Monday- Leftovers
Tuesday- Pizza Grilled Cheese
Wednesday- French Dip on homemade rolls and homemade fries
Thursday- Leftover Chicken Fingers with leftovers or mac and cheese
Friday- Sausage Tortelloni (from the freezer)
Saturday- Leftovers/Homemade Pizza (dough and sauce)
Sunday- Leftovers/Breakfast for Dinner- Pancakes or Waffles
If warm, Southwest Spiedie Chicken with white rice but this was just removed from the schedule because we are now expecting snow!!!! UGH!! I knew better then to put it on the calendar but my husband said that he really wanted it so I guess we will see.
It has been a hard week for me to plan because I am really missing the things other than chicken in the freezer. I was trying to be good about using what we had in the freezer and keeping expenses low this month so I haven't gone out to buy ground beef. We would love to have some tacos or sloppy joes so I went crazy and went out to buy ground beef when I was out and about.
But I made two bags of salsa sloppy joes and one cooked ground beef with three or four other bags of meat to be cooked when we need them. They are all in the freezer so we will be ready for some good meals later in the month. I am happy that I did it while we were passing Wegman's because I really like their ground beef better then most of the other stores but a little out of the way. We are happy to have the freezer restocked with some other options.
I was hoping to use this time to come up with something brilliant but I haven't found a lot of inspiration recently. I dug through the cabinets, fridge and freezer to find something that would make an interesting meal that I overlooked. I found some roast beef in the freezer that we can make French Dips with so I am going to seeing how that goes on Thursday because I have never frozen roast beef but I think that soaking it in au jus should add to the flavor and hopefully not leave it dried out. Hoping for more inspiration because I am going to sit down with next month's menu soon!!
Last minute change to leftovers on Monday when we realized that the fridge was super full and it would save the time and energy of cooking after a long weekend :)
Do you ever have a week where you can't figure out what is for dinner and everything sounds uninteresting?
What are spiedies? Maybe you have said before, but I am a new follower. I always use beef from the freezer for beef on wick. My secret is that I start it the night before (if it is uncooked beef) around 11 pm and cook it all night and day on low and then we have it for dinner. It just falls apart!
ReplyDeleteSorry, my family is from upstate NY and Spiedies are a marinated meat (lamb, pork, beef or chicken) which they serve at the State Fair. We are huge fans of the seasonings and don't know what is in there but I like the original seasoning and my husband likes the southwest. My parents buy us a huge jug from Sam's Club and bring it with them when they come to visit and I marinate the chicken when I cut it and put it in the freezer. My husband said that he really wanted it and now the weather forecast is calling for crazy cold and snow starting tomorrow! But since we had leftovers today, we might be moving things around and waiting for another warm patch to try to grill!! If you want to learn more about the seasoning, here is the link: http://www.spiedies.com/
DeleteI do have those moments. I sometimes find inspiration on Pinterest. Or Rachel Ray's website (because she doesn't call for a lot of fancy ingredients we don't have).
ReplyDeleteI have found a few Rachael Ray recipes that I like. My dad bought a few of her cookbooks but I get so caught up in pinterest that I loose all track of time :) I would never get dinner made!!! I think that I have gotten all of this month done and now I am starting on next months calendar so I guess we will see if inspiration strikes :)
DeleteIt all sounds so good especially the chicken fingers. We found out that we couldn't do with out ground beef too!
ReplyDeleteYes we get tired of the same old stuff too- so I try something different every few weeks. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's just edible!