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.