This week brings my FORTIETH BIRTHDAY. 40. Wow. It’s also Owen’s 7th birthday! We started celebrating this weekend and the celebrations continue this week. So basically I’m a mess in the meal planning department. But I figure you only turn 40 once, seems like a good excuse to slack off for a week! So, my menu is kind of lame…but I’m at least getting this post published so you guys can share your menus. I’m not even bothering with my usual menu graphic because my menu is straight up useless. As a 40th birthday menu should be! 😉

MONDAY:
– Leftovers from eating at Liberty Public Market

TUESDAY:
– I am taking Owen to Disneyland to celebrate our special day!
– No clue what Nate and the girls will eat. 😉

WEDNESDAY:
– It’s Owen’s family year (no friend party), he has requested PF Chang’s (i.e. dumplings) for his special family dinner

THURSDAY:
– No clue

FRIDAY:
– No clue

SATURDAY:
– No clue

SUNDAY:
– No clue

HA! The laziest menu I’ve ever written! I’m so proud!

For real, we REALLY need you all to post your menus this week. Please provide us with much needed inspiration! Have a great week!

How is it the start of another week already? Was about to make lunch and realized I needed to get my menu act together, so here we are.

MONDAY:
– Chili

TUESDAY:
– Pork Carnitas Tacos

WEDNESDAY:
– Chicken Kebabs
– Rice and Roasted Vegetables

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Rachel Sandwiches

SATURDAY:
– Eat out night (It’s my 40th Birthday Celebration that night!)

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

Your turn! Share those menus, simple or fancy, it’s all helpful! Have a great week!

Happy Monday! I’m finally sitting down to get this week’s plan together. I’m really loving being back into a regular routine, and it’s the first year my kids are all in school all day…which is decidedly bittersweet, but I am loving all the time to get my work done.

MONDAY:
– Pressure Cooker Pot Roast
– Mashed Potatoes + Another Side Veggie

TUESDAY:
– Leftovers (Pot Roast or Chicken Kai Pa Lo)

WEDNESDAY:
– Hamburgers
– Corn on the cob and fresh fruit

THURSDAY:
– Jerkish Chicken
– Salad and Rice

FRIDAY:
– Pancakes (Anna cooking!)

SATURDAY:
– English Muffin Pizzas (Cate cooking!)

SUNDAY:
– Eat out night

I love that as the school year is getting into gear more menus are appearing each week…keep it coming! Your meal plans are incredibly helpful for the rest of us. Thank you for sharing and have a great week!

Hello meal planning friends! I’ve been a bit remiss at meal planning the last week or so. The start of school and then a camping trip to the very remote yet very magical Coon Creek Cabin campground basically threw life into high gear. We are now home, showered, unpacked and ready to get back into the normal school-year routine!

MONDAY:
– Whatever-you-can-find-in-the-kitchen-the-parents-are-too-tired-from-camping Night

TUESDAY:
– Rice and bean burritos
– Chips and guacamole

WEDNESDAY:
– Homemade Hamburgers

THURSDAY:
– Chicken Kai Pa Lo

FRIDAY:
– Leftovers

SATURDAY:
– Eat out night

SUNDAY:
– Pressure Cooker Pot Roast
– Mashed Potatoes + Another Side Veggie

Phew. Menu plan done! Just hoping back-to-school nights don’t totally throw me off! Please post your own weekly meal plans in the comments below! They are so helpful to me and so many others week after week. Thank you!

It’s the last full week of summer for our little family. I can’t believe it! Thank you to those of you who shared your menus last week. They were incredibly helpful as I planned and I stole ideas from each of you for my menu this week!

MONDAY:
– Salmon
– Rice & Side Vegetable

TUESDAY:
– Layered Tortilla Bake Casserole (first time trying this, thanks for the idea, So Hungry!)

WEDNESDAY:
– Stir Fry Chicken and Veggies with Rice

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Chicken Tenders
– Side vegetable or salad

SATURDAY:
– Eat out night

SUNDAY:
– Breakfast for Dinner – Frittatas
– Roasted Potatoes

Thank you once again for posting your menus each week, they are so helpful for me (and so many others) when we sit down to plan dinner! As usual, please share your weekly meal plan below!

Hey folks, I totally disappeared last week. Whoops! We were busy celebrating our cousin’s wedding and eating in a famous diner in Maine and driving to New Hampshire. It was a pretty awesome weekend. We’re now in New Jersey, I have quiet time and we’re going home this week, so it’s time to sit down and do some meal planning.

