What's for Dinner?

This week I looked through the freezer to plan around the Freezer-Only Challenge. What's in your freezer to help you stick to the challenge this week?

 

Monday

 Sweet and sour chicken with rice and Asian mix veggies

Tuesday

Bun-less turkey cheeseburgers with French fries and corn

Wednesday

Rosemary and onion sirloin pork chops with baked potato and green beans

Thursday

Beef and pepper fajitas with refried beans

Friday

Baked tilapia with green salad

Saturday

Spaghetti with meat sauce and green salad

Sunday 

Leftovers from the week

Dressed Up Black Beans and Rice

Black beans and rice is an incredibly easy staple meal. It's healthy and fairly cheap to boot, making it great for an end-of-month recipe when the grocery budget is almost maxed out. My way of making it adds a bit more flavor and makes it a one-pot meal, veggies included. The recipe leaves you enough for leftovers for lunches or dinners for a few days. Buying a big bag of black beans, instead of canned gives the meal a better texture and saves you some cash. It's also healthier as canned beans can have added salt. The same goes for bag rice vs. instant.

Dressed Up Black Beans and Rice

• 1 lb. black beans, from bag not can
• 1/2 lb. sweet Italian sausage, cut into small pieces
• 1/2 lb. frozen green pepper and onion mix
• 8 servings long grain enriched white rice

Soak the black beans in a pot over night then cook beans per instructions on bag.
Rinse then prepare rice per instructions on bag.
Brown sausage in a skillet.  
Heat green peppers and onions in microwave, 5 minutes.
Combine all ingredients in a large pot.
Serve and enjoy!

Dressed Up Black Beans and Rice

Black beans and rice is an incredibly easy staple meal. It's healthy and fairly cheap to boot, making it great for an end-of-month recipe when the grocery budget is almost maxed out. My way of making it adds a bit more flavor and makes it a one-pot meal, veggies included. The recipe leaves you enough for leftovers for lunches or dinners for a few days. Buying a big bag of black beans, instead of canned gives the meal a better texture and saves you some cash. It's also healthier as canned beans can have added salt. The same goes for bag rice vs. instant.

Dressed Up Black Beans and Rice

• 1 lb. black beans, from bag not can
• 1/2 lb. sweet Italian sausage, cut into small pieces
• 1/2 lb. frozen green pepper and onion mix
• 8 servings long grain enriched white rice

Soak the black beans in a pot over night then cook beans per instructions on bag.
Rinse then prepare rice per instructions on bag.
Brown sausage in a skillet.  
Heat green peppers and onions in microwave, 5 minutes.
Combine all ingredients in a large pot.
Serve and enjoy!

What's for Dinner?

Mmm mmm mmm look what's for dinner! You may have noticed that I'm sticking to simple, filling, easy-to-make recipes. Doing that is much easier with a newborn right now. The fancier dinners, including things I've never made before, are coming once life settles down more.

Monday

Bar-b-cue chicken thighs and baked potatoes

Tuesday

Baked tilapia with broccoli and rice

Wednesday

Steaks with corn and mashed potatoes

Thursday

Waffles with mixed fruit salad

Friday

Green salad with shredded chicken on top

Saturday

Dressed-up black beans and rice

Sunday

Jamaican Allspice pork chops with peas, carrots and baked potatoes

What's for Dinner?

Here are dinner ideas for your menu, based on what we're eating this week.

 

Monday

 Leftover shredded whole roast chicken on mixed greens salad

Tuesday

Leftovers 

Wednesday

Baked tilapia with brown rice and mixed veggies

Thursday

Pork chops smother in apple sauce with baked potato and green breans

Friday

Spaghetti with side salad

Saturday

Turkey and three bean chili with French bread

Sunday

Orange chicken with fried rice

What's for Dinner?

In all the chaos, weekly meal planning has fallen by the wayside. (Chaos and food aversions coming back!) I'm going to try again for this week. You'll probably notice the theme of easy-to-cook comfort foods. I don't have much energy to cook and am craving the comfort foods so that's why.

Sunday
Slow cooked marinated pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes and veggies

Monday
Mac and cheese, chicken nuggets and green salad

Tuesday
Steak, three grain salad and veggies

Wednesday
Leftovers

Thursday
Soup and grilled cheese.

Friday
Pizza

Saturday
Spaghetti and green salad

Cooking with M: What's for Dinner?

It's cooling down which means it's time for more hearty dinners. It's no longer a huge deal if the oven is on a while, yay!

Sunday

American sausage pierogi with green beans

Monday

Slow cooker pulled BBQ chicken, corn bread and leftover green beans

Tuesday

Steak, baked potato and veggies

Wednesday

Leftovers

Thursday

Pork stirfry

Friday

Mushroom and broccoli chicken over rice

Saturday

Beef roast, parsley buttered potatoes and mixed veggies

What's for Dinner?

This week I've got a nice, big case of cook's block. I seriously can't think of what to make for one night, let alone a week! Luckily, I've got a handy list of go-to foods I can make. Writing out the menu also helps kickstart my cooking juices. Let's see what I can come up with.

Monday
Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and veggies

Tuesday
Pork chops, couscous and veggies

Wednesday
Green salad

Thursday
Black beans, rice and ground beef with cheese

Friday
Sausages and veggies

Saturday
Herb chicken, baked potatoes and veggies

Cooking with M: What's for Dinner?

It's time again to do the menu planning for the upcoming week. You might notice a theme for Tuesdays--this day I try to have a green salad as a meatless veggie meal. I also have pasta once a week (usually without meat but this week is an exception) to have another meatless meal and because M2 loves her pasta. It's also easy and makes leftovers for A.

We also keep fresh fruit in the house for breakfasts, snacks and lunches throughout the week. M2 has fruit for breakfast every day. I base the fruit on what is on sale and looks good at the store. There's also a stash of frozen fruit and some can fruit in case we get in a fruit pinch.

This week's fruit
Apples, oranges, bananas, green and black grapes, peaches and nectarines

Saturday
Spaghetti and meatballs with side salad
Sunday
Whole roast chicken, parsley buttered potatoes and mixed veggies (I picked up a whole chicken when they were on sale, froze it and it's now defrosting)
Monday
Chicken and dumplings (I've been craving this and the whole chicken leftovers are great for this)
Tuesday
Green salad
Wednesday
Grilled cheese and soup
Thursday
Steak, baked potatoes and green beans
Friday
Leftovers