Friday, September 10, 2010

Menu Planning: The Fall Session

I love the scents, tastes and sights God brings to us in the Autumn. We are blessed by the fruits, vegetables and clear blue skies. *sigh* The apple pie, peaches, stews and fresh air help to lessen the stress of organizing yet another year of activities, school, and "family-fun" events. As posted in my last communication, i have a few things i want to ensure are on my "to do" list, and so i make extensive schedules.(And i have so much fun doing this, i love writing things down! ) In the past, i have noticed that making a list of priorities and then setting a specific time for them is the only way to not feel guilty that i am forgetting something of value to me. Because i am of the personality to feel overly guilty for things that may not require a guilty feeling. :) ha. :)

Anyway, where was i going in this autumn wander?? hmm.... past the pies, through the leaves, toward the tall brightly colored trees....

ooooh yes, menu planning. I talked this over with my Mom a couple days ago, and she wanted to see my 4 week rotation of meals, so here they are.....

Week One:

white Chili (double to freeze/or give away)
Speedy Minestrone (double to freeze/give away)
Pork Chops with veg. sides
Taco Salad
Quiche
Broccoli Soup/Bread/Cheese

SOooooo, what actually happened this week?

Well, the plan says to cook this all in one day to cut down on the amount of time wasted in Set Up and Clean Up daily. So today I managed to make a Double batch of white Chili, broccoli Soup, Squash Casserole (instead of quiche, because i had a bunch of squash handy) and a veggie tray for lunches. Two days ago i made up the Minestrone. the T.Salad, and the P. Chops are really simple meals to prep, so i made those on the days we ate them instead of ahead of time ( i haven't completely started my fall routine yet, that takes a couple of weeks!)

Kitchen time today: approximately 2 hours to produce three dinners and a lunch. (including kid and phone disturbances)

Week Two:
Easy Bistro Chicken (kraft canada recipe)
Baked Meatballs in wine (with noodles or rice)
Classic Corn Chowder
COuntry Veg. Soup
Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding (roast veggies)
Meat Pie (made with all the leftovers of the R.Beef and veg dinner)

Week Three:
Lasagna (double or triple to freeze)
Roast chicken dinner (buns and veggies)
Chicken soup and bread (with the leftover roast chicken)
Curried sweet meatballs and rice (excellent recipe from my mother!!)
chili and cornbread (double)
Fish, veggies and rice

week four:
Chicken Parmesan and noodles and veggies
spaghetti, noodles and veggies (double)
Fish, rice, veggies
steak (marinade), potatoes, salad
Beef Stew
Homemade Pizza and Salad

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Yum. Now i'm hungry!!!

Okay mom, there you have it! That is my next month of eating!! :) hahaha. maybe i'll let you pick which weekly menu i make when you come to visit me!! :) start thinking about it now. hahah.

Okay, time to read a book.

2 Comments:

At 4:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think we need to have a recipe swap! Some of those sound amazing!

 
At 2:17 PM, Blogger Sue said...

sonja that would be very fun! perhaps i'll write a few of mine out in a blog one day.... any in particular that you would like to have? :)

Pick some of your fav's and we can blog-swap some goooooood fall foodies. :)

SU

 

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