Menu Plan
For week of 9-26 to 10-02
Meal plans just
include dinners. We usually don’t eat
breakfast or just grab something simple, lunch is usually leftovers, or grab
and go meals out of the freezer.
Monday-Leftover Beef mixed with Bushs
original baked beans and some BBQ sauce.
Leftover Potatoes cut up into small pieces and mixed with sour cream and
shredded cheese. Brown Rice 1 cup
serving from the freezer mixed with leftover corn from the original beef meal
and some turkey sausage. Very Easy Prep
work since everything was already cooked, most things were leftovers, just
added some already cooked rice and a can of beans and voila a brand new meal
was able to be served. There will be
plenty for dinner tonight and enough for Michael to take to work for lunch
tomorrow.
Tuesday-Make my meat and potatoes, and taco
meat with refried beans so I can freeze some extra meals with both, oh and make
some Mexican rice too. I can freeze the
meat and potatoes in 1 cup servings and the taco meat, beans, rice and cheese
will go in a tortilla wrap to make burritos to freeze for later meals.
Recipe For
Meat and Potatoes
Ingrediants:
3 potatoes
peeled and diced
1 pound
ground turkey
1 can Diced
Tomatoes
1 Can tomato
paste
1 can beef
broth
Salt and
pepper
Cumin
Half an
onion chopped
Half a green
pepper chopped
1 tbsp
minced garlic
1 square caldo
de pollo
1 tbsp olive
oil
Water
1.
Saute
onion and green pepper in olive oil, then add the garlic sauté for another
minute or so, then add the ground turkey and cook till no longer pink. Note: I sauté
the square of caldo de pollo with the onions and green pepper or you can dissolve
in water if you prefer)
2.
Add
potato, Seasonings, tomato paste and can of diced tomatoes, ,
beef broth and enough water to cover potatoes bring to a boil and
then simmer for about an hour or until the potatoes are soft.
Note: Can serve this with Mexican rice and refried beans, and tortillas,
or chips, or just eat in a bowl by itself.
Still taste great the next day as well.
You can also add chopped carrots and celery to the mix or corn, you can
play around with this recipe add different things to it to give it different
flavors, also if you want to heat it up you can add a can of rotel instead of
diced tomatoes, and add some hot spices. If you want it to be more liquidy like a soup or stew just add more broth or water and you could also use tomato sauce instead paste.
Dessert
Recipe for tonight.
Yummy
Raspberry surprise
This recipe I
took leftover raspberry muffins from the freezer and cut them up in small
pieces and then I took 2 eggs, a little bit of milk, some raspberry sugar free
torani syrup and vanilla sugar free torani syrup and a couple tbsps. Of sweetened
condensed milk. I mixed everything
together and baked in the oven at 350 for about an hour or so. It came out pretty tasty too. I think I coulda added frozen raspberries to
it for that extra kick, maybe next time.
Wednesday-Date Night. I have My ob appointment and then we’re going
to a movie, the Jason statham movie, and then afterwards maybe we can go for dinner
at applebees or something or have leftovers.
Note: We both
ended up having the 7 oz steak for dinner at applebees, note to self remember don’t order
corn again there it was just blah or the potato, they charge way to much for a
tiny amount of cheese plus the potato was still hard. The steak is good though (nice and tender,
easy to chew), I was able to eat half the steak and a small amount of the
potato and corn, took the rest home and ate that for breakfast the next day,
only ate a little of the potato for breakfast saved the rest for Michael for
dinner. Usually don’t have red meat that
often, maybe once or twice a week, typically use ground turkey for anything
that I would use ground beef in.
Thursday-Chicken with corn salsa plus save a
cup of the Mexican rice to go with this dish.
Note: Since I
went to lunch with my mother in law today I ended up having quite a bit of leftovers
so I figured instead of cooking an entirely new meal might as well share my
leftovers with my hubby since there were plenty, I included the leftover potato
from yesterday for him and some leftovers of my meat and potatoes from Tuesday
there wasn’t very much left of the meat and potatoes for a meal by itself but
perfect amount to have as a side with the leftovers from lunch.
Friday- Use up the leftover pizza sauce and
the other pizza crust and make pizza for dinner, using the sandwhich meat ham
and the turkey sausage and some pepperonis and mozzarella cheese, just remember
heat up the meats before putting them on the pizza cause last time they didn’t
taste that hot.
Saturday-Use up leftover wieners that are in
fridge to make hot dog casserole. Cut
them up in little pieces and add to a can of chili, and take out some slices of
bread spread the chili and weiner mixture on bread slices and add some cheese
and bake in oven till bread is nice and toasty and cheese is melted, or toast
bread first and then just bake till cheese is melted. Serve with chips if we have any on hand.
Note: I use
low cal bread, 35-45 calories a slice depending on the brand, also use jennie O
turkey wieners, and Turkey Chili which both are a lot less calories then there
regular counterparts.
Sunday-Going to eat at a Japanese restaurant
after we drop off Brandon.
