WFMW: Monthly Meal Plans
This week’s themed edition of Works For Me Wednesday is suppose to be my favorite recipes. I recently wrote about great summer recipes for celebrating Memorial Day and the Top Ten All Time Once A Month Mom recipes. As for summer recipes, most of my favorites can be found on the Summer 2010 menu!
Add to that more and more readers have been asking me how I utilize the menus throughout the month. So in light of that I thought would write out how we would utilize the summer menu over the course of the month. Keep in mind, this is a fictitious calendar written like I “think” it would go as I haven’t made the full Summer 2010 Menu – our freezer is just too full!
It is a chance to highlight some of my favorite recipes, share that a monthly menu works for me and answer some reader questions on how to utilize a months menu.
Sample July Menu:
- We eat the breakfasts throughout the month and not at a particular setting: Fruity Breakfast Burritos, Harvest Cinnamon Rolls, Frozen Fruit Cups.
- We will eat the following throughout the month for weekday lunches: Summer Harvest Soup, Grilled Chicken Pesto Wraps, Black Bean & Mango Chicken Salad, Buffalo Chicken Wraps
- We will “tithe” the following meals to others who are having babies, in the hospital, or in general have a need for a cooked meal: 1 Sun Dried Tomato & Capers Pasta Sauce, 1 Beef-Potato Dinner Wraps, 1 Summer Harvest Soup
- Nights with ? are nights I will fix something but it won’t be a Summer 2010 Menu item.
July
1 – Lemon Chicken, potato, salad
2 – Tomato Basil Hamburgers, salad, french fries
3 – Lunch – Hebrew National Better-Than-A-Picnic Picnic Hebrew National Hot Dogs OF COURSE!
Dinner – Out to dinner
4 – Lunch – leftovers
Dinner – Italian Flank Steak Pinwheels
5 – Sun Dried Tomato & Capers Pasta Sauce, pasta, easy garlic bread, peas
7 – Dinner with House Church Family
8 – leftovers
9 – ?
10 – Lunch – leftovers
Dinner – Bacon and Bleu Burgers, sweet potato fries
11 – Lunch – Out to Eat
Dinner – Tangy Steak Marinade, baked potatoes, green beans
12 – ?
14 – Dinner with House Church Family
15 – leftovers
16 – ?
17 – Lunch – Tomato Basil Hamburgers, baked beans
Dinner – Out to Dinner
18 – Lunch – ?
Dinner – Stuffed Buffalo Chicken
19 – Tangy Steak Marinade
20 – Out to Dinner
21 – Dinner with House Church Family
22 – leftovers
23 – ?
24 – Lunch – leftovers
Dinner – Out to Dinner
25 – Lunch – ?
Dinner – Italian Flank Steak Pinwheels
26 – Bacon and Bleu Burgers,
27 – Out to Dinner
28 – Dinner with House Church Family
29 – leftovers
30 – ?
31 – Lunch – Black Bean & Mango Chicken Salad
Dinner – Lemon Chicken,
I love the pic of the fruity breakfast burritos!