Category: Menu planning

  • Mom, What’s for Dinner? – Week of August 3rd

    I don’t put Sunday’s plan on the calendar because it all depends on what we are doing on Sundays. This week we had chicken parmesan from Aldi with my Instant Pot Spaghetti, garlic bread, and roasted broccoli. I’ve finally perfected the roasted broccoli because they were not charred last night. Yeah! I’ll have to share…

  • Mom, What’s for Dinner? – Week of July 26th
  • Mom, What’s For Dinner? Week of July 5, 2020

    Here is our menu for the next week. Under the menu, I’ll link some of the recipes if there are recipes from this blog. Hamburgers Bramble Beans Roasted Potatoes Brown Sugar Ham Oldest has also requested cream soda ice cream if we can find the cream soda. He would like to have that for his…

  • Mom, What’s For Dinner? – Week of June 29, 2020

    One night last week, my now 15-year-old walked into the kitchen as I was cooking and said, “What’s for dinner?” Even 10 years after I started this blog and began to put our meal plan up on the blog, he is still asking the same question. So, what is for dinner this week? Grilled Cheese…

  • Slow Cooker Freezer Kits – Reposted June 8, 2020

    July 29th, 2019 – Update: The grocery list is incorrect. You need 2 bags of peppers and onions and only 1 bag of mixed veggies. So what are slow cooker freezer kits?  Basically you have everything you need to fix a meal in the slow cooker ready to go in the freezer.  There might be…

  • Updated August 31, 2019 – Original Post A piece of advice for planning out your meals is to create a list of your family’s favorite meals. That way, when you get stuck on creating a menu, you can refer back to the list. Not only will it help you menu plan, but you can also…

  • Jump to meals School has begun for everyone in my house. I’ve been back at work for 3.5 weeks. The boys and Hubby went back almost 2 weeks ago. Life has changed a little bit at our house. Hubby has class on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings. Tuesdays and Wednesday’s are his longest evenings. I’ve…

  • Jump to the menu Jump to my meal prep for breakfast, lunch, and snacks This is the first week of school for 3 members of our family. I started school 2 weeks ago. This week, Hubby goes back to college. The Youngest begins 8th grade and the Oldest begins 10th grade. Three evenings during the…

  • Jump to Dinner Menu All of the sudden, the Wee One has gotten so much taller. I think he’s grown 3 to 4 inches in the last few months. He is almost as tall as me. So I now call him him Youngest because it makes him upset when I call him the Wee One.…

  • Mom, What’s For Dinner? – August 2019

    Finally A Menu If you would like to skip the introduction and go onto the menu, please click here. I go back to work on either the 7th or the 8th. Technically I’m supposed to be going back to work on the 8th. However, some of the administrators have decided we need to have an…