1/23 meal plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

Jenny and Paige at horse show- eat out, phil leftovers

Sunday

#smokersunday

Smoked chicken, asparagus and red potatoes packet

• Using his favorite rub to smoke a whole chicken
• Roasted asparagus tossed in butter, lemon pepper seasoning and garlic powder
• Red potatoes in the smoker, chopped, olive oil and italian seasoning

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Burgers, fries and grilled veggies

• Phil will grill burgers
• use leftover sandwich toppings (lettuce, tomato burger sauce and buns)
• grill some mushrooms and peppers marinated in a lawrys seasoning
• Cook a bag of root vegetable fries from ALDI in the air fryer

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

*Dance class and away game*

• Leftover soup from freezer
• Snack box for Paige

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Chicken Enchilada casserole

• previously frozen in containers like this
• stuffed with shredded rotisserie chicken, spinach, cheese, black bean and corn
• use premade HCF enchilada sauce
• heat for 30 minutes from thawed

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Asian beef and broccoli

• using ground beef to make a simple beef and broccoli meal
• serve over jasmine rice

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Game*

Pizza before the game

1/16 meal plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

Grilled chicken sandwiches

• Use frozen chicken and have Phil grill
• serve on  Brioche buns with lettuce, tomatoes and burger sauce
• side of roasted garlic parmesan red potatoes using my air fryer bake setting
• tomato cucumber salad similar to this but we don't measure anything 

Sunday

#smokersunday

Out of town for Sadie birthday

• Jenny and Paige will be in Austin and eating on the road
• Phil and Elliott will have leftovers

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Burgers, fries and grilled veggies

• Phil will grill burgers
• use leftover sandwich toppings (lettuce, tomato burger sauce and buns)
• grill some mushrooms and peppers marinated in a lawrys seasoning
• Cook a bag of root vegetable fries from ALDI in the sir fryer

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

*Dance class and away game*

• Leftovers soup from freezer
• Snack box for Paige

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Chicken pot pie

• I froze a couple of these over break so I can just thaw and put in the oven for dinner
• Serve with some fruit as a side

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Dumplings with fried rice and edamame

• Picked up some frozen Korean BBQ dumpling from ALDI the other week
• Sides are steamed Edamame and fried rice

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Game*

Pizza before the game

1/9 meals plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

Sunday

#smokersunday

Snow day- so we made this amazing chili with some leftover frozen smoked pork butt

• left out the bacon since I didn't have any
• added some crushed tomatoes and a little extra broth since the pork soaked up a lot of the liquid
• serve with choice of noodles, fritos sour cream and cheese

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Baked Ziti and Ceasar Salad

• Trying out this recipe that friend shared last week
• Making sure to use the "real" mozzarella for some melty goodness

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

*Dance class and away game*

• Leftovers chili or ziti
• snack box for paige 

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Crockpot shredded chicken tacos

• Jar of salsa and some chicken in the crockpot all day. Use the mixer to shred when I get home and serve in tacos
• Serve with chopped tomatoes, sour cream, avocado 
• refried beans on the side (use to make bean and cheese tacos for Paige)

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Chicken Quesadillas

• Use leftover chicken for chicken and cheese quesadillas
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Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Game*

Pizza

1/2 meal plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

Sunday

#smokersunday

Wings, fries and carrots/celery

• trying out the new air fryer with some buffalo wings using this recipe
• fries and celery/ carrots and ranch
• Paige gets chicken nuggets

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Beef Stroganoff

• using this recipe 
• Air fryer asparagus as a side (will leave a few with less seasoning for Elliott)

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

*Dance class and away game*

• Pasta Fagioli soup from the freezer, and sandwich on the side
• Paige gets a snack box before dance class, and E gets a pouch 

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Grilled Pork chops, side of skillet potatoes and balsamic brussel sprouts

• Phil will grill the pork chops ahead of time on Monday, and I will quickly reheat in the air fryer
• Roasted brussel sprouts  in the air fryer and I'm SO excited to try these

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Dumplings, lo mein and steamed edamame

• Bought some Korean BBQ dumplings from ALDI, will drizzle with siracha mayo for Phil and I
• Steamed Edamame (mash for Elliott)
• Lo Mein also from the freezer

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Scouting*

Pizza

12/19 meal plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

Fajitas

• Grill marinated chicken and peppers/onions
• refried beans and mexican rice for sides
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Sunday

#smokersunday

Cuban sliders with fries/salad

• Make an extra 2 trays for freezer

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Chicken Pot Pie-

• Make double to freeze a few for January
• Add diced potatoes to make more filling, sauté in butter for a few minutes then coat with flour
• I use rotisserie chicken, broth and cream for the filling
• frozen peas and carrots veggies
• use a premade puff pastry for the top

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

Phil Game

Pasta Fagioli Soup and garlic bread

• This is my favorite pasta fagioli soup.  It is so easy and turns out amazing in the instant pot

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Chicken enchilada casserole- use this filling but make a casserole like this

• Using some of the shredded chicken from Monday to make enchiladas 
• will freeze a couple trays for us
• serve with avocado and chips/salsa

