I love meal planning.
It helps me with my grocery shopping and it is easier for me to keep my grocery bill down. I am able to keep my shopping down to once a week and this prevents me from making as many last minute or spur of the moment purchases. I can also use the sales for the week to plan my meals.
But there is another reason I like meal planning. On Monday I was going to make a simple chicken and rice dinner. It would not have taken long and everyone would have enjoyed it. But I forgot to defrost the chicken. Without meal planning I might have been tempted to either go to the store for something quick and easy or I might have gone the quick and easy route of take out dinners. Both are hurtful to my budget. Because I meal plan I was able to look at my menu for the week. I looked for another easy dinner that did not need any of the ingredients defrosted. It was an easy swap. We stayed on budget. I didn't need to make any last minute trips to the grocery store. And everyone was happy.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Garden Update
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Jon and I have started a garden every year since we got married. Some years starting it was as far as we got and nothing came of the plants we used. Some years we were able to get a ton of tomatoes and nothing else. One year we only got green tomatoes because it was a cooler summer, unlike this year. But last year was a good year. We had our first really successful year. We harvested tons of zucchinis, cucumbers, carrots, peppers, beans and tomatoes. We gave some to friends and family because we had so much. The idea of canning and freezing didn't really occur to me until I started reading how other bloggers were doing that. So this year we doubled the size of the garden. We planted seeds and started our tomatoes and peppers indoors. The rest of the seeds we planted outside. Everything we planted outside did really well. My tomatoes and peppers failed miserably. So we bought tomato and pepper plants and they are now thriving. Our corn is as tall as me currently. We have lots of lettuces (Jon made a salad from it the other night), the zucchinis and cucumbers are flowering. I have several green tomatoes growing and even a few peppers. Our beans are doing great as well and I hope I can pull some for our dinner tomorrow night.
It took several years to learn from my mistakes in gardening. We made some important changes to our approach to gardening and things have improved. The real reason our garden is doing better is that we moved the location from the side of our house, where we never go, to the back of our house, where we spend most of our time. Because the garden is in a place where we spend time it helps me to remember to water and weed it. It is amazing what 30 minutes a week of time spent in the garden can do.
I am planning on canning my tomatoes this year, something I have never tried before. Jon hates when I buy diced tomatoes, he says he can taste the can they came in. We rarely buy canned vegetables for that reason. But I have never found frozen diced tomatoes, so when a recipe calls for diced tomatoes I often buy a can. I want to can my own this year to avoid the taste issue. And by the way, why is it called canning when they are in jars?
Our garden cost very little to start, less than $20. This is a great way to help your vegetable budget. My garden is not large, and I will still be able to reduce my grocery budget because of it. And this year I am getting smarter about canning and freezing so that my garden will be helpful not only in the summer, but in the fall, winter and spring as well.
If you have any advice about canning or freezing my vegetables please tell me! This is our first year canning and we will take all the help and advice we can get!
Jon and I have started a garden every year since we got married. Some years starting it was as far as we got and nothing came of the plants we used. Some years we were able to get a ton of tomatoes and nothing else. One year we only got green tomatoes because it was a cooler summer, unlike this year. But last year was a good year. We had our first really successful year. We harvested tons of zucchinis, cucumbers, carrots, peppers, beans and tomatoes. We gave some to friends and family because we had so much. The idea of canning and freezing didn't really occur to me until I started reading how other bloggers were doing that. So this year we doubled the size of the garden. We planted seeds and started our tomatoes and peppers indoors. The rest of the seeds we planted outside. Everything we planted outside did really well. My tomatoes and peppers failed miserably. So we bought tomato and pepper plants and they are now thriving. Our corn is as tall as me currently. We have lots of lettuces (Jon made a salad from it the other night), the zucchinis and cucumbers are flowering. I have several green tomatoes growing and even a few peppers. Our beans are doing great as well and I hope I can pull some for our dinner tomorrow night.
It took several years to learn from my mistakes in gardening. We made some important changes to our approach to gardening and things have improved. The real reason our garden is doing better is that we moved the location from the side of our house, where we never go, to the back of our house, where we spend most of our time. Because the garden is in a place where we spend time it helps me to remember to water and weed it. It is amazing what 30 minutes a week of time spent in the garden can do.
