Weekly Menu Plan for Oct 24, 2011 to Oct 30, 2011

Weekly Meal Plan For October 24, 2011 to October 30, 2011

Monday

Made Some Turkey Chili.  Cooked up a package of ground turkey, sautéed some onions and green pepper and garlic, and added some cumin and salt and pepper, and threw in a can of diced tomatoes, can of ranch style beans, a can of Hormel turkey chili with beans, a can of Hormel turkey chili without beans, and a can of wolf brand turkey chili no beans.  This made a ton of leftovers, so we’ll both have it for lunch tomorrow and possibly freeze some or just keep it in the fridge for my hubby to take to lunch for a few days.

Tuesday

Cornbread Surprise.  Note: take cornbread surprise out of the freezer Monday so its defrosted for today. 

Wednesday

Salsa Chicken with Mexican rice (already cooked and in the freezer) and Pinto Beans (already cooked and in the freezer need to season for flavor.) Pull out everything from the freezer Tuesday so its defrosted for today.  I’m going to boil the chicken on the stove and then when its about done I’m going to bake it in the oven with some Salsa spooned over it, and serve it with my Mexican rice and pinto beans. 

Thursday

Chicken and shrimp and Veggie Teriaki Stirfry with rice.

Friday

Pizza.  I’ll use up some of the sandwhich rounds (45 cal each half) (Note: I was only able to eat one of the mini pizzas with a little of the sides.) I have leftover and add some pizza/spaghetti sauce I already have made up in the freezer and add some mozzarella cheese also already in the freezer all in serving sizes.  Served with leftover Potato that I had for lunch it was a big potato so plenty for the 3 of us plus still had leftovers, and some leftover macaroni, Kraft had this new kind of macaroni that says it has a full serving of veggies, it’s got cauliflour powder or something, I could actually taste the cauliflour, I don’t have macaroni often once every few monthes or so, so I thought I’d give this a try, it was pretty good, but a bit expensive, twice the price of the regular box of kraft macaroni and 1 less serving, but we still managed to make a 2 person box feed three people plus I had some for lunch before I used the rest up for dinner, so that’s 4 servings we got out of a 2 serving box, so that’s not bad at all.  Oh and I had bought 2 cooked chicken breasts at the grocery store I had some of one of them for lunch and the rest is what I used to top the pizzas, there ended up being more chicken left but its been in the fridge a few days so I’ll be throwing out the rest of it.  I really need to remember to freeze extras of stuff right away…..

Saturday

Grill Hotdogs and Corn on the Cob, and BBQ Beans, with whatever chips we already have on hand.  Note: only thing I’ll have to buy is the corn on the cob, and we’ll use regular bread that’s already in the freezer instead of high calorie buns, I use a 45 cal bread.  I am using regular wieners though because I had them in my freezer and I want to get them used up, instead of wasting them and throwing them away, but from now on I’m only going to buy the lower calorie wieners, but I’m thinking about cutting wieners out of our diet all together so I’ll just be using what we already stocked up on in our freezer and when we run out of them then no more wieners for a while, I’m not a big fan of them anyways, my stepson and my hubby are the hot dog fans.  We ended up going car shopping today so we didn’t get to have the hotdogs for lunch, instead we ate at burger king, not my favorite place, I actually hate fast food restaurants….i shared a chicken sandwhich with my hubby and we all three shared an order of fries.  We ended up stopping by my inlaws after car shopping and invited them over for dinner….we had to take both cars home so my hubby drove home and me and my stepson went to walmart to pick up a couple last minute things for the bbq dinner, and then I got a call from my hubby while we were shopping and he ended up locking his keys in the car, and well I didn’t have a set of keys to the house cause I was driving the new car.  Luckily we had invited his parents over and they have a set of our house keys, but unfortionately they were already halfway to our house when he called to tell them he locked himself out and they didn’t have our key with them….So me and Brandon walked around walmart to kill time for a while cause it was going to be about another 45 minutes….and we didn’t want to sit outside with groceries melting…So they went back and got the spare key, and then my hubby had to call a guy to get into his car, cause well those were his only set of keys to that car……Well after all that we still managed to have a nice dinner….I ended up getting steaks when we were at walmart so my hubby grilled those up too, first they were still running blood and so he put them back on and they um well got a little extra well done, they were still edible though, so that’s good. 

