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.