Menu Planning

For those of you that also read my cooking blog, I have actually started posting to it again. Imagine that. I also have started posting my menu for the week over at Old Army Kitchen. I know I started the menu thing last year and was not too successful with it. We have been creating a menu plan for the last few months and it has been pretty successful for us so far...so....I decided it as time to start sharing with the world!

Thanks!

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

This is going to be a busy week. I have an advising day at the local community college and two new student conferences. We also have a cousin coming to College Station for her new student conference at A&M. It is always exciting to have another family member in town.

Last week for our pizza, I made my own pizza crust dough, so we will try to use up the rest of the dough and make calzones.

So, for this week we plan to have:

Calzones (with leftover veggie tomato sauce)
Chicken Florentine
Baked Fish
Breakfast for dinner
Sandwiches

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

I should really call this Menu Plan "after the fact", but hey, I am working to be as consistent as possible.

So this week, we have already had:

Leftovers from anniversary dinner
Pasta with squash, brocolli and tomato sauce
Hot dogs

And tonight we are having homemade BBQ chicken pizza and tomorrow most likely something with fish.

Not the best plan ahead on my part for the week, but hey, I was out of town part of last weekend and then I celebrated my anniversary.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

We have a great little place in Bryan called the Farm Patch. They are the closest thing to a farmer's market that we have that is open on a regular basis. Much of the produce is local, so it is fresh and cheap. We spent a little time there on Sunday picking up lots of fresh veggies and fruits. They had peaches out and they were DELICIOUS!!

So on our menu this week, we hope to have:

Chicken Piccata (yes we are actually having it this week!)
Deer Steak
Breakfast for Dinner
Sandwiches
Baked Fish

So until next week...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

On the menu for this week:

Grilled Brats with Fried Onion Strings
Crockpot Beef Pot Roast with carrots and mashed potatoes
Chicken Piccata
Grilled Chicken with salad
Pan Fried Fish and homemade mac & cheese

We are once again "vowing" to eat at home more. We have been pretty good, but not as good as we truly want to be. I spent most of the morning watching "Grill It! with Bobby Flay" and EVERYTHING looked amazing. I quickly saved many of the recipes to my "recipe box" on the Food Network website so I can hopefully plan for them in the coming weeks.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

I'm back! You probably thought I had just forgot and decided to give up. No way! I am determined to stick with this, but had a few weeks of just "stuff" and not much motivation. I have decided I am going to get back on the menu plan chuck wagon.

So this week we are planning to have the following:

Tacos
Beef Stir Fry and Fried Rice
Chicken and Pasta dish (probably one of the Macaroni Grill meals)
Sandwiches
Salad with chicken or beef
Fish (baked or pan fried, we will decide that night)

We have one more week of swimming lessons, so the meals this week have to be pretty fast and easy to prepare since we get home close to 7 from the lessons.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

So I guess I should start calling this Menu Plan Tuesday...all typed up on Sunday night and totally forgot to post! I guess I am too busy lately.

As much as I love cooking and meal planning, this is a challenge some days. One of my goals with posting this each week was to try at least one new recipe each week. I haven't always been successful with that particular goal, but we have saved money and I feel we are eating better.

Last week we ate:

Monday: Chicken fried back strap with rice and gravy and green beans
Tuesday: Bean and fajita beef nachos with spanish rice
Wednesday: box chicken Italian dinner (the other one was Macaroni Grill, but apparently this one was not)
Thursday: Pan seared tilapia
Friday: Hot ham and cheese sandwiches
Saturday: Bean and cheese nachos

This week:

Sloppy Joes/Hamburgers
Enchiladas
Sandwiches
Sausage
Chicken tenders (homemade)

Kyle's birthday is Thursday, so that deserves dinner out...

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

Okay, so I typed this up EARLY (as in Saturday night) and totally forgot to post it yesterday!

As I mentioned on last week's post, last week we started out with dinner out. It is difficult wanting to cook and knowing we must clean right away since the house is for sale. We also are concerned that we will be in the middle of cooking dinner and we get a call for someone to look at the house.

Last week:
Monday: Ate out at Casa Ole'
Tuesday: Ate fajitas at a friend's house while we watched the Aggie Women Beat the Hell Outta Notre Dame!!!!
Wednesday: Sausage with mac & cheese and deviled eggs. (I know, random group of things, but it was easy)
Thursday: Sandwiches
Friday: Black bean quesadillas
Saturday: Hamburgers
Sunday: Traveled to Llano for a surprise birthday party for Kyle's mom

This week we plan to have:

Spaghetti
Macaroni Grill box dinner
Chicken Fried Back Strap
Fish Tacos
Quesadillas

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

I am sure you have noticed that it is not Monday. It is Tuesday. Did I mention lately how busy things have been? Well they have been busy. Last week it seemed we were busy and then we went to Llano over the weekend to visit family. So our week was short for eating at home.

Sunday: Macaroni Grill from a box. Actually it was a "kit" from the store and it was super yummy! It was Chicken Piccata. We will definitely have that again!
Monday: Ate out while the professional photographer came to take photos of our house.
Tuesday: Tuna salad sandwiches
Wednesday: Homemade pepperoni pizza
Thursday: Ate out at Rudy's
Friday: Travel to Llano

This week we plan to do better, but we already started out the week eating out. Today is the realtor tour for College Station, so we didn't want to cook anything that might make our house smell funny.

Plans for the week:
Macaroni Grill from a box (we bought a different one to try)
Sandwiches
Easy Chicken Cacciatorie
Jambalaya/Dirty Rice
Chili

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

Last week was extra hectic. We are putting our house for sale and after our meeting on Monday, we had a few small "projects". Our evenings were spent working on those and so we ate out way too much, but it was so much easier. Not to mention, it kept our kitchen clean!

Monday: Ate out at Texas Roadhouse...we met with a realtor about our house and by the time we were finished it was late. We decided to just get out and get dinner.
Tuesday: We had LOTS of leftovers from our trip to Roadhouse...well enough for both of us to have a meal.
Wednesday: Ate out at Chuy's
Thursday: Hot dogs (I wanted to try the "new" way to make them, but we were short on time, so I just popped them on the grill...yes I heat up the entire grill for a few hot dogs.
Friday: Ate out at Cotton Patch...we used a coupon...so we saved $5....that should count for something.

This week we plan to have:

Chicken and Pasta box meal by Macarroni Grill
Sandwiches
Beef stir fry
Homemade Pizza
Speedy Chicken Cacciatore
Ground Beef Stroganoff
Chili Grande

Until next time...Gig'em!

Menu Plan Monday

Last week went really well also. We are getting pretty good at eating at home and losing the excuses to eat out.

Monday: Breakfast for dinner-waffles and bacon
Tuesday: Pan fried fish sandwiches with cole slaw
Wednesday: BLT's
Thursday: Ate out at Casa Ole'
Friday: King Ranch Chicken

You can find the recipes for some of the above dishes by following the link or going to Old Army Kitchen. I will get the King Ranch Chicken recipe up this week. We have been super busy this past week and weekend (one reason I am posting so late on Monday).

This week we plan to have:

Sausage
Chicken with pasta (TBD)
Sandwiches
Hot Dogs (trying my friend's way of cooking them in the crock pot)

I know, not too adventurous this week, but I just didn't have the time to go through recipes for the week.

Until next time...Gig'em!