I really enjoy cooking and I don't mind making dinner every night but I just hate coming up with the idea. I like to make menus so when it's time to make dinner I can just look at the menu and see what's on the list. It makes grocery shopping much easier and cooking much easier. I usually just do 1-2 weeks at a time and lately I have been a slacker on making my menus.
Yesterday I finally just sat down and went through all my recipes and made a giant list and then I have a little note pad that has all the day of the week on it so I went through and assigned a meal to a day and as of right now I have all my meals planned until November 12th. And really since I have no repeat meals I could just repeat everything once and now I have 2 months! Awesome!
I get pretty excited about it. It makes me feel good to plan out that much.
Anyway, here is my list of meals. If it helps you get some more ideas for dinner then I'm glad I shared it. I should say that I do have some leftover nights planned in there after some big meals and on Sunday's we usually have breakfast for dinner so I didn't include that. Some Sunday's I threw in a real meal just for a break.
Meat Loaf and Baked Potatoes
Brown Sugar Pork Ribs
Beef Stroganoff over noodles
Big Burritos
Parmesan Ranch chicken, brown rice
Greek Vermicelli
Homemade Egg rolls, Teriyaki chicken
Roast with mashed potatoes
Broccoli cheese soup
Crisp Chicken burritos
Potato ham soup
Chicken cordon bleu
Lasagna casserole
Breakfast Burritos
Homemade macaroni and cheese, honey glazed sweet potatoes
Spaghetti with meatballs*
Enchiladas
Homemade pot pie
Chicken Stir Fry
Corn Chowder
Chicken Tacos
Beef Stew, cornbread
Stuffed Shells
Peanut Chicken
Nothing fancy. If you want any clarification of what these are or recipes...let me know and I would love to share.
If nothing else, now you know what we will be eating for the next month...or two :)
*I've never made meatballs with spaghetti so my goal is to find a good recipe before then. If you know of any let me know!
3 comments:
Ok I need the homemade egg rolls, and Teriyaki chicken recipe. And the Crisp Chicken burritos.
Amanda, I found your blog from someone elses and thought I would see how you were doing since our husbands work for the same company. Hope your doing good in St. George.
Anyways your menu looks great. I would love your Chicken cordon bleu and Crisp Chicken burritos recipe if you would share. I can always use help in the kitchen.
Jody Hogan
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Thinking of things to make is the thing I hate most about dinner, so thanks for the idea. I'm so going to do this! I would love your recipe for Brown sugar pork ribs, and anything else that uses the crockpot. I have a crazy day Wednesdays, and I need some recipes that I can put in earlier. Thanks! You're awesome!
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