I am planning on canning my tomatoes this year, something I have never tried before. Jon hates when I buy diced tomatoes, he says he can taste the can they came in. We rarely buy canned vegetables for that reason. But I have never found frozen diced tomatoes, so when a recipe calls for diced tomatoes I often buy a can. I want to can my own this year to avoid the taste issue. And by the way, why is it called canning when they are in jars?
Our garden cost very little to start, less than $20. This is a great way to help your vegetable budget. My garden is not large, and I will still be able to reduce my grocery budget because of it. And this year I am getting smarter about canning and freezing so that my garden will be helpful not only in the summer, but in the fall, winter and spring as well.
If you have any advice about canning or freezing my vegetables please tell me! This is our first year canning and we will take all the help and advice we can get!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Menu Plan
Life is so crazy these days I don't know how I would pull dinners together if I didn't plan ahead. Taking fifteen or twenty minutes to look through my stockpile and the sales to plan out a week or two worth of meals saves me so much time and stress in the long run. I didn't always do this but I am SO glad that I do it now. Thanfully this week I am on semester break which means Monday and Wednesday I am home for dinner! I need a quiet(er) week.
Dinners:
Monday- dinner out to celebrate Madeline's fifth birthday (her birthday is Tuesday but Jon has to work that evening due to teacher conferences)
Tuesday- macaroni and cheese with hot dogs and baby carrots
Wednesday- breakfast for dinner- french toast with strawberry topping, scrambled eggs with cheese and sausage
Thursday- chicken fajitas (I will cook the chicken in the crockpot while I am at work) using this seasoning mix (so much better than store bought packages!)
Friday- cheese ravioli with pasta sauce
Saturday- texas ranch chicken
Sunday- calzones
for more ideas visit I'm An Organizing Junkie
Dinners:
Monday- dinner out to celebrate Madeline's fifth birthday (her birthday is Tuesday but Jon has to work that evening due to teacher conferences)
Tuesday- macaroni and cheese with hot dogs and baby carrots
Wednesday- breakfast for dinner- french toast with strawberry topping, scrambled eggs with cheese and sausage
Thursday- chicken fajitas (I will cook the chicken in the crockpot while I am at work) using this seasoning mix (so much better than store bought packages!)
Friday- cheese ravioli with pasta sauce
Saturday- texas ranch chicken
Sunday- calzones
for more ideas visit I'm An Organizing Junkie
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Menu Plan
I didn't post our menu plan last week. It was that kind of weekend. We did make a menu plan but we didn't stick to it. My mother in law visited and filled our freezer as she likes to do. And she brought red meat which Jon loves. So he ate steak one night while we had leftovers and another night I made sausage and pasta instead of brinner. We didn't spend any extra and actually had a low budget week (even before I knew my mother in law was visiting) which is good since it makes up for my BJ's run two weeks ago!
This coming week Jon is on vacation from work, Madeline has no school and I only work one day. I filled the plan with easy meals that feed all of us, rather than a Jon and kids meal while I eat leftovers!
Breakfasts:
cereal
toast and fruit
english muffins
Lunches- alll served with fruit or vegetable (sometimes both)
english muffin pizzas
macaroni and cheese
peanut butter and jelly
grilled cheese
bologna and cheese sandwiches
Dinner:
Monday-Chicken quesadillas using leftover chicken from my crockpot chicken last week and corn
Tuesday- grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup and baby carrots with dip
Wednesday- brinner. I usually make scrambled eggs, breakfast sausages and either pancakes, french toast or waffles and serve it with fruit
Thursday- sloppy joes, corn
Friday- pasta and sausage, green beans
Saturday- homemade calzones. I make 5- 3 are pepperoni and cheese for Jon and the kids, and I fill 2 with veggies for me (1 for dinner and 1 for lunch later on)
Sunday- Oven fried chicken
For more menu ideas visit I'm An Organzing Junkie
This coming week Jon is on vacation from work, Madeline has no school and I only work one day. I filled the plan with easy meals that feed all of us, rather than a Jon and kids meal while I eat leftovers!
