Weekly Menu Plan

I know it's Thursday, but here's the plan for this week anyway!  I'm leaving off the links, because I just don't feel like doing that right now....  It's either this or nothing!

Sunday:

out-of-town

Monday:

out-of-town

Tuesday:

Breakfast: toast, fried eggs, pears

Lunch:  sandwiches, chips, fruit, carrots and ranch

Dinner:  leftovers

Wednesday:


Breakfast:  smoothies

Lunch:  hot dogs, raw cheese, cultured pickles, chips, fruit, carrots and ranch

Dinner:  gluten-free pancakes, scrambled eggs

Thursday:


Breakfast:  toast

Lunch:  Dominoes pizza (shhh... don't tell!)

Dinner:  t-bones, oven potatoes, steamed broccoli

Friday:


Breakfast:  toast, oatmeal, eggs

Lunch:  leftover spaghetti

Dinner:  roast, potatoes, carrots, garlic green beans, coconut flour drop biscuits

Saturday:


Breakfast:  soaked baked oatmeal, bacon, scrambled eggs

Lunch:  chicken salad, crackers, carrots and ranch dip, raw cheese, fruit, coconut flour brownies

Dinner: leftovers

Product Review: Fresh Pears

I received 20 pounds of Starkrimson pears this month and they are de.lic.ious!  I don't see that particular variety on Azure Standard's website right now, but other pears are available and the first fall apples!  Don't miss out on these great prices for organic/transitional fresh fruit!

Product Review: If You Care Large Baking Cups

I have started using these baking cups for all of our muffins.  Nothing (and I mean NOTHING!) sticks to these babies!  I don't have to clean muffin tins and no muffiny goodness gets stuck to the wrappers!  Now, these are not decorative and would not be a good choice if "presentation" is a factor, but for everyday, at home use, you can't beat them.  And they're only $1.55 for 60!

Weekly Menu Plan

I've been thinking about adding a weekly menu plan to this blog in order to share some ideas of what we're eating during the week.  Obviously, the one recipe or link I may share each week doesn't begin to cover what we actually eat around here.  The blogging thing is not my strong suit, so we'll just give this a trial run...  I'm going to approach this as an "what we actually ate" list instead of a "what we would eat if everything goes according to plan" list.  I'll start with today, Sunday, then (hopefully) add to this post as the week wears on.

Sunday

Breakfast: leftover baked oatmeal or leftover banana muffins (I used hard white whole wheat flour and sucanat)

Lunch: grilled chicken thighs with homemade BBQ sauce; steamed broccoli with cultured butter, Celtic sea salt, and pepper; baked potatoes with cultured butter, cultured sour cream, raw cheese, Celtic sea salt, and pepper; coconut flour brownies

Snacks: water kefir, fruit

Dinner: leftovers

Monday

Breakfast: leftover baked oatmeal or leftover banana muffins (I used hard white whole wheat flour and sucanat); oatmeal with cultured butter; sourdough bread with peanut butter and jelly

Lunch:  sandwiches (sourdough bread, all natural lunch meat, raw cheese, cultured pickles); baby carrots and cultured ranch dip; apple chips or potato chips; fruit

Dinner:  crockpot spaghetti (rating: thumbs down from everyone, bummer...), peas with cultured butter, Celtic sea salt, and pepper

Snacks: homemade vanilla ice cream from a friend, water kefir

Tuesday:

Breakfast: oatmeal with cultured butter; sourdough bread with peanut butter and jelly,  oatmeal with sunbutter and raisins, leftover baked oatmeal

Lunch: pigs in a blanket (reviews for these: weird but OK), potato chips

Dinner: smothered chicken with gravy and mashed potatoes (courtesy of my mom!) and steamed broccoli with cultured butter, Celtic sea salt, and pepper

Snacks: strawberry ice cream, water kefir

Wednesday:

Breakfast: sourdough bread with peanut butter and/or jelly, gluten-free english muffins with cultured butter and raw honey, fried egg and fresh pears

Lunch: sandwiches (sourdough bread, all natural lunch meat, raw cheese, cultured pickles); baby carrots and cultured ranch dip; apple chips or potato chips; fruit

Dinner: banana muffins (I used hard white whole wheat flour and sucanat) (we seem to have had a lot of ripe bananas lately!); scrambled eggs with raw cheese and salsa

Thursday:


Breakfast: sourdough bread with peanut butter and/or jelly, gluten-free english muffins with cultured butter and raw honey or sunbutter, fried egg and fresh pears

Lunch: creamy mac and cheese (I used rice pasta)

Dinner: chili with raw cheese and tortilla chips

Friday:


Breakfast: leftover banana muffins (I used hard white whole wheat flour and sucanat); sourdough bread with peanut butter and/or jelly, gluten-free english muffins with cultured butter and raw honey or sunbutter, fried egg and fresh pears

Lunch: sandwiches (sourdough bread, all natural lunch meat, raw cheese, cultured pickles); baby carrots and cultured ranch dip; apple chips or potato chips; fruit

Dinner: hamburger steak and gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans

Saturday:


Breakfast:  sourdough bread with peanut butter and/or jelly, gluten-free english muffins with cultured butter and raw honey or sunbutter, fried egg and fresh pears

Lunch:   sandwiches (sourdough bread, all natural lunch meat, raw cheese, cultured pickles); baby carrots and cultured ranch dip; apple chips or potato chips; fruit

Dinner: lentil stew (super easy, good and filling - everybody liked this, but we're beans and rice kinda people!)

Molasses-Sweetened Soaked Baked Oatmeal

We love this baked oatmeal recipe from Nourishing Days!  It is moist and cake-like, not too sweet, super easy to make and feeds all of us 3 meals.  Gluten-free and flour-free, naturally sweetened.  Now that fall (?) is coming this will be a great, warm breakfast to have on hand.