Me and Martha

A new week, a new plan

Well, I tried doing the monthly plan for two months, and I don't know if I'm sold.  I'm sure I have a bunch of reasons for this, but they're not coming to me right now.  I do know that I don't really have the energy to come up with a plan for all of May, so I'm back to week by week.

As it turns out, I had at least a week's worth of recipes that didn't get used in April, so recycling those could form this week's menu.  But those are all new recipes, and I don't know how I feel about that.  I don't know: I'm going to put this menu out there, even though I really feel like I'm just going to be winging it this week anyway.  At least there's a fair amount of stuff in the freezer.

• Mon. April 28: chicken fajita tostadas
• Tues. April 29: mini honey mustard meatloaves
• Wed. April 30: tortellini, meatballs, broccoli, sauce
• Thurs. May 1: angel hair pasta with bacon and peas
• Fri. May 2: microwave bbq chicken with coleslaw and oven fries
• Sat. May 3: lemon chicken with dilled orzo and Greek salad
• Sun. May 4: orange french toast for brunch; something fast food-y from the freezer for supper (pizza, hamburgers...we'll see what I feel like)

I'm off to post this at The Org Junkie...hoping to get in the top 50!

Menu Plan Monday

I'll keep this as short as I can.  I'm tired anyway, but I know that I tend to ramble.

Last week, I suspect my organizing mojo just took a little side trip that it hadn't mentioned to me.  We made three trips to the grocery store and one to Costco: way too many.  I didn't sit down earlier in the week and make a good list, and it seemed like we kept running out of stuff. 

Most of the stuff I planned was made in some form.  I simplified some stuff, like the pork with rhubarb and cherry sauce became pork with jarred bbq sauce.   I had more fun with the baking, making another new coffee cake (this one with yogurt and orange, yum), and some chocolate sugar cookies. 

Here's the newest plan.  This is still based on what I planned for April back at the end of March, and I haven't looked too closely at it to see if it'll work with what's in the fridge and our activities, and so forth.

• Mon. April 21: mini honey mustard meatloaves with roasted potatoes
• Tue. April 22: microwave bbq chicken with coleslaw
• Wed. April 23: tortellini, meatballs, green beans, tomato sauce
• Thurs. April 24: glazed pork with pineapple, garlic rice, peas
• Fri. April 25: lemon chicken, dilled orzo, broccoli, Greek salad
• Sat. April 26: spicy orange chicken stirfry
• Sun. April 27: brunch: quiche; supper: if here, last minute lasagna

Well, reading it over isn't making me worry too much.  Tomorrow we'll do our grocery shop for the week and hopefully that'll be enough, not counting a milk run later in the week if needed.

The Org Junkie will have the links to all the other menus, and the post previous to the Menu Plan one has a whole bunch of good meal planning sites.  I have enough cookbooks and foody magazines to last me for a lifetime!  Have a terrific week!

April Plan, Week 3

It fell apart this week, kind of.  Almost everything was switched around or replaced.

• Sun. April 6: ham as planned
• Mon April 7: leftovers as planned
• Tues. April 8: was going to make Hawaiian pizzas but did quiche instead: fantastic
• Wed. April 9: did fish sticks instead of tortellini, but those are the two standard Wed. night meals, all frozen, no biggy
• Thurs. April 10: supposed to be pasta with bacon and peas, but I was having my doubts already (too much pig in one week!); plus, I was tired and we went with frozen pizza
• Fri. April 11: moved Sat. burgers and fries to this day, instead of ginger lime chicken
• Sat. April 12: had the buttermilk baked chicken we were going to have last Friday
• Sun. April 13: gingerbread pancakes for brunch, and last minute lasagna for supper, just as planned

Okay, once I write it down it doesn't seem so bad.  I did feel like I wasn't very organized when I did my groceries this week, we're running out of the stuff I usually only buy once a month (diapers, hand soap), and I'm just kind of blah about cooking.

On to this week's menu:

• Mon. April 14: sesame chicken, rice, broccoli
• Tues. April 15: slow cooker bbq beef on buns (from frozen), salad
• Wed. April 16: leftovers from Tues. or tortellini, meatballs, green beans
• Thurs. April 17: pork chops with rhubarb cherry sauce (I love this!)
• Fri. April 18: spicy orange chicken stir fry
• Sat. April 19: pasta with shrimp, feta, spring veg.
• Sun. April 20: croque monsieur bake, don't know if we're having supper here or out

Ta da!  See also The Org Junkie for many menus.  Happy Monday!

April Menu, Week 2

I'm back, I'm tired.  I fell asleep at 8 and woke up a little while ago.  Hopefully I'll be back to sleep again soon.

Last week's menu got mixed up a bit but that was okay.  I didn't manage to try the buttermilk baked chicken, and I made honey mustard pork chops instead of crispy apricot pork chops, and the days got mixed around.  I did make roasted asparagus and loved it (olive oil, salt, 18-20 minutes at 425F).

This week:

• Monday April 7: leftovers from Sunday night ham supper, and I'll hopefully make the white bean salad I'm nuts about.
• Tuesday April 8: ham and something quiche (I bought frozen pie crusts: cheater!!  hahaha!), I think I have broccoli I can use, maybe some fruit salad to go with.
• Wednesday April 9: I had tortellini and meatballs on the list, but we had that Sat. so maybe fish sticks instead.
• Thursday April 10: angel hair pasta with peas and bacon was on the list, but that's a lot of pig in a week, so maybe we'll do the buttermilk chicken here.
• Friday April 10: crispy ginger lime chicken thighs with couscous
• Saturday April 11: burgers and oven fries

I'm looking at it now and I'm not too thrilled about back to back chicken, so I might make last minute lasagna on Thursday or Friday (it's vegetarian, so it won't create overkill conflict with the burgers).

I'm a little frustrated that I seem to be changing so much around, but the nice thing is that I still have all the stuff I need to make all this because I did my big shops last week and I was ready for them!  Yay!

I've thrown my linky hat in the ring over at I'm an Organizing Junkie.  Seriously, you need to check it out: where else can you see 200+ menus for the week (or at least links to them).  Have a terrific week!