A New Adventure: Menu Planning
You may convey caught the post service concluding Monday nigh our trouble solid unit of measurement repast dilemma, too my resolve to conception out a week's worth of meals too an accompanying shopping list. Well, I sat downward concluding Tuesday too created this listing of meals that you lot run across earlier you. I solely intended to showtime alongside seven, but I got going thus I thought, "why stop?!" (especially equally this is an action that I haven't excelled at inwards the past). To avoid beingness overwhelmed, I chose roughly trouble solid unit of measurement favorites too roughly novel recipes that looked good.
I thus created a grocery listing for the items that nosotros didn't already have, too made a banking corporation annotation of the things nosotros did convey (to avoid inwards store 2d guessing). I shopped for all 11 meals, too thus far nosotros convey had half-dozen meals from the list. Our refrigerator has tons of yummy leftovers (for us too the husband's packed lunches) too the trouble solid unit of measurement is pretty satisfied.
I can't actually brand a sentence on the long term budget aspect equally of all the same (though I hitting my grocery dollar grade for the week/seven meals), because I specifically picked card items to run roughly of the things nosotros had on hand, similar pasta or potatoes or meat inwards the freezer. Also a banking corporation annotation on using mixes. It's non my favorite affair to do, but I'm a realist, too I'm trying to survive equally honest hither equally possible. So at that spot it is.
*These recipes are from the Cook's Illustrated magazine. You tin larn a gratis fourteen twenty-four sixty minutes current lawsuit to the website for the recipes, or honestly, people convey reposted many Cook's Illustrated recipes throughout the w.w.w.
I thus created a grocery listing for the items that nosotros didn't already have, too made a banking corporation annotation of the things nosotros did convey (to avoid inwards store 2d guessing). I shopped for all 11 meals, too thus far nosotros convey had half-dozen meals from the list. Our refrigerator has tons of yummy leftovers (for us too the husband's packed lunches) too the trouble solid unit of measurement is pretty satisfied.
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| Shepherd's Pie |
I can't actually brand a sentence on the long term budget aspect equally of all the same (though I hitting my grocery dollar grade for the week/seven meals), because I specifically picked card items to run roughly of the things nosotros had on hand, similar pasta or potatoes or meat inwards the freezer. Also a banking corporation annotation on using mixes. It's non my favorite affair to do, but I'm a realist, too I'm trying to survive equally honest hither equally possible. So at that spot it is.
White Chili // Corn Bread (from a mix) // Fresh Veggies Raw (red peppers, cucumbers)
Crock Pot Salsa Verde Chicken Tacos // Red Cabbage alongside Lime too Cilantro (I used the linked recipe, but added much to a greater extent than cilantro, too it is AMAZING, fifty-fifty the kids loved it!)
3 Minute Garlic Shrimp (I used the linked recipe, but cooked iii minutes instead of 4 because I had medium, non jumbo, shrimp) // Pasta // Steamed Broccoli // Baguette
Dirty Rice (Zatarain's Reduced Sodium Mix alongside 93% lean soil beef) // Raw Veggies
Grilled Sirloin Steak // Mashed Potatoes // Roasted Carrots // Toasted Pita Bread
Caldo Verde* (Portuguese Kale Chorizo Soup) // Dinner Rolls
Salad alongside Leftover Steak too Toasted Pita Bread
Tacos (made alongside lean soil turkey too a seasoning packet, MSG free) alongside Lettuce too Tomato // Spanish Rice
Beef Stuffed Grape Leaves // Lebanese Potato Salad (similar, except I add together lots of chopped parsley too less light-green onion, that's exactly our trouble solid unit of measurement recipe)
Acorn Squash, Onion, too Goat Cheese Pizza // Plain Cheese Pizza (both alongside frozen pizza dough from the farmers market)
*These recipes are from the Cook's Illustrated magazine. You tin larn a gratis fourteen twenty-four sixty minutes current lawsuit to the website for the recipes, or honestly, people convey reposted many Cook's Illustrated recipes throughout the w.w.w.
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