Food Prep for the Week / Menus for the Week

With two birthdays this month, one party, Mother's Day, driver's ed, and an unexpected washing machine repair, we came to the end of the money in the grocery envelope, with several days of the month left to go, and no available envelopes to "rob" from.  I love challenges like this!  Last weekend I spent considerable time preparing the food we did have for future meals, so as not to waste any.  Also, this makes dinner preparation go much more smoothly during the week if some of the steps have already been done.  I enlisted the children's help, and we got a lot accomplished!

We cooked up the three pounds of hamburger I had in the freezer, then split it into 3 bags and re-froze it.

We chopped up a bunch of veggies for dinner that night, sautee'd the leftover onion and then froze it.  I have not frozen pre-cooked onion before, so this is an experiment!

 

 

We pulled the skin off lots of chicken thighs and drumsticks, marinated some of them for dinner, and froze the rest for future meals.

We had several over ripe bananas, so we mixed up a huge double batch of banana muffins to have at breakfast over the course of the week.

I also baked four loaves of bread for the week!  (three pictured)





With all of our cooking on Saturday, by Sunday we were tired of being in the kitchen, so we made something super fast and easy for dinner ~ scrambled eggs!

Here are our dinner menus for this last week of May:

Friday:  pizza and salad

Saturday: tomato-curry lentil stew (crock pot), home made bread

Sunday:  roast, carrots, and potatoes (crock pot)

Monday:  bbq chicken on the grill, garlic potatoes, fruit

Tuesday: taco soup (crock pot), tortilla chips

Wednesday: poppyseed chicken, steamed veggie


Thursday is payday, which means GROCERY SHOPPING and therefore all new food to work with!!!!!!!!