Happy Mother’s Day! My mom is in town and Nate, my dad and the kids served us a fabulous breakfast in bed. I’m taking it easy today and am going to get this menu planned as quickly as possible. I hope you’re all having a beautiful day celebrating the great women in your life!

MONDAY:
– I’m traveling to Chicago to interview some senior folks at McDonald’s. If you have questions, feel free to leave them here! Can’t promise I will get to them all, but would love to find out what you’re interested in.
– Family at home will fend for themselves with Grandma and Grandpa!

TUESDAY:
– Rachel sandwiches
– Fruit and salad

WEDNESDAY:
– Homemade Pizza (we ended up making tortilla soup on Mother’s Day instead)

THURSDAY:
– Chili

FRIDAY:
– Take out

SATURDAY:
– Grill night (hot dogs, hamburgers, etc)

SUNDAY:
– Swedish pancakes and fruit (I keep not making Swedish pancakes and Cate is getting mad at me, so we have to make it happen this week!)

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You know the drill – please share your dinner plans for the week, too!

Hello! It’s time to get down to business and plan this week’s dinners! It was HOT here last week, so I ended up not cooking as much as I planned and we had leftover tacos I think three times! And we roasted hot dogs on the beach last night. It was pretty much perfect. This week is supposed to be cooler, so back to the kitchen I go!

MONDAY:
– Pesto Tortellini Soup with crusty bread

TUESDAY:
– Grammy’s Orange Chicken
– Rice and veggie

WEDNESDAY:
– Swedish pancakes and fruit

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Take out night

SATURDAY:
– Hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill
– Stuff that goes good with BBQ food (we’ll see what’s at the store and go from there!)

SUNDAY:
– Mother’s Day! My mom will be here – yay! I think we’ll do homemade pizza night with some fancy pizzas. Definitely honey goat cheese and caramelized onions. I have another flavor I want to experiment with, too (more on that later!).
– Salad

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Good morning!

So, I actually planned my menu yesterday and got all the grocery shopping done already. I might have to make this my new routine because it’s really nice going into the week not having to worry about getting to the store. We’ll see, I’m the worst at getting into a routine so it probably won’t last!

MONDAY:
– Green Noodles a.k.a. No. 3

TUESDAY:
– Taco night

WEDNESDAY:
– Pesto Tortellini Soup with crusty bread

THURSDAY:
– Grammy’s Orange Chicken
– Rice and veggie

FRIDAY:
– Leftovers

SATURDAY:
– Take out night

SUNDAY:
– Swedish pancakes and fruit

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As always, really looking forward to seeing all of your menus! And don’t be afraid to share, no matter what kind of menu you have planned!

Happy Easter! My menu is getting up a little late tonight, but there are still 2 more hours left in the day (at least on the west coast!) so I’m gonna call it good. My sister was in town and we really enjoyed our Easter Sunday all together, so I decided to save the humdrum of meal planning for tonight.

Easter was wonderful. The food was great, the company even better, and the weather was perfect for eating on the patio. I’m feeling very content and grateful. (Quick side note: I used the Heritage line of dishes from Q Squared NYC for all the serving dishes today and they were gorgeous. Seriously, I’m in love.)

Okay, menu time! Even though I gave half of our ham away we still have TONS of it leftover, so here we go with the ham!

MONDAY:
– Leftover Easter feast dinner

TUESDAY:
– Lentil Soup

WEDNESDAY:
– Quiche

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Eat out

SATURDAY:
– Green Noodles a.k.a. No. 3

SUNDAY:
– Swedish pancakes and fruit

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You know the drill – share your menus, big or small we love them all! 

Wow, it sure is hard to settle back into the routine of normal life. I’m kind of wishing spring break would last forever!

Step 1 to getting back into the groove: plan the weekly menu! Here goes…

MONDAY:
– Grammy’s Orange Chicken
– Rice and veggie

TUESDAY:
– Taco night

WEDNESDAY:
– Rachel sandwiches
– Fresh fruit and chips

THURSDAY:
– Take out – Cate has tennis in the afternoon and then Anna is in the school talent show right after. Can you guess what she might be doing? It certainly couldn’t be singing a song from Frozen with a friend like every other girl in every other school in America…

FRIDAY:
– Leftovers

SATURDAY:
– Let’s be honest, take out. I’ll be busy making food for Easter and I’m sure I’ll bail on making dinner on Saturday 😉

SUNDAY:
– Easter dinner with friends at our house! We are still planning the menu, but it will for sure involve ham and homemade rolls.

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Now it’s your turn! Please share your menu for the week, no matter how plain or fancy! If you are also planning an Easter feast and know what you’ll be cooking, be sure to share the details!

How is it Sunday already? GoodNESS.

