Menu Planning

Do you do weekly or monthly menu planning?  I go through times where I do and I love it.  It's nice to go to the store once a week and have what I need on hand to make dinner.  The hardest part for me with cooking is deciding what to cook.  If I take 10 minutes once a week to plan out the meals then I don't have think about it the rest of the week!

Here's what's on the menu at our house for the next 5 days.

Butternut Squash Stuffed Shells with a Lemon Sage Brown Butter Sauce.  (New recipe)

Fish Tacos

Spaghetti

Herb Roasted Pork

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms stuffed with Spinach, Cheese and Sausage

Have a great weekend!

Menu Planning

I have done this once before, but it was short lived. Buying land, selling our house, packing, moving, building a new house....who has time to cook let alone plan ahead for meals?!

Things have settled down, as much as they are going to anyways, so I have decided to start meal planning again.

Here is our meal plan for the next 8 days:

Homemade tilapia fish sticks, carrots, rice & a salad
Tex Mex Lasagna with tomato avocado salad
Cilantro Lime Chicken - gonna wing the sides with this one :)
Shrimp & Grits with salad
Tuna Melt with avocado on french bread
Mandarin Chicken from Trader Joe's, broccoli, rice & egg rolls
Spaghetti with garlic bread & salad
And we'll probably go out to dinner one night :)

These are all new recipes except for the Mandarin chicken of course. If they turn out well I will post them soon.

Do you meal plan? One week out or a month? Right now I am working on just a week. Hopefully this will cut down on multiple trips to the grocery store during the week!