Week of Feb 26

DH's birthday was last night so we went to our new favorite place called Chicken & the Egg which is a farm to table restaurant and we had a GREAT dinner. I just love love love that place!

We had planned our menu and shopped yesterday but I am just posting today.

Tonight:

Chicken Pot Pie (8 PP for a rather large serving)

Salad of Butter Greens and Grape Tomatoes

We are both sick with a cold that we are pretty sure we got from the 1st grader so this is a nod to the idea of chicken soup (but I didn't want soup).

Monday

Shrimp Stir Fry

Bought frozen stir-fry veg and are using the shrimp we didn't quite finish from last week's coconut shrimp curry (which was really spicy, btw)

Tuesday

Cajun Chicken

We were supposed to have this on Mardi Gras but decided to have pancakes instead.

And that is all we are planning for this week since we are heading out of town on Thursday! See you next week!

Mardi Gras Week Menu

It is Mardi Gras this week. Can you believe it? We are going to give a nod to Mardi Gras in our own Fat Tuesday dinner. I am going to make a kid friendly version of King Cake and hide the traditional King Cake Baby in it too. Should be fun!

Here s the menu for the week:

Sunday:

Ropa Vieja

Monday:

Country Fried Steak and Gravy

Mashed "Faux"-tatos

Green Beans

Tuesday:

Cajun Chicken

Wednesday:

(Church)

Thursday:

Thai Coconut Shrimp Curry

Friday:

Maryland Crab Cakes

Saturday:

Out for Paul's birthday!

February menu

This menu and ziplist thing is really working for me. I chose to go to the store yesterday while I was out so I hadn't made a list and really worked out what I wanted to do. I went anyway because I thought today would be really packed with people planning for the super bowl parties. So anyway, I looked on my phone ziplist app which lists my favorite recipes. I chose from among them and added them to my shopping list, taking off anything that I was sure I had at home. I ended up having to add some things on the fly that I remembered I needed as i went along, but the main thing is that I got the meals planned.

So here goes...

Saturday:

Marietta Pizza Company pizza at friend's house for family game night

Sunday:

Broccoli and Sausage Casserole

Monday:

Vegetable and Turkey Meatloaf

Tuesday:

(Paul cooking)

Chicken

Wednesday:

(Church)

Thursday:

Slow Cooker Ropa Vieja

Friday:

Butternut Squash Pasta with Ricotta

I am going to try something this week with the WW thing. Since I have these meals planned already, I am going to try adding them into the tracker now, so that my daily points target is already set up. Just to see how that goes. I will update next week.