What is on a the menu at our house?
I get an email at least once a week asking me what I feed my family. Most of them are just wanting to learn how to cross over from the habit of shopping daily for that days menu plan. While others are convinced we eat nothing but processed food. They see the photos of what I buy that week and can not seem to wrap their brain around the idea of cooking from that weeks promo items and your stockpile.
Some of you “type A” personality’s are much more organized than me, and I am sure there is a rotation chart or something fancy that would make menu planning easier. But I do what works for me, I plan my meals around the fresh promo items that I get that week. As well as what I get in my Bountiful Basket that week. I then use my food storage or stockpile items, as well as freezer items to plan my meals.
Being that I do not write my menu out a week in advance I am sharing last weeks menu with you! Hope it helps you understand that eating from your stockpile can be made a way of life, is both rewarding and thrifty!
Sunday
- late breakfast/ early lunch- Hot Oatmeal, and sliced oranges
- Dinner- Grilled Steak, Bakes Potatoes and Green Giant Canned Corn
Monday
- Breakfast- Hot Oatmeal and scrambled eggs
- Lunch- Left Over Baked Potatoes
- Dinner-Spinach Mandarin Orange & Pecan Salad, with Mandarin Orange Lime Poppy Sees Dressing, and Cilantro Lime Chicken
Tuesday
- Breakfast- Cold Cereal
- Lunch-Left Over Spinach Mandarin Orange & Pecan Salad, with Mandarin Orange Lime Poppy Sees Dressing
- Dinner- I was teaching a coupon class to Matt took the kids to 1/2 price Happy Meal Night
Wednesday
- Breakfast- Hot Oatmeal
- Lunch- Peanut Butter and Jelly, Apple slices
- Dinner- Dr. Praeger’s Burrito Bites and Easter Chicks Deviled Eggs, with a spinach vinaigrette salad
Thursday
- Breakfast- Cold Cereal
- Lunch- Tuna sandwich, Carrot Sticks, and chips
- Dinner- Chicken and Spinach Quiche (recipe will be up later this week)
Friday
- Breakfast- Monkey Bread ( I tried a new way to make it, recipe will be up later this week) Here is the old Monkey Bread recipe
- Lunch- Ham and Cheese Sandwiches, Easter Chicks Deviled Eggs, Carrot Sticks
- Friday- Had Dinner out with Matts Parents
Saturday
- late breakfast/ early lunch- Blue Berry Breakfast Cake
- Dinner- Picnic at Grandmas, Hot dogs, Salad, Jello, Veggies, Deviled eggs, Chips and more.