Meals for this week (11/18)

  

Everyone that knows me knows I am probably one of the least organized people ever.  My house is almost always cluttered, but clean.  I WANT to be organized, I am just not very good at it.

One thing I do stay organized with are meals for the week (or more.)  Joe gets paid every 2 weeks and since Dawson was born we backed up our once a week shopping to every 2 weeks.  Our budget every two weeks is $150-$175.  I make a list of meals on the back of my grocery list, usually 7-9 dinners and a few easy peasy "uh oh" meals for those days that either get really busy or I forget :) 

This weeks meals look like this

Breakfasts:

Scrambled eggs & fruit

Cereal 

Yogurt and fruit

Homemade Muffins (still to be determined what kind!)

Toast & fruit

Waffles & frozen fruit

Lunch:

Tuna sandwiches & fruit or yogurt

Turkey & cheese sticks with ritz crackers & applesauce

Leftovers from dinner

Mac and cheese with ham & fruit

English muffins (made with various toppings)

Chicken quesadilla & fruit

Dinner:

Chicken burgers & baked beans

Cornbread waffles & chili

Pork tenderloin & apple-filled acorn squash

Crockpot Pepper steak & egg noodles (homemade freezer meal)

Flank steak stir fry

Tacos

Chicken cordon bleu & salad

Pesto Tilapia, pasta or quinoa, & frozen veggies in butter garlic sauce

For breakfast and lunch we seem to "wing it" a lot but I am trying to make that a bit more organized so Dawson will know what to expect.  I recently discovered as we were eating at IHOP that he makes a decision much faster if he has a picture of it to look at.  I may start cutting pictures from magazines to make a visual menu for him.  We shall see :)