Sunday

We had leftovers from yesterday, cause of course I always cook for an army so I usually either freeze the extra or we eat off it for a few meals.  We had the leftovers for breakfast and lunch and then me and my hubby went to dinner at boston market after dropping off Brandon with his mom. 

Weekly Menu Plan Oct 17 to Oct 23

Weekly Menu Plan for October 17-October 23

Monday

Cornbread Surprise, made a big batch of this stuff, going to be freezing 4 of them and keep 2 in the fridge one for dinner tonight and the other for lunch tomorrow.  I made them in small throwaway pans, so perfect amount for 2 people with not a huge amount of leftovers. 

Recipe for Cornbread Surprise (note this recipe is for freezer batch cooking, you can lessen the ingredient if you want a single meal.)

Ingredients:

1 Cup Onion and Pepper Mix (I used a frozen bag)

2 Packages Ground Turkey (usually a little more then a pound per package)

2 TBSP Vegtable oil

1 Can Rotel

1 TBSP minced Garlic

Salt

Pepper

Cumin

Onion Powder

1 Can Diced Tomatoes

1 Can Cream Corn

2 Cans Whole Kernel Corn

2 Cans Ranch Style Beans

1 8 oz Package of Fat Free Cream Cheese

1 Can Chicken Broth

3 Packages Cornbread mix (prepare as directed on box)

3 Cups Shredded Cheese (I used cheddar and a Colby mix)

1 Pack of Taco Seasoning

1.   Saute Onions and peppers with the oil.  Add in garlic.  Add in Ground Turkey and cook till no longer pink.  Then add in the taco seasoning. 

2.   Now throw in all the canned goods and the cream cheese, heat to boiling and then simmer for about 15 minutes. 

3.   Prepare the Cornbread mix.  Preheat oven to temp on cornbread box. 

4.   Add meat mixture to your baking pan and then top with shredded cheese and then top with the prepared cornbread mix, and bake in the oven for the time on the cornbread box.

Tuesday

Leftovers, we have some leftover chicken I will take off the bone from Sunday, and some leftover macaroni salad, some shredded cheese, some leftover tamales from Saturday, and some flatbread, and I’m sure we’ll also have some leftover cornbread surprise, so we can use up all those leftovers today so they don’t go to waste, I’m sure it’ll be plenty for lunch for tomorrow too.

Wednesday

Homemade freezer lasagna.  Taken out of the freezer Monday to defrost. 

Thursday

Leftover Lasagna.

Friday

Today is my hubbys birthday, promised him I’d make him a strawberry cake, but I’m going to only keep out a small amount the rest is getting baked into cupcakes and frozen right away otherwise it’ll get eaten right away.  Note: we were suppose to have bean burgers tonight for his birthday, but him and Brandon got home early and I had just finished putting on my makeup so I ran to the bedroom and told them not to come in and I got all dressed up nice, and told them since ya’ll are here early we’re going out somewhere nice instead of eating bean burgers.  So we went to a nice Japanese restaurant in mesquite, we shared a couple of sushi rolls and chicken and beef teriyaki.  Then we went to BJ’s and shared an alcoholic drink and a dessert.

Saturday

Today we have a couple of events to go to, Brandon has a running school thing we have to go alllll the way to plano for, which is a 3 hour commute to and from our house, and then after that we have a meeting with these people we won a vegas trip with at the fair, and its in the same area as brandons school thing, but we’ll be gone pretty much most of the day so I’m sure we’ll eat out for at least lunch today.  Note: My hubby got a couple of gift cards from work for Macaroni grill, that could be worth 5 dollars up to 500 dollars, we ended up having 5 on one and 50 on the other, so we splurged and had a really nice lunch, and none of us had eaten at a macaroni grill before, it was really good.  Then for dinner we drove past this little pizza place on the way to the vacation thing so we decided to go back there after for dinner.  We got a thin crust full of meat.

Sunday

Going to celebrate Michaels birthday today at his parents’ house, so we’ll be eating lunch there.  We had taco’s, tostadas, and cheesecake.  For dinner we came home and had the bean burgers we were suppose to have had on Friday. 

