I love your menu, Claire. It must be the “planning” component that makes your meals simple, because it looks like a lot of cooking to me.
Though I am trying to change our breakfast to easy things like baked oatmeal or muffins, mostly we have cold cereal and fruit. Snacks are yogurt, fruit, cheese, crackers, smoothies, peanut butter. Lunch is leftovers, mac and cheese, grilled cheese, pb & j sandwiches, pizza rounds using english muffins or tortillas as pizza crust, etc and some fruit if they are still hungry. Sometimes my son says he is still hungry after lunch or supper and he can have fruit, yogurt or cold cereal.
Here is what I have planned this week for supper:
Tues.- Roast Beef in crockpot with potatoes and carrots. (Save some beef for Thurs.) Corn on the cob (leftover potatoes/carrots can be added to soup or casserole later. Freeze for now if you need to.)
Wed. – Eggplant, lentils, fettucini noodles, spaghetti sauce, lettuce salad (I make enough for 3 meals and eat it for 2 lunches this week.)
Thurs. – Beef and Noodles (using leftover beef from Tues.) Corn on the cob
Fri. – Tuna sandwiches, lettuce salad, chips or pretzels, fruit
Sat. – Bacon (in oven – save a few strips out for Sun.) toast, eggs, fruit
Sun. – Baked beans, with bacon. Corn bread. lettuce salad. Use any corn that is left, or green beans.
And here is what I came up with for a rotating 2 week menu, adding in seasonal salad and veg. on sale:
S – Bean/veg. soup or chili
M – egg quiche, using bacon from oven and saving some for sandwiches this week
T – Tuna sandwiches or Tuna Cheddar Bake
W – Lentils, noodles, pasta sauce with any of: eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms
Th – Cheese day (homemade pizza, Cheddar broccoli soup or grilled cheese)
F – Whole chicken in a crockpot (100daysofrealfood.com) with extra legs on top, for kids (save some chicken) Fill crockpot with bones, etc to make broth.
Sat – Chicken noodle soup using leftover chicken and the broth I made. (100daysofrealfood.com) Or freeze some of the broth and make Easy Chicken Pot Pie or Creamy chicken and noodles with the leftover chicken
S – ??? new recipe? Or use something out of freezer.
M – eggs, bacon in oven, toast/biscuits/pancakes (save some bacon for Wed.) (extra hard boiled eggs for lunch)
T – chicken with rice, using more leftover chicken from Fri. night. Broccoli chicken casserole, cheddar chicken casserole, or Rice in skillet with chicken (If I have enough chicken, I can make an extra casserole at the same time to freeze for later)
W – Baked beans (with bacon from Mon.) Cornbread, veg.
Th – homemade mac & cheese, salad
F – crockpot meal or hamburgers (cooking extra ground meat)
Sat – tater tot casserole with green beans, meatloaf and potatoes, or sloppy joes (or use Claire’s Snoozer) and homemade potatoe fries (potatoes cut up in oven with coconut oil)
