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mealplanning Today is grocery day as well as meal planning day. I guess I should do the meal planning before heading to the grocery store to make things easier on myself. Since we are dieting, I have been trying to cook at least three dinners a week. Here is a rough schedule of my meal planning:

Monday

Breakfast - Biscuits/Turkey Sausage (same all week)

Lunch - Eat at Mom’s and husband eats out (same all week)

Dinner - Frozen meal(going to grocery store late in the day)

Tuesday

Dinner - home cooked meal (Taco Soup)

Wednesday

Dinner - frozen meal(hubby usually hangs out with friends)

Thursday

Dinner - frozen meal(hubby has evening class)

Friday

Dinner - eat out(this week it’s fish on Fridays during Lent)

Saturday

Lunch - something quick like hot dogs, chicken salad, sandwiches.
Dinner - home cooked meal (manicotti)

Sunday

Lunch - eat at Mom’s
Dinner - leftovers at Mom’s (or meatloaf)

This week I will probably buy another 2 pounds of lean ground beef and hopefully get three meals out of it. I might do a meatloaf one day with potatoes and vegetables. Another recipe that I haven’t done in a while is taco soup. Now is the time to eat soup before it gets too hot to enjoy it. Another dish that I think I will do is manicotti as my husband loves it. So besides my two pounds of lean ground beef I will also need some turkey sausage. That will keep the calories down in the manicotti.

Now to gather my recipes for the week and make the grocery list. For some recipes I already have at least a few of the items, so hopefully this week’s grocery trip won’t break the bank.


Posted in Smart Shopping on March 9th, 2009

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