I hate My weight being stalled

Uggg, well I'm in a stall right now, apparently its normal, and i happen to be right at that point when most people have stalls, so yea, its not fun, especially since i was hoping to be 250 by my birthday which is November 23, doesn't look like that will happen, and now its that time of the month so I'm all bloated and the scale is not my friend during my time of the month.  I've been working out almost every day, doing the elliptical, and this past weekend my husband, stepson, and I went walking at the park, i actually ran some, it was an amazing feeling to be able to run, of course didn't get that far, but went way father then i thought i would have been able to go, it was really something.  I set a goal for myself this month to go 45 miles on my elliptical, i don't think I'm going to make it though, because there were a few days i had to take breaks because i overdid it, increased the resistance and that made me really sore, so yea I'm just going to keep the resistance low, and try for more time or going faster, I don't have pains that way, luckily though it seems Tylenol helps with the aches and pains, before surgery when i weighed 366 Tylenol didn't do anything for me, and now it works really well. 
Food issues are still there even after surgery, even after having a really small stomach, you still get cravings, you still want to eat bad things, and for some there lucky and the bad things give them problems and that keeps them away, but for me, i don't know I just seem to not have that many problems with food, I've only thrown up twice since surgery, neither was fun, I don't remember what i ate the first time, but i do remember it felt like it was stuck and it was really dry and i felt like i was choking and having to pull it out of my throat, it was awful.  The second time I puked was a bout of dumping syndrome, the only time I've had dumping syndrome so far, and let me tell you this, it is no fun at all, oh my god it was so painful, i overdid it with sweets that day, i tried one of those new ice cream bars, uggg i can't think of the name but there like just a chocolate covered ice cream bar, but its pretty big, and i was stupid and ate one, and well i suffered big time, i went to bed and after a while my entire body started hurting and i started getting really bad cramps and went to the bathroom and sat there for a while and um well this may be a little graphic but yea i had explosive diareah, and then after that i decided to wait a little while before laying back down so i got on the computer for  a few and took a few sips tiny sips of something to drink and oh my gosh, that sent pain throughout and i had to rush to the bathroom and starting puking my guts up like 4-5 times, it was awful, not fun at all, that was a very bad experience but other then that i haven't really had any problems with any foods, at least nothing to severe, if i eat a little to much i get pain, the pain level depends on how many bites to much, or if i drank right after, now sometimes i do drink after cause certain foods just leave a yucky feeling in my mouth so i try to just take a small sip, but if i take to big of  a drink right after eating then that will hurt.  I seem to gurgle with salads, a lot of people in my support group complain about chicken, i have no problems with chicken, but then again when i make chicken i always boil it or cook it in the oven in a pan full of water so like boiling it in the oven, and then i usually use chicken in casseroles or something so its got soft ingredients to go down well, i guess they mostly complain saying its to dry so it feels stuck, so maybe i don't have that problem with chicken cause my chicken is usually not dry, hmmm, I did have a problem with steak in the beginning, it made me a bit nauseated, probably didn't chew it enough or something but steak is kinda hard to chew down to apple sauce texture, so we just don't have steak that often or i cook it in a way that it will come out nice and tender to chew easily, i also try to get the leaner looking cuts, and as for ground meat i typically only use ground turkey, so red meat we eat maybe once a week or so, we usually have ground turkey and chicken breast, only use boneless skinless chicken breasts.  Bread and tortillas go down ok if i don't have to much, otherwise it does cause some discomfort or pain if i have to much, i get a 45 calorie bread, and keep it in the freezer cause 1 loaf will usually last a few weeks, we try not to have bread that often, and as for tortillas i found this whole wheat carb balance tortillas that's 80 calories, which is the best flour tortillas I've found most are over 100 calories, also found these flat breads that are like 2 circles connected those are about 90 calories so if you only eat 1 of the halves its only about 45 cal and its actually pretty good, can use it as a pizza crust or to make a grilled sand which or whatever, another good bread is lavash bread, a huge piece of this stuff is only 50 calories, i usually cut it into 4 servings so its only about 15 calories per piece, and it can be used as a base for a pizza, or a sand which, or a taco, or a wrap, and it taste really good too.  Some other good products are Walden farms products which are all 0 calories, some of them don't taste that great, and some of them are really good, just don't expect it to taste exactly like its full calorie ed counterpart, that's the problem a lot of people seem to expect it to taste exactly the same and just throw it out cause its not like the full caloried version, well of course its not, its a 0 calorie alternative.  I think the chocolate sauce tastes good, it taste better then the sugar free calorieed versions of chocolate sauce, and the syrup taste good, its not as thick as regular syrup but still gives you the flavor you need without the calories.  Oh and if your going to test taste the stuff, please don't just try it on a spoon or anything cause yea it doesn't taste that great by itself, add it to what you would eat it on to give it a taste test, oh the peanut spread does not taste like peanut butter but you can always mix some of it up with a little regular peanut butter for less calories and still have the peanut butter flavor.  Torani Sugar free Syrups are great too, they're 0 calories and you can add them to drinks, or shakes or puddings or yogurt or whatever, you can bake with them to give things flavor without all the added calories. I took the Walden farms pancake syrup and mixed some with one of the flavored torani syrups and heated it in the microwave and it was a really good addition on top of a low calorie french toast (made with 1 slice 45 cal bread and 1 egg and a tsp of butter or Pam spray) or a cottage cheese pancake.  Talking about french toast i remember making these as after school snacks when i was a kid, never did them low cal and certainly didn't only eat 1, I'd use regular white bread and lots of butter, and eat about 5-6 of them loaded with pancake syrup, my main after school meals were either french toast, a box of macaroni (because if i opened it i had to eat the entire box or i got yelled at for wasting food) or an entire can of ranch style beans or a can of tuna, or eggs, or a combination of the above.  All throughout elementary, junior high and high school i did not get breakfast or lunch, i ate after school the above mentioned foods and then i ate at dinner time. My stomach would rumble all day at school it was so embarrassing, people would look around to try to figure out who was making the noises.  When i got to college i went on a diet, I stopped drinking sodas, cut out sweets, and only ate once a day instead of after school and dinner time, and i lost 80 pounds in like 3 months, I can't wait till i get back down to my lowest weight, it was 250, when i was 18 years old, can't wait to go even lower then that, but right now my goal is 250 and I'm about 21 pounds or so away, oh and yea i know eating only once a day wasn't the healthiest diet but living with my parents and having no money of my own there really wasn't any other alternative, they never really kept stocked groceries in the house...i remember so many times either living off of sandwich's or rice and beans or hamburger helper. 

