Menu Plan Monday ~ May 5th
Hello everyone! I have a surprise for you today. I realize it’s been awhile since I’ve introduced a new Menu Plan Monday banner so I thought I’d better make it up to you and went ahead and made 4! I got on a roll what can I say. I love change and get bored easily so why not a new banner for a great little pick me up 🙂 I also know that many hosts of these types of carnivals like their participants to only use one banner but I like having options here on MPM. Oh yes I do although I did go and retire two of them on you but maybe you won’t even notice. I hope you like the new banners but feel free to use any of the ones listed on this page. Options, it’s all about the options people ~ go crazy!!
Our “Go Green” banner:
Our “Bring on the Summer BBQ” banner:
Another “Mr. Smiley” banner (isn’t he cute):
And now because a few of you have been asking for a sidebar button, I introduce to you the “I Love Menu Planning” button!
You can find the code for the button in my sidebar there on the left. Thanks!
Onto other news this Baked Chicken Teriyaki recipe is so absolutely YUMMY! I’m not just saying that either because I invited my girlfriend for dinner and she ended up making it for me…LOL. So delicious and definitely having someone else make it for you is a nice treat that I highly recommend!
Thanks to everyone for all the cookie recipes in last week’s comments. You gals ROCK!
Here is what we’ll be eating this week:
Monday: Spaghetti Bolognese (didn’t get to last week)
Tuesday: Grilled Steaks served with baked potato and grilled veggies
Wednesday: Baked Honey Mustard Chicken served with perogies and broccoli
Thursday: Homemade Grilled Burgers served with Caesar salad
Friday: Southwestern Chicken Barley Soup served with homemade bread
Saturday: Pizza Pancakes
Sunday: Happy Mother’s Day!
WHAT’S ON YOUR MENU THIS WEEK?
Menu Plan Monday guidelines and banners are here.
Great new banners!! I’m off to add a sidebar one now!!
Thanks for the new banners… Have a good week!
MJ
i love the new banners!!
Thanks!
I can sympathise with technical difficulties. My whole week was like that last week. I hope they sort out for you soon.
Oh I love the new smileys..I can’t belive Candi beat me to it..number one!!!! lol ;-)look forward to seeing your meals…have a great week and thanks for hosting everyweek..
I’m joining in for the first time, from my Digi Scrap blog. Thanks so much!
Whew! For a minute there I thought that you were going to be on the starvation diet for the week!
Thanks for the new buttons.
Have a super week! Love the new pics 🙂
Thanks for the new linkie’s!! What happened to your menu?
nevermind…there they are! Looks yummy!
Thanks for the new banners – just used one in today’s post!
Oh! I hope you get your menu up soon. The new buttons are great, and I do notice one of them that’s gone (the pink/purple apron.) 🙂
I tried menu planning for awhile last month but, because these are hard times, I decided to shelve it.
I found out that it was more cost-effective to do our meals my old, usual way. Cook one major meal a day and that would either be lunch or dinner.
This means lunch and dinner combined or dinner and next day lunch combined.
That way we save on energy.
Well, breakfast is breakfast, this is usually the most nutritionally planned meal of our day. Fruits, fresh, juiced or shaked, coffee/honey lemon hot drink, bread and a small amount of unprocessed protein.
My partner and I are past 50 so we mind what we eat. We are at that point:-)
Thanks and Cheers!
I also used a new banner, love them! That Baked Teriyaki Chicken looks great, might have to add that to my ‘must make list’. Thanks, Kiy
I like the sidebar button. Very cool.
And since I have a keen visual memory.. I can tell you that one of the retired banners is the one with the apron. I like that one. Don’t worry, if I want to use it I’ll just copy/paste it from one of my old posts. 😛
Yes–I noticed the apron banner is gone, too–as that is what I use. Is it okay to use it still?
Also, we had the spaghetti bolognese (I had planned plain spaghetti and changed it after seeing it on your menu). We really liked it. It is very rare for us to all eat the same meal and we did on that–YAY!!
great new graphics. I envy those that can create them. unfortunately most of my ideas stay in my head–wait, maybe that’s fortunately! LOL
I wonder how you make banners and buttons for your site. Do you have a service that does this for you?
Thanks for the new banners and for taking the time to comment on my blog with the tips on quesadilla making.
Have a great week!
Hello, yes please feel free to continue to use the apron one if you want to. I’m totally fine with that. I’ll even re-add it to the list since I see a few of you prefer it!
I make the banners/buttons myself just using Word and then I save them as jpeg and upload to photobucket. It took awhile to figure out and they use to take me forever but now that I know what I’m doing it’s not so bad.
I totally agree on the Baked Teriyaki Chicken, I had to click your link to see if it’s the same as I’ve made (it is) I love how easy the recipe comes together, it’s a tried and true recipe at my house.
The button one, didn’t work at first, but I tweaked it…not sure what was wrong with it…just FYI
I am so excited. We may be going ahead with our plans to buy a side of beef this week. I am drooling over your steaks. I kept planning on them, but they evaporated as pipedreams when I couldn’t find them cheap enough.
Hi am really enjoying menu planning, love the new banners 🙂
Dell xo
Oooh. Thanks for the new banners and side bar button. I’m going to put that little guy on my recipe blog right now! Happy Monday!
TM
I love the new banners! And the button makes me happy, too!
And thanks again for getting me back on and keeping me on track! I’m no longer a vampire so I don’t slide into the early numbers now, but I still make it. That’s a biggie for me lately.
<3<3
Love all your new banners…great choices. Another great menu plan girl. I have some new recipes myself I’m trying out. Hope you have a great week.
Love all the new banners!! The kids and I are having a Cinco de Mayo dinner tonight and the whole week is kid-friendly, kid-requested meals.
