Meals for the week
Dinners we know we want:
Chocolate Chili from Melissa Joulwan's Well Fed
Meatza Pie (ditto) w/tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, onions
Hot Plates (ditto):
Greek hot plate w/grilled chicken, zucchini, tomatoes?
Indian hot plate w/grilled chicken, cauliflower?
Velvety Butternut Squash (casserole for Friday)
pork chops
leftovers of the above
Sides:
roasted spaghetti squash
carrots (cumin-roasted?)
jicama home fries (if I can find jicama); otherwise sweet potato home fries
salad (plain ol', with oil&vinegar dressing)
applesauce
cauliflower (as itself or as "rice")
Lunches/snacks:
meat and spinach muffins
grilled chicken (make LOTS this week -- could make chic salad)
hard-boiled eggs
almonds
leftovers
Breakfasts:
oatmeal (kids)
eggs (grownups)
also maybe some ground-turkey/applesauce sausage? hmmmm -- could make a lot of that to have for lunch/snack fill-ins as well.
Sunday cookup, which might happen on Monday, depending:
chicken thighs & pork chops
ground turkey/apple sausage patties
meat & spinach muffins
chocolate chili (may NOT eat this until guys are back from March for Life!)
hardboil 2 doz eggs
roast spaghetti squash and sweet potatoes (for home fries; couldn't find jicama this week)
make nori chips
Sunday pm:
cooked 25 chicken thighs & 14 pork chops (garlic/cayenne rub on both)
made a big crockpot of chocolate chili to keep in fridge until ready to simmer
used up all ground beef in chili, so no meat muffins this week
roasted 2 spaghetti squash & 4 sweet potatoes for side dishes
To do:
hardboil eggs
make more nori chips for kids to snack on
Actual Week's Menu:
Sunday brunch: omelette (kids had leftover pizza)
Sunday dinner: chicken thighs + spinach salad + cherry tomatoes
Monday breakfast: oatmeal/scrambled eggs
Monday lunch: chicken thighs + fried sweet wedges
Monday dinner: pork chops + applesauce + cocoa-roasted cauliflower
Tuesday breakfast: oatmeal/scrambled eggs
Tuesday lunch: pork chops + applesauce + hardboiled eggs
(both for home and for college-goers)
Tuesday dinner: saute of chicken, onions, mushrooms, carrots, spaghetti squash + cocoa-roasted cauliflower + spinach salad
Wednesday breakfast: oatmeal/scrambled eggs
Wednesday lunch: leftovers of some description (&/or a big salad w/hardboiled egg)
Wednesday dinner: chocolate chili + cocoa-roasted cauliflower (if any left) + salad
Thursday breakfast: oatmeal/scrambled eggs
Thursday lunch: chocolate chili/any other leftovers + hardboiled eggs
Thursday dinner: chocolate chili &/or omelettes + salad
GO GROCERY SHOPPING FRIDAY
Friday breakfast: oatmeal/scrambled eggs
Friday lunch: tuna salad w/hardboiled egg + spinach salad
Friday dinner: velvety butternut squash casserole (using pumpkin) + green beans + deviled eggs
Saturday breakfast: sausage-egg casserole? (I bought some ground turkey to make sausage, and didn't realized until after I'd gotten home that it was already seasoned with stuff, including sugar. I put it aside, but might drag it out for this breakfast, since we've been otherwise good all week)
Saturday lunch: ? whatever little stuff gets cooked up or is left over
Saturday dinner: Meatza Pie
Still perfecting this cook-ahead thing, still figuring out just how much meat we need to get us through the week . . .
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