Breakfasts
Oatmeal, Cereal, Eggs, and/or Fruit
Lunches
Mac & cheese, fruit
Snack-y lunch {veggies, cheese, yogurt, fruit, crackers, etc.}
Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches from the freezer, carrot sticks, apples
Cheese quesadillas, carrot sticks
Leftovers x 3
Snacks
Fruit/veggies
Popcorn
Boiled eggs
Banana Bars with Brown Butter FrostingFreezer Cooking in an Hour Plan
Butterscotch Brownies
Giant Cinnamon Roll Cake
Baked Chicken
Taco Meat
Dinners
Homemade Chicken Salsa Pizza, veggies, fruit
Slow Cooker Southwest Soup, Homemade Soft Pretzels, fruit
Upside Down Pizza, fruit salad, steamed veggies
Breakfast for Dinner: Pancakes from the Freezer, scrambled eggs, fruit
Olympic-Ringed Pizza, fruit, steamed veggies
Dinner out
Dinner with extended family x 2
What’s on your menu this week? Tell us in the comments or leave a link to your menu plan post.
Another question about the cinnamon roll cake…Do you think that the dough might be able to be make utilizing the dough cycle of a bread machine?
That’s what I’m planning to do. 🙂
With the cinnamon roll cake, did you bake it and then freeze it or are you planning to bake it later? Which method should I try?
I think I’m going to bake it and then freeze it.
Yummo! This week we’re eating for just $42 (about half of what I usually spend) because we’re mostly eating from the pantry. Here’s the menu plan:
http://purposelyfrugal.com/2014/02/03/how-were-eating-for-42-this-week/#.UvE8nY7EuR0
You mean my family wants to eat again this week? 😛
I haven’t finished my menu yet this week. Tonight is stove-top shepherd’s pie, tomorrow is Asian chicken thighs, and Thursday is a turkey. Friday is typically leftover night. Not sure about Saturday yet. Maybe breakfast.
I have made this cinnamon roll cake several times. I thought I would tell you how I made it healthier and also how I made to rise and cook in WAY less time! I subbed these healthy ingredients- White wheat flour,organic. Olive oil for the butter in the dough, 3 tbsp honey, separated for the sugar in the dough. I added 1/4 c flax meal, increased the yeast to 1 tbsp and use Fleischmann’s active dry. What I changed was Step 2 in her directions. Proof your yeast in the 1/2 c water w/ 1 tbsp of the honey. While it proofs for 10 minutes, warm the milk, honey, olive oil in a small pan. ONLY WARM, not hot. 🙂 Add warmed milk mixture to yeast. Then add the dry ingredients and egg. Follow the other steps, it will not seem like it is risen the first time, but it doesn’t matter go ahead and roll and put filling on. I used a spring form pan to put my cake in. I put a circle piece of parchment on the bottom. Once in the pan, It will rise in a warm oven in LESS than 30 minutes, NOT 60-90 minutes. ( that’s because you proofed your yeast first) Bake for 25-30 minutes ( that’s all mine took) It was amazing, I have to make 2 at a time ( family of 7). But this is a much, much healthier way to have this cake. Protein, healthy sugar, good fats, etc. Also, for the glaze, I make my own powdered sugar using a healthier organic sugar ( 1 cup) + 2 tbsp organic cornstarch. Put in high quality blender for 30-60 seconds. Perfect powdered sugar that at least has naturally occurring minerals in it,lol. Please Please try my version!! It’s so much faster and healthier! – Mom of many blessings
Thanks so much for sharing these tips and suggestions!
We are planning lots of leftovers this week.
http://fullhappybabyandmommy.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/lotsa-leftovers-and-josh-is-on-call/
Having taco meat in the freezer is the best!
