) Pumpkin biscuits, carrots & smoothie-sicles
D: (DH absent) May take kids out and all share one meal then to park or just picnic... not sure yet. They will be disturbed by lack of Daddy.

Tue-
B: (DH absent) Kids: cereal, Me: Yogurt & granola
L: (DH absent) Kids: Ginger noodles, apples Me: Salad & Apple slices
D: Taco Salad

Wed
B: Bagels & Fruit (Me: blueberry smoothie)
L: Leftovers, I know there will be something leftover by now.
D: Chili w/bison, salad, bread

Snacks: pumpkin cookies, zucchini bread, carrots, apples, nectarines

Menu August 1-9



Thursday- Homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches
Friday- Musaca and salad
Saturday- Mancare de mazare- Pea Romanian dish- YUMMY!
Sunday- cake and taco chicken and beans (church) and pancakes and bacon(home)
Monday-Italian roast beef sandwiches
Tuesday- taco
Wednesday- Snitel and mashed potatoes
Thursday- Chicken salad wrap

This is my copied and pasted menu for the week. :)

What's yours?




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Today was grocery day and I stuck to my list. This was a stock up day so the remainder of the month should just be perishables- fruit, veggies, eggs, yogurt & cheese.

It may seem like I'm religious about when meals are served but they do get switched a bit so long as we're not wasting or going to the store multiple times each week.

Thu-
B: Yogurt, apples & granola
L: Leftovers (various)
D: Roasted root veggies, salad, oat bread, peach sorbet for dessert

Fri-
B: Zucchini muffins (already made & frozen) (DH & I: eggs w/veggies)
L: Pasta w/bison, tomato & Basil, vegan "cheese" sauce (maybe bison & vegan don't fit together: Milk allergies here)
D: Stir Fry w/mushrooms, swiss chard, bell pepper, onion, garlic & tamari

Sat-
B: Vegan blueberry smoothies w/flax
L: Salad
D: Pizza (crust already made, frozen) w/pesto, tomatoes, onion & garlic

Sun-
B: Bagels & Fruit (Me: Blueberry smoothie)
L: Tuna sandwiches
D: Butternut squash, salad and blackberry cobbler

Mon
B: (DH: eggs w/veggies & flax) Kids: Zucchini muffins
L: (DH absent) Pumpkin biscuits, carrots & smoothie-sicles
D: (DH absent) May take kids out and all share one meal then to park or just picnic... not sure yet. They will be disturbed by lack of Daddy.

Tue-
B: (DH absent) Kids: cereal, Me: Yogurt & granola
L: (DH absent) Kids: Ginger noodles, apples Me: Salad & Apple slices
D: Taco Salad

Wed
B: Bagels & Fruit (Me: blueberry smoothie)
L: Leftovers, I know there will be something leftover by now.
D: Chili w/bison, salad, bread

Snacks: pumpkin cookies, zucchini bread, carrots, apples, nectarines

Your menu sounds so yummy! I'm working on mine right now and will post later when I finish.

Menu August 1-9



Thursday- Homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches
Friday- Musaca and salad
Saturday- Mancare de mazare- Pea Romanian dish- YUMMY!
Sunday- cake and taco chicken and beans (church) and pancakes and bacon(home)
Monday-Italian roast beef sandwiches
Tuesday- taco
Wednesday- Snitel and mashed potatoes
Thursday- Chicken salad wrap

This is my copied and pasted menu for the week. :)

Copied and pasted from where? Do you hae a rotating calendar menu?

Ihave mine doen and will post later. I need to get dressed and out the door now!!

So, I have a pantry inventory from a few days ago, and we've gone through all the food in the fridge and freezer. Could I post that here (or in a new thread) to get ideas so I don't have to grocery shop until the 12th or so? I also need to get busy looking for recipes online.

Schnookies, can we come for dinner Friday night??? mmmmmm looks yummy!!

Copied and pasted from where? Do you hae a rotating calendar menu?
from my Word document. :lol: I used to rotate, but got bored, so now I just try to make a new one every week.

Thursday~sesame chicken, rice, broccoli

Friday~homemade pizzas on the grill

Saturday~tacos

Sunday~??

