My challenge for creating a meal plan this week was that we are going out of town next weekend, for a whole week. Because I absolutely hate to waste any food if I can avoid it, my meal plan needed to use up the fresh produce still in my fridge. Plus, I didn't want to spend much money shopping, since I had food that needed to be used up.
Here's my attempt at some yummy meals, just making do (mostly) with what I've got:
Monday: Fish and cheese macaroni casserole (has onions and peppers in it) plus steamed veggies (broccoli?, I think)
Tuesday: Garbanzos a la king (basically chicken a la king, but with chickpeas instead- from Newstart Cookbook
Wednesday: Roasted chicken (will substitute butter for margarine), Mashed turnips and potatoes, and cauliflower with cheese sauce, homemade bread- with another family from church
Thursday: Creamy tomato soup (substitute butter and honey, and whole raw milk for the cream, and mine looked much smoother and creamier than the picture!) with grilled cheese, carrot sticks
Friday: Beef stew (I use 2 natural onion bouillon cubes instead of the onion soup mix, apple cider vinegar in place of the wine because I don't have any wine), homemade bread
Saturday: Polish off any leftovers from the rest of the week, and leave right after dinner!
Breakfasts are: frozen fruit smoothies, toast, oatmeal, apple muffins, yogurt with berries and almonds
Lunches are: leftovers, or sandwiches with fruit or veggie sticks
I get the week of Christmas mostly off of cooking (I know, I know, lucky me!), although I will make one pancake breakfast and one to-be-decided dinner for our extended family (9 very hungry people plus babies), to help out my mother-in-law, in addition to helping with Christmas dinner. Maybe this year I'll learn how to properly cook a turkey! There's hope for me yet!
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Don’t feel bad I just learned how to cook a turkey myself.
We are daily smoothie drinkers here as well!
Laura
I think you and I were on the same wave length this week with cleaning out the fridge. . . great menu and I’m going to try out that creamy tomato soup recipe – and please post how the garbanzo a la king turned out! I’d be interested in trying it out one of these days!
Have a blessed Christmas and enjoy your week off from cooking! :)
Great menu this week, thanks for sharing :)
Have a great Christmas!
Mine is up too :)
Oh my gosh…if that’s a menu trying to use things up your regular menus must be awesome. All that sounds so good!
Good for you for using up what you have! Everything looks really wonderful!
Have a blessed week,
Sherry