Menu Planning Monday: Recovering from Graduation Parties

How’s it going everyone? Whew! I’m still recovering from the weekend. I’m exhausted physically and socially. Both my husband AND my youngest sister graduated this weekend. Friday evening we had the Arts convocation to attend for my husband (beforehand we hosted a BBQ dinner for family and close friends) and afterwards we hosted a party! Saturday I watched my sister graduated, then hung out at her house to celebrate on Saturday evening. Yesterday, my husband “walked down the hill” as is tradition for KU graduates. After that I/we didn’t do much of anything for the rest of the day.

We had a good number of leftovers from our graduation party, so you will note that on this week’s menu (we also froze some hamburgers for another time!!)

Menu Plan

Greek Pizza

Monday

Lunch: Eggs & Bacon Pitas

Tortilla Meatball Soup (we never made it last week)

Dinner: leftover Healthy Hamburgers, Spring Salad with Grilled Veggies, and Grilled corn

Tuesday

Lunch: Taco Salad

Step 1: In a microwave-safe bowl, stir together 1 c. black beans, 4 Tbl. salsa, 1 tsp. ground cumin and microwave on high for 40 seconds.

Step 2: Arrange 24 baked tortilla chips on two separate plates, top each with 1/4 c. reduced-fat Cheddar cheese and microwave on high for 30 seconds.

Step 3: Top chips and cheese with half of black bean mixture on each plate. Then add 2 c. lettuce, 1/2 tomato(chopped), 1/2 c. salsa, 2 Tbl. fat-free sour cream to each plate.

Serves 2.

Dinner: leftover Greek Pizza (I’m working on putting the recipe up on Romance on a Dime!)

Wednesday

Lunch: Taco Salad

Dinner: P.B. & J with fruit (maybe we will still have some leftover Pizza)

Thursday

Lunch: Taco Soup

Dinner: Soup & Sandwich with Amish White Bread

Friday

Lunch: leftover Taco Soup

Dinner: Pepperoni, Onion, & Olive Pizza

Saturday

Lunch: Chicken Curry

Dinner: leftover pizza

Chicken Curry from Prudent Homemaker

Sunday

Lunch: Soup & Sandwich

Dinner: leftover Chicken Curry

What are you cooking this week? We’d love to hear about it!

For more recipe ideas,visit my other Menu Planning Monday posts or Organizing Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday Blog Hop!

10 Goals for this Week

I’ve decided to break down all my goals for 2012  and May’s goals into manageable bite size weekly goals. Each Monday I will plan on blogging about my 10 Weekly Goals – how I did and giving my new goals for the week. Here are my goals for this week:

Wife/Marriage Goals

1. Write a love note to Matt

Home Management Goals

2. Declutter project - finish office organization (craft supplies) - I still have a little bit of craft stuff to organize.

3. Calculate the cost for the meals I make this week - I didn’t get this done…

4. Freezer cooking: Healthy Granola

Personal Goals

5. Couch 2 5K – Week 7

6. Read 7-10 chapters of the Old Testament

7. Finish the Resolutions for Women study and start a new study

8. 31 Days of No Complaining

Blogging/Business Goals

9. Set up a “recipes” section to my blog - I’ll have to work on the recipes this week

10. Meet with piano students and tutor students’ parents

This week…

Wife/Family Goals

1. Write a love note to Matt

2. Call my sisters & mom

Home Management Goals

3. Declutter project - declutter and organize hall closet

4. Calculate the cost for the meals I made last week

Personal Goals

5. Couch 2 5K – Week 8

6. Read 7-10 chapters of the Old Testament

7. 31 Days of No Complaining

8. Try out a sewing project on my machine

Blogging/Business Goals

9. Set up a “recipes” section to my blog

10. Write a guest post

(I’m linking up to MoneySavingMom’s 10 Weekly Goals)

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