Wow, it’s Sunday already! Yesterday our family was completely lazy. I don’t think we’ve ever had a day like it! The kids thought it was pretty hilarious and it was actually kind of fun. But now it’s back to real life, starting with this week’s menu plan!

The ingredients list for this week’s menu was a lot shorter than past weeks’. Lots of basic ingredients and repeats from meal to meal, which is interesting because the meals are all so different. I love shorter grocery lists!

MONDAY:
– Salmon – recipe TBD!
– Rice and salad

TUESDAY:
–  Swedish Pancakes (Cate’s favorite!)

WEDNESDAY:
– Easy Apricot Chicken
– Rice and veggie

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Beef Stroganoff
– Veggie and egg noodles

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Stuffed Shells
– Garlic knots and salad

Click here for the free printable of this week’s menu plus the shopping list!

You know the drill! I want to read all your menus! Please share, they really are such a wonderful help as we all plan each week!

Hello everyone! I hope you’re all having a great weekend! Let’s just get down to business, shall we?

Only one carry-over from last week’s menu, mostly because I made our leftovers drag out for many, many nights. Amazingly the kids didn’t protest!

MONDAY:
– Butternut squash soup
– Grilled cheese sandwiches

TUESDAY:
– Easy Apricot Chicken (Owen grabbed a jar of apricot preserves at the store, which I didn’t discover until we got home. We haven’t had this recipe in ages, so going to see if the kids like it!)
– Rice and veggie

WEDNESDAY:
– Pasta with simple cream sauce, chicken and broccoli
– Garlic bread

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Eat out

SATURDAY:
– Nachos with Mexican 7-layer dip

SUNDAY:
– BLT Pizza

Click here for the free printable of this week’s menu plus the shopping list!

Alrighty, your turn! Please share your menu for the week. As always, reading through your menus from last week was such a great help as I sat down this morning to plan, so, thank you!

Good morning! Hope you are all having a great day! My Sunday began with donuts and a 6-year-old telling me she does not want to go to church and she is sooooo bored with it. Out of the mouths of babes. 😉

I’m trying a lighter version of the Pinterest menu image. What do you think? Do you like it better than the darker version I used the last few weeks? I’ll probably keep playing around with it for a while!

MONDAY:
– Rachel Sandwiches
– Chips and Fruit

TUESDAY:
– Chicken Piccata
– Mashed potatoes and salad

WEDNESDAY:
– Taco night

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Chicken Tortilla Soup

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Butternut squash soup
– Grilled cheese sandwiches

Click here for the free printable of this week’s menu plus the shopping list!

As always I am looking forward to seeing all of your menus. They are such a help as I plan every week!

Hi all! Is it really time to plan another menu already?

Just a couple repeats from last week because we had lots of leftovers to feast on throughout the week. I always love that!

MONDAY:
– Kitchen Sink Quesadillas
– Guacamole and chips

TUESDAY:
– Sweet Korean BBQ Beef Tacos

WEDNESDAY:
– Chicken Stir Fry
– Dumplings

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Hot dogs
– Fruit, carrot sticks, chips

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken Sandwiches
– Salad

Click here for the free printable of this week’s menu plus the shopping list!

You know the drill – time to share your menu for the week! Plain or fancy, all are welcome! 

We’re having a few friends over today to watch football (Go Pats!) and I made a banana cake with cream cheese frosting. We can’t wait to dig into this cake!!!!

Confession: I did not make one thing on my menu last week. I think that might be a record. It was an unusually busy week and I never made it to the store, but this week should be better! I’ll only do a few repeats from last week. Maybe that menu was jinxed!

MONDAY:
– Cream of mushroom soup
– Crusty bread

TUESDAY:
– Island Pork with Sticky Coconut Rice
– Salad or veggie

WEDNESDAY:
– Kitchen Sink Quesadillas
– Guacamole and chips

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Homemade pizza night (crust recipe, no-cook sauce recipe)
– Flavors: plain cheese, honey goat cheese with caramelized onions

SATURDAY:
– Takeout

SUNDAY:
– Sweet Korean BBQ Beef Tacos

Click here for the free printable of this week’s menu plus the shopping list!

You know the drill – please share your own menu for the week! As always, thank you for sharing ideas with one another, it’s the best!

Hello everyone! Today I have something new to share with you that I am pretty excited about…here we go!

Ever since I started the blog I have listed my weekly menu the exact same way every time – simple text in a blog post with a few links here and there. Today the simple text and links will still be there, but I’m adding some weekly menu “bling” that I hope will be helpful for many of you.

From now on, each weekly meal plan post will be include an image of the menu for quick reference. That image can also be pinned to Pinterest, for those of you who love pinning! In addition to the graphic, I will also include a free printable PDF version of the menu that will include the menu for the week (with hyperlinks to applicable recipes from within the PDF) and a shopping list for the meals for that week. You’ll be able to access the PDF by clicking the menu image and through a link at the the end of the menu. This is what the PDF looks like!

Let’s get this party started!

