Menu Plan Week of Feb. 5-11, 2012

First full week of February and we've got a lot going on.  I've picked up a piano student on Tuesday afternoons and we're having some friends over Tuesday evening for dinner.  Then 2 rehearsals on Wednesday evening and PWOC on Thursday.  Speech therapy on Monday and Friday mornings.  School for Timothy each afternoon.  *Phew*  No wonder I'm always ready for the weekends!

Here's what's on the plan for this week.  Nothing fancy...easy peasy. 

Sunday, Feb. 5

B - Muffins, scrambled eggs, fruit
L - out (we ended up today at Jason's Deli)
D - Reubens, buffalo chicken dip and salsa and chips for Mom and Dad, chicken nuggets, french fries and grapes for the boys

Monday, Feb 6

B - Waffles, fruit
L - Peanut butter and honey sandwiches, cheesy puffs
D -  Grilled Chicken in Lemon Marinade, salad

Tuesday, Feb 7

B - Eggs in a cup, strawberries
L - Grilled Cheese, carrots with ranch
D - Spaghetti with marinara sauce, salad, bread, Banana Pudding with homemade pudding for dessert

Wednesday, Feb 8

B - Oatmeal
L - Leftover noodles with parmesan cheese, fruit
D - Chapel

Thursday, Feb 9

B - Giant Breakfast Cookies
L - Meat and Cheese, cucumbers and ranch
D - Shepherd's Pie, green beans

Friday, Feb 10

B - Muffins, yogurt and fruit
L - Mozzarella bites, green beans
D - leftovers (if there are any!)

Saturday, Feb 11

B - Cereal
L - YOYO - You're On Your Own  :)
D -Burgers and Dogs

Do you have a busy week this week?  What do you do to make mealtime easier?

Blessings,
Missy  :)

Menu Plan - Week of January 29-February 4, 2012

Happy last week of January!  We have a busy week planned, so meals this week will also be easy (I hope!).

We'll be having a friend for dinner Tuesday night.  I had initally told him that we'd have lasagna and his face lit up.  I tried my best to change around some meals so I wouldn't have to fix lasagna, but I guess I'll keep it there.  He is a good friend after all.  ;)

Sunday, Jan 29

B - Dad got up with the boys while I slept in a bit, so I know they had cereal.  :)
L - Leftover pizza and bananas for the boys,  Dad and I had leftover salad.
D - we were supposed to have leftover ham and sides, but it just didn't happen.  Oh well...

Monday, Jan. 30

B - French toast and fruit
L - hot dogs, fries and veggies w/ ranch
D - Crock Pot Chicken and Dressing with green beans - I use this recipe.  I tweak it a bit too, but I got the idea from here.

Tuesday, Jan. 31

B - Baked Oatmeal - I may do my usual baked oats, but I found a recipe for Peanut butter baked oats.  I'll let you know which one I cooked. 
L - Meat and Cheese homemade lunchable with pretzels and yogurt.
D - Lasagna, salad and homemade rolls

Wednesday, Feb 1

B -Blueberry bites and fruit
L - peanut butter and honey sandwiches, sliced apples
D - I have rehearsal at the Chapel here on post starting at 4.  We eat whatever they're serving for dinner.

Thursday, Feb 2

B - Muffins and fruit with yogurt
L - Mozzarella bites with veggies
D - Asian marinated Flank steak with stir fried broccoli

Friday, Feb 3

B - Leftover baked oatmeal
L - Ham and cheese pockets - I used this recipe.
D - Leftovers from the week

Saturday, Feb 4

B - Cereal and fruit
L - Whatever looks good at the time.  :)
D - Hamburgers and hot dogs, fries, baked beans.  Standard Saturday night fare at our house.

I don't usually write down a lunch for Saturday because I don't know if we'll be home, or out, or what we'll be hungry for.  It's generally something easy but relatively healthy. 

Hope you all have a great week!  I plan to write posts about recipes I find, use and like.  I figure if I find something that works, I should share the ideas, right?  :)

Blessings,
Missy 

Menu plan week of January 22-28, 2012

The last full week of January and we're supposed to have high temps in the 60's and 70's. Where is winter? Oh yeah. We live in west central Georgia. I think winter is nonexistent. We've had lots of rain though. Guess that's what winters here look like. :(

Here's the menu plan for this next week. Trying another few new recipes. Hope they turn out ok. Also going to do some more freezer cooking for lunches. I'll let you know how they turn out.

Sunday, January 22

B - muffins, fruit
L - apple snack wedges, yogurt
D - Chicken Georgia (Paula Deen recipe)

Monday, January 23

B - French toast
L - macaroni and cheese, applesauce
D - I have a Chaplain Spouse coffee and will have dinner there. I'm not sure what the boys will do. ;)

Tuesday, January 24

B - eggs in a cup
L - peanut butter roll ups with granola
D - Asian flank steak, broccoli stir fry

Wednesday, January 25

B - giant breakfast cookies (heavenlyhomemakers.com)
L - mozzarella cheese bites
D - chapel

Thursday, January 26

B - baked oatmeal
L - meat and cheese, pretzels
D - chicken stir fry (in my new Lodge cast iron wok I got for $40 at the Lodge outlet store!)

