Menu Plan Monday -6 May 2013

Menu Plan Monday again.  For the next few months I'm trying a new experiment to cut grocery costs.  I'm going from twice a month shopping to only shopping once a month.  Yes, I'll be stopping in from time to time (likely on dance night since we are in town any way) for fresh veggies and milk but that's it.  Last month was about $50 less than usual.

We've got a bit of extra school to do.  I just compared the current school week to the number of weeks left on the calendar and we are behind quite a few.  We really lost a bunch after Isobel died.  The lessons are fairly easy for Ella (almost too easy), so I think we can squish at least an extra half/full week into our regular weeks.  I want to be done most of our school work before the hot and stupid humid weather arrives.  I think we may do a bit of workbook learning over the summer just to stay in the habit, but nothing too strenuous.

Monday:

pb&h

leftover roast beef from my birthday supper on Saturday

Tuesday:

pizza

spaghetti and meatballs

Wednesday:

pizza

sugar pancake

Thursday: 

chicken salad

chili

Friday:

grilled cheese

Jane's chicken burger

Saturday:

tuna sandwich

Joey's Fish and Chips with Grandma for Mother's Day

Sunday:

steakhouse pizza -new Pioneer Woman cookbook and likely invite Grandpa over

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Menu Plan Monday -29 October 2012

I hope every one on the coast is keeping safe.  I'm praying that the strong winds that the weather is calling for don't make it this far north/east.  Oh my that is one thing we really don't need!  The poor grain corn has suffered so much stress this summer, I don't think it would be able to remain standing in that kind of wind.  And once it breaks over to the ground it is garbage!

A quieter week this week.  We've just got skating and Halloween to look for ward to, which is good sometimes.

Christmas Countdown week 2 finds us giving the kitchen an extra good scrub.

Monday:  Hunter's Moon if we can see it through the clouds

pb&h

chicken from the store

Tuesday:

pizza

bbq ribs

Wednesday:

??

spaghetti

Thursday:

pizza

leftover ribs

Friday:

tuna sandwiches

garlic chicken -new recipe

Saturday:

??

hamburgers

Sunday:

??

bacon & eggs -they were so good the other day we decided to do it more often now that the chickens are laying well.

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Menu Plan Monday -13 February 2012

Back home from a week in Toronto/Niagara Falls.  Fabulous trip of a life-time.  I'll share some pictures later in the week when I get them uploaded to the computer.

Ella's birthday party is Saturday.  I have to get ready for that and try to get the house back in shape after the window installations.

Monday:
pb&h
KFC
Tuesday:  Valentine's Day
grilled cheese -for my little Valentine
leftover KFC -for my big Valentine

Wednesday:
wieners & beans
roast chicken
Thursday:
French onion tomato soup
oven stew
Friday:
tacos
leftover chicken
Saturday:
leftover tacos
leftover stew
Sunday:
chicken sandwiches
shoulder chops

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Menu Plan Monday -6 June 2011

June is turning out to be a busy month.  Colin is still getting plants into the garden and taking care of all the seedlings that are already out there.  We have showers, parties and weddings.  Oh yeah, and Expo 150, not that we want to be involved with that.  We'll see.

Monday:
pb&h
chicken from the store -cheaper than making it
Tuesday:
chicken sandwiches
Russian brisket
Wednesday:
roast beef sandwiches
leftover chicken
Thursday:
chicken sandwiches
leftover roast beef
Friday:
perishky
golden porkchops
Saturday:
pb&h
spaghetti
Sunday:
sandwiches
KFC
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Menu Plan Monday -25 October 2010

First of all I need to say something...

TWO MONTHS TILL CHRISTMAS!!!!!

I'm going to stop saying I have a quiet week coming up!  I ended up busy last week and missed making a couple things (like the chicken pie and poor knights) and shuffled a couple meals around.  I'm going to try harder to stick to the menu plan this week, our meals are getting too carefree.

Monday:  dance night

roast chicken and dressing

autumnal chowder

Tuesday:  grocery day for those well enough

pb&h for Daddy

bring home something for a treat

Wednesday:

Dutch potato pancakes

leftover chicken

Thursday:   knit night

pizza

chicken sandwiches

Friday:

pizza

roast beef

Saturday:

macaroni and cheese

casserole roasted pork -Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Sunday:

??

hot beef sandwiches

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Menu Planning

When I was a kid, my Mom didn't plan her menus.  We went to the grocery stores every Friday and wandered around trying to decide what we needed for the week.  Mom also had to get stuff for in my Dad's lunch box to take to work at GM.   She then spent the rest of the week trying to decide what to thaw and make that evening.

Fast forward to 2010.  I only shop every two weeks and try to use our limited grocery budget to the best of my abilities.  I hate not knowing what to make and I don't like trying to thaw things quickly.  So I menu plan.  I save money and gas by shopping every two weeks.  I always know the night before what needs taken out of the freezer and how to plan the next day, eg, throw supper in the crock pot after supper or cook just before eating.  I don't follow my menu plans to the letter, some weeks it is more like a guide.  Sometimes life gets in the way and I have to re-vamp everything (like when Colin has emergency surgery, that menu went right out the window).

Previously, I've just written the menus on paper.  But this year I got a new white board for phone messages.  I found this one at Staples.   It has spaces for the phone and for paper messages (we don't use paper much), but the new and exciting part was the month calendar (I know I'm an office supply geek).  I'm able to actually write the menus on the day they are scheduled and I write down any events that come up for those days.  This way it's easy to see if any meals need shifted, easy meals moved to a busy day, etc.  It also helps keep life more organized.  My real calendar is across the kitchen on the back door and not always visible from the phone (which is attached to the wall).

