Weekly Meal Plan

Breakfast

• Cereal
• Oatmeal
• Pancakes
• English Muffins
• Fruit
• Yogurt

Lunch

• Pizza
• Peanut Butter Sandwiches
• Salad
• Turkey
• Leftovers

Dinner - each served with veggies and fresh fruit

• Creamy White Bean Stew (new recipe from Pinterest)
• Chick-fil-a
• Gnocchi Mac & Cheese (also new Pinterest Recipe)
• Spaghetti
• Breakfast: waffles, eggs, & bacon
• Taco Egg Rolls (new Pinterest recipe), beans, and rice
• BBQ Pork Sandwiches and baked beans

Snacks

• Raisins
• Crackers & Cheese
• Fruit Smoothies
• Yogurt
• Trail mix
• Fresh Fruit

Sweet Treat - not sure. Maybe we will just take a trip to Sweet Cece's. =)

Teriyaki Marinated Chicken

I've been looking for some freezable recipes. I buy the Publix Greenwise chicken when it goes on sale. I trim all the fat and put them in their own bags and write the weight on each one so when I go to the freezer to grab frozen chicken I'm not guessing on the amount I am using.

I wanted to have some of my chicken breast all ready marinated and ready to cook once it thawed out. I found this one on all recipes and gave it a try. It's a keeper for me!

6 oz can of pineapple juice

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup soy sauce

3 Tbsp brown sugar

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp ground black pepper

1 1/2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts

In a bowl, mix all ingredients except chicken.

Put chicken in a zip top bag and pour marinade over top of chicken. Marinade in refrigerator at least 2 hours.

Grill or broil chicken until golden and no longer pink in the middle.

 

Freezer Option:

After adding the marinade to the bag of chicken, freeze. Thaw out in fridge 24 hours before cooking.

 

We served our up with some brown rice (made in my new rice cooker - should have bought one of those a long time ago!) and steamed veggies.

 

 

This would also make great chicken to put on a salad or to make a grilled chicken sandwich with.

 



 

Mini Pizzas

These were so fun to make with Colin. Since we had the giant pepperoni, he helped me slice them down to fit on our little pizzas. I only wish the kid would eat the whole pizza and not just pick off and devour the pepperonis. It happens on almost every pizza no matter where it comes from. Sometimes I just get cheese so he can't pick them off.

 

Anyway, here is the easy and fun recipe.

Frozen dinner rolls (we had best results with the 100% Whole Wheat Dinner Roll recipe)
Pizza Sauce
Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
Favorite Toppings

Thaw the dinner rolls.

Preheat the oven to 400°.

Flatten the rolls by hand or with a rolling pin. Add pizza sauce and top with cheese and toppings.

Bake for about 10 minutes.

Three of these are pepperoni but I experimented with one: olive oil and basil base topped with diced tomato and onion with mozzarella cheese. Delicious!

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Beer Bread

I'm sure you've had the Beer Bread from Tastefully Simple. It's delicious and easy. But expensive. At $5.99 a box (and only one loaf of bread) it isn't purchased in this house often.

So I was super excited to find a recipe on Pinterest for Beer Bread. And and easy one at that - 4 ingredients. I wish there was a whole wheat self-rising flour. We'd be making this way more often. I even mixed up a couple recipes and stored them in individual quart sized bags in the pantry so all I have to do to make some bread quickly is open a beer and melt some butter.

3 cups self-rising flour

1/3 cup sugar

12 oz can or bottle of beer

1/2 cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350°.

Stir together flour, sugar, and beer. Pour into loaf pan. Bake for 25 minutes.

Remove from oven, slit the top and pour butter over the bread. Bake another 20-25 minutes until golden brown.

 

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Weekly Meal Plan

Maybe I can get back into this habit. I have tired quite a few new recipes off Pinterest lately and want to post the good ones!

Breakfast

• Oatmeal
• Mini-Wheat's (surprisingly, Colin LOVES these)
• English Muffins
• Eggs
• Yogurt
• Fruit
• Whole Grain Pancakes

Lunch

• Quinoa, Spinach, and Pinto Burritos
• Salad
• Peanut Butter Sandwiches
• Pepperoni (one of Colin's favorite for school - the big Applegate Farms pepperoni)
• Mini-pizzas
• Leftovers

Dinner - each served with veggies and fresh fruit

• Frito Chili Pie (with blue corn chips instead of Frito's)
• Crock pot Chicken Parm, spaghetti, and bread
• Teriyaki Marinated Chicken, steamed veggies, and rice
• Baked Salmon, Gnocchi Soup, and whole wheat rolls
• Black Bean Burgers, homemade guacamole and blue corn chips
• Ravioli Bake (1/2 recipe) and whole wheat rolls
• Teriyaki Turkey Burgers and potatoes

Snacks

• Yogurt
• Fresh Fruit
• Fruit Smoothies
• Crackers & Cheese
• Popcorn
• Raisins
• Trail mix
• Nuts

And in an effort to curb my sweet tooth, I'm only making a dessert or treat once a week. This week it will be a whole wheat cookie cake. Yum. =)