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

**Christmas Eve**

Gumbo

• Using Phil's Mom's Gumbo recipe to make some seafood gumbo

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Christmas*

Grilled steak filets, steamed crab legs, steamed artichokes and potatoes

12/12 meal plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

*Caitlin and Sadie Visit**

Eat out at Winter Wonderland or pick up Pizza on the way home

Sunday

#smokersunday

Steak, scalloped potatoes and roasted asparagus

• Phil will grill the steak and season with Fiesta steak seasoning
• boxed scalloped potatoes
• roast asparagus topped with butter and olive oil and garlic and lemon pepper seasoning

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Creamy gnocci with salad

• Using the gnocci we froze from a couple weeks ago and make a tomato-y creamy pasta with some spicy sausage
• Cesar Salad

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

*Phil Game*

Asian frozen dumplings, mashed avocado, edamame

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Skillet hash

• Brown potatoes in skillet with vegetable oil
• Add canned green beans, smoked sausage and BBQ sauce and heat till warm

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Lettuce Wraps- 

• Use this sauce packet serve with rice

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Game*

Pizza

12/5 meal plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

Sunday

#smokersunday

Grilled chicken breast, grilled squash and zucchini (Season with olive oil and lawrys), baked potatoes

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches
*Phil Game and Paige dance class*

Paige will eat a snack box on the way to dance class, and maybe another small snack when we get home

I will eat soup (heated in the mini crockpot while we are at dance class) and a sandwich or salad

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Ground beef tacos

• top with lettuce, tomato, avocado, salsa
• side of refried beans

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Sauteed white fish (seasoned with lawrys and sweet and spicy seasoning), roasted veggies- sweet potato, red potatoes, broccoli (also roast apples and green peppers cut for Elliott)

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil game*

Pizza or snack dinner

11/21 meal plan

  Saturday

Grill or favorites

Steak, angel hair pasta, broccoli

Sunday

#smokersunday

Chili from the freezer

• serve over noodles and fritos 
• top with sour cream and cheese

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Snack dinner

• We keep a selection of cheeses and meats on hand
• We also serve it with crackers, cheese crisps, pickles, beets, olives etc
• Also pulling out some fried green beans to bake

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches
Meatball subs

• Use frozen meatballs and marinara sauce in the crockpot while we go to the game
• serve with fries and a Italian side salad

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Bacon wrapped pork loin

• serve with spinach souffle
• roasted potatoes- chop potatoes and put in a glass pan with but and roast at 425 for 30 mins

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

Thanksgiving

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

Pizza/leftovers

11/14 meal plan

  Saturday

Grill or favorites

Mom is gone for the night so daddy is ordering pizza or cooking one from the freezer

Sunday

#smokersunday

Smoked ribs, frozen german potato salad and roasted zuchinni and yellow squash

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Sheet pan gnocchi, kale, sausage bake

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

Thawing some soup in the crockpot while we go to dance class

• either chili, broccoli and cheese, or butternut
• serve with sandwiches/chips/salad

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Eggplant parmesan from freezer with a side salad and fruit

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

salsa chicken tacos

• awhile ago we made a big batch of green salsa chicken and froze portions to use
• heat in the mini crockpot and serve as green chicken tacos 
• top with avocado, sour cream, tomatoes and shredded cheese
• black beans

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Scouting*

Pizza

11/7 meal plan

 Saturday

Grill or favorites

Snack dinner with some leftover crackers/meats/cheeses from Halloween.

Sunday

#smokersunday

Wings in the smoker with smoked queso and chips/fries

• also trying this arugula salad

Monday
Pasta/seafood night

Pulled pork tacos

• Reheat meat in small crockpot
• top with cilantro, queso, red onion, shredded cheese
• serve with refried beans

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday/Soup and sandwiches

Phil scrimmage- Midway

Grabbing a bite to eat out with the kids since we will go straight from dance class to the scrimmage

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Crockpot Butternut squash soup or this one

• Loading up the freezer with some different soups for Tuesday nights using these containers
• Ordered a farm fresh basket and one of the items was a butternut squash so I'm excited to try this soup
• will serve with crusty bread or garlic bread

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

*Phil JH Game*

Korean BBQ Dumplings or Southwestern eggrolls

• Picked up several of these the other week at ALDI and we are slowly working our way through
• will serve with fruit and mashed avocado for dipping

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Scouting*

Quesadillas/Tacos with leftover pulled pork

• serve with queso, red onion, shredded cheese, cilantro
• refried beans

10/31 meal plan

Saturday

#smokersaturday

Halloween snack dinner with some spooky favorites and some amazing cheese options I scored from ALDI this last weekend.

Sunday
Grill or favorites

Smoked Turkey Breast stuffed with bacon, pesto and Monterrey jack cheese

Roasted sweet potatoes and asparagus

Monday
Pasta/seafood night
Ravioli and pasta sauce with Italian sausage  side cesaer salad

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Broccoli Cheddar soup in the crockpot will cook while we are at dance class and be ready when we are home.  Serve with biscuits from freezer.

• Leftovers will be frozen in these containers

Wednesday

Instant Pot/Casserole/Grill

Gyros from the freezer- serve with sliced tomatoes/cucumber salad and fries

• This was a box dinner from ALDI and it comes with the meat, pita, tzatziki

Thursday

Asian or Mexican

*Phil JH Game*

Freezer Korean BBQ dumplings or southwestern egg rolls with smashed avocado for dipping

Friday-
Pizza or freezer

*Phil Scouting*

Pizza