From Wednesday of last week, we were lucky enough to have two young pilgrims stay with us on their way to World Youth Day in Sydney. They were from Cannon Falls, Minnesota and the whole family immensely enjoyed their stay with us.
Meal planning was nowhere to be seen on the weekend, so I have cheated and just copied one from May. I deliberately chose one which was easy for me to cook and that included many of the kids favourites. This should hopefully make meal times easier during their first week back to school after their two week break.
This is what we are having this week:
Monday: Sausage and Veg
Baking: Rice Bubble Treat
Tuesday: Pasta with Chicken and Spinach
Wednesday: Kin’s Apricot Chicken
Thursday: Beef Stir Fry
Friday: Fried Rice
Saturday: Left Overs
Sunday: Beef Stroganoff
Again, I have included the shopping list for this week’s menu plan as an excel file. The below paragraphs explain what is in the attached excel file below.
Menu Plan and Shopping List 080714
It contains three separate spreadsheets. The first is named “Complete Grocery’ and it lists by supermarket aisle all the ingredients that are needed to cook the family meals for this week.
The second spreadsheet is named “Ingredient By Meal’ and it lists the ingredients that are required for the family by each individual meal this week. I have also left on the aisle and aisle subsection in this spreadsheet for reference, but if you want to print that out you will need to alter the print area.
The third spreadsheet is named “Menu Plan” and is a modified version of the menu plan that I print and place on the fridge. I have a notes section, that I like to populate with any activities that are likely to impact the evening meal routine.
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I’m pretty sure it’s not cheating if you did it in the past. After all, you already did the work
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I strive to be as organized as you are! Another wonderful menu plan!
Sherry
I love the flavor combination of apricots and chicken. I’ve also had apricots with pork and that’s yummy as well.
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I agree, it certainly isn’t cheating. You are allowed a break every now and then!
Your blog looks great, I love the layout.
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Have a wonderful week
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I really enjoy reading your nice tips and thoughts shared in your blog. Especially the meal planning, since before having my child I would have either take out or micro-meals, now I need to plan around my budget. Here are two middle-eastern meals that I have learned from my friend that can feed a large family, as a gesture to say thank you for your effort in this blog!
• Whole Chicken cleaned, then stuff with chopped onion and sultana mix with turmeric and salt, saw the chicken up, boil in pot with one halved lemon, 1 sliced onion, turmeric and salt until cooked. Cook rice while waiting. Take the stuffing out, fried then till crispy and mix with rice, add some nuts for taste. Shallow pan fry or oven grills the chicken until golden brown. Serve with salad. The soup can be served with this meal or used as stock.
• Chicken pieces with bone (with or without skin up to you), shallow pan fry till brown, add salt, pepper, turmeric, spices (such as five species or Indian species), place them on a large baking dish (need some depth). Do the same thing as the chicken pieces with any vegetable you have in fridge, such as potato, onion, carrot, zucchini, cornflower, eggplant, kumara & pumpkin (could boil them a little to reduce the cooking time). Put the mix on the baking dish with tomato puree (dilute with some water), cover it and bake till the ingredients cooked, then uncover the dish to brown the ingredients with placing thin sliced tomato pieces on top. Serve with salad and peta bread or rice.
I like to organize my shopping list by store aisle too. We probably could grocery shop with our eyes closed. Thanks for sharing the spreadsheets!
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