Monday Meal Planning

Good Morning I was sitting here in my fuzzy pajama pants wondering what I should write about today. Well we go grocery shopping every Wednesday , so thinking about what we should buy is always one of my top priorities of the week along with what to make for supper. Needless to say my life kinda revolves around food at some time during the day. I love food , I love to cook it and I love to eat it, and boy does my waist agree that it shows.

well normally through out the year we buy our food at fruit markets and meat markets.
The average spent is :
$15-17 dollars at the fruit store for what ever vedg that we want to eat that week. spinach or kale or collard greens ( one of those) a squash ( I like butternut) 4 carrots , some corn or beets , green chilli , potatoes , peas ( green beans work too), 12 eggs, 1/2 gallon milk, 1 Q half and half , and what fruit EA picks out for her normally bananas, apples, peaches, plumbs With these items I make meals to last all 7 days .

At the meat market :
We spend $25-30 dollars a week. This is what we usually buy:
1 whole chicken, 1 roast (pork or beef) , 1 lb lean hamburger, 1 lb bacon ( we like our bacon), 3 pieces carne asada (thin steak), 3 pork chops (if we didn't buy a pork roast) and that is about it again this much lasts for 7 days dinner for 3 each night and 2 lunches every day.

This is a picture of my dry goods area
please note the bag of tomatoes.

once a month we go to a regular store for:
dry goods (flour, oats, barley, molasses,beans, split peas,oat bran, flax seed, cream of wheat, corn meal), butter, spices, baking stuff ( vanilla, chocolate chips, baking powder, baking soda), and what ever else we can't find at the meat market/ fruit market

An example of a weeks worth of meals :

Wednesday:
Lunch: what ever we ate for dinner the night before
Dinner:Pork chops with peas and mashed potatoes or home made bread

Thursday

Lunch: pork chops

Dinner: Roast chicken with squash and spinach

Friday:

Lunch: leftovers possibly with leftover mashed potatoes (if there were any left)

Dinner: Chicken noodle soup with spinach, peas , carrot, what ever else I have laying around that hasn't been eaten

Saturday:
Breakfast: Barley, oatmeal, cream of wheat, (etc...)

Lunch : soup

Dinner: Roast with Potatoes, Carrots , Corn

Sunday:

Breakfast: Biscuits and gravy ( mostly bacon some times sausage)

Supper: french dip sandwiches ( save broth and meat it will be stew next week) ( some times fried chicken if I bought chicken pieces on wed)

Monday :
Lunch: Leftover dinner

Dinner: potato, hamburger, green chilli burritos

Tuesday:

Lunch: Leftovers

Dinner: Hamburger and gravy over mashed potatoes ( my equivalent to fast food )

Repeat


We will use or freeze EVERYTHING for a later meal from the water the vegetables were cooked in (for soup) to bones from the chicken ( for soup). We save meat from meals to make new meals all the time. we don't really have leftovers we just have new meal starters.
Normally we make 1 vegetarian meal a week (not shown in the example) We eat a pot of beans at least once a month (some times twice), and split pea soup once every two months.

This is not a fancy way of eating, We eat "special" food rarely.

My recipes are not gourmet, but they will fill your stomach, and most of them it doesn't take much to stretch them to feed more people.

Remember: " If some one comes over to your home unannounced near dinner , it doesn't take much to through another potato into the pot"

Kind Regards, KB