Menu Plan Monday

We did pretty good this week and then this month overall. It was a great start to 2009.

Budget wise for going out to eat we did very well - not counting our vacation - we did go over if we include that but it would have been hard to keep a $100 budget when on vacation for a week.

For the month of February we plan on going to Benihana's for Valentines day with a gift card I got for a health program at work. I will still count this towards our February out to eat budget but at least it is not any "real" money spent.

Our menu worked well last week - things got adjusted around but we didn't need the chili last week and Adam decided he didn't want Meatloaf so we had the frozen pizza that day. Then Saturday we bought a $5 Little Ceasers pizza and went out for Mexican. So some of last weeks items will be showing up this week.

I got some bread made - the recipe came from Cook Something, Even if its Wrong. It was very good.  By the way she has a bunch of blog posts about Menu Planning and even some downloadable menu plans that you can fill in - definitely check it out!

Here is  a picture of the Oatmeal bread and then the salad and pizza we had.

The salad had black beans, corn, tomatoes, cilantro, a couple crushed up tortilla chips and a little cojita cheese. I just used a thinned down ranch on top. The pizza was a garlic chicken from Costco, the ones on coupon last week.

This week we plan on using some stuff out of the freezer.

Okay.. the menu.

Monday
B - Bagel (on sale at Safeway for 25 cents each)
L - Leftover Mexican (from Saturday)
D - Gumbo with Rice & Salad -- freezer

Tuesday
B - Oatmeal Raspberry Bars
L - Meeting at work (bringing the bars)
D - Baked Potato with Chili and Cheese on them and a side salad  -- Chili in the freezer

Wednesday
B - Cereal
L & D- Roast (put it into the crock pot on Tuesday night) -- freezer

To Do: Make cupcakes to take to work for my birthday buddy.

Thursday
B - Steel Cut Oatmeal
L - Leftovers
D - Uno Chicago for their appetizers ($1.99 and $2.99)

Friday
B - Cereal bars (Oatmeal bars if some left)
L & D - Beef Stroganoff Hamburger Helper (we have a few more boxed meals that I want to use up here and there) with a big green salad -- Ground Turkey in freezer

Saturday
B - Pancakes
L & D - Hamburgers & Hot Dogs, Potato Salad and Grilled Zucchini  (want that summer feeling!) -- Hamburgers, Hot dogs and buns in freezer

Sunday
B & L - Eggs & Canadian Ham (maybe an omelet
D - Chicken & Rice -- Chicken in freezer

I did not like having the snacks set for each day so instead here is a list of some of the things we will have:
Applesauce
Apples
Oranges
Bananas
Crackers
Cheese (sliced Colby jack and string)
Tofu

There you have our menu ... to see others check out OrgJunkie.