Breakfasts:
cereal
toast and fruit
english muffins
Lunches- alll served with fruit or vegetable (sometimes both)
english muffin pizzas
macaroni and cheese
peanut butter and jelly
grilled cheese
bologna and cheese sandwiches
Dinner:
Monday-Chicken quesadillas using leftover chicken from my crockpot chicken last week and corn
Tuesday- grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup and baby carrots with dip
Wednesday- brinner. I usually make scrambled eggs, breakfast sausages and either pancakes, french toast or waffles and serve it with fruit
Thursday- sloppy joes, corn
Friday- pasta and sausage, green beans
Saturday- homemade calzones. I make 5- 3 are pepperoni and cheese for Jon and the kids, and I fill 2 with veggies for me (1 for dinner and 1 for lunch later on)
Sunday- Oven fried chicken
For more menu ideas visit I'm An Organzing Junkie
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Menu Plan
This weekend was hectic. Jon was in a car accident Saturday night. He is fine, his truck is not. That definitely threw our weekend for a loop. He needed time to work on his truck on Sunday and then needed my car to go and find his license plate. I didn't have some of the ingredients I needed for the meals I had planned (forgot a few things at the store last week even with my list!) but thanks to my stockpile in the pantry and the freezer we were able to make do. I made lemon oregano chicken on Saturday and we had sausage and cheese calzones on Sunday. No extra items were needed.
The truck will be dealt with. Thankfully we don't live paycheck to paycheck. We are able to save and those emergency funds will come in handy. This is when budgeting and making sacrifices for the sake of the savings account really comes in handy.
We did a stock up trip to Bj's this week. For the rest of the month I hope to only buy produce and milk each week. I don't know if I can do it, it is SO hard to not use the sales to add to my stockpile. But I think we need to. My stockpile is HUGE- you should have seen my reorganizing my "pantry" which is just a large shelf above my washer and dryer- which are in a closet in my kitchen by the way. (I should post some pictures sometime.) My freezer needs a good clean out which will only happen if I don't add to it for awhile. If I can cut back we will set the extra money aside for our CSA share this summer. We opted to split a share with my parents, we are paying 2/3 and they are paying 1/3. It will be great to have local, organic produce all summer. While it is worth the extra cost, it isn't cheap. And while it will cut back on my grocery bill this summer it would be nice to find the money to pay it off now, rather than repay my savings account all summer.
On this week's menu-
Breakfasts:
cheerios
English muffins
blueberry muffins
yogurt
fruit
Lunch:
lunchables
peanut butter and jelly
macaroni and cheese
hot dogs
bologna and cheese
chicken nuggets
grilled cheese
-all served with fruit, craisins or applesauce
Dinners:
Monday- chicken nuggets for the kids, leftovers for Jon, something easy for me at work
Tuesday- cheese quesadillas. Jon will reheat his when he gets home from class
Wednesday- pasta for Jon and the kids. something easy for me at work (yogurt, cheese stick, leftovers, etc)
Thursday- brinner! french toast topped with strawberries (from the freezer, picked at my father in law's farm this summer), scrambled eggs, and breakfast sausage
Friday- Homemade pizza
Saturday- mini meatloaves from my $5 mom cookbook. My kids call them meatballs and love them!
Sunday- Chicken in the crockpot (still in the freezer from the previous week's plan!) I will use the leftover chicken in several meals next week.
For more meal ideas visit I'm an Organizing Junkie
The truck will be dealt with. Thankfully we don't live paycheck to paycheck. We are able to save and those emergency funds will come in handy. This is when budgeting and making sacrifices for the sake of the savings account really comes in handy.
We did a stock up trip to Bj's this week. For the rest of the month I hope to only buy produce and milk each week. I don't know if I can do it, it is SO hard to not use the sales to add to my stockpile. But I think we need to. My stockpile is HUGE- you should have seen my reorganizing my "pantry" which is just a large shelf above my washer and dryer- which are in a closet in my kitchen by the way. (I should post some pictures sometime.) My freezer needs a good clean out which will only happen if I don't add to it for awhile. If I can cut back we will set the extra money aside for our CSA share this summer. We opted to split a share with my parents, we are paying 2/3 and they are paying 1/3. It will be great to have local, organic produce all summer. While it is worth the extra cost, it isn't cheap. And while it will cut back on my grocery bill this summer it would be nice to find the money to pay it off now, rather than repay my savings account all summer.
