Weekly Menu Plan #1 Soup, Salad & Casserole
This is our maiden voyage for a new addition to the blog. Our Weekly Menu Plan is designed to discipline myself while planning our grocery budget. It is my hope that you will benefit as well.
I rarely ever actually write down my menu plans for the week. As a seasoned veteran homemaker, I generally keep it all in my head. Writing it down will be new to me but I’m going to do it! I’m already feeling a little touch of relief as I have realized that writing down the weekly menu allows me to better plan for leftovers and the idea of ‘cook once eat twice.’
Keeping it real
This is our actual menu for the week. I’m usually the one to plan menus but I invited my hubby to participate in the process this week. I’ll just bet you can’t guess which item he requested!
BREAKFAST
Stacy is always in a hurry to get out the door in the mornings. His commute and the desire to sleep means he eats breakfast at his desk when he gets to work.
Our Standard Breakfast Menu
Cereal (Honey Nut Cheerios)
Homemade Oatmeal (Weekend)
LUNCH: Leftovers (I always plan to have leftovers available for lunch at home)
Peanut Butter & Honey Sandwich (no leftovers this Monday, so my favorite sandwich is on my menu)
Stacy packs his lunch choosing sandwich and chips, always.
Weekly Dinner Menu #1 Soup, Salad & Casserole
SUNDAY: Dine out for lunch
Frozen pizza for dinner
MONDAY: Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup (be sure to freeze the leftovers)
Cornbread (make Cornbread Croutons with leftovers)
TUESDAY: It’s Taco Tuesday! I’m cheating and using a store bought kit.
WEDNESDAY: Mandarin Orange Salad with Mandarin Dressing
THURSDAY: Glazed Spam (Hubby’s request 🙂 recipe coming soon)
Homemade mashed potatoes
English peas
FRIDAY: Jazzed Up Meat & Potato Casserole
Green Beans
Crescent Rolls
SATURDAY: Leftover Jazzed Up Meat & Potato Casserole
I can’t tell you what a joy it is to not have to think about dinner menu’s this week! I’m so excited, I’m going to go ahead and get next’s weeks menu ready now! Now my time is free to complete a thrift store makeover I’ve been working on! Be sure to pop back in Thursday for that project!
My printable is purposefully plain, black and white with few graphics so you won’t need a lot of printer ink. You will find space under each day for you to jot down your needed grocery items for those meals.
PLEASE, feel free to share your weekly menu with us in the comments below! Let’s help each other work smarter not harder.
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Ooh, all of those recipes sound delicious!
Kudos to you to planning ahead! I really need to be better about this. We recently were gifted a pressure cooker which has definitely helped with last minute meals.
Hi Shirley what a great addition to your blog. I do not plan any meal, lol. Thanks for sharing on #overthemoon.
Meal planning saves money and my sanity, there’s really no excuses for why I don’t do it more often!! Thanks for sharing yours.
I thrive on a weekly menu and cannot function properly without one. On occasion when I don’t have one, meals are usually late because I spin around in the kitchen not knowing what I am about. I am glad you are already seeing the benefits of it and is having time to complete other projects!
One of these days I will get around to making a plan. It seems like such a great idea and it looks like you are so prepared.
This is so helpful. I feel like I’m always asking the hubby “what do you want for dinner?” With a long pause from him after….”I don’t care, I don’t know”. This takes the guess work out of it! Thanks for sharing!
I feel like the only person left in the world that doesn’t plan meals ahead of time. I end up at the grocery store almost every day of the week because we just never know what we’ll be in the mood for.
The first thing I noticed was the picture with carrots in it. My picky eater daughter loves carrots so I’m always on the look out for ways to incorporate them into meals.
I try to make a menu each week as a guide, it really does help. I find writing it out works best for me , using my phone for lists does not cut it! I like your menu options too!
I have been threatening my family for years that I am going to meal plan.LOL, but it never seems to happen. I guess I was thinking everything had to be from scratch and it had to look like the Pioneer Woman. Thanks for not making look so scary.
I would like to plan the menus but I never seem to do it. This is a great reminder for me. There is just the two of us in the house so I’ve gotten lazy….
I make a rough menu plan and during the summer do a lot of freezer cooking. That glazed Spam sounds interesting, I look forward to seeing what that is.
Yum! Your menu sounds great. We have a chalkboard wall in our kitchen, and when I do menu plan, I write it there. It helps for it to stay simple and for the whole family to see it.
Once upon a time I made weekly menus and grocery lists and was on top of the game. Lately I’ve been letting it slide a little, so this is a great way to get me going again. And it gives me great ideas to add to my own menu. Tonight’s dinner is roasted salmon fillets served over a spring salad mix. Now I just need to get the rest of the week sorted. Thanks!
LOVE this idea! I’ve been meaning to do something like this, but I have yet to get around to it. Looks like some great food options here. Hope all goes smoothly with your menu execution this week!
Omg! These all sound delish!! But I’m an odd ball and actually love leftovers and that jazzed up meat and potatoes left over recipes looks and sounds amazing!! Definitely trying that one 🙂
Yes to the cornbread croutons! 🙂
You just helped me with my eating plan for the next week! <3
I am intrigued by the glazed Spam recipe. My husband and I eat Spam with our eggs and enjoy it but I never thought to eat it as a main dish for dinner so I’m looking forward to that post.
I love this idea. As a busy wife, mom and business woman I always feel a shortage on time. This typically results in my texting hubby to bring home food. But, we all know that isn’t very healthy. Thanks for the ideas!
We do that from time to time also. It’s ball season for the grandson’s so I really need to plan ahead to manage meal prep. I’m already finding menu planning to be a blessing.