SUNDAY:
– Smoked pork butt, compliments of my brother!
– Cole slaw, corn on the cob

MONDAY:
– Cora’s Mexican Ground Beef Tacos

TUESDAY:
– Travel Day

WEDNESDAY:
– Caprese Salad

THURSDAY:
– Hamburgers (I’ve started eating my hamburger on a bed of lettuce with all the fixings and I can’t believe how much I don’t miss the bun, so tasty!)
– Salad and watermelon

FRIDAY:
– Leftovers

SATURDAY:
– Pesto Chicken Pasta

Can’t wait to see what you all have cooking! Please share in the comments below. Your menus each week are so helpful!

Greetings from Cape Cod!

It’s Cape week. We planned our menu as an extended family and I am sharing it below. When we got here Saturday we had Sweet Tomatoes pizza, as per tradition. I limited myself to one slice (since I’m not eating much wheat or any dairy lately)…and it was worth every bite. Man, that pizza is good.

SUNDAY:
– 7-Layer Mexican Dip,
– Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

MONDAY:
– Seafood Sam’s (another Maynard Cape tradition)

TUESDAY:
– Jane: Lentil Rice Bowls with Lime-Tahini Dressing

WEDNESDAY:
– Jessica: BBQ Night (Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Potato Salad, etc.)

THURSDAY:
– Jake & Mary: TBD, something vegetarian!

FRIDAY:
– Eat out night and/or eat up the leftovers!

SATURDAY:
– Cousin Sara’s Wedding in Maine!

It’s going to be a fun and delicious week! As usual we would love to see your menu for the week, please share in the comments!

Reports are starting to come in…my friend Mindy made fresh masa tortillas the day after I published my post and my eye doctor made them yesterday, using masa from the same market where I buy masa. Both Mindy and Dr. Hom are converted. I promise I’m not exaggerating about how delicious fresh masa tortillas are…if you haven’t read my fresh masa post, here’s a link!

Enough tortilla talk, time for this week’s menu…which is a bit shorter for us because we leave Thursday for our east coast trip! A Toyota Highlander will be waiting for us when we land in Boston and this time we’ll hang out for a day in Boston before heading to Cape Cod. I can’t wait to show my kids our college town!

Everything on this week’s menu was on last week’s menu…I didn’t cook as much as I thought I would last week, and I really stretched out the carnitas for a few meals.

MONDAY:
– Grilled BBQ Chicken
– Salad

TUESDAY:
– Pesto Pasta
– Salad

WEDNESDAY:
– BLTs

THURSDAY:
– Airport food

FRIDAY:
– Dinner in Boston somewhere

SATURDAY:
– Sweet Tomatoes Pizza on Cape Cod

SUNDAY:
– Don’t know yet!

Please share your own menus in the comments below, we need your inspiration since I’m entering travel mode!

It’s Monday, which means the start of another week, which means time for another weekly dinner menu!

MONDAY:
– Chili

TUESDAY:
– Carnitas Tacos

WEDNESDAY:
– Pesto Pasta
– Salad

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Grilled BBQ Chicken
– Side veggie (whatever I find at the farmer’s market!)

SATURDAY:
– Eat out night

SUNDAY:
– BLTs

You all know the drill…please post your own meal plans in the comments below! Have a great week!

Hello meal planning and food friends. I wish I could say I missed you the last two weeks, but our trip to Sweden was pretty darn spectacular and I didn’t miss meal planning and cooking one bit! But alas it is back to normal this week, which is definitely not a bad thing, actually. Since it’s going to be pretty warm this week and we’re all craving wholesome food, we’re going heavy on salads and summer-friendly meals for the weekly menu.

MONDAY:
– Chicken Caesar Wraps

TUESDAY:
– Pat’s Asian Chicken Salad

WEDNESDAY:
– Grilled Salmon
– Salad

THURSDAY:
– Leftovers

FRIDAY:
– Sausage, Peppers & Onions Sandwiches

SATURDAY:
– Eat out night

SUNDAY:
– Rachel Sandwiches

Please share your weekly menus in the comments below! Looking forward to seeing what you all have cooking and getting back into the cooking groove!

If you want to check out the trip to Sweden, click here to follow along on Instagram. I have already posted a few things and will be posting more throughout the week!