Menu Plan - June 1, 2009

Monday - Barbecued Beef on homemade buns with veggies (Make extra buns for Friday)
To Do: Soak beans all day and cook beans in slowcooker overnight.

Tuesday - Homemade Baked Beans with Boston Brown Bread and raw veggies

Wednesday - Macaroni and cheese with veggies

Thursday - Leftovers

Friday - Hamburgers with Homemade buns and raw veggies

Saturday - Lamb chops with potatoes and veggies

Sunday - Pork chops from pork tenderloin with potatoes and veggies

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Menu Plan - May 25, 2009

Monday - Pasta with meat sauce
To Do: Defrost beef

Tuesday - Cheesy Beef and Rice with veggies (make a double batch and freeze one.)
To Do: Defrost sausage

Wednesday - Sausages with mashed potatoes and onion gravy and veggies

Thursday - Leftovers
To Do: Make hamburger buns

Friday - Hamburgers with potato salad and raw veggies
To Do: Defrost lamb

Saturday - Lamb chops with baked potatoes with veggies
To Do: Defrost pork

Sunday - Pork tenderloin on the bbq with mashed potatoes and veggies

For more menu plans, please visit the Organizing Junkie.

Menu Plan - May 18, 2009

I was sick Sunday night and didn't do a menu plan last week. It has reminded me why menu planning is SO important, even though I don't buy my weeks groceries based on my menu plan. We ate lots of soup and canned beans this week, and ate out a couple of times, all because I didn't know what to cook. I didn't get the advanced preparations done, and that makes a huge difference.

Monday - Steak with baked potatoes and vegetables
To Do: Soak lentils

Tuesday - Sweet and sour lentils, with rice and vegetables. I made these lentils a few weeks ago and they were GREAT.
To Do: Defrost ground beef

Wednesday - Spaghetti with meat sauce. I will make a big batch of sauce so I can use leftovers to make chili and also have some to freeze.
To Do: Soak dry kidney beans

Thursday - Leftovers
To Do: Cook the kidney beans

Friday - Chili with cornmeal muffins
To Do: Defrost pork

Saturday - BBQ'ed pork tenderloin with potatoes and veggies

Sunday - I will be out for supper at a scrapbooking event. I think the boys will probably have hamburgers with carrot sticks (if I remember to cut them ahead of time!)

For more menu plans, visit the Organizing Junkie.

Menu Plan - May 4, 2009

Monday - Pasta Carbonara with peas

Tuesday - Baked beans with carrot sticks and Boston brown bread (I usually leave out the raisins, and cook it in an old fashioned British pudding bowl, rather than an old can, because I am worried about contamination)

To Do: Defrost chicken

Wednesday - Tarragon chicken with rice and veggies

Thursday - Leftovers

Friday - Homemade quiche with veggies

To Do: Defrost ham and potatoes

Saturday - Ham with scalloped potatoes and veggies

Sunday - Steak with roasted potatoes and veggies

For more menu plans, please visit the Organizing Junkie.

Menu Plan - April 27, 2009

Monday - Beef stew with mashed potatoes

To Do: Soak kidney beans

Tuesday - Pasta with meat sauce

To Do: Cook kidney beans

Wednesday - Chili (made from leftover meat sauce) with cornmeal muffins

Thursday - Leftovers

To Do: Defrost steak

Friday - Steak with potatoes and veggies

To Do: Defrost lamb

Saturday - Lamb chops with mashed potatoes and veggies

To Do: Defrost pork, make tzatziki

Sunday - Pork souvlaki (made with pork tenderloin, purchased on sale) with Greek salad, tzatziki and pita bread

For more menu planning ideas, visit the Organizing Junkie.

Menu Plan - April 20, 2009

Monday
Jamie Oliver's Chicken in Milk, discovered thanks to the Mother Load. We are big Jamie Oliver fans around here and own most of his books, including the one this recipe came from! I'll serve it with mashed potato as Jamie suggests in his book, and veggies.

