It’s been forever since I’ve put one of these up, but since I’m trying a bunch of new recipes {courtesy of Pinterest, thankyouverymuch} I thought I’d let you know I’m eating something other than what we’ve been eating over and over.
This two week’s menu plan:
Barbecue Sandwiches and Baked Beans (thanks to Donny and Brooke! and my grillin’ hubby!)
Manicotti with Red Sauce and Corn (regular canned corn served as a side, cheapy jumbo shells filled with this manicotti filler and covered with spaghetti sauce from a can)
Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes, Lemon Pepper Chicken Salad, and Sour Dough Bread (bread was on sale at Wal-Mart – I’ll warm it and butter it, regular green leaf and iceberg lettuce salad with boneless, skinless breasts baked in lemon juice and pepper chopped and placed on top of salad)
Hamburgers
Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole (I tried the muffin cup sausage/egg/cheese recipe recently that I had “pinned” and I liked how quickly it cooked and how handheld they were for quick trips out of the house, but I like the idea that I can wake up to breakfast with this one!)
Lunches and Snacks
Leftovers
Spaghetti
Tuna Fish with Crackers
Macaroni
Ham and Cheese Melts (toasty bread, ham warmed to crispy in the skillet with cheese melted on top, with lettuce and tomato – our all-time fav sandwiches)
Granola
Popcorn
Chocolate Pudding
GoGurts (they now make Simply Yogurt ones – yay! frozen, a quick cool healthy treat for the kiddos)
String Cheese
Sunflower Seeds
Dried Cranberries
Cereal
Ice Cream (totally counts as a snack!)
Cinnamon Oatmeal (not individual packs, the real cooked stuff)
Bruised Berry Pie (Matt’s creation from pie shells, blackberries, blueberries and a cobbler type filling)
Cinnamon Rolls with Icing (yes, I know there are no pictures anymore on this post, but if you read the directions I think you can get the gist of it – I use the biscuit cans that are tiny and very cheap)
Lots of fresh fruit and carrots for snacking
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We’re still eating healthier, eating less, and losing weight. Well, I’m not losing anymore weight – I’m at a weight that I want to stay at now. And this will be the first time around that I bring the kids onto the complete healthy eating with us. Until now I’ve been buying hot dogs and lots of frozen instant foods. I knew it was wrong to get our bodies so much healthier and pour junk into the kids’ bodies, but I couldn’t get my nerve up to cook more and serve food that I wasn’t sure they’d eat. But as we ate more and more real foods that were better for us and served them alongside macaroni and hot dogs and frozen pizza and deep fried chicken the more I noticed they wanted to try what we were eating. Plus with the rising cost of groceries I could no longer buy two different meal plans. So, here we go. All together finally. Eating healthier. I’ll let you know if these recipes make my 30 day meal plan or not. I hope they’re not all flops or we’re in trouble!!
Happy Eating!!
