Menu Plan Monday–April and May

 

The last three weeks were a bit of a whirlwind. My husband’s grandmother passed away about three weeks ago, so me being me, I planned a two week road trip for my family to go to SoCal and enjoy the sights as well as go to the memorial service. Oh, and I played travel agent for the rest of his family, which include his mom and disabled dad, sister and her hubby, and two more brothers. Yeah. Made my head spin a bit. Then was the actual trip. Really good, but exhausting! Almost two weeks in a hotel room with your three kids isn’t exactly relaxing. In any way. BUT we did go to Disneyland, San Diego Zoo, the beach, and several other places. We had a great time, and are glad to be home. Except for this freak snow storm. I mean, almost a foot of snow in the middle of April?!? Welcome to Colorado spring, I guess.

Anyway…I didn’t exactly get any meal plan done for the month before we left, and then we ate out for two weeks, ugh. Now that we’re home, and it’s already the middle of the month, I decided I would just plan out April and May. So here goes. Six weeks of meals all planned out:

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
14  Meatballs & Ravioli	15 Basic Tacos	16 Chicken Pot Pie Soup	17 Teriyaki Crockpot Chicken	18 Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup	19 You’re On Your Own (YOYO)	20 Hamburger Helper
21 Stuffed Jumbo Shells	22 Orange Chicken Stir-Fry	23 Chili Colorado Burritos	24 Healthy Mama BBQ Chicken	25 Date Night with that man o’ mine	26 YOYO	27 Taco Dump Soup
28 Dinner at my dad’s	29 Creamy Chicken Taquitos	30 Sweet & Sour Citrus Chicken	1 Slow Cooker Pizza	2 Parmesan Ranch Chicken	3 YOYO	4 Light and Crispy Waffles
5 Baked Pasta Casserole	6 Mexican Lasagna	7 Valencian Paella	8 Cilantro Lime Chicken	9 Date Night!	10 YOYO	11 Pizza
12 Guiltless Chicken Alfredo	13 Sweet & Sour Meatballs	14 Scalloped Potatoes & Ham	15 Crockpot Parmesan Chicken	16 Rice-a-Roni with Chicken	17 YOYO	18 Something Grilled – Probably Burgers
19 Noodles Bolognase	20 Southwest Chicken Burritos	21 Orecchiette and Sausage	22 Cheesy Hamburger Soup	23 Basic Casserole	24 YOYO	25 Chicken Lemon Soup with Orzo
26 Dinner at my dad’s	27 Mexican Lasagna	28 Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole	29 Grillin’	30 Green Beans, Potatoes, and Chicken	31 YOYO	1 Meatloaf Muffins

One more thing that I really like about meal planning in advance like this: It gives me the ability to bring people a meal more easily. I can see when I would already be making something that is easy to double, or one that I already usually double (like Stuffed Jumbo Shells), and just plan on sharing that extra meal. I have a friend who has just started chemo for breast cancer, and they don’t have a lot of local friends since they just moved here a year ago. I know which meals I will be bringing them in the next six weeks and I’m less likely to forget (what a horrible friend would I be then!) since it’s already in my family’s plan and not just on a sign-up sheet somewhere. I also have a neighbor who had a baby while we were gone in Cali. I don’t know her that well, but what better way to bless someone than by bringing them a meal?

Okay, enough talking. What are you making this week/month?

~S