I have a confession to make. I have been in a real “I don’t want to plan my weekly menu” funk for the last month or so (hence me posting at 8 pm tonight!). Each week I’ve been moaning and complaining to Nate about it, but I do it anyway, 100% because of the blog. And, I have to tell you, I am SO grateful that the blog keeps me on track. I am always so glad that there is a meal plan and shopping list in place. After all, we’ve gotta eat no matter how much I don’t want to plan it out! Anyway, just thought I’d confess, in case anyone else feels the same way…I do, too! And I wanted to thank you all for keeping me coming back each week to plan because it really does make life better! And, as always, thank you for posting your menus each week. They are tremendously helpful when I sit down to plan every Sunday!
Okay, so let’s just get down to business. Here’s this week’s plan!
MONDAY:
– Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
– Salad
TUESDAY:
– Chicken Piccata
– Mashed potatoes + veggie
WEDNESDAY:
– Boozy Beef Stew
– Crusty bread
THURSDAY:
– Leftovers
FRIDAY:
– Bean and cheese burritos
SATURDAY:
– Take out night
SUNDAY:
– Breakfast for Dinner: Omelettes and Smoothies
Click here for the free printable of this week’s menu plus the shopping list!
Okey dokey! Your turn! Tell us what you’re having for dinner this week!
Hi! My name is Jane Maynard and you've landed yourself on my blog, This Week for Dinner™. Every Sunday I share a weekly menu...and count on you to share yours! You'll also find other deliciousness that I hope you'll enjoy!
Maybe it’s something in the air, because I’ve been in that same funk lately!!! You’re right though – we have to eat, so might as well have a plan! 🙂
Here’s mine for the week: http://www.charisadarling.com/2015/10/love-to-cook-hate-to-plan-weekly-dinner.html
must be something in the air! or maybe I’m sending bad planning karma out into the world! 😉
Sunday – clean out the fridge leftovers
Monday – salmon, rice, veggies and salad
Tuesday – chopped salad with crab and bread
Wednesday – pumpkin soup with bread and salad
Thursday – going away party for GAPP
Friday – out
Saturday – pizza
I am grateful & happy for “This Week For Dinner”. Before I started posting my menus here, I would haphazardly go to the grocery store right before dinner when I was hungry and buy whatever looked good. I had no plan at all whatsoever! That was crazy, time-consuming, and more expensive.
Thank you for continuing this blog even when you don’t feel like meal-planning. It helps you and your family as well as all of us posters and our families 🙂
Sun: Pasta Fagioli, crusty bread
Mon: Swedish meatballs, boiled red potatoes, lingonberry jam
Tue: Grilled salmon, green beans, salad
Wed: Pancakes & scrambled eggs, sliced apples
Thu: Grilled lemon garlic chicken, corn, baked beans
Fri & Sat: Business conference
thanks so much, kim! I’m so happy to hear it’s a help for you, and I am really grateful that you post week after week!!
Monday: toasted turkey bagel sandwiches
Tuesday: buffalo chicken pasta [that I keep putting off]
Wednesday: leftovers
Thursday: probably scrambled eggs after work”¦ cause that’s been the norm lately 🙂
Friday: dinner with friends
Saturday: green chile quiche
Sunday: potato soup
Jane….don’t ever think you can quit the menu planning. We would have to eat cereal every night! Remember I “hunted” you down for a reason…lol Thank you for this post and all the work you do to keep it going! You are truly appreciated.
Sunday – Cheesy ranch pasta w/chicken and broccoli, garlic rolls, cukes & tomatoes in Italian dressing
Monday – Chicken enchilada soup w/tortilla chips
Tuesday – Tuna casserole
Wednesday – Turkey hoagies, potato salad, applesauce
Thursday – Tomato and spinach white pizza, salad
Friday – Cajun chicken pasta, salad
Saturday – Leftovers
awwww, so nice! I promise not to quit!!! 🙂 thank YOU!
Monday- Oven baked Shrimp and Fried Rice
Tuesday- Grilled Cheese Sandwiches & Beef Veg. Soup
Wednesday- Crock pot Pulled Pork, Baked Beans & Tater Tots
Thursday- Cordon Bleus, Macaroni & Chz & Broccoli
Friday- Easy entertaining friends in for the weekend with Quiches, Salad & Bread
Saturday- Dining out with Friends (Babysitter – hurrah!!!)
