Menu Plan Monday 7/30

Monday- Olive Oil Spaghetti with oven fried zucchini (also known as Pasta Con Agilo E Olio)

Tuesday- Shake n Bake Pork Chops with mashed potatoes (cut from pork loin..posting on this soon)
Wednesday- BBQ Chicken Sliders
Thursday- Taco Rice with homemade tortilla chips
Friday- Italian Chicken with Pasta Roni
Saturday- Frozen Pizza/Leftovers
Sunday- Mystery Sunday

Can you believe that August starts this week because I can't believe it is already here!!!  Summer is almost over and this is the last month before my little man goes back to school.  Post power outage, I have worked so hard to clear out the freezer and pantry but I am still surprised when I can still pull together a meal with everything in the house.  We had very limited shopping July and we were still able to have lots of meals without too much headache. 

Have you ever found yourself in a rut with cooking?  Every time we have pork chops, we have stuffing.  Don't have stuffing in the house so what are we going to do?  We are having mashed potatoes!!!  They are super yummy to and we have the ingredients ready to go in the house.  We always have mac and cheese with sandwiches but what else can we have?  I am going to whip up another pasta dish because we have plenty of that to go around.  The Parmesan pasta dish goes with zucchini but I have edamame in the freezer so we are going to figure out how that goes in the dish.  It helps use up things that tend to sit in the freezer and pantry and expands our thinking. 

I highly recommend for every family to eat out of what is in the house for a little bit and see what you can make of it.  I am going in search of more recipes on what I should do with all the meatballs and brown rice that we have in the house :)  I have rearranged the pantry more times than I can count in order to make sure that I am using everything we have.  I hope that you will get creative too!!  Good luck and let me know if you need any help because I am always here with ideas.

Enjoy planning your menu this week!  If you need any more ideas, please visit the recipe tab at the top of the page to see some recipes that I have tried out recently.