Menu Plan Monday – Jan 15th
I hope everyone had a great weekend! I have an easy week planned menu wise as my hubbie will be away for a few days. So we’ll be eating simple foods and on Thursday my daughter is even going to take a turn at cooking by making Parmesan Chicken Fingers. The recipe is from The Everyday Kids’ Cookbook. Should be fun!
If you haven’t purchased the new Feb 2007 issue of Taste of Home’s Simple and Delicious magazine then you really must…it is awesome! The clip and save recipes in the middle are all slow cooking recipes plus there is an amazing low fat Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe to die for on Pg 45. I made them yesterday and they were so good and because they turned out I just had to take a picture! The recipe says it will make 32 muffins but I made them as mini muffins for a book party I was hosting (those are just cinnamon hearts in the middle for decoration). Yum!
So here is my menu for the week:
Monday: Fajitas
Tuesday: Soup and grill cheese with spinach salad
Wednesday: Pancakes with strawberries and cool whip
Thursday: My daughter’s cooking Parmesan Chicken Fingers with fries and carrots
Friday: Slow cooker Spaghetti pork chops served with rice and broccoli
Saturday: Dad’s day
Sunday: Free for all
What’s on your menu this week?
WOW! I am the first one here.
Your Wednesday night meal sounds scrumptious.
That’s neat that your daughter is taking a turn to cook on Thursday night. I am sure you are very appreciative!
It’s too late for me to post tonight, but guess what? (Now I know I can tell you and you’ll like this) I did one of those “cook one whole day and have meals all month” thingies. Well, only, it took 3 days to cook it all and it was the 2 week meal plan, but still! I have a freezer full of meals and some will go to my good friend who is being induced tomorrow. I’m usually NOT organized, but you are inspiring me!!
Mines up but still amending it as I rummage through the fridge and cupboards!
Yummy week! I need to do fajitas next week!!
Have a great Monday!
Hi Laura,
This is my first Menu Plan Monday. Thank you for hosting this—it’s a great motivator.
The spaghetti pork chops sound great and your muffins look delicious!
I need to do fajitas soon too!
And dare I say that spaghetti pork chops sound simply DIVINE?!?!
Sherry
This is the first week for me to put this into action – so far, so good! Except, I start my menu on Sunday and go through the whole week. I don’t list any leftover days because we usually take the leftovers for lunches the following days – works best for us.
Looks like fajitas were (are)a good plan for this week!
Hi… first time posting my plan here… looking forward to being involved!
I was SO thrown off by the weeks of holidays….finally I get here to post before midweek! Whee! 🙂
I noticed others had the Menu Plan Monday banner on their blogs… so I saved a copy on my pc and used it also. I hope that was ok?
Your little muffins look devine and I love the red heart look. ANd pancakes with Strawberries…..I love this idea…we dont have strawberries right now…this spring I will make my jam.I’ll have to post that recipe….
Ooh Laura, those muffins look so good! Your menu sounds good too, a lot more planned out than mine this week.
Just wanted to tell you that I asked for, and received, the Taste of Home cookbook for Christmas. It’s great, and the thing is huge! I started looking through it this weekend and was so excited to find a card to send it for a free one-year subscription in the front. Can’t wait to start getting those! 🙂
Hope you have a wonderful day and week!!!
Mmmmm…those muffins look delicious!!! I’ll be sure to get that magazine…I love to try new recipes. Your week sounds great and I love that your daughter is going to cook one night! Hope you have a super fantabulous week!
Those muffins do look wonderful, Laura!
I am going to have to get my hands on that magazine! I had let my subscription run out, but I may just have to rethink that…
Thanks again for hosting! Your menu looks great!
God bless,
Mrs.T
I’ll have to look for that cookbook. We have a lot of kids’ cookbooks around here, but not that one.
Thanks for the Spaghetti pork chops recipe, it sounds so yummy! I’ve been away for awhile, but I sure am glad to be back!
HI Laura,
I love those simple weeks. It looks very yummy.
I especially like the pancakes with strawberries and coolwhip – very tasty!!
My menu is posted.
Thanks for hosting this, I am really enjoying it.
