Last week I spent time planning meals for the whole month. I decided to look over the past year of menu planning and picked out favorite meals of ours. Now, over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to calculate the costs for these meals I’ve chosen.
Wish me luck! It takes a lot of work, but I’m coming along.
Last Thursday I showed you how I make the Tomato Basil Pasta Salad. I figured the cost for that meal = $2.19 (because we used tomatoes and basil from the garden). For us, the meal only serves my husband and I, then leftovers for one person.
Then, I also calculated the cost of my Baked Potato Soup. Here’s the breakdown:
Menu Plan
Monday
Lunch: Bean & Cheese Freezer Burritos
Dinner: Crockpot Orange Chicken
Bean & Cheese Freezer Burritos
Tuesday/Wednesday
Lunch: Vegetable Quesadillas
Dinner on Tuesday: Pasta Salad
Dinner on Wednesday: leftovers
Thursday
Lunch: Sandwiches
Dinner: Braised Chicken Gumbo
Friday
Lunch: Bean & Cheese Freezer Burritos
Dinner: leftover Gumbo
Saturday
Lunch: Minestrone Soup
Dinner: Chili Con Carne (recipe coming soon)
Sunday
Lunch: leftovers
Dinner: Jagersnitzel
Don’t forget to check out my recipes tab for more meal ideas!
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 Weekly Goals
In January, I shared most of my goals for 2012. Then, I also broke those goals down into monthly goals. Here’s the 10 I’m going to focus on for this week:
Faith
1. Pray every evening with my husband.
2. Memorize the first 4 verses of Colossians 1.
Wife/Marriage Goals
3. Read & discuss one chapter of One of Us Must Be Crazy…. and I’m Pretty Sure It’s You by Tim & Joy Downs.
4. Write a love note to Matt.
Health
5. Workout at least 3 times this week.
6. Only have dessert 3 times this week.
Home Management Goals
7. Calculate the cost for 5 recipes/update recipe tab.
8. Weekly freezer cooking – Healthy Granola (recipe coming), Crockpot beans
9. Use the sewing machine for at least one project.
Blogging/Business Goals
10. Update payment records
(I’m linking up to MoneySavingMom’s 10 Weekly Goals)
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The hubs is TDY this week, so me and the kids will take advantage by making all those dinners he won’t eat – like Thai chicken or tortellini!
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What projects will you be breaking out the sewing machine for this week?
Leslie @ ASG in the SLC recently posted..Flat Felled Seam with Trim {Tutorial}
Sigh….sewing keeps being put on the back burner. Summer has been so much busier than I imagined, so I haven’t gotten to any sewing projects yet. I was thinking about sewing the Kindle cover, but I decided to make it a different way. So I have yet to see what my first project will be.