Dinner List for August 4-11

Morning Star veggie burgers- surprisingly delicious (we had these yesterday August 4th) with Watermelon- I got the Burger patties at Target and after the Kelloggs rebate the patties ended up costing me .34 a box. Watermelon and green salad for sides.

Tuna Noodle Cobbler- A fun twist on a standard recipe. I don't use the pimentos, but chop up red and yellow peppers and it turns out great. You can add any vegetables to this, and it still turns out great.

Hot Dog Roast up the canyon- and the standard sides watermelon, potato salad, and lemonade

Catalina Chicken- MMMM- I love this recipe! Since I only have bone in chicken, this might be interesting- but I think I'm going to put it in the crock pot, and maybe the meat will fall off the bone. It's a super simple recipe. Chicken Breast- 1 can cranberries (jellied) 8 ounces catalina dressing, pour over chicken in a casserole dish (uncovered) baked 350 for 1 hour. (In my crockpot I'm going to try to cook it on low for several hours) Served with rice- and squash on the side.

Crepes- 3-4 eggs, 2 c milk, 2 c flour, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 3/8 c sugar, 3/8 c oil, pinch of salt- blend it all up and cook on a skillet. Served with peanut butter, syrup, eggs, fruit, and jam.

Sun Dried Tomato Pasta Salad (Using up one of my free Sun dried tomato dressings I got at Smiths this week! And I'm making my own sun dried tomatoes.) Thanks Amber for the recipe to try!

Macaroni and Cheese from The Deceptively Delicious cookbook- it has butternut squash or cauliflower puree in it.

Squash casserole- I haven't decided what recipe to use for next week yet- what are your favorites?

Can you tell what is ripe in my garden- squash and tomatoes- YUMMY!

Dinner ideas for the week!

This week is a little crazy as we are going to a family reunion for my husband's family Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So really I only have three meals I'm going to be making. Wednesday, Sunday, and Monday.

Grilled Steaks and Sweet Potato Fries

Grilled Honey Mustard chicken with corn on the cob

Chicken Parmesaen with a caesar salad (maybe I'll even try to grill that!)

Yes, lots of grilling this week, I want to leave the oven off as much as possible in this heat!

Dinner List!

I completely forgot to put this up yesterday! Here it is!

Mango Pork Pizza- I made this Tuesday and it was pretty much AMAZING!!! The main recipe was from Amber's Food for Frugal Foodies blog, and then I used a different creamy tomatillo dressing because I didn't have all the ingredients for it from Amber's recipe. I still didn't have the cilantro and it ended up tasting great!

Eating out at Gloria's Little Italy for our half year anniversary with a restaurant.com gift certificate- I LOVED THE FOOD, IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!

Killer Chef Salad- with peas and ham and green peppers and tomatoes and anything else i can think of that will go well in a salad.

Tin Foil Dinners- We're going camping!!

Big family dinner with Eric's family for his grandma's 80th birthday.

Steak and baked potatoes- (we missed this last week)

Creamy tomato pasta- 1 can of stewed tomatoes (I drain out some of the juice) one half pint whipped cream, basil to taste- heat until boiling then turn off. Cook penne pasta to go with it and serve it all together with parmesan cheese.

There you go! Enjoy!!!!

Dinner list!

I think I'm going to be posting my dinner list on Wednesdays from now on.

Macaroni Cheese and Tomatoes- pasta mixed with a can of diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, salt and pepper, a little bit of sugar and mixed with cheese. Served with pears

Steak and Baked potatoes- (with my new A1 sauce I got at Target for .09!) and veggies

Gourmet Ham and Cheese Sandwiches- with thousand island dressing and cottage cheese and peaches for a side

Cheesy chicken rice bake

Roast, Mashed potatoes, and my grandma's famous carrots

Sweet and sour meatballs with rice and peppers and carrots

We're also going to Seven Peaks one night and the coupon we have requires us to buy one $5 pizza, so we're doing that for dinner and getting into the park at a discount!

These are pretty basic recipes, so I didn't add many links for recipes, but let me know if you want one specifically.

Thanks for help with the fish recipes last week, I decided to go with Kristi's Broiled Tilapia Parmesan, check it out!

Dinner Ideas ready for you!

Here we go- I made the tuna melt sandwiches last night- and so this list will last me through next Monday.