Meal Plan for 10-10 to 10-16

I decided to Start posting the meal plan after the week is over because I always end up going back and altering things and adjusting things or adding things in, so figure this way everything will be finished when i post.

Weekly Menu Plan for Monday 10-10 to Sunday 10-16

Monday

Crock Pot Chicken with Black beans and Cream Cheese.  This is from a new recipe I found that I’d like to try. Also made some Mexican rice to go with this.  Had plenty for leftovers for lunch for tomorrow, and froze some and have enough for lunch on Wednesday too. I ended up making the recipe my own and adding some extra stuff to it.  My version is called Chicken Slop.

Recipe for Chicken Slop:

4-5 Chicken Breasts (boneless Skinless)

1 Jar of Salsa Whatever level of heat you prefer

1 can of Cream Corn

2 Cans of Whole kernel Corn

2 Cans of Black Beans Drained and rinsed.(I only had 1 can on hand but I definitely think it could have used another can so I’m listing it as 2 cans.) Note: if you don’t like black beans I’m sure ranch style or pinto beans or anything else would work too, just rinse and drain so you don’t have the flavors from the beans.

2 8 oz packages of Cream Cheese. (I use Fat Free).

1 Can Refried Beans

Optional: I had a little bit of leftover cheese dip a tostinos cheese dip, so I threw that in there to, just to use it up.

Various Spices: Salt, Pepper, Cumin, Garlic powder or garlic salt, Onion Powder.  Those are the spices I added but you can add hotter spices if you like it hot. 

