Meal Plan Monday 6-20-11

After having Little Hob three months ago, I've really made an effort to get organized and have a plan for managing things around the house.  The progress has been slow but I am getting there as far as organizing my time with cleaning and planning!  One area I wanted to improve was our meal planning.  Papa Hob and I were eating out way too often and finding ourselves wondering almost every night-what's for dinner?  I've begun to make a meal plan for each week to keep us from spontaneously eating out quite as often and to hopefully manage to make some healthier meals with fewer processed foods.  

Papa Hob and I kept all of our food receipts from the month of May and found out where we were spending the most money and what we were buying.  By far, we spent more on meats than anything else...which is understandable because meat is expensive!  We decided that we were going to try a co-op to get more fruits and vegetables into our diet.  We were shocked at how much were able to get for about $20 every two weeks from the co-op!  The meal plan this week incorporates the fruits and vegetables so that we make sure we use everything we bought.  I'll put the co-op items in bold so you can see some of the great things we got!

Monday-French toast, baked bacon, South Carolina peaches

Tuesday-grilled pork steaks, grilled portabella mushrooms, grilled pineapple spears

Wednesday-rosemary chicken breasts, red potatoes, black plums

Thursday-chicken fried rice, salad (romaine lettuce, Arkansas tomatoes, cucumber)

Friday-Zesty Slow Cooker BBQ chicken, fried okra, Braeburn apples

Saturday-steak, baked sweet potatoes, ice cream

Sunday-BBQ with the neighbors....bringing dessert!