Now all I have to do is figure out a way to put all my recipes (titles not actual recipes) on the computer so I can, maybe, automate the process a little bit.  Some weeks it takes me longer than others to make my menus.  I also have a list (well a number of pages) of recipe ideas that I want to try.  That way I don't have to pull out my cookbooks just to make plans.  I can just go down my list and see what tickles my fancy.
I can't do without my menu plans.  I'd be lost and we wouldn't eat as well as we do now.

Easter Monday

What a beautiful weekend!  It was a glorious day for our Risen Lord.  We had temperatures in the low 20'sC, couldn't ask for better this early in April.  I didn't get an Easter picture because the kids disappeared outside as soon as dinner (lunch) was over.  We had ham, potato casserole, coleslaw, jello salad, buns and ice cream cake for dessert.  It was Colin's dad's birthday too.  He's 67 this year and doing well.  This is Ella's picture from last Easter, but she wore it again this year.  It's much shorter, probably knee length and her hair is too short for braids, but other than that, this is my girl  :)

Daddy had a good day off yesterday.  He missed his morning nap but got one in after lunch  :)  Daddy's back to work today.  In fact, he has 2 cleaning jobs today.  Good thing the rain cleared this afternoon.

Also, it's Menu Plan Monday over at the other blog, so here's the link.

Menu Plan Monday - 14 March 2010

Menu Plan Monday

Menu Plan Monday -8 March 2010

Monday Menu Plan time.  We're supposed to be up to 12C today.  Sure hope spring is here to stay.  We've actually got grass showing!!!!

Menu Plan Monday -1 March 2010

Another Monday another Menu.  Today is the first of March and it has come in like a lamb, a cold lamb but a lamb nonetheless.  Guess that means March is going out like a lion -we'll see.  I'm ready for spring.  Kimberly over at Homeschooling a Handful is making me long for spring, sigh, those lucky west coast folks.

Menu Plan Monday -22 February 2010

Better late than never.  Check out this week's menu.

Menu Plan Monday -15 February 2010

Monday is here again.  Our new menu is up, but since we are heading to Bowmanville it's a fairly brief menu.

Menu Plan Monday -8 February 2010

New menu is up and ready for this week.  Luckily most of the craziness is done.

Menu Plan Monday -1 February 2010

Oops, forgot to post the link for Menu Plan Monday.  Here it is. 

Menu Plan Monday -25 January 2010

Another Monday, another plan         :)

Just 11 months till Christmas, are you making plans yet??

Weather has changed here today and we are stuck in the house.  It is around 3C (37F) and everything has turned into a skating rink.  Colin isn't taking the pigs to the butcher shop until this afternoon, in hopes that the sanders get out soon.  Dull and miserable.  I'd take cold and sunny any day.

Menu Plan Monday -18 January 2010

This week's menu is ready.  I'm trying a number of new recipes this week.  I'll let you know how they turn out.

Menu Plan Monday - 11 January 2010

New menu over at the cooking blog.

Menu Plan Monday -4 January 2010

Monday:

calzones

spaghetti

Tuesday:

Vermont corn soup

hamburgers with cheesy burger buns 

Wednesday:

soup and perishky

oven fried chicken and Swiss scalloped potatoes

Thursday:

wieners and beans

pork chops 

Friday:

hamburgers

stew 

Saturday:

French onion soup (me) and macaroni and cheese

leftover oven fried chicken 

Sunday: 

??

beef pie -new recipe  

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Menu Plan Monday -28 December 09

We've had a lovely Christmas holiday so far.  For us, the Christmas season isn't over until Epiphany on January 6th.  Ella's getting a little snuffly and her cough is coming back.  After New Year's I'll have to talk to the RNP and see if we should get the x-ray (as she suggested before Christmas).  Things are fairly quiet this week.  May do some baking, I got some new cookbooks:  Heirloom Baking  and Food and Cooking of Russia  and Mastering the Art of French Cooking.  Have you seen Julie and Julia?  It's a great movie, I hope to find it on sale tomorrow.

Monday:
hot dogs


bacon and eggs -my chickens are doing so well, I've got eggs stacking up in the fridge.  I need to find some new recipes that use lots of eggs.


Tuesday:
grocery day

stuffed chicken and roast potatoes

Wednesday:
pizza

quiche -potatoes, chives, cheese and ham 



Thursday:    New Year's Eve

pizza

beef fajitas -a new freezer recipe  update -my sweet husband took us out for supper to the local restaurant who we supply with bacon.  I have a very yummy chicken souvlaki and Colin had a herb-crusted half chicken -yum!



Friday:        New Year's Day
leftovers from last night and pb & h for anyone else  :)


beef bourguignon - we're having our parent's over, Colin's sister is working for friends so their family can't come.  This is a new recipe so I hope it's as yummy as it looks.  update:  Colin's sister is able to come after all!!  and now I have the rest of the menu planned:

freezer potato casserole

broccoli/cauliflower/carrot gratin 

garlic bread

chocolate cheesecake 

Christmas cookies 



Saturday:
perogies 

buttermilk chicken thighs and garlic Parmesan bread sticks -also another new freezer meal  



Sunday:
French toast

leftover bourguignon 

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Menu Plan Monday -21 December 09

We're really getting close now.

Monday:
sandwiches

ribs -I didn't make them the other day
 

Tuesday:
hot dogs

chicken cacciatore and roast potatoes

 

Wednesday:
soup -not sure what kind

sloppy joes -from freezer


Thursday:  Christmas Eve

heading to Scarborough as early in the morning as possible.  Hopefully no later than 10.
 

Friday:  Christmas!!!!



Saturday: St. Stephen's day/ Boxing Day

home again after a brief stop at my Dad's as we drive by.

spaghetti for supper 



Sunday:
french toast

Christmas supper at Grandma and Grandpa Fletcher's home


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