Stacy
Aussie in America
Your menus always look great. I thought of you about an hour ago. I was flipping through the channels and Home Shopping Network had an hour long show on “Organizing Made Easy.” I couldn’t watch; I have no self-control.
Have a great day!
Sounds yummy! Check out my site…post lots of comments…I’m exercising for comments!
Have a great day!
PS Check out the article on clutter…
Thanks for hosting this Laura.
It is inspiring me to be organized about my meal plan. I like that it doesn’t have to be complicated. Thanks for that inspiration too.
I have the new S&D and now I am going to pull it out and make some muffins… so glad they are good. I will be making them today nothing like a good snow/ice day to bake the day away.
Annie, let me know if you like the muffins. I tried to comment on your site but it tells me I would have to sign up so this is just easier…sorry. Laura
I think my mom gets that magazine, so I’m going to have to give the muffin recipe a try. They look so yummy. Your menu looks great!
Laura, I LOVE the Taste of Home Magazines and buy all of them LOL
I haven’t made it to the store for the latest one yet though, since hubby is going there later, I’ll have him pick it out, though he gets very annoyed because there’s “so many different ones” (he says LOL)
Great menu, that slow cooker spaghetti pork chops sounds interesting.
Hi Laura-Thanks for hosting this. I am a homeschooling mom who is quite shy and have been feeling a bit overwhelmed and lonely. I found blogging and wanted to jump in and get started but wasn’t sure where to start. Your weekly menu challenge was perfect for a new blogger as it’s a really non-threatening topic and one that all of us must challenge. So thanks for encouranging me to throw my hat into the ring.
I got mine finished when I didn’t really feel like planning one today. Yay me!
I’m back in!
I added mine! The kids are home today so they got to contribute to the menu.
all sounds so good
Hugs,
Elizabeth
I’m definitely going to make sure I find that Taste of Home issue. I’m always on the lookout for slow cooker recipes.
My favorite thing on your menu plan for this week is the spinach salad. I could eat spinach salad seven days a week!
i’m a little slow today – i slept in because the kids are off school – but i’ve got my menu plan posted!
thanks, laura, for hosting this! i love to see what everyone’s making for dinner!
Your menu sounds wonderful….the muffins look great,too. I love the way you are going to serve them…very pretty!
Those muffins look delicious! Looks like a yummy week for you (I love grilled cheese!) My menu is up.
Having the hubby gone can be hard, but I do like the break from the kitchen.
Looks good! Thanks for hosting this; I’ve always enjoyed viewing the menus, now I’ve joined in!
you’re so lucky! i can’t wait for the day when my daughter can make up dinner (that’s not a pot of plastic vegetables).
my first MPM is up!
I feel like a new woman having my menu planned for the whole week!
I’ve been lurking on your blog for months – I love reading your posts – and since I finally started one of my own, I’m now commenting on yours! I put up my Monday Menu – is is ok if I also add the Menu Plan Monday image to my blog on these posts?
Yes by all means please feel free to use the banner if you are participating in MPM. Welcome and thanks for participating everyone…wow we’ve set a record today!!
Laura
I’m late!!!!For posting my menu plan!I so love that you do this Laura!!:)THanks for all that you do!!!
Did I do this right?
Lisa at [email protected]
In honor or de-lurking week (although I may be a week late, not sure), I’ve decided to start commenting and participating in all my favorite blogs. I absolutely love your blog. So many great ideas, such a fresh design. I’ll make sure to comment more often!
Lisa, your link didn’t work for some reason. Please try again…email me if you have trouble and I’d be glad to help you 🙂
Laura
I LOVE pancakes with strawberries!! Unfortunately, hubby looks at me like I’ve got two heads. 😛
Well, he can just leave his off, right? 😉
Have a good week.
Maybe it worked this time. Sorry, I’m pretty new at this stuff…..
Lisa
ok, I am now totally addicted to your site! This is the first time I’ve been here and it defnitely won’t be the last!
I started the Fair Trade Recipe Exchange where each Sunday I post a theme and you guys post your recipes for that theme. At the end of this year I will be creating a cookbook with everyones recipes!! – A bloggers cookbook – sounds fun doesn’t it! Come check it out…
Thanks for getting me re-started with menu planning. It makes my WW weigh-ins so much better when I’ve eaten healthy all week long !