Here’s my mostly from the freezer menu:
http://www.momscupofambition.com/2014/02/this-weeks-menu-goals.html
The cinnamon roll cake looks too fun! Can’t wait to hear how it turns out. We have a birthday this week – our daughter is turning three. Her birthday dinner request was sweet potatoes and peas, when asked what else she suggested broccoli and carrots. 🙂 We had fajitas and hamburger noodle casserole this weekend and they were yummy!
We are hoping to clean out the freezer this month. We generally eat soup EVERY day. Easy and simple way to stretch out $.
I want so badly to do some OAMC. I wish I had a day this week I was home that I “could” do that.
Anyway… here is my menu http://mixingwithmichelle.blogspot.com/
I tried those banana bars last week too, we loved them, but we skipping the icing and did a thin yogurt glaze instead. Did you try freezing them? Ours only lasted a couple days!
Yes, we froze them… so, so good!
Here is mine – I may add those banana bars to it for a snack – they sound yummy: http://behealthybehappywellness.com/2014/02/menu-plan-monday/
I was wondering about the Butterscotch Brownies Recipe….it say add 10 2/3 tbs butter melted. Seems like an odd amount…is that correct? Thanks!
Amanda,
Thanks for asking. Yes, 10 2/3 Tbsp is correct. It’s 1 and 1/3 sticks of butter. I thought it was a strange amount the first time I made them too 🙂
Sarah
Thanks so much! Definitely going to try and make them this week!
We made upside down pizza tonight, but we used gluten free flour and dairy free cheese because of food allergies. I also added mushrooms to the recipe. Worked perfectly and tasted yummy!
That cinnamon roll cakes looks delicious, I’m going to have to try that the next time I have my parents over for breakfast.
Here’s our menu for the week.
http://www.wonderwomanimnot.com/2014/02/weekly-menu-58.html
http://simplylivingmommie.blogspot.com/2014/02/plan-well-spend-less-challenge-and.html
Great plan – love that cinnamon roll cake – yum-o! I posted my menu for this week today too – http://mrsrogersfrugalneighborhood.blogspot.com/2014/02/menu-plan-monday-02032014.html
We’ve made butterscotch brownies before, they were really good. I’m going to give the giant cinnamon roll cake a try it looks delicious.
The grandchildren would love to help make that cinnamon roll cake the next time they visit! What a neat idea!
I’m going to try the upside down pizza and the banana bars! Yummy! Here’s our menu for the week.http://womenwithintention.com/meal-plan-monday-12/
I made homemade ricotta cheese to use in spaghetti pie this week. It was soooo easy & more frugal than cottage cheese or store bought ricotta. Here’s the link to the recipe I kind of went by:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/homemade-ricotta-recipe.html#!
I used all 1% milk (instead of the whole milk & heavy cream) because it’s lower fat & that’s what I already had. I used apple cider vinegar instead of white wine vinegar. I didn’t have cheese cloth, so ended up pouring it through a metal wire strainer & was pleased with the results.
The recipe said to discard the whey (the liquid you drain off). I reheated it, added another tablespoon of vinegar, & strained it again to make more ricotta. Then I froze the remaining liquid to use in pancakes. I’ll definitely make this again!! 🙂
Thanks Kim. The thought of making ricotta cheese has never occurred to me. We use it a lot in various dishes.
Those banana bars look delicious!
Here’s our menu plan for the week:
http://www.momsplans.com/2014/02/menu-planning-february-2-2014/
I pinned that upside down pizza when you had it posted last, I need to try it, my kids generally love anything pizza.
We tried that recipe when it was first posted a little while ago, and my daughter turned her nose up. We ended up scraping off the biscuit part and eating the meat mixture by itself. We then decided that it would have been really good with lasagna noodles, or some other kind of pasta.
We loved it. I made two versions of it (just used two 8×8 pans and poured half the topping over each). To one, I added pepperoni, Canadian bacon, and green peppers. To the other one, I added pepperoni, Canadian bacon, and jarred jalapenos. It was awesome tasting, and it was even better the next day.