Tuna melt sandwiches- mix tuna with mayonnaise and pickle relish- broil or grill until outside is browned and cheese is melted. Pears for a side, and banana bread for dessert.

Grilled chicken mozzarella sandwiches topped with salsa – I’m going out on a limb with this one- I know the mozzarella sandwich and salsa tastes good- my husband just needs more protein than that- so I’m adding chicken and hoping it will work out. Maybe I’ll just cook the chicken and have it separate from the sandwich with salsa though.

Meatloaf minis with homemade mashed potatoes- let me know if you want this recipe- it’s my mom’s famous one!

Thai peanut butter noodles and vegetables with mango sticky rice for dessert- my husband just concocts this and it is seriously better than any restaurant. Sorry no recipe- but it’s amazing! And the mango sticky rice is incredible as well.

Tilapia with wild rice and vegetables- I have never cooked tilapia before- any killer great recipes you know of?

Grilled Mango Burgers- grill the mango, grill the meat, put it on a homemade bun- and you have got it!

Chicken Divan- broccoli, chicken, yellow cheese and cream of chicken soup mixed with mayo and cumin. Add dried bread crumbs on top with this recipe. Cook rice on the side- and serve this over the rice for a delightful meal.

I don’t know why this is so hard for me to make a dinner list- but it really does save me so much time in the long run. Thanks to all of you for keeping me doing this every week!

Dinner Ideas for the week!

O.k. here's my quick dinner list before I go and reorganize my refrigerator to fit a whole bunch of carrots and apples into it.

Tuesday- Rotisserie Chicken with Artisian Bread and this sunny broccoli pasta salad

Wednesday- Meatloaf mini's (meatloaf put in muffin tins- they cook faster), mashed potatoes and cooked carrots.

Thursday- Potato soup with bacon from the book Deceptively Delicious (I add the bacon), and more Artisian Bread.

Friday- BBQ Chicken Pizza

Saturday- Eric's high school reunion. I'm not going because the tickets are $30 a piece! But I'll eat at my family's house when we go up anyway.

Sunday- Fathers Day- Roast and mashed potatoes, my grandma's amazing carrot recipe (OHHH SOOO good!) and a salad, by the Father's request.

Monday- Something with pork. I need to use up pork- but I usually only make sweet pork for burritos with it and I made that- but have TONS left over and don't want to use it for more burritos (pregnant thing, I can't eat the same thing twice in a month now I guess.) Do you have any creative recipes to use with pork? Help me out! And not Pork salad- that doesn't sound good either- like a good soup or something. Pork Lo Mein maybe....

Also I'm not going to post my store experience this week because I just went to the Buy Low for some fruits and vegetables and a big thing of ground beef that was .78/lb. I spent $10. Monday I'm going to Albertsons for the sale they're having right now and using more double coupons that will be in the Sunday newspaper because I don't need anything on the list- and I can wait until then. AND we're trying to save a little bit of our weekly budget to help pay for our Cali trip. (Big family reunion in a few weeks.)

Quick Question! Do you guys like having links or actual recipes for each dinner- or just the ideas? I guess if you wanted the recipe enough, you ask for it in the comments section. I have found I usually just like the ideas of what I can cook for the week, and then I tweak from there- unless it's an amazing recipe or something I haven't ever made before- then I'll use the recipe.

Weekly Dinner List!

I think I'm going to post the dinner list on Tuesday or Wednesday- and have it go through Monday of the next week. And just because I post it- I still have the right to change it for whatever I crave that night. :) This is more of a guideline for me, but it has saved me hours of headache to not search through all my recipes every night to decide what I'm eating.

Tuesday- Whole Wheat Blender Pancakes- DELICIOUS- EASY- and NUTRITIOUS! Thanks again Kristi for the recipe- I am still in your debt!

Wednesday- Grilled Pineapple gourmet burgers! We're just making up the recipe as we go. I think it sounds delicious!

Thursday- Chicken Lo Mein- family recipe- easy to make though- just veggies and chicken marinated in a soy sauce, brown sugar, and some other spices I can't remember now- and cooked in a skillet.

Friday- CAMPING! I haven't decided what camp food to make- just tin foil dinners or cheesy potatoes- or being more creative- what's your favorite camping dinner?

Saturday- Meatball sandwiches- pretty much the bomb- and from Joy's blog here.

Sunday- Beef Noodle Supreme- I haven't made this in forever!

