10/10 meal plan

Saturday

#smokersaturday

Phil is gone so we are keeping it simple and the kids and I are heading to Austin to see some good friends for the day and will eat there before we leave

Sunday
Smoker Sunday

Smoked pork tenderloin, baked potatoes, roasted asparagus

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Shrimp Po Boys and fries with fruit

•  Grill the shrimp with some blackening seasoning and serve on crusty rolls with tomatoes and remoulade sauce 
• Bake some fries on the side and whatever fruit we need to use up

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Hatch salsa chicken taco salads with refried beans

• Hatch chicken was previous cooked in the slow cooker with just a jar of salsa and then frozen
• will reheat in the mini crockpot while we are at dance class
• serve in Taco shells, with lettuce, diced tomatoes, avocado, refried beans and cilantro lime dressing

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Pulled pork chili served over fritos

• Using my favorite chili recipe but putting smoked pork butt we froze a couple weeks ago

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Pasta casserole from the freezer with shells, marinara and italian sausage

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

Supreme pizza 

10/3 meal plan

Our freezer is nice and full right now so we are cleaning out the freezer this week with several meats and sides or meals coming from the freezer.  

Saturday

#smokersaturday

Charcuterie board to use up some lingering cheeses and meats

• also serving this spinach dip that I intended to make last weekend and never got around to it
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Sunday

Favorites 

Pulled pork nachos

• Refried beans spread in a baking dish, topped with pulled pork (previously smoked and frozen in these containers), topped with a drizzle of BBQ sauce lurking in the fridge and taco cheese
• After baking at 350 for 20 mins, top with shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes and avocado
• serve with chips for dipping

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Mushroom Pork chops with spaetzle (special from ALDI) and roasted broccoli

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Chicken, black bean, spinach enchiladas

• Previously assembled and frozen in these containers and will just heat in oven at 350

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Chicken sweet potato curry

• excited to try this and using up some sweet potatoes and chicken we had lurking
• serve over jasmine rice

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Pasta and meatballs from the freezer

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

Veggie pizza

9/26 meal plan

 Saturday

#smokersaturday

White wings- tenders stuffed with Monterrey jack and jalapenos

Grill zuchini and squash with seasoning

Red potato salad

Sunday

Favorites 

Eggplant Parmesan 

• Got two eggplants in our farm box this week and will fry all of it and freeze what I don't use for us.  Also makes amazing leftovers for lunch
• Serve over pasta

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Fish Tacos

• top with lime/vinegar coleslaw
• drizzle Chef Flaco Verde sauce on top

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Taco bell Tuesday due to dance class and meet the teacher night

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

French dip sandwiches from freezer

• use leftover frozen Brioche buns
• half a bag of fries and fruit for sides

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Pizza/freezer or leftovers due to meet the teacher night for Elliott

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

Asian night with the Coach's wives

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

9/19 meal plan

Saturday

smokerSaturday

Eat out 

Sunday

Favorites 

Moving smoker saturday to today because Phil is going to do a big ole pork butt I found on sale-

• use the pork butt for cuban sandwiches
• freeze leftovers in these containers for other easy meals (I'm thinking tacos, pulled pork sandwiches, enchiladas)  
• Sides: fries and fruit /coleslaw

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Fish tacos  and black beans with cilantro and lime

• serve with sliced avocado, slaw, and creamy cilantro lime dressing

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
(moved to Monday because Paige has dance class)

• Phil is grilling smoked sausage, peppers and foil packet potatoes

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Grilled chicken, Pasta salad, roasted broccoli

• Chicken will just be in a Lawry's 15 min marinate
• Box of ranch and bacon pasta salad
• Toss Broccoli in olive oil and salt and roast at 400 for 20 mins

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Freezer meal- possibly enchiladas or zuchini rollatini whatever sounds good on Wednesday

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

frozen pizza or leftovers

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

9/12 meal plan

 Saturday

#smokersaturday

Ravioli and salad or out with friends

Sunday

Favorites 

• Grilled Steak
• Twice baked potatoes (from freezer)
• grilled asparagus

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

• Crab cakes from ALDI
• salad 
• Fries

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday

• Taco salads with ground beef, avocado, cilantro ranch dressing, cheese and refried beans

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

marinated chicken and grilled veggies with grilled foil packs of potatoes

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Freezer meal

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

frozen pizza or leftovers

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

9/5 meal plan

 Saturday

#smokersaturday

• Pork tenderloin with a pork rub, wrapped in bacon, smoked and with a BBQ sauce glaze the last 25 minutes
• Served with roasted broccoli (season with olive oil and salt, roast at 400 fro 20 minutes
• Four cheese mashed potatoes 

Sunday

Favorites 

Leftover pizza and salad

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

• Bonus smoker day for Labor day- Lemon pepper smoked wings,
• fries
• carrots and celery with ranch

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday

• Ground beef tacos
• Serve with lettuce, tomato, avocado, salsa and sour cream
• side of refried beans

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

• Gyro kit from Aldi (includes meat, pitas and tzatziki sauce)
• roasted sweet potatoes with everything but bagel seasoning
• cucumber tomato salad

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

• Pasta with alfredo sauce, peas and cooked diced ham

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

frozen pizza or leftovers

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

8/29 meal plan

Saturday

#smokersaturday

"white wings" as Phil calls them- chicken breast pounded thin, then stuffed with Monterey jack cheese and jalapeno

