Monday, February 22, 2010

Menu Plan Monday: The "Making It Last Until The End Of The Month" Edition!

It's the end of the month and I'm out of grocery money. So I'm making do with what we have on hand and planning the whole week's menu from that!

No worries though, we have enough food that  we won't be going hungry! We're a bit low on the veggies and fresh fruit, so we'll be eating up what we do have in stock and then getting a fresh supply next week!

The fruits and veggies we do have are:
carrots
potatoes
onions
small amount of fresh spinach
half bag of frozen corn
half bag of frozen broccoli
2 baggies of frozen shredded zucchini
applesauce
frozen blueberries
frozen bananas
frozen cranberries
canned pineapple
canned mandarin oranges

We'll be eating applesauce and a few smoothies for our fruit this week and then polishing off most of the veggies, too. Lots of carrot sticks coming up!

Anyone have a good pita bread recipe? I'm planning to make a batch of pita bread this week.

Freezer meals are marked with a **.

Monday
To Do: freeze cooked rice in meal portions; thaw fish
Breakfast: leftover waffles, applesauce
Lunch: chicken rice soup**, crackers
Supper: eat at church meeting. I'm taking a dessert.

Tuesday
To Do: start pita bread?; thaw chicken
Breakfast: leftover oatmeal, yogurt with frozen blueberries
Lunch: egg salad sandwiches, carrot sticks
Supper: baked fish chowder, homemade bread and butter, applesauce

Wednesday
To Do: make pitas; soak lentils and rice; prepare baked oatmeal
Breakfast: cornmeal mush with cheese, green smoothies
Lunch: leftovers
Supper: Israeli spice chicken, hummus**, homemade pitas

Thursday
To Do: thaw bread
Breakfast: baked oatmeal with raisins, milk
Lunch: leftovers or pb and honey sandwiches
Supper: lentil and rice casserole, homemade bread and butter, cheese, carrot sticks

Friday
To Do: make pizza crust(extra to freeze); soak pancake batter
Breakfast: leftover cornmeal mush with cheese, smoothies
Lunch: leftovers
Supper: meatball pizza, steamed broccoli

Saturday
To do: plan and prepare food for Sunday
Breakfast: leftover baked oatmeal, milk
Lunch: leftovers or salmon melts
Supper: pancakes, scrambled eggs, applesauce

What's on your menu this week?

**Thanks to Organizing Junkie for hosting Menu Plan Monday!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I'm just doing some blog visiting and watching or I should say listening to Judge Judy.

I love MPM! I get lots of inspiration from the various participants. It definitely helps us from getting bored.
You have a yummy meal plan.