Menu Plan Monday

Years ago, when I first had a blog, I found I'm an Organized Junkie and Menu Plan Monday. I was hooked. I had never planned meals before and found myself with 2 kids and a stressed military life. I got right to work with this and had some success with it.  Now I have 3 kids and a military life and planned meals is my lifeline.

 

I recently found a menu planning template at The Nourishing Home that I love. My favorite part is the "Do Ahead" section. This allows me to jot down things like boil eggs a day or two ahead of when I need them or cook extra chicken to make chicken salad sandwiches.  I print this out each week and store in my home binder. I check it each morning to see what my day looks like. 

Stress-saver!!!

 

Sunday:  Pizza

Monday: Fried Potatoes & Eggs

Tuesday: Baked Chicken, Green Beans, Potatoes

Wednesday: Meatballs, corn on the cob

Thursday:  Ham, Macaroni & Cheese

Friday: Dinner Out

Saturday: ??

I also plan out breakfast and lunch. We are all about making meal time easy during this deployment. I buy more easy to make meals and cook much less from scratch. It was so hard for me to break myself from the way I was cooking, but I was so stressed. Right now, in this moment of our lives, you will find more frozen pizzas and chicken pot pies that I have ever bought before.

Chicken Everywhere.

Can you believe that I got all of this chicken for $14.00?

The Pensacola commissary was having a huge markdown and I took advantage.I need to remember to go over there right before the end of the month. I only go once a month as it is.

We have already had chicken wings. There is a whole chicken, already cut up, in the fridge for dinner tomorrow night. I still have a whole chicken, another whole cut up chicken, 3 packs of chicken wings, and 2 packs (one big and one small) chicken thighs.

I have some other menu plan ideas for this week. 

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Leftover roast with sauteed vegetables.  We ate all the veggies out of the roast last night, so we are going to add new veggies and finish off the roast tonight.

Crock pot chicken. I am thinking about honey chicken with rice.

Chicken fried rice with the leftover crock pot chicken. 

Breakfast for dinner - I have some bananas in the freezer that need to be used. I am thinking about banana waffles with bacon. 

Pizza, we need a pizza night and Friday sounds like a good time to do that.