- grilled okra

-  smoked baked potatoes with cheese, sour cream and chives

Sunday

Favorites 

BBG chicken Nachos (to use up leftover BBQ chicken)- top chips with BBQ chicken, black beans, roasted corn, red onions

Then make this Poblano queso to drizzle over top

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Salmon on the grill with a side of our lemon dill sauce from H‑E‑B, box of quinoa and grilled peppers, onions and mushrooms 

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Ground beef tacos

• Top with lettuce, cheese, avocado, diced tomatoes 
• Refired beans on side

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Penne Provencal-  

• Similar to above recipe but I use zucchini and squash instead of eggplant
• Grill brats to go with it 

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Lettuce wraps- use ground turkey and serve over jasmine rice

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

frozen pizza or leftovers

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

8/22 meal plan

Saturday

#smokersaturday

Brats in the smoker, zuchini and spinach casserole to use our Pippa Hill farms produce and some lurking feta cheese, freeze half in these containers for an easy veggie side another night, red potato packets

Sunday

Favorites 

Eggplant parmesan- This was DELICIOUS and really not that hard to make.  Toddler ate two helpings of the "chicken nuggets" 

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Pulled BBQ chicken and coleslaw- using leftover shredded cabbage from tacos to make the slaw . Serve with fries

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Chicken teriyaki tacos with pineapple, avocado and shredded carrots.

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Grilled peppers and zucchini with  angel hair pasta and grilled chicken breasts- Cut large chicken breasts in half and marinate with Lawrys.

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Egg roll in a bowl served over some soybean spaghetti I've been dying to try. 

Friday-
Grill favorites or freezer

Pizza night- serving a frozen pizza for us and Paige gets a personal mini cheese one.

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

8/15 meal plan

Saturday

#smokersaturday

• grill out with friends- take cut fruit and cucumber tomato salad similar to this one

Sunday

Favorites 

Moved from Saturday because we went to friends last minute

•  Smoked ribs- use rub and baste 
• Avocado ranch bag salad
• Twice baked potatoes (previously frozen)- I make a large batch of these and then freeze them individually (plus halves for Paige) and just pull out what we need for easy dinner sides 

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

• Snack dinner Sunday (moved due to a schedule change) to use the other half of our snack dinner cheeses and meats from two weeks ago

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday

• Ground beef Korean Taco kit from Aldi- these things are AMAZING and included everything but the meat for a whopping $2.19.  We will add some coleslaw mix, shredded cucumber and sracha mayo

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

• Chicken and Waffles- Using some of the "red bag chicken" from ALDI that is supposed to be a chick-fil-a dupe and serving it on some frozen Belgian waffles I got in a meal deal with ranch and buffalo drizzle.  Cut up a melon on the side.

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

• Pulling a frozen thing of enchiladas from the freezer- we use these containers to freeze the perfect portion of things for us.

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

Now that I'm back to work cooking on Friday night doesn't happen so it has affectionately become pizza night, leftover night or anything I can pull from the freezer.  Phil will be working Friday nights for the next several months so it's really just Paige and I eating.

• We are using some leftover garlic naan bread from last week that I froze to make our own pizza.  Paige will get one of the inexpensive pizza crusts from the 3 pack you can buy.

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

8/8 meal plan

Saturday

#smokersaturday

burgers and hot dogs for Paige's party.  Sides: fruit salad, veggies with ranch and individual chip bags

Sunday

Favorites 

leftovers from party and macaroni and cheese

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Stouffers lasagna from the freezer because this is my first day back at work and little man's first day of daycare and we need easy.  

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
shredded chicken tacos with hatch salsa- put in crockpot in the am and let simmer all day while im at work.  Top with sour cream, cheese, tomatoes and avocado

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Roasted sweet potato, broccoli and sausage bake - sub brussel sprouts for the broccoli

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Butter chicken with rice- this recipe is seriously the best and easiest butter chicken recipe 

Roasted broccoli- toss in olive oil and salt and roast for 20 minutes on 400

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

Cuban pizza from freezer and Paige gets her own pepperoni or cheese pizza with our Aldi pizza crust 

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee

8/1 meal plan

Saturday

#smokersaturday

Continuing to try some new meals this week with a bacon wrapped sausage and cheese roll.  We also froze some mac and cheese to smoke from a couple weeks ago using this container and will be smoking it too.  

-side of roasted broccoli

Sunday

Favorites 

Finally convinced Phil to do a snack dinner Sunday.  Making a large charcuterie board with meats and cheeses from ALDI, some pickles and pickled okra from the farmers market, french bread and crackers.  

** Phil starts two- a-days for football this week so dinners are going to be as easy as possible since mommy will be home with both kiddos trying to entertain and cook!***

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Pulling out a portion of chicken spaghetti or king ranch casserole from the freezer here frozen in these perfect size containers and serving with a side salad and watermelon.

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Just going with some good ground beef and bean tacos tonight to keep it simple.  Top with salsa, avocado, cheese, lettuce and tomato.

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

French dip sandwiches (pulled from freezer and reheat using mini crockpot) served on toasted Brioche buns (leftover from a previous week's burgers), fruit and fries.

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Moved Sweet and Sour stir fry from last week due to having a lot of leftovers we needed to use up.  This was easy to bump because the chicken and veggies are already frozen and the rest of the stuff is canned.

Friday-
Grill favorites or freezer

Pizza I found from ALDI (either cuban or greek) and Paige gets her own mini cheese and pepperoni pizza with the package of pizzas I also found at ALDI.  These are perfect sized and have sauce packets for each pizza.

Other current favorites:

Collagen powder I put in my morning coffee