Throw everything into a slow cooker and cook on high for about 4-6 hours or until the chicken is completely cooked.  Very simple and quick to throw together.  This recipe will feed a crowd.  We’ve gotten about 10 meals out of it, so about 5 meals each, and that doesn’t even include what I froze in individual portions, so next time I’d probably freeze a bit more of it cause it does get a bit boring having the same thing over and over again.  We had it over rice for a couple of meals and then over baked potatoes for a couple of meals. It’d be great made into enchiladas also.  Just layer corn tortillas and chicken slop and then throw on some shredded cheese on top and got an enchilada casserole.  It’d be good as a nacho dip as well, but I’m trying to limit my chip intake so didn’t do nachos with it.  Sorry I don’t have any pictures of the finished product, but by the name of it I’m sure you can tell what it looks like, Chicken Slop.   Oh and if you don’t have chicken, or don’t want to use chicken, you can cook up some ground beef or ground turkey and throw that in there instead, just remember to cook that before putting it in the slow cooker.

Tuesday

Creamy Brocolli Tuna Helper. Note: ended up having leftovers from yesterday, but had it with potatoes this time instead of rice.  I cut potatoes in half and baked them in the oven and then added some light butter and some sour cream and salt and pepper and dried salad topping bacon and dried chives and baked it in the oven a bit longer.  Needed to use up the potatoes before they went bad.

Wednesday

Going to my mother in laws for the day, Have therapy at 2 pm, and have support group meeting at 6 pm till 9 pm plus its an hour and a half away from home, so we’ll be eating out today.  Note:  Got Free meals for tomorrow night from the support group meeting, we had some speakers there that make really healthy meals, unfortionately they are very expensive, but it was nice they gave us free sample meals.

Thursday

Going to the Fair So most likely will eat there.  I know its not the healthiest but the fair is only once a year and we only go the one time, so yea we’re gonna splurge a little but we always share things rather then each get our own, so we can at least try a couple of different things. Note: I really overdid it at the fair, ugggg my stomach was not happy with me, luckily I didn’t go so overboard that I got sick or anything, just uncomfortable.  So I just walked it off and felt better, man it was nice having so much energy, we were there for like 7 hours and I wasn’t even that tired by the end, my feet were a little sore but that was it, compared to last year oh my gosh back then I felt like I was going to die, and I’m sure we weren’t there nearly as long last year, I don’t think I would have been able to walk for that long.  Note: I ended up getting a waterless cookware set, uggg I spent $5000 but I put it on layaway for 6 monthes, hope to pay it off by next month though, sell some stock and get it paid off, I’ve been wanting it for a few years now, and we never had the money, and I was willing to wait a few more years if I had to to get get it, but my hubby told me to go ahead and get it, so it counts as my birthday gift which is nov 23, and our anniversary gift which is nov 13 and our Christmas gift.  Plus probably won’t have money to go out anywhere nice for our birthdays or anniversary but I think its worth it, this cookware is suppose to last forever, and be a really healthy way to cook, and since I love to cook I’ll be having a lot of fun trying all kinds of recipes in this cookware, and I’ll be giving my parents all my old cookware, which was expensive to me back when we got it, no thousands but it was hundreds, plus we got a few free gifts, an awesome slow cooker, which you can use any of the pans that fit on it as the slow cooker which is so cool cause if you just want something small you can use one of the small pans or if you want to make a huge pot of something use one of the big pans, and we also got this veggie and cheese cutter thing, not sure what its called, and a really  nice salad bowl, and this really big pan that was worth over $500 all those for free for buying the big pan set, oh not to mention the basic set was free because we got the big set and that’s a $1600 set.

We had our daytime meals at the fair but we’ll be having dinner here at home, so we’ll go ahead and use up those free meals from the support group meeting yesterday for dinner tonight, nice and simple and quick and free. Oh on top of those two free meals I also scored 8 blouses, 7 bottoms, 1 dress, all for free, I love my support group meetings, a nice way to get new clothes for no cost, and everything looks new and is name brands, and once I shrink out of them I can take them back and trade them for something else. 

Friday

Use up the two frozen pizza’s in the freezer and add extra sauce and meat and cheese.  Note: we still have some leftovers in the fridge from Monday so my husband will be taking those plus the potatoes I ended up making on Tuesday for lunch at work today. 

