Monday, November 26, 2012

Weekly Menu Planning

If you came over from my blog, Design to Shine, you know how I love my weekly menu planning.  With a milk cow on the farm, I am finding menu planning a necessity.  Because Rosie has to be milked both in the morning and evening, it has taken us a bit to adjust to the new routine.  Both the Farmer and I work full time jobs, plus we have a 5 year old boy.  Usually, I pick up the little cowboy after work and that puts me at home about 5:45pm.  Milking is done between 6 - 6:30pm, morning and evening.  If I hang out in the barn to play with AnnaBelle, supper is around 7:30pm.  Not a good time to begin cooking when bedtime for the youngen is 8:30pm.  I am trying to have meals that can carry over for a night, are easy or using my crock pot 'chef' that cooks my meals while I am working at the U.
Here is this week's supper plan with links to recipes:
Monday - Leftover Potato Soup  with grill cheese sandwiches  (soup made on Sunday)
Tuesday - Meatballs with white gravy over creamed potatoes, green beans
Wednesday - Broccoli Alfredo Pasta  (this recipe calls for chicken, which I omit sometimes) with fresh yeast rolls
Thursday - Leftovers
Friday -  Clean out the frig or Pizza
Saturday - French Toast and fresh bacon (purchased from a local butcher shop)
Sunday - My Easy Chicken Pot Pie
For more ideas check out Organized Junkie for 100's of meal plans.
What are you having for supper this week? I love reading everyone's menus!

2 comments:

  1. For some reason, I just can't really get into writing out a weekly menu! I usually make one casserole type meal and we eat on that for several nights. I just kind of wing it and make spur of the moment meals from my freezer and pantry. So far, that works for us three! Blessings from Bama!

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  2. Happy you are posting again, enjoy reading it. Thanks for sharing you weekly menu with us. I don't normally do a weekly menu, but beginning to plan more meals to have enough to eat and freeze for another meal. I really like having extra meals in freezer to get out for quick meals. Some of my favorites: Cook smoked picnic ham with can of Pepsi poured over it, cook in slow cooker overnight; Cook chicken breast with some of bottle BBQ sauce over it, cook in slow cooker; Cook beef roast, potatoes, carrots, with 1 can of mushroom soup & 1 can of water and pack of onion soup mix, cook slow overnight in slow cooker; Cook chicken pot pies, one to eat and one to freeze; sometimes we eat a bowl of cheese grits. Hope this will be helpful to you. I get many cooking ideas from
    blogs.

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