I have NO carry-overs from last week’s menu. I think that might be a meal planning miracle. 😉

MONDAY:
– Grilled Chicken Burritos, including Cilantro Lime Rice, Black Beans and Creamy Tomatillo Dressing

TUESDAY:
– Honey Goat Cheese Pizza with Caramelized Onions

WEDNESDAY:
– Lentil Soup

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Breakfast for Dinner: Pancakes
– Fresh fruit

SATURDAY:
– Starting our Spring Break fun – we don’t even know what the plans are yet, but we’re going to do something!

SUNDAY:
– Traveling who knows where?! 🙂

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You know the drill – show us what you got! Share your menu for the week! THANKS EVERYONE!

Well, we finally gave into the trend and tried a cronut this weekend. Our cousins were in town visiting and had heard that a donut shop in Cardiff has great cronuts. The donut shop is called VG Donut & Bakery, a place Nate and I have been wanting to try for months, so we were totally down with the taste test! Cronuts (at least the ones from VG’s) are downright delicious. They remind us of a French cruller, but not quite as eggy. Cronuts are more donut than croissant, but the texture is definitely different than a normal donut, with layers of moist goodness inside a crispy exterior. DELISH!

I can’t believe it’s time to plan another menu. Here goes nothin’!

MONDAY:
– Boozy Beef Stew à la Cora my SIL (recipe to come!)

TUESDAY:
– Bertucci’s Tortellini
– Garlic bread and salad

WEDNESDAY:
– Pulled Pork Sandwiches
– Coleslaw

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Eat out

SATURDAY:
– Fried Chicken (I’ve never made fried chicken and want to finally try it – if you have a recipe you love or tips to share, please do!)
– Veggie and biscuits

SUNDAY:
– Breakfast for dinner: Swedish pancakes
– Fresh fruit

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As always, reading through your menus from last week was so helpful as I planned for this week. Thank you so much for sharing! Looking forward to seeing what you all have planned for this week!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, one day early! Our kids are making leprechaun traps right now, (no) thanks to our old elementary school implanting this idea in their heads. I love making all green food and having fun with the day, but having to make it look like leprechauns came to our house overnight is too much pressure! Okay, enough complaining. I’m certainly bringing bad luck upon myself, cursing the leprechauns this way! 😉

Not too many carry-over items from the last weekly menu – I did a decent job cooking most everything on my plan! We’ll see if I can keep this streak alive!

MONDAY:
– Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This year we’re going with a green feast instead of more traditional Irish food. Everything I’m making is super easy to color green!
– Chicken Piccata, Mashed Potatoes, Green Veggie, Green Lemon Bars

TUESDAY:
– Honey Goat Cheese Pizza with Caramelized Onions

WEDNESDAY:
– Boozy Beef Stew à la my SIL Cora

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Eat out (Cate has beach volleyball every Friday for 2 hours, so I’m moving eat out night from Saturday to Friday!)

SATURDAY:
– Hamburgers
– Carrot sticks and fresh fruit

SUNDAY:
– Breakfast for dinner: Swedish pancakes
– Fresh fruit

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Please share your menus for the week! And if you’re doing something fun for St. Patrick’s Day, fill us in!

Happy Sunday! I’ve been a bit lazy this morning so I’m getting my menu up a little late. Nate and my sister are trying to get me to plan on Saturday so that I can publish first thing Sunday morning. Hmmmm…that would involve being even more organized and I don’t know if I can handle it!

I used my entire menu from last week. It’s a miracle! So, no carry-overs. Which means more planning. Blergh. 😉

MONDAY:
– Grammy’s Orange Chicken
– Rice and veggie

TUESDAY:
– Chili
– Corncake toppers

WEDNESDAY:
– Spaghetti and meatballs
– Salad and garlic bread

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Hamburgers
– Carrot sticks and fresh fruit

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Breakfast for dinner: Waffles and scrambled eggs

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You know the drill – get to work! Plan your menus and then share them with us! Can’t wait to see what you’ve got cookin’!

These blue beauties are going in something extra delicious this morning, but you’ll have to wait a few days to find out what it is. Sorry for the tease!

I can’t believe it’s already menu planning time. The weeks feel like days to me, they pass so quickly. Only one carry-over item from last week’s menu, although I am doing the whole breakfast for dinner thing again on Sunday because it’s just so relaxing and easy, which is what I need on Sunday afternoon.

MONDAY:
– Moosewood’s Pasta Primavera
– Bread of some sort

TUESDAY:
– Bistro Chicken
– Garlic mashed potatoes + a veggie

WEDNESDAY:
– Stuffed Shells
– Garlic bread and salad

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Hot Dogs (my kids love it when we have this for dinner, so I’m throwing them a bone)
– Carrot sticks and fresh fruit

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Breakfast for dinner: Waffles and scrambled eggs

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As always, please share your weekly menu! Short, tall, big, small, we love them all! (Total Dr. Seuss material right thur.) Have a wonderful week!