Monday(company over)~something with 2 whole chickens, potato of some kind, and corn casserole

Tuesday~out with visiting relatives

Wednesday~FFYS (fend for yourself)

Thursday-Sunday~ out of town

Mine is so flexible as to be somewhat laughable!

I am cooking out of the pantry, plus my CSA box of produce.

My meals till next Saturday when dh gets home - I rotate from these as needed depending on temp, plans, etc (for example, it will be 95 today so I would rather not turn on the oven).

Breakfast: Jake, oatmeal. Me, green smoothie (soymilk, bananas, handful of frozen greens, spirulina, omega-3, frozen strawberries). Or, eggs. On weekends, crepes or bacon/eggs. This is the one meal that never, ever ever changes for us!

Lunch: sandwiches or leftover dinner.

Dinner:

*tortilla pizzas w/salad
*marinated grilled chicken w/grilled veggies from CSA box.
*bean/rice burritos (pantry)
*quinoa salad (pantry plus CSA)
*quinoa chili (pantry)
*stir fry w/rice (CSA/pantry)
*frittata w/veggies (all from our CSA/our chickens)
*french toast for dinner (use up eggs)

I think that's all I got...;)

Ok, I just got home last night, so my list is under construction. :p

Thursday:
B:Blueberry pancakes
L: Leftover pancakes.
Snack: tomatoes, blueberries (too much to do to be making this complicated today)
D: Sweet and sour veggies, brown rice (from OAMC), mini eggrolls

Fri - HS convention:
B: Blueberry muffins
L: sending smart dogs and buns with kids, snacky veggies, more muffins. Taking muffins with me.
Snack: Whatever I can find to send with them.
Dinner: Crockpot minestrone (OAMC thing in the freezer again).

Saturday:
B: blueberry pancakes
L: veggie burgers/hamburgers?
Snack: berries
D: Chikn Veracruz (OAMC thing)

no clue. I went shopping, but I don't even know what we bought. My rice cooker was taken by the movers, as was my crock pot.. and I'm feeling lost without them. We're so freaking broke this month too. *sigh*

Watching y'all for inspiration.. I need gf/dairy free/nut free stuff on a serious budget this month..

OMG I am having the most delicious late summer evening supper. I bought this amazing local bread yesterday for a get-together at the neighbor's (brought that, a hunk of Amish butter from the co-op, a big lettuce salad, and tons of zukes, squash and eggplant that we sliced and grilled). I brought the bread home to eat today...now the bad part is, since it's just me I've been eating it all day long with butter or cheddar cheese, and um, haven't eaten much else. :eek: Picked up my CSA box today, so I made a simple bruschetta with sliced (not chopped) tomato, basil, and a few hunks of mozz - didn't even need seasoning. I just ate it plain and unseasoned and liked it better than if it had been salted and drizzled with olive oil etc. Also left the bread raw, not toasted. SO simple but so incredibly fresh and delicious.

Jake is having a tortilla pizza. We get these large, amazingly good tortillas at the co-op...you sprinkle a bit of cheese between two, then spread pizza sauce and sprinkle cheese and whatever toppings (recently we've been having it covered in thinly-sliced zukes and red onion), bake on a stone w/a bit of cornmeal at 500F. We use a cookie sheet as a pizza peel (cornmeal is key). He asked for pizza. :D It was 90 today but cooled to 60 so the oven on for 5 min to cook the pizza wasn't terrible...

Fri 3rd - CiCi's Pizza to celebrate DSs 1yr anniversary of being allergy free

Sat 4th - ?? Dh now has to work, probably whatever leftovers we have, cereal, etc..

Sun 5th - Company BBQ - Free Food!

Mon 6th - Tacos w/ Mexican Corn and Refried Bens

Tues 7th - National Night Out at a local Park - Free food!

Wed 8th - Swedish Meatballs w/ Broccoli and wheat rolls

Thur 9th - Southwest Blackbean and Tuna Wraps

Fri 10th - Hamburgers, sweet potato fries and corn


Most of this is using up what I have in the pantry - trying also to be more frugal in the kitchen.