MONDAY:
– Cheese enchiladas with homemade red sauce

TUESDAY:
– Spaghetti and meatballs
– Salad and garlic bread

WEDNESDAY:
– Santa Fe salad

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Homemade pizza night (crust recipe, no-cook sauce recipe)
– Flavors: plain cheese, honey goat cheese with caramelized onions

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Sweet Korean BBQ beef tacos

Click here for the free printable of this week’s menu plus the shopping list!

As usual, I am so grateful to each and every one of you who post your menus each week. Please keep them coming – they are an inspiration for me and everyone else!

A quick thank you to my dear friend Allison who inspired the new graphics and printable menus/shopping lists. She called me this week with the idea and it was awesome. Thanks for kicking me into gear, missy!

Six months later and our kitchen wall is finally all one color. Woohoo! I also hope to never paint anything again in my life. The kitchen wasn’t too complicated, but the living room about did me in. I’ll share some photos with you when I have it all cleaned up – it’s pretty darn cute!

You would think with the new year I’d be all fired up for planning menus, but I’m stumped. I am having a hard timing coming up with this week’s plan. I guess I liked vacation mode! Thank goodness you all post every week – I got all of this week’s ideas from your menus from last week. So, thank you!

MONDAY:
– Chili with corn cake toppers

TUESDAY:
– Enchiladas (don’t know what kind yet, but I do know it will be enchiladas!)

WEDNESDAY:
– Taco night

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Sausage, pepper and onion subs

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Chicken and dumplings

Click here for a free printable PDF of the menu along with an ingredients list for the recipes.

If you haven’t made a new year’s resolution yet, I’m going to put in my yearly plug for meal planning! 😉

Please share your menus! Looking forward to seeing what you have planned for the week! 

THIS is what our kitchen looks like.

We are finally painting the wall after tearing out the kitchen cabinets over the counter last June. And, because I’m a crazy person, I also decided we needed to paint the 1970s wood paneled wall with built-in shelves in the living room the same weekend, so our house is pretty much a disaster. I can’t wait until we’re done and peace has been restored!

Despite the home madness, we have another fun week ahead of us!

MONDAY:
– I’m taking the kids to Sea World for one last visit before our passes expire

TUESDAY:
– New Years Eve with the kids! Gram’s meatballs, Pat’s Oriental Chicken Salad, chicken tenders, spinach artichoke dip, cranberry slush, and of course sweet treats of some sort! Then early to bed so we can get up for…

WEDNESDAY:
– Heading to Pasadena early in the morning with the kids for the Tournament of Roses Parade! Then Nate and I are going to the Rose Bowl while our kids hang out with their Auntie Anne. Nate and I will eat at the game, I’ll let Anne figure out what to do with my kids 😉

THURSDAY:
– Homemade pizza – planning to make this with the kids as a fun vacation activity, we’ll probably make margherita pizza and honey goat cheese pizza (the kids have all decided they love those flavors – yay!)

FRIDAY:
– Malibu Melt Wraps

SATURDAY:
– Eat out

SUNDAY:
– Grammy’s Orange Chicken
– Rice and Veggie

As usual, I am looking forward to seeing your meal plans for the week! Thank you for sharing!

Happy New Year!!!

Christmas cookie decorating has begun!

I’m going to try to take it as easy as possible this week with work (work schmwork!) and really enjoy this magical time with our kids, including some fun cooking!

MONDAY:
– Breakfast for dinner: Swedish Pancakes (Cate’s always begging for these, so figured it would be fun to do this week)

TUESDAY:
– Chinese Take-Out, a Maynard Christmas Eve tradition!

WEDNESDAY:
– Swedish Meatballs with boiled red potatoes and lingonberry jam (plus a little bit o’ salad)
– Bulle

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Homemade pizza night

SATURDAY:
– Take out

SUNDAY:
– Leftovers or tomato soup or something simple

Looking forward to seeing your menus for the week, whether they are simple or filled with fancy Christmas food. All menus welcome! Happy Holidays!

Now that we’re back in San Diego, we once again receive our friend Nikki’s annual Christmas cookie box. It’s the BEST. Nate keeps telling her she should sell them for tons of money to rich ladies in Del Mar and La Jolla, but Nikki insists the hard work is only worth it for love, not money.

I live for those dipped pretzels.

Holiday-Birthday madness continues! We had a party yesterday and have more birthday celebrating this week. I think work might slow down this week and I can maybe breathe a bit. Knock on wood.

MONDAY:
– Hot dogs for birthday girl Anna (it was her friend party year, so she gets to choose a meal at home for her birthday)

TUESDAY:
– Macaroni Grill (it’s Cate’s family party year, so she gets to pick a restaurant for her birthday)

WEDNESDAY:
– Leftovers

THURSDAY:
– Chicken Caesar Wraps

FRIDAY:
– Cream of Mushroom Soup

SATURDAY:
– Take out

SUNDAY:
– Breakfast for dinner (either omelets or waffles)

Oh, and I will be sharing BLT pizza with you this coming week. Promise!

As always, I am looking forward to seeing your menus for the week. Thank you!