Friday, January 27

B - baked oatmeal leftovers
L - quesadillas
D - leftovers

Saturday, January 28

B - cereal
L - chicken nuggets
D - burgers and dogs


Hope you all have a blessed week!

Missy.

Menu plan January 15-21, 2012

I can't believe we're halfway through the month of January already. Crazy. It doesn't seem that Christmas was 4 weeks ago.

I plan on getting my menu plans here on my blog, not just so you can see and comment on what I'm feeding my family, but also as a real copy of what I choose each week. I've been keeping the hard copies in a drawer in the kitchen and the menu plans are taking over the drawer! Blogging about them has to be an easier way of keeping them!

I realize that we're already 2 days into the week. Roll with me, ok?

Sunday, Jan. 15

Breakfast - Whole wheat pancakes
Lunch - out to Jason's Deli
Dinner - Crock pot eye of round roast with carrots, potatoes, onions and mushrooms, green beans and homemade rolls

Monday, Jan. 16

Breakfast - egg scramble
Lunch - cream cheese and peach butter roll ups, applesauce and cheese its
Dinner - spaghetti with homemade marinara sauce, salad and bread

Tuesday, Jan. 17

Breakfast - oatmeal, fruit
Lunch - meat and cheese, cheesy puffs, fruit
Dinner - pizza braid, salad

Wednesday, Jan. 18

Breakfast - eggs in a cup
Lunch - grilled cheese sandwiches, fruit
Dinner - at Chapel

Thursday, Jan. 19

Breakfast - whole wheat banana muffins, applesauce
Lunch - popcorn, carrots and cucumbers with ranch
Dinner - turkey kielbasa with sauerkraut, green beans

Friday, Jan. 20

Breakfast - waffles, yogurt
Lunch - quesadillas
Dinner - leftovers

Saturday, Jan. 20

Breakfast - cereal
Lunch - everyone for themselves!
Dinner - burgers and dogs, fries, baked beans.

I've tried to link up seem of the recipes I'm using this week, but blogger on my iPad isn't cooperating. Shucks. If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know!

Blessings,
Missy.

WonderMill Electric Grain Mill Review & Giveaway

WonderMill Electric Grain Mill Review & Giveaway

St. Patrick's Day craft

I recently found a website called No Time for Flash Cards and this mom has all these great ideas for crafts and teaching.  I've loved looking through it and have found lots of ideas.  Too many, in fact!  :)

Anyway, she posted about marshmallow shamrocks that she crafted with her son.  Because I wanted to do this with Timothy, I tried my best to figure out how I could get somewhere, anywhere to get colored mini marshmallows today.  I can't wait to do a fun project - I have to do it as soon as I see the idea.  But with both boys sick and I'm not the best looking thing today, I decided the craft would have to wait.

Then I remembered that I had some strawberry marshmallows in the pantry and decided to do a heart.  Yes, I know - Valentine's Day was last month.  I'm a month late.  So what?  We had a good time!  I cut the enormous marshmallows in half and had Timothy and Asher glue them on to a heart shape that I drew on a piece of construction paper.  No big deal and they loved it! 

Here's Asher's heart - and NO, I didn't rearrange all of the hearts.  He actually did a really good job on his own!  :)

Here's Timothy's heart:

I had him color inside the heart that I drew first.  Then we put the 'smellas' on. :)

I was trying to think of a way to do the shamrock craft today and remembered that I had a bag of generic fruit loops in my pantry that have been there since last fall.  And I remembered that they are rainbow colored.  SCORE!!  So that's what we did!

Here's Timothy sampling the fruit loops to make sure they are satisfactory.  :)

I'm not sure what Asher was trying to tell me - I think he needs to lay off the fruit loops though.  ;)

Here's Timothy mid-way through.  He's very fastidious about putting the fruit loops on.  His hands are in the air because he got some glue on them and he's rubbing his hands together. 

I love to watch his little hands at work.  He's so careful.

Finished product!  He's so proud and had a good time.



Here's a better shot.  I promised him that tomorrow we'd make rainbows with those same fruit loops.  He helped me make one tonight - his will be fantastic I'm sure!

Blessings,
Missy

What's for Lunch Wednesday



I've missed making bento lunches and posting them here and on WFLW!  Time to get back into the swing of things!

Bologna rolls with string cheese (under the bologna rolls)

Strawberry with flower stem, bluberries with balloon strings and grapes

wheat crackers

I guess this is my version of a 'lunchable'!  Timothy will also have some blueberry applesauce and a drinkable yogurt to round out his lunch.

Check out all the other cute lunches at What's for Lunch Wednesday!

Blessings,

Missy  :)