On this week's menu-
Breakfasts:
cheerios
English muffins
blueberry muffins
yogurt
fruit
Lunch:
lunchables
peanut butter and jelly
macaroni and cheese
hot dogs
bologna and cheese
chicken nuggets
grilled cheese
-all served with fruit, craisins or applesauce
Dinners:
Monday- chicken nuggets for the kids, leftovers for Jon, something easy for me at work
Tuesday- cheese quesadillas. Jon will reheat his when he gets home from class
Wednesday- pasta for Jon and the kids. something easy for me at work (yogurt, cheese stick, leftovers, etc)
Thursday- brinner! french toast topped with strawberries (from the freezer, picked at my father in law's farm this summer), scrambled eggs, and breakfast sausage
Friday- Homemade pizza
Saturday- mini meatloaves from my $5 mom cookbook. My kids call them meatballs and love them!
Sunday- Chicken in the crockpot (still in the freezer from the previous week's plan!) I will use the leftover chicken in several meals next week.
For more meal ideas visit I'm an Organizing Junkie
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Vacation
We are off to Maine for the week so there is no meal planning this week. Most likely we will eat hot dogs and hamburgers most night, with some pasta and chicken thrown in once or twice for variety.
Jon's family has a small place up in Maine where we spend time each summer. We are right on a pond and the kids LOVE to swim so we will spend most of our days in the water. I love vacations but it is definatly not nearly as relxing as it was before kids. It always starts with pakcing for five people and trying to fit it all, along with the five people and one dog, into my liberty. Thank goodness Jon is good at packing- he says it is because he spent all that time playing tetris as a kid.
We won't know who else will be up there while we are so it is hard to meal plan. We also take it day by day but are very good about sticking to a small budget (with a few splurges thrown in, like going to get ice cream cones or making s'mores in the fire, it is vacation after all).
Don't forget to visit I'm An Organizing Junkie if you are looking for menu ideas. I will be back to meal planning next week.
Jon's family has a small place up in Maine where we spend time each summer. We are right on a pond and the kids LOVE to swim so we will spend most of our days in the water. I love vacations but it is definatly not nearly as relxing as it was before kids. It always starts with pakcing for five people and trying to fit it all, along with the five people and one dog, into my liberty. Thank goodness Jon is good at packing- he says it is because he spent all that time playing tetris as a kid.
We won't know who else will be up there while we are so it is hard to meal plan. We also take it day by day but are very good about sticking to a small budget (with a few splurges thrown in, like going to get ice cream cones or making s'mores in the fire, it is vacation after all).
Don't forget to visit I'm An Organizing Junkie if you are looking for menu ideas. I will be back to meal planning next week.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Money Saving Tuesday
One thing I have wanted to do for awhile now is OAMC. The idea of cooking one day each month and having everything in my freezer sounds amazing. I have read about it several times. I have bookmarked pages on how to do it. I even planned to do it one month. If you are going to try it you should visit Once A Month Mom. She does plan for breakfasts and dinners as well. We eat a lot of cereal for breakfast and my kids eat simple lunches so I am only interested in dinners.
But I haven't tried yet.
Why? Honestly it overwhelms me. The idea of buying all the food I need for an entire month at one time and making it all in one day. It jsut scare me.
Plus I am not even sure I have enough room in my freezers to hold an entire months worth of food.
The last reason is that I do not have enough glassware to freeze everything which leaves me with two options. Buy a LOT of pans at once and buy enough disposable pans for an entire month. I don't like either of those ideas and have yet to come up with a solution.
The idea of not having to really cook during the week, that appeals to me. And reading about how others do it amazes me. But I haven't yet.
So instead I batch cook. For me it is the happy medium. I don't worry about having room in my freezer or buying enough food for a month and cooking in one day. I don't even need to find an entire day to cook, which with my schedule is difficult.
Batch cooking for me is to make two or three dinners at once and freeze the extras. It doesn't take more than 10 minutes extra of cooking time and I am left with one or two dinners to put in the freezer. I always know if I have room for one or two dinners in the freezer. One reason I started doing this is because of my first trimester with this pregnancy. I was exhausted and I had all day sickness. There were many many nights where I did not want to cook and we ended up eating a lot of chicken nuggets or fish sticks or grilled cheeses.