Saturday

Chicken Parmasean, I’m going to make this with some chicken nuggets, there’s like a third of a bag in the freezer I couldn’t figure out what to do with it, so I thought this up, since I already have frozen cooked whole wheat pasta and frozen sauce and frozen shredded cheese, I put everything in a gallon ziplock baggie, everything of course is in their own individual bags in the gallon ziplock baggie and then I’ll make this probably for lunch.  Serve with some green beans if I can find them in my freezer, its pretty full at the moment.  Note: found the green beans.

For dinner I’ll take the 5 turkey wieners and cut them up in little pieces and add to a can of wolf brand turkey chili or Hormel turkey chili, they’re both good, and add to my low calorie bread, I like to toast it add the chili mixture and then top with cheese and bake in the oven so the cheese melts. 

Note: Michael had to work today so Brandon and I went out for lunch and I ended up making the chicken Parmasean for dinner instead of the hotdog casserole.

Sunday

My Corn Bread Surprise.  Going to make enough to freeze and have leftovers for a few meals. Note: ended up getting a rotisserie chicken from walmart, had that on flatbread with macaroni salad.  I will be making my corn bread surprise tomorrow instead.  We ended up going out for dinner, we usually go out for dinner Sundays because it’s a 3 hour commute to take Brandon back home, and it happens to be right in the middle of when dinner time is suppose to be.  So we use it as our “date” night. 

Measurements for October

October 5, 2011

Weight:  274

Measurements

Waist: 52

Hips: 57

Breasts: 50

Ankle: 10

Wrist: 7 1/2

Thigh: 29

Neck: 16

Upper Arms: 19

Clothing Sizes

Dress: 2X-3X

Pant: 2X-3X Jeans 26

Skirt: 2X-3X

Shirt: 2X-3X 18-24

Support Group Meeting

Well I went to my support group meeting Wednesday, hadn't been in 2 months since i was out of town for 1 of those months and extremely depressed for the other month, didn't want to go anywhere or do anything.  I'm doing a lot better now.  The support group was nice, I found out that my stall is normal, I'm right on Que for when people end up stalling, but it looks like its starting to go back down, and I've been working out everyday just about, I really enjoy doing the elliptical, just sometimes i need a take a break cause my knees get to sore, but it seems Tylenol really helps with the pain, which is nice.  Well this meeting they had us all introduce ourselves and tell a little about ourselves, i got so nervous and i was towards the end so i had to wait that entire time thinking about what i was going to say and getting all nervous uggg, i hate that feeling, i never liked to talk in school either.  Well when they got to me i said my name and what surgery i had and when i had surgery and how much i lost and the best part when i said how much i lost everyone was like wow and cool, and stuff so i thought that was the best part of it, i also mentioned that i use the elliptical everyday and i use myfitnesspal to track food and exercise.  I ended up scoring 8 blouses and 7 bottoms and 1 dress from the meeting, i love that we can trade clothes there, it makes it a lot cheaper then having to go buy new clothes every time your size changes, everything looks nice and new and is name brand stuff, so I'm really happy, I also took a bag of clothes that doesn't fit me anymore so someone else will be able to use those.  They also had these ladies that make healthy meals for you, but they have extremely expensive prices, so I'd rather just cook at home, about 6-9 dollars per meal, so crazy expensive, they had samples, their food was pretty good, but no way do we have that kind of money.  They also gave us two sample meals which was cool, we ended up having those for dinner last night, the grilled zucchini was really good, not a fan of the squash though, they were both chicken dishes, one came with a little BBQ sauce that was pretty spicy and the other came with this white sauce that tasted like cucumbers, we ended up splitting both meals so we could both try each others, and the funny part is i liked the one my husband chose better and he liked the one i chose better, so I'm really glad i decided to split them both.

