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This week’s menu plan {It’s the perfect week for some chocolate-themed baking!}

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I think I’m on a chocolate baking kick this week (what’s new?!) Can’t wait to get to baking — and eating. 😉

Here’s our plan for this week:

Breakfasts

Oatmeal, Cereal, Eggs, and/or Fruit

Lunches

Mac & cheese, fruit
Snack-y lunch
PB&J, carrot sticks, apples
Cheese quesadillas, carrot sticks
Leftovers x 3

Snacks

Fruit/veggies
Popcorn
Whole Food No Bake Cookies

Pinterest Experiment {I’ll share how this goes later this week!}

The Easiest Loaf of Bread You’ll Ever Bake

Freezer Cooking {I’ll share how this goes later this week!}

Whole Food No Bake Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Quick Bread
Freezer-Friendly Pizza Dough

Dinners

Dinner with extended family
Mexican Chicken Lime Soup, fruit, tossed salad
Bean & Cheese Burritos, fruit, veggies
Build Your Own Haystacks, fruit, rice
Black Bean & Corn-Topped Potatoes,
Homemade Pizza, fruit, veggies
Dinner out

What’s on your menu this week? Share details and/or your link to your menu plan in the comments.

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  6. Jessica @Proverbslady.com says

    I know that many of the budget friendly recipes I see contain beans and my husband will not eat beans of any kind, No refried beans, not kidney beans, no black beans….no beans. Is there a good substitute for beans????

    • Crystal says

      Hmm, not that I know of. But there are many other budget-friendly recipes out there that have rice, potatoes, etc.

      Maybe some other people have some ideas for you?

    • Lora says

      You could try Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) as an inexpensive protein source. It’s flavorless, so it will pick up the flavor of your spices/other ingredients.

  7. Kathy says

    I use your pizza crust recipe weekly. Instead of freezing the uncooked dough I roll out personal size pizza portions and partial bake the crust at 500 degrees for 3 mins. Then allow them to cool completely on a cooling rack. Once cooled they are wrapped in foil and frozen until I need one or two. To cook I preheat the oven to 450 degrees, add toppings to the frozen crusts and bake for 10-12 minutes. These are a staple for my kids.

  8. jackie Brown says

    I’m posting a no knead sandwich bread recipe and tutorial, similar to this one, on my blog next week. I make it in a shoe box, let it rise for 2 hours and then divide the dough into 3-4 loaf pans. It’s great to make mini-loaves for kiddos. Hope you’ll stop by and check it out, momonamission.me

  10. Shelly says

    I will have to add the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Quick Bread to my list of to try recipes. It looks very yummy. The whole food no bake cookies also look good too. I may have to give them a try also.

    This week I was lazy and didn’t get to my 5 week menu planning so I just searched the cupboards and freezer and came up with a one week meal plan for this week.

    Here’s what’s cooking at our house this week,

    http://www.frugalfamilyhome.com/food/menu/menu-plan-monday-48

  12. Christen says

    I’ve noticed that you have Mac & Cheese often for lunch, do you make homemade Mac & Cheese & if so, can you share the recipe?

  15. Christine says

    funny! i baked yesterday and threw choc or white choc chips in every batch: gingerbread, pumpkin, and oatmeal cookies, cupcakes, pancakes. what’s up with that ? 🙂

  17. Kris says

    Looks great! I made a big slow cooker filled with bean/corn soup and was going to freeze…then my neighbors daughter has a broken ankle so, I think I will send half of the soup over there 😉 Btw… I think you need an “s” in the title (” it’s the perfect week”) 🙂 Just saying 🙂

    • Crystal says

      Well, don’t be too impressed since I skipped freezer cooking last week. 🙂

      But truthfully, I enjoy it, so it’s usually something I’d much rather do over tackling other projects that maybe I *should* be doing. 😉

  25. Victoria says

    I have got to try the Whole Food No bake cookies they recipe looks yummy. I pinned like 3 of the recipes above. Now to remember to print them off and try them. I wanted to try one new recipe a week this year but I feel off the band wagon very quickly. I am thinking next year I need to put more action into the planning of such a goal.