Monday- Grilled San Diego Pizza- except i don't have feta cheese- anyone want to let me borrow 4 oz? Thanks Amber- this looks seriously SOOOO good!

And that's it- I think you all want to come live at my house now don't you!

Dinner ideas for the week!

Here's my weekly dinner list.

Homemade vegetable pizza- with a cream cheese base and tons of veggies.
BLT's- Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato sandwiches- enough said!
Chicken Cordon Bleu- I just need to buy some swiss cheese
Pork Lo Mein
Homemade chicken nuggets

Remember I don't buy things at full price ever! Whenever I see an item at its best price I buy as much of it as I can or 3 months worth for our family. Even with meat when I see it at the price I want, I buy enough of it to last me 3-4 months, and separate them into 1/2-1 lbs bags and throw them in the freezer. Then when I need 1 lb of chicken- I pull the one bag out of the freezer, defrost it, and use it for my meal. Simple, and I NEVER pay over $1.99/lb for meat this way! Usually I pay under $1.39/lb.

So that means at the store today, I only need to get tomatoes, swiss cheese and a few other random veggies for the pizza. If you notice it's mostly produce, which doesn't keep for too long, but since I get my other grocery items at such great prices, I'm able to buy produce and easily stay within my budget for my family. Rancho Markets has the best produce prices this week, so I'm headed there later this morning to pick some things up.

Dinner list for the week

Here are my dinner ideas for the week: (It's a short list because I'm watching my brothers and sisters this weekend while my parents are in Texas for a wedding. So the rest of the meals we'll be doing up there.)

Pampered Chef Pork and Ramen Skillet - delicious! And I sometimes substitute chicken for it, and it works very well.

Cranberry Catalina Chicken: A very simple and easy meal that is scrumptious! Pour 8 oz of catalina dressing and one can of jellied cranberries over 4 chicken breasts. Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Serve over rice. (Hooray for free Kraft Catalina dressing at Albertsons two weeks ago! And I have a store of canned jellied cranberries I got at .25 a can a year ago.)

Easy Lasagna- We had the french dip sandwiches on Sunday instead of this, so back onto my list of recipes to make it goes!

Chicken and Brocolli bake- Check it out. I use a bag of frozen broccoli in place of the fresh.

I usually half the amount of meat my recipe calls for. Not only does this save me money, so my meat stretches further, it's healthier and I find that I don't even like the full amount of meat in my meals anymore.

Making this list doesn't take too long, and helped me be less stressed when figuring out what I wanted to make last week. Thanks for reading this, so I feel the pressure to do it. I have been wanting to do something like this for a long time now, and I really am seeing the benefits!

Dinner list for the week

Because every night I sit and think for 30 minutes what am I going to make for dinner tonight, I decided last night I would go through my recipes and food items I needed to use and decide what I wanted to make for the week and make a list. This is what I came up with, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm excited for my dinners this week!

Monday- Soft Shell Tacos - I know today is Tuesday, but just giving you ideas.
Tuesday- French Dip Sandwiches - Throw a chuck roast in the crock pot with some onion soup mix and water, and we have some whole wheat rolls that are more like buns we needed to use by tonight.
Wednesday- Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast - Doesn't that sound amazing? Cream cheese is going to be on sale at Albertsons tomorrow, and I have some bread I need to use up, so I'm super stoked about this dinner.
Thursday- Tuna Noodle Casserole - A fun twist on a standard recipe. I didn't use the pimentos, but chopped up red and yellow peppers and it turned out great. You can add any vegetables to this, and it still turns out great.
Friday- Sloppy Joes or whatever Eric wants to make. I'm going to be in Clearfield for the evening, so he might just have to fend for himself.
Saturday- Eat out with friends - We have been trying to do this for weeks now, and we're using our restaurant.com certificate to the Smokehouse, so we'll end up paying about $15 for all of us to eat. SCORE!
Sunday- Easy Lasagna- We have some pasta sauce we need to use up, and I just got lasagna noodles for cheap, so I'm excited to try out a new recipe.

I have vegetable and fruit sides that are easy to throw together for these meals to make them more balanced, but I am really excited. This might be me turning over a new leaf!

Even better- I can make all of these dinners with stuff I have on hand! Except for the cream cheese I am getting tomorrow. I'm thinking if we had to live off our food storage for awhile, it wouldn't be bad at all...