Meal Plan 2

Friday is here again and I'm ready with another week's meal plan! I'm doing things a little differently this week. This is all a learning process for me too, and I discovered the way I did it last week didn't work out the greatest for me! The meal plan I posted was the same one I used myself...the problem was that some of the recipes were ones that I hadn't created yet and wasn't even sure if they would turn out! Whoops! That caused me a smidge of anxiety this week after I sent you out to buy ingredients for recipes I hadn't made yet! So....I decided to make one menu for my blog, and a separate one for me. While that's the double the work this week, my plan is then that if my own menu works out this week, that'll be the one I post for the blog NEXT week! Gives me a chance to work on new recipes with a little less pressure. I'm still working out all the kinks in this process!

I decided to go with 5 meals per week for my menu plan, as that's about what we usually use during the week. And if you're home extra, feel free to pull an extra recipe from the blog or have a leftovers night! We typically eat late on Sundays, by the time we get home from church, so we have one bigger meal on Sundays, then we're home Monday-Thursday nights to eat together. Usually Friday night we go out and get a bite to eat with my husbands parents because they watch our daughter while we are gone, and then on the weekends, we are often home to eat, but sometimes go to my parents or have friends over or go to a friends house or community groups with our church, so it's not always all regular meals on the weekends. Therefore, I figured 5 meals would be good, and there's always leftovers...at least in our house!

Here are the meals this week, all linked to the recipes so that you can fix them any night of the week that you want:

Chicken 'n Biscuits

Spaghetti & Meatball Cups

French Dip Cupcakes

Margherita Pizza

Enchilada Casserole

And as always, the ever tastsy Glazed Brownies

So there you have it! Five meals for next week, several of which, especially the Spaghetti & Meatball Cups should give you some good leftovers for lunches or even another dinner! Now, here's your grocery list to make these items. I hope, unlike last week, I got everything on the list and didn't miss any ingredients. I know the list seems long, but I pretty much put everything on there except salt and pepper...I know a lot of those things you already have in your kitchen either because it's stuff you keep in stock or maybe leftovers from last week's grocery trip. However, I find it best for me to make a REALLY thorough list, then I run down the list while taking inventory of my kitchen and cross off everything that I already have. I always mark down the quantities too. Sometimes it may be an item that I just know I have, and don't bother checking, then I find that I did have it, but not enough, so I check everything! A few extra minutes going over the grocery list saves me an hour in the long run when I have to make a trip back to the store with a 3 year old because I don't have something I need to make dinner!!!

Meal Plan/Grocery List 2

PLEASE!!!! I want to hear how these recipes are turning out for you as you're making them! Do you like them? Did you not care for it? Did it turn out? Was it a total disaster? :) I love hearing your feedback!

Happy Shopping and Cooking this week!