It finally occured to me that if I cookes extra when I felt up to it then I would have actual meals to feed my family when I wasn't feeling well.
Some meals I have found batch cooking works well for are:
baked ziti
chicken pot pit
stuffed shells
baked macaroni and cheese
waffles (for breakfast or dinner)
lasagna
taco meat
meatballs
The following are meals I want to try:
enchiladas
chicken parmesian
meatloaf
chicken or vegetable quesadillas
I am also looking for other recipes to try so if you have any please let me know!
This is something I have been doing for only the past two months but it is working out wonderfully. And a few weeks ago I was shopping and found 8x8" aluminum foil pans on sale. If you bought a 3 pack you got 2 free. So I stocked up on pans and now have enough for the next 5 months! When I freeze my meals I double wrap them in foil. The first time I only single wrapped them and there were some tears in the top. The food was fine but after that I always double wrap the pans now.
Batch cooking saves me money and time. Now when I am not feeling well, or am just simply exhausted I am not as tempted to go out for dinner. I can open the freezer and choose from three or four meals that I have in there. No more eating chicken nuggets for three nights in one week (although my kids never once complained about that!). I plan to have a small stockpile for when baby #3 arrives because planning menus, looking for sales, grocery shopping and cooking with a newborn in the house is not an easy task!
But I haven't tried yet.
Why? Honestly it overwhelms me. The idea of buying all the food I need for an entire month at one time and making it all in one day. It jsut scare me.
Plus I am not even sure I have enough room in my freezers to hold an entire months worth of food.
The last reason is that I do not have enough glassware to freeze everything which leaves me with two options. Buy a LOT of pans at once and buy enough disposable pans for an entire month. I don't like either of those ideas and have yet to come up with a solution.
The idea of not having to really cook during the week, that appeals to me. And reading about how others do it amazes me. But I haven't yet.
So instead I batch cook. For me it is the happy medium. I don't worry about having room in my freezer or buying enough food for a month and cooking in one day. I don't even need to find an entire day to cook, which with my schedule is difficult.
Batch cooking for me is to make two or three dinners at once and freeze the extras. It doesn't take more than 10 minutes extra of cooking time and I am left with one or two dinners to put in the freezer. I always know if I have room for one or two dinners in the freezer. One reason I started doing this is because of my first trimester with this pregnancy. I was exhausted and I had all day sickness. There were many many nights where I did not want to cook and we ended up eating a lot of chicken nuggets or fish sticks or grilled cheeses.
It finally occured to me that if I cookes extra when I felt up to it then I would have actual meals to feed my family when I wasn't feeling well.
Some meals I have found batch cooking works well for are:
baked ziti
chicken pot pit
stuffed shells
baked macaroni and cheese
waffles (for breakfast or dinner)
lasagna
taco meat
meatballs
The following are meals I want to try:
enchiladas
chicken parmesian
meatloaf
chicken or vegetable quesadillas
I am also looking for other recipes to try so if you have any please let me know!
This is something I have been doing for only the past two months but it is working out wonderfully. And a few weeks ago I was shopping and found 8x8" aluminum foil pans on sale. If you bought a 3 pack you got 2 free. So I stocked up on pans and now have enough for the next 5 months! When I freeze my meals I double wrap them in foil. The first time I only single wrapped them and there were some tears in the top. The food was fine but after that I always double wrap the pans now.
Batch cooking saves me money and time. Now when I am not feeling well, or am just simply exhausted I am not as tempted to go out for dinner. I can open the freezer and choose from three or four meals that I have in there. No more eating chicken nuggets for three nights in one week (although my kids never once complained about that!). I plan to have a small stockpile for when baby #3 arrives because planning menus, looking for sales, grocery shopping and cooking with a newborn in the house is not an easy task!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Menu Planning 101- challenge two
So I caught up with the 15 meals. Now I need to come up with 5 more meals plus side dishes, fruits and veggies that we enjoy. It is a little harder this time but I am up for a challenge!
