Food....Saturday :)

Oops...I didn't do Food Friday. Please forgive me :) My parents took Molly & Eli over night so Trent & I (& Jillian) could have a "date night". Trent ended up having to work a little later so I stuck around at my parents longer. I didn't get home till probably 7:30ish. We ate dinner, worked on his homework, and put in the movie Fair Game. I think we lasted maybe 30 minutes and we were both zonked out on the couch. So romantic :) Praise the Lord for that sleep because Jillian was up at midnight and a couple other times. She's got a little cough and congestion :-( Poor Trent though, he had to work this morning. So here I am...no big kids, Jillian is in her crib (was sleeping but now I hear her) and I'm moving as slow as a SLOTH!
Eli likes to pretend he's a sloth sometimes. I'll ask him to do something and then he'll move in slow motion and say "IIIII'mmmmm  aaaaaaa ssssllllloooootttthhhh." See....he's hysterical!

Okay, so back to Food Saturday....or how about Sloth Saturday! Ha!
I've been wanting to get into some sort of meal schedule/plan. I need something that is going to be easy because I get a little overwhelmed when there are too many options. So, I found a schedule that I like.

Monday: Slow Cooker meal
Tuesday: 15-minute meal
Wednesday: Pasta meal
Thursday: Pizza meal
Friday: Casserole meal

Now the plan I found also had Saturday & Sunday as stir-fry meal & 30-minute meal. I choose to only plan 5 nights because most likely we will have leftovers some night and Sundays we generally keep it very simple (it's the day of rest!). I'm also going to rotate stir-fry night and grill night in when I want to change things up a little.
My overall plan is to use this as a guide and compile a list for each category and then as time goes on, I'll just pull meals from the "master lists".
For the next 2 weeks here is how my meals look:

Monday: Roast - vegetables + fruit
              Chicken - green bean casserole + fruit + potatoes
Tuesday: Hot dogs/Brats - pasta salad + fruit   Sesame Beef & Egg rolls + fruit
              Chicken fajitas (use leftover chicken from Monday) + fruit  Hamburgers + spaghetti salad + fruit
Wednesday: Spaghetti - bread, corn dish + fruit  Hot dogs/Brats + pasta salad  +fruit
                    Tortellini Soup - bread + fruit + Spaghetti + corn dish
Thursday: Pepperoni Pizza + whatever vegetables + fruit
                Sausage Pizza (use extra sausage from Wed.) + whatever vegetables + fruit
Friday: Leftovers
           Leftovers

Friday's in the summer are busy, so I figured I'll just leave it for leftovers :) Also, fruit doesn't always compliment a meal, so I'll give the kids a fruit "snack" sometime before dinner.

Have a great Memorial Weekend!!!

xo Amanda