Category Archives: Menu Plan Monday

Menu Plan Monday ~ Sept 1st

Welcome to a brand new week and a brand new month!  Ahh I love a fresh month especially this one as it’s a month of new beginnings with the kids going back to school on Tuesday.

Today I made some delicious cookies and am bestowing the honor of Cookie of the Week to my friend The [...]

MPM Winners!

The winners of yesterday’s Menu Plan Monday giveaways are as follows:
Laura of Arlecchina’s Doves wins Fishmama’s Guide to Cooking With Children ebook
and
Sherry of Lamp Unto My Feet and a Light Unto My Path wins Heavenly Homemaker’s Fill ‘Em Up! ebook
Congratulations ladies AND a big congratulations to Jessica (aka Fishmama) who gave birth to a beautiful [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ Aug 25th + giveaways!

Hi all! It’s an exciting day today because not only is it Menu Plan Monday (which is oh so exciting in itself…he he) but we’re also going to have a giveaway as well!! Recently I purchased two separate e-books that I absolutely loved and wanted to tell you about. I was drawn [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ August 18th

Hello my happy fellow menu planners!! Guess what? After considering all your comments last week, I decided to bite the bullet and make the Greek Spaghetti last week despite the number of ingredients. I’m happy to report that it was well worth the effort and it was delicious!! The only [...]

MPM nearly reaches 300!

Updated: Woohoo, yippee yay!  You girls are the best, we are now sitting at OVER 300 participants!  Congratulations to #259, Jennifer who won my spontaneous giveaway!  Thank you again to all of you that participate each week as well as to those of you who are new.
WOW, today we almost set a record with [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ August 11th

Hi all! I don’t know how many of you watch Jon & Kate Plus 8 but I was watching it the other day and she made the comment that if you have to use a recipe you aren’t a real cook. I had to laugh at that because as most of you know [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ August 4th

I made it home today but I’m barely functioning.  Phew I am worn out, I just can’t keep up with those young’ins anymore.  However a big thanks to the three amazing cooks who cooked for us all week.  What an absolute treat!  Our head cook was 83 years old!  My gosh was I ever blown [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ July 28th

Welcome everyone! Can you believe here we are already at the end of July? My word time does fly.
The kids and I are heading off this week to kid’s church camp. The head cook was kind enough to give me a copy of the week’s menu, not for MPM puposes (although that is certainly an [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ July 21st

Hello, here we meet again! I hope everyone had a lovely weekend.
I’m keeping it short and sweet today but I can’t go any further without first telling you about the 5 Minute Southwest Layered Salad that I made last week. If you don’t want to cook but still impress your friends and family [...]

Creating and using a price book to save money

Last week I mentioned in my Menu Plan Monday post that I was going to start using a price book again. Some of you asked for more information on this.
Although I feel I’m probably not the best person to give advice on this topic due to the simplicity of my system I’ll give it [...]