Meals-
Green bean casserole with cut up chicken breasts
macaroni and cheese casserole-i use leftover ham from hamsteaks for this
shake and bake style pork chops
chicken pattie sandwiches
sausage grinders
kielbasa on the grill or george forman
Sides-
rice
french fries
salad
baked potatoes
pasta roni
Fruit-
bananas
strawberries
grapes
apples
nectarines
pears
cherries
blueberries (frozen or fresh)
Veggies-
broccoli
corn
corn on the cob
green beans
peas
carrots with dip
celery with dip
cucumbers
zucchini
We have been grilling so much this summer I really had to think about meals that do not involve the grill. For more ideas go to The Happy Housewife and see her Menu Planning 101.
Meals-
Green bean casserole with cut up chicken breasts
macaroni and cheese casserole-i use leftover ham from hamsteaks for this
shake and bake style pork chops
chicken pattie sandwiches
sausage grinders
kielbasa on the grill or george forman
Sides-
rice
french fries
salad
baked potatoes
pasta roni
Fruit-
bananas
strawberries
grapes
apples
nectarines
pears
cherries
blueberries (frozen or fresh)
Veggies-
broccoli
corn
corn on the cob
green beans
peas
carrots with dip
celery with dip
cucumbers
zucchini
We have been grilling so much this summer I really had to think about meals that do not involve the grill. For more ideas go to The Happy Housewife and see her Menu Planning 101.
Meals for the Family
I have not been good about keeping up with the blogs I read due to all the vacationing and having Jon home for the last week. So today when I was playing catchup I read over at the Happy Housewife is having a Menu Planning 101 series and the challenge assigned was to come up with 15 meals that my family likes to help when planning meals each week. I was able to come up with 15 dinners. Not quite as many lunches or breakfasts, but I gave it my best shot.
I almost always plan out my meals for the week before hitting the grocery store. It ensures two things- one that I have everything that I need each night and two that I am buying sale items and avoiding full cost things as often as possible. It is important that we stay on budget here. Especially now that Jon is campaigning to not work summer school next year. If we stay on budget and set a little extra aside this year, and get our normal taz returns, he may get the entire summer off.
I like to have a go-to list of ideas and this is pretty it.
Breakfasts-
cereal
toast
scrambled eggs
waffles
oatmeal
yogurt
fresh fruit
Lunch-
mac and cheese
grilled cheese
pb and j
grilled chicken with dip
leftovers from dinner
soup
raviolis
spaghettio's
hot dogs
turkey or chicken sandwiches
fish sticks
chicken nuggets
Dinners-
eggs, bacon or sausage and pancakes (breakfast for dinner)
nachos
quesadillas
fajitas
crockpot rotisserie chicken
hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill (summer favorite)
crockpot macaroni and cheese
sloppy joes
spaghetti (or some other kind of pasta) and sausage or meat sauce
crockpot cheeseburger soup (a winter favorite)
stir fry- chicken, shrimp or veggie
lasagna
chicken parmesan
chicken soup (another winter favorite)
homemade pizza
Can you tell I like my crockpot?
That is my fifteen. Not as hard as I thought it would be!
For more dinner ideas check out Menu Planning 101
I almost always plan out my meals for the week before hitting the grocery store. It ensures two things- one that I have everything that I need each night and two that I am buying sale items and avoiding full cost things as often as possible. It is important that we stay on budget here. Especially now that Jon is campaigning to not work summer school next year. If we stay on budget and set a little extra aside this year, and get our normal taz returns, he may get the entire summer off.
I like to have a go-to list of ideas and this is pretty it.
Breakfasts-
cereal
toast
scrambled eggs
waffles
oatmeal
yogurt
fresh fruit
Lunch-
mac and cheese
grilled cheese
pb and j
grilled chicken with dip
leftovers from dinner
soup
raviolis
spaghettio's
hot dogs
turkey or chicken sandwiches
fish sticks
chicken nuggets
Dinners-
eggs, bacon or sausage and pancakes (breakfast for dinner)
nachos
quesadillas
fajitas
crockpot rotisserie chicken
hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill (summer favorite)
crockpot macaroni and cheese
sloppy joes
spaghetti (or some other kind of pasta) and sausage or meat sauce
crockpot cheeseburger soup (a winter favorite)
stir fry- chicken, shrimp or veggie
lasagna
chicken parmesan
chicken soup (another winter favorite)
homemade pizza
Can you tell I like my crockpot?
That is my fifteen. Not as hard as I thought it would be!
For more dinner ideas check out Menu Planning 101
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