Meal Plans: April 12th - April 18th

I am getting a little stuck on meals for Spring that do not have asparagus.  Share your favorite non-Easter Spring  dinner.

This is what we are having for dinner this week:

Sunday - Picking up something from Wegmans

Monday - "Cleaned up" Monte Cristo for Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month
Recipe from Clean Eating Magazine
A Monte Cristo is a fried ham and cheese sandwich.  This recipe uses turkey instead of ham, and adds a pear and spinach.  Our family was split on this recipe.

Tuesday - Taco Tuesday

Wednesday - Skillet-Toasted Penne with Chicken Sausage

Recipe from Cooking Light
This is deeeeeeelicious!

Thursday - Chicken BLT Salad
Recipe from Cooking Light
Wedge salad meets dinner salad

Friday - Hot Dogs and Brats

Saturday - Dinner Out

Meal Plan: September 21 - September 27

Sunday: Grilled Cheese

The dinner with friends last Saturday was really a surprise birthday party for my MIL.  We just got back from Connecticut yesterday so dinner was a quick grilled cheese.where we surprised my MIL at her birthday celebration. 











Monday: Wegmans Subs

Since we were away the grocery shopping is getting done today so Wegmans is making dinner tonight.  Plus I have had a craving for one their subs.

Tuesday: Chicken Fritter Parm with Pasta

Last weekend I bought Chicken Fritters for the fam.  I bought way too much so I put the other half in the freezer.  My husband loved his chicken parm sub and my youngest was very jealous she didn't have one.  I'll be using the leftovers to make a quick chicken parm dinner.

Wednesday: Breakfast Dinner
                    Sweet Baked Kielbasa Sausage for Moms Group - Using Turkey Kielbasa

Kielbasa recipe from Food.com

Thursday: Potato Kielbasa Skillet Dinner
Welcome Fall!
Recipe from Taste of Home

Friday:  Healthified Copycat Turkey Bacon Ranch Wrap

Ingredients

4 Flatout Light Original flatbreads
8 oz 98% fat free roasted turkey deli meat

8 slices precooked bacon
4 slices Cheddar Cheese
1 tomato, thinly sliced
Red onion slices
1/4 cup Ranch yogurt dressing

Iceberg or Romaine lettuce

Directions

1. Spread ranch dressing all over the center of the flatbread.
2. Top with turkey, bacon, lettuce, cheese, onion, and tomatoes. Fold the sides in, and then roll up.

Saturday: Baby Shower

What's for dinner?: July 20 - July 26

We are back from a week in Virginia Beach where we visited family and my daughter competed in a dance competition.  It was an exciting week and full of good summer food.  We had hot dogs, pulled pork, smoked brisket, pulled pork, tuna subs, crab legs, pulled pork, burgers.  Full on vacation food.  Have you ever gotten to a point where you just wanted the Elaine "Big Salad"?

Here's what we are having for dinner this week:

Sunday: Banana Splits for National Ice Cream Day
Yes, we are the coolest parents ever.  We were tired, it was easy and we had a "holiday" to give us an excuse.  Our splits had bananas, Neapolitan ice cream, whipped cream, peanuts, chocolate sauce, strawberry sauce, pineapple from my pineapple plant and a cherry on top.

Monday:  Chicken Milanese with Spring Greens and Rice Pilaf
I love making this recipe because it is kid friendly without being too kiddy. I do put ranch on the girls salads rather than the lemon dressing.  Pair it with a box of Near East Rice Pilaf (Any flavor will do.  We are having the one with almonds)
Make it even faster by buying a bottle of Lemon Vinaigrette.
Recipe from My Recipes


 

















Tuesday: Tacos with Black Beans
The walking tacos we had the other week added black beans to the ground beef.  I'm going to replicate that with our tacos.  We all really liked it.  Not sure how black beans in the tacos and on the side will go but we have been loving them over regular refried beans lately.  Have you ever bought refried black beans?  Delicious!

Wednesday: Spaghetti and Salad
Have you ever had a spaghetti sandwich?  I totally got the craving while typing this.  I think I will pass on the Texas toast garlic bread.  You just take a slice of sandwich bread, butter the bread, add the spaghetti and fold in half.

Thursday: Grilled Cheese with Bacon and Tomato Soup
My favorite sandwich from Doumar's where we visited last week. 

Friday: Utah State Dinner - Pastrami Burger, Funeral Potatoes and Strawberry Jello Pretzel Salad

Saturday:  We will be at birthday party.

Have a great week!

What are we having for dinner?: May 18 - May 23

Or maybe I should say what we had.  It has been a crazy week.  The girls have had dance pictures almost every night since Sunday.  It feels nice to actually sit down, and do something I actually want to do.

Here's what we are having for dinner this week:



Sunday: Awesome Sauce Chicken with Spanish Rice and Refried Black Beans


On Friday we went out to a Mexican restaurant.  My husband's dinner came with this awesome avocado, jalapeno, cilantro sauce.  It was so good I wanted to drink it.  I hunted Pinterest to see if I could find the Copycat recipe.  I didn't find the exact match but this recipe from Tasty Kitchen.  It tasted just like the sauce as the restaurant.  I added more water so I could use it on the chicken as a marinade and kept half for a dipping sauce.  It was so good I was dancin'.



Monday:
The girls:
Perdue Chicken Nuggets
Easy Mac (Wegmans Brand)

The adults:
Wegmans Pasta Bowls

Tuesday: Easy Spaghetti Bolognese from Spoonful.com
I found this recipe for my husband because I was going out to dinner with a friend.  He said it was super easy since everything is made in the same pot and thanked me for finding the recipe.  The leftovers were delicious.

Wednesday: Black Bean Quesadillas with Cilantro Lime Rice
Quesadilla Recipe - My Recipes
Rice Recipe - The Recipe Critic

Thursday: Bacon, Tomato, Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup


Speed things up by buying the precooked bacon.

Friday:  Mrs. Flax Dinner aka Appetizer Dinner
If you remember the movie Mermaids from the 90's you know what I mean by Mrs. Flax Dinner.  "A word about Mrs. Flax and food: the word is "hors d'oeurves." Fun Finger Foods is her main source book and it's all the woman cooks." This stuck with my mom and I so whenever we have a meal of appetizers (aka to our family as pickies or appys)

Saturday: Our Niece is getting married!!

 

When you make a grilled cheese do you butter the bread or add the butter to the skillet?