Have a great week.
I forgot to put it next to my entry #81 but I am looking for a good recipr for homemade pepperoni rolls that do not require frozen bread dough. Anyone have any tried and true recipes? I am just looking for an alternative to the weekly homemade pizza I do on Fridays. I thought if I find a good recipe I can alternate weeks and freeze some of the rolls for busy Fridays.
I love these sites. I get menu ideas and I get to visit a lot of other bogs!!!
Love the new banners! I might try the Spaghetti Bolongese recipe too–I love Classico sauces (no HFCS in most of them), and that looks so yummy!
LOVE the new banners/buttons! Thanks, Laura. What a nice surprise. 🙂
Pizza Pancakes sound interesting. Both pancakes & pizza are favorites around here, so I’m sure we’ll try these.
Have a great week!
Mmm, Pizza Pancakes sound delicious! I’ll have to try them next week!
Thanks for hosting! Love the new banners, too.
After lurking forever and checking out bunches of others, I’m finally joining!!Thanks for hosting this! Blessings.
Thanks for hosting this! This is my first attempt at planning a menu… I hope I am able to stick with it!
Thanks for hosting! Thanks for the new banners those are sweet!
Your menu looks good! I am having homemade grilled burgers too this week!
My menus are working out of my stockpile for the next few weeks! 🙂
Love the new “Green” banner…
Thanks for the new banners-I just love computer savvy people!!
I have to give the pizza pancakes a try sometime!! It looks yummy!!
Laura,
Thank you for the new banners.
Great looking menu! This week for me we’re eating out of the freezer so it’s pretty easy. The real work will come when I go to fill it back up again. But then again, I’m doing it since the Farmer’s Market has started back up again and I’ll have all these nice local choices. YUM!
I love the new banners. I might have to do some spring cleaning and change mine. Now…which one to choose….decisions, decisions…
Love the new banners and especially the sidebar button.
With the rising prices of groceries, I’m trying even harder to give thought to meal preparation with an eye toward the best nutrition at the least cost.
Anyone else having trouble getting the sidebar button to work?
Hi guys, sorry the code for the new button isn’t working. I’ll try and fix that later today when I have more time.
Sigh….
Hi Laura,
It’s good to join your MPM again after long time. I deleted my old blog by mistake, but now I have a new kitchen.
Have a nice day
I think this is my first time (or something like it)–great idea!
The apron is gone! But I love the grill! I could have used that one today even! That southwestern soup sounds wonderful. I may just have to use that and change my menu up a bit as we have a couple days of rain forecast.
thanks! I’m just starting this today, and I’m excited about it!!
Love the new banners!! And yum to your menu plan. Have a great week!
My first time playing, thanks for hosting this menu planning party! Love the banners, too 🙂
Aww the pink banner was my fave, mind if I still use it?
I have never heard of pizza pancakes before, what a crazy idea!
Your banners are so cheerful. I am new to the menu planning thing but I am on board. Went through the freezer last night and sat down to plan out what we are having.
Hugs!!!
Yum, great menu Laura 🙂
Okay for the life of me I couldn’t get the code in the scroll box to work in my post but I did managed to get the code working in my sidebar. You’ll see it over there on the left.
I’ve also brought back the apron banner for you which you’ll find under the MPM tab at the top!!
Love the new banners! Have a great week. I forgot to mention that I have several recipes linked.
This is my first time posting Menu Plan Monday. I love looking over everyone’s menus and recipes! Yum!
I like the new banners–just in time for grill season. Thanks.
OK, not to throw confusion into the mix.. but I’m pretty sure I just copied and pasted the code and didn’t do anything to it.. and it’s working fine on my page?
But for those who need to know, all you need to do is this:
Type in
BUT I added a space between “href” and “=” and also between “src” and “=” because I was afraid the code would actually work and I didn’t want it to, I wanted it to stay visible. So, no spaces before the = signs.
Ok, that didn’t work. Laura! Delete it! And this one, too. 🙂
You could direct people to instructions for adding a button to the sidebar on Blogging Basics 101, until you get it fixed. Just point out the addresses for the picture and the MPM tab.
http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/101/2007/08/how-do-i-add-a-.html
Looks yummy!
Love the new banners! Thanks for taking the time to do that.
On Friday, I decided I would choose one idea from someone elses menu… I haven’t decided yet but will check out the various menu plans people linked on your site! thanks!
Awesome new banners! Thanks for hosting this for us each week. Pizza Pancakes? Sounds interesting.
I love the new “green” banner! Thank you so much! 🙂
I really appreciate that you host Menu Plan Monday every week.
Blessings,
Michele 🙂
http://www.frugalgranola.blogspot.com
I love the new banners!
I love the ideas in your menu plan and I am so excited to get back into planning my own menu’s each week!
First time meal planning with you. Looking forward to an organized week!
Love the recycle bag banner! This is my first time participating! Fun!
I am excited to be joining for the first time. Hopefully this will help me to actually get in the groove of cooking dinner on time rather then being lazy and waiting for someone else to do it.
Thank you so much!
I am new to Menu Plan Monday, and to the blogging world. Looking forward to sharing some tips, recipes and maybe even getting organized along the way. And if I meet a friend or two…all the better!!
Mine is late, but now up! 🙂 Come by and check out my new (work in progress) website! 🙂
Love the new banners!
Love the new banners. I’m menu planning again this week. Is interesting trying to work out what we are doing and what meals to cook.
I’ve been posting my menu for quite a while now…I’m just finally making my Monday’s officially menu planning day 🙂
Oh my that Baked Chicken Teriyaki is to die for! My kids (who gripe about most any type of food) just went nuts! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
I discovered your site through a friend, and am excited to check it out. Thanks for all the great advice!
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