To Do: Soak lentils

Tuesday
Sweet and Sour Lentils, with rice and veggies.

Wednesday
Pasta Carbonara with veggies or salad

Thursday
Leftovers

To Do: Make rolls for sausages, defrost sausages

Friday
Oktoberfest sausage with homemade rolls, sauerkraut, mustard and fresh tomatoes

To Do: Defrost lamb

Saturday
Irish stew

To Do: Defrost pork

Sunday
Pork tenderloin with roasted potatoes and veggies

For more menus, please see the Organizing Junkie!

Menu Plan - April 13, 2009

Friday afternoon we discovered that our fridge freezer had been set to off, and all sorts of things were defrosting. This is one of the perils of having small children trying to pour their own milk.

As luck would have it, we store a half dozen containers of homemade broth in our freezer and this made the difference between an inconvenience and a catastrophe. The frozen blocks of broth kept the freezer cool. A few things were still frozen, a few things were defrosting and need to be eaten this week and the rest needed to be cooked, but was still good.

Our menu this week is dictated by the food that was in our upstairs freezer, and is now in our fridge, waiting to be eaten!

Monday
Oktoberfest sausages with sauerkraut, potatoes and veggies

Tuesday
Steak and re-heated chicken fingers (for the kids) with mashed potatoes and veggies
The chicken fingers were defrosted and had to be cooked. Too many to eat at once, but the kids love them however they get this treat!

Wednesday
Roasted lamb with rice pilaf (Easter leftovers) and veggies

Thursday
Freezer vegetable soup, with sausage meat

Friday
Baked Pollock with mashed potatoes and veggies
This is the third week this has been on my menu. The first week we were sick, this past week the freezer problem dictated a different meal choice. Thankfully I hadn't defrosted the fish!

Saturday
Leftovers

Sunday
Beef stew with homemade rolls

For more menu ideas, please visit the Organizing Junkie!

Easter Meal

For Easter this year, we had a Greek themed dinner. We doubled the number of people we were having to dinner at the last minute, so we had to add some extra meat to the lamb we had planned.

Our Easter Menu:

• Roast Lamb, Greek style (with lots of garlic)
  
• Pork Souvlaki, cooked on the BBQ
• Greek style rice pilaf
• Roasted Greek potatoes
• Greek Salad
• Homemade pita bread
  
• Carrots
• Peas
• Homemade Baklava

The meal was a great success!

Menu Plan - April 6, 2009

We were sick almost all week, so we didn't eat most of the foods we had planned. This week looks very much like last week, except for a few changes to accommodate some food we ate, and because this weekend is Easter! The lamb we had planned last week will be lovely for Easter, as it didn't get eaten either because we were invited to dinner on Sunday. We will probably go less Greek and more British for Easter.

Monday

Frikadeller (Danish meatballs) with red cabbage, more veggies and potato

To Do: Soak dry beans

Tuesday

Bean and Lentil Casserole

To Do: Defrost chicken

Wednesday

Tarragon Chicken with rice and veggies

Thursday

Leftovers

To Do: Defrost fish

Friday

Baked Pollock with mashed potatoes and veggies

To Do: Defrost pork

Saturday

Garlic Rosemary Pork Tenderloin with potatoes, veggies

To Do: Defrost lamb

Sunday
Easter Dinner: Roast Lamb with potatoes, veggies, and dessert.

For more menu plans, see the Organizing Junkie!

Menu Plan - March 30th

Monday

Pork chops, mashed potatoes and veggies

To Do: Soak dry beans

Tuesday

Lentil Casserole

To Do: Defrost chicken

Wednesday

Tarragon Chicken with rice and veggies

Thursday

Leftovers

To Do: Defrost fish

Friday

Baked Pollock with mashed potatoes and veggies

To Do: Defrost steak

Saturday

Steak on the BBQ (from the freezer), with potatoes, veggies

To Do: Defrost lamb

Sunday

Roast Lamb (from the freezer) with Greek potatoes, veggies

For more menu plans, see the Organizing Junkie!