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Ginger might help with sickie feeling tummies, so might work out really well for you! Good luck and hope no one else gets sick.
Sat - Honey BBQ Boneless Wings, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Blueberries/Strawberries, Homemade Beer Bread
Sun - Crockpot Chicken Teriyaki, White Rice, Roasted Green Beans, Diced Mango
Mon - Out (Makeup Meal from Sat - Probably Macaroni Grill Xmas deal b/c we have a $25GC needing to be used up by Jan 31)
Tues - Chicken Fried Rice, Dill Vinegar Cucumber Salad, Diced Mango/Bananas
Wed - (Split Dinner, but this will work for all) BLTs, Roasted Carrots, Blueberry Muffins, Pear/Apple Slices
Thurs - Homemade Fresh Tomato Pasta Puttanesca, Mussels in Tomato Broth (this is boxed), Caesar Salad
Fri - Leftovers with Leftover Fruit Smoothies - If no leftovers, I'll make Cheeseburgers and Fries with the smoothies
Sat - Out (kids will get easy home meal - Date Night for Me - Savory and Sweet Crepes Restaurant Groupon to Use, then maybe a discount movie
)...it was a perfect light and fresh (and not to hard on tummies) meal...and I'm always a sucker for crepes (and French food in general)...
Well, with the sickie in total recovery, but not ready for tomato or cream sauces, we did the crepes today for lunch as a family (walked out for $6.50 out of pocket today for 5 adult sweet/savory crepes after spending $15 on the Groupon, which was for 4 crepes, before Xmas - and boy, were those good - my kids are asking for us to go back - now to see if I can find another deal to make this $21.50 total again, since they don't have more Groupons
Now that I have to make dinner, I'm gonna move up Tuesday's meal to today (since it's still in the chicken and rice vein) and Thursday's meal to Tuesday...and then see if I get inspired late in the week (or if I have more leftovers than I thought)...now to think of a new date plan for Saturday!
and fruitGeez, I'm always late nowadays...
We are cleaning out the freezer/pantry to some degree this month to make room for new goodies so we'll be eating up the peas, green beans and corn that's in there as well as any freezer meals, bread products and meat that have been in there for a while. This week I'm using up the bacon wrapped chicken (I was not a fan of these so I am glad that they are now gone), cooked chicken in the chicken pot pie, some of the frozen veggies throughout the week and the burritos (freezer meal). I've also made stock with all the bones I had in the freezer and will be using that in soups and stews, sometimes for dinners but mainly for lunches. This cleans out most of what I have left in there to be used up.
I will still have a gallon sized freezer bag of the chicken/black bean/rice burrito filling that I think I'm going to make into a casserole (with some corn and salsa and shredded cheese), half a box of meatballs (this one is not that old and can wait a few weeks before being used up), a bag with two flour tortillas in it (I may pull these out on Sunday and make the kids PB&J roll ups instead of using bread) and two tubes of ground turkey. The turkey is stumping me because the family doesn't really like it (wish I'd known that BEFORE I bought the 4 pack of tubes) and there are only a couple of recipes that I have come across so far that I can put it in where they don't really notice it. I am going to use up one pound in lasagna next week and I think the final one will have to wait until the beginning of February to be dispatched.
Anyway...on to this week's meal plan...
Mon-bacon wrapped chicken, peas, lipton sidekicks
Tues-Domino's pizza (the kids have been waiting for DAYS for this one!)
Wed-chicken pot pie
Thurs-Tuscan chicken soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, veggies and dip
Fri-butter chicken, peas, rice
Sat-out for dinner, East Side Mario's
Sun-burritos (PB&J's for the kids), fruit and/or available veggies
...if necessary, you can open up a jar of turkey gravy to complete the meal (I don't like jarred gravy, so I don't do that, but some can't live without turkey and gravy and no one usually has that leftover in their freezer)...)...and if you have a couple slices of crisp bacon, too, you might never go back to beef burgers!
I wouldn't ever try to use ground turkey to sub for ground beef (my family also always knows and hates)...but I would make it shine on its own. I make Rachel Ray's meatloaf muffin concept, but I add cranberry sauce, stuffing mix (or carmelized onions, celery, sage, and breadcrumbs) with an egg and salt and pepper - it's like a little Thanksgiving meatball. Takes about 20-25 minutes at 400 degrees in a muffin pan...serve with the extra cran sauce (you only put a TB or 2 in 1lb of meat, so if you use the can, you'll have a lot left) and mashed sweet potatoes and it's a pretty darn good easy meal that brings back Thanksgiving on a plate
PS - You will also have leftover dry stuffing mix if you go that route, so sometimes, I open up a 2nd box and make that as a side, too, if my troops are hungry...or I make sure it's on my side dish list for later that week...
That's my other go to - can't believe I forgot it. But I again emphasize the "turkiness" of it - I use Harvarti cheese to melt on top (b/c turkey with harvati is my favorite turkey combo) and then I make a dijonaise as the topping (dijon mustard/mayo combo) with lettuce and tomato. I always find that it's better to emphasize it, not hide it (but maybe that's b/c I watch too much Chopped