Goal

My Goal for the month of October is to go 45 miles on my elliptical.  I've been doing pretty good so far, only 4 days in, done it every day.  Time is getting better, going further in shorter times.  Started at only being able to do 6 minutes 2 weeks ago, last week was able to do 15 minutes and this week doing 20 minutes each time, hoping to be up to 30 soon, i'll try to up the minutes by a couple this week, I try to do it at least 1-3 times a day, since i've upped the time to 20 minutes i've only done it once a day, cause its a bit harder on my legs, but hopefully after a few days i'll get more used to it and be able to do it 2-3 times  a day.  Plus i do workouts with a medicine ball, and i've been active in cleaning my house....was depressed for an entire month and it got wayyyy away from me, but i got more energy and i'm more focused and trying to get things done.
The doctors say everything looks good, all my test results are good, and they couldn't see any fibroid tumors, so hopefully when its time to get pregnant I'll get pregnant with no problems, that would be a miracle, and my ultimate goal. 

Weekly Menu Plan 10-3 to 10-9

 Here is my weekly menu plan, based on ingredients I already have in my house, I wish there were more veggies, but I'm do for a shopping trip to buy veggies, so for now I just want to use up what we got....plus its better to have a plan with the veggies cause they go bad quick unless they're frozen which i usually prefer most of my veggies frozen so i'm not timed on when i need to use them, we have some bean sprouts and zuccinni that i'm going to use for my chinese food day, in my stir fry and rice and we have onion and green pepper that i put in almost everything, and we have mixed frozen veggies, it just seems to be a week of corn and mashed potatoes though, so next week i'll try for more colorful things, i just have this bag of potatoes that i need to use up this week, or they're going to start sprouting as a few already are.  Also planning on making some Pinto beans in the slow cooker sometime this week to freeze in 1 cup servings.

Weekly Menu Plan 10-3 to 10-9

Monday-Sour Cream Chicken Enchilada Casserole.  (already made this yesterday and put it in the fridge for today.)  Was enough for Lunch for both of us as well.

Recipe

3-4 Chicken breasts cooked and cubed or shredded

Half a can Rotel

Half a can Cream of Chicken Soup

Half a cup of Sour Cream

Various Spices (Salt, Pepper, Cumin, Onion Powder, Garlic Salt, Seasoned Salt) Really can put in pretty much whatever spices you feel like. 

9 corn tortillas

2 Cups Shredded Cheese

Half a Can Refried Beans

·       Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.  Mix Chicken, Rotel, Soup, Sour cream, Spices in pan and heat. 

·       Take a baking pan and add three of the corn tortillas to the bottom, two next to each other and I had to cut the third in half to fit them.  Then add the beans to the tortillas, and add some shredded cheese.

·       Take another layer of 3 tortillas and put on top and then add some of the chicken mixture and some shredded cheese, and then the last layer add some tortillas and chicken mixture and cheese.  I only put the beans on the bottom layer but you can put them on each layer if you want. 

·       Then Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, till cheese is melted.

Tuesday

Lasagna and Mashed Potatoes.  Making 2 lasagnas, one to freeze, making extra sauce to freeze.  The potatoes should be enough to last for at least 2 meals so whatever I make tomorrow can be served with mashed potatoes. Note: ended up burning both lasagnas, but they still taste fine, so they're still good to go, just less cheesy, but when i was younger my favorite piece of lasagna was always the piece with the burnt cheese, so its not to bad, hopefully it'll still be ok in the freezer and reheated though. 

Wednesday

Mashed potato Pie.  Take leftover mashed potatoes put on bottom of pie dish or baking pan, put a can of corn over that, and some cooked meat, I have some fajita meat that’s already cooked in the freezer I can add on top and some cheese on top of that and bake it in the oven, I have half a can of cream of chicken soup in the fridge that needs to be used up so I can mix that with the meat and put that on top and then the cheese on top of that, so it makes sort of a gravy. 

Thursday

Breakfast for dinner, Take the bag of mixed sausage and veggies and add some eggs to it and a couple of potatoes and some toast.

Friday

Chinese Food at home.  Make Chinese fried rice, and lemon chicken with this new sauce I bought at the Asian market, but i'm not going to fry the chicken like they typically do with lemon chicken, i'll just bake it in the oven or boil it and then add the sauce and bake it with the sauce for a bit with some pineapple tidbits and some veggies. 

Saturday

Hot Dog Casserole.  With Turkey Weiners and Wolf Brand Turkey Chili, and heartsmart Bisquick mix and Shredded cheddar cheese, with French fries made out of real potatoes and baked in the oven.

Sunday

Fend for yourself day, leftovers or go out to dinner.