Sunday – Grilled vegetables and chicken legs w/ Bread
yay for babysitters!
Monday: Guinness Beef Stew
Tuesday: Pizza Mac N Cheese and Broccoli
Wednesday: Homemade Ramen Soup and Edamame
Thursday: Rachael Ray’s Mustard and Brown Sugar BBQ Beef Sandwiches and Celery Coleslaw
Friday: Yellow Chicken and Autumn Panzanella
Saturday: Date Night, Kids get Oven Pizza
Sunday: Rachael Ray’s Cowboy Spaghetti and Salad
It’s fall, it’s cold. and we’ve seen flurries… which means stews, casseroles, and soups!
Sat — Guinness beef stew
Sun — chicken pot pie
Mon — chicken wraps, veg
Tues– Tuna noodle casserole
Wed– homemade pizza
Thurs — butternut squash soup
Fri– BFD
flurries?!?!?! that’s just plain mean of mother nature!
I can’t remember my menu for the week except I know we’re having cube steak and roasted balsamic veggies tonight (and celebrating hubby getting a new job!), but I totally appreciate your menu planning. I also get into funks about it so I know exactly what you mean.
thanks so much, emily!!!
Love this blog, Jane. Keep on keepin’ on!
I’m finally back in the kitchen this week after travel, work, and a nasty cold. Here goes…
Sunday: BF bday dinner- out for BBQ
Monday: BF cooks
Tuesday: Sausage and eggplant pasta & tomato, cucumber salad
Wednesday: Potato, corn, chowder with bacon & crusty bread
Thursday: Broccoli and cheese stuffed chicken, green beans with walnuts, garden salad with mustard vinaigrette
Friday: Out
Saturday: Pork chops with Maple- apple-bourbon cream sauce & cheesy polenta
thanks, kindy! I most certainly will! 🙂
Girl, I’ve been with you for almost 7 years! I look forward to Sundays to see your (and everyone else’s!) menu every week! Cooking funks are ok…that’s why you have your go-to recipe arsenal. You have enough of those and you can get through the funkiest of funks.
Sunday: out for Japanese
Monday: Lentil chili with baguette
Tuesday: Mini Italian meatloaves (meat muffins as the 3yo calls them)
Wednesday: Pizza (birthday girl’s request!)
Thursday: chili mac
Friday: leftovers
Saturday: Daughter’s 7th birthday party!
I am so grateful that you have been such a loyal poster all these years – it’s amazing! thanks for your encouraging words, bonnie!
happy birthday to daughter!
We all get the menu planning funk! Who really knows what their family is gonna want to eat any day of the week. But menu planning is our job and it helps to keep us sane when the family is looking at us for dinner. That being said I think we are having some of the same cravings this week.
S: Take out indulgence – 5 Guys
M: Chicken picatta, garlic mashed (leftovers) & green beans
T: Chicken, broccoli & ziti in alfredo sauce, tomato basil salad
W: Leftovers or Tuna sandwiches
T: Using leftover short ribs to make short rib & mushroom naan pizzas.
F: No plans
S: Oktoberfest: Kielbasa & sweet potato & bacon salad, crusty rolls
Make ahead breakfast: Potato, bacon & cheddar frittata
Make ahead Thanksgiving: Roasted butternut squash & apple soup
I want to come to your oktoberfest! 😉
um, you are soooo good…already doing make ahead thanksgiving! wow!
thanks for your encouraging words, I appreciate it!
as usual, LOVE all the menus! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got to say thank you for all your ideas. I just started working again, and cooking dinner let alone planning for the week of dinner was enough to put me in tears. I’m glad I found this website.
well, you are most welcome! 🙂 so glad that it’s going to be helpful for you, that’s my goal!!! 🙂
My best advice for you, for those weeks when it sucks to be in charge of dinner, is to focus more on dessert instead. In my house, on the nights when I feed my family canned soup or quesedillas, I always make a really nice dessert to go with it. The sugar offsets any bad feelings about the lame dinner and everybody stays happy. True story! 🙂
that is great advice – love it!