Menu Plan Monday (week starting 8/23)

Monday: Spinach Lasagna (x2 I am taking one to a friend who just had a baby) + rolls and salad
Tuesday: Salmon Burgers recipe is here + Oven "Fried" french fries, I am going to try this recipe + Veggie
Wednesday: BBQ Baked Lentils + Brown Rice, this is a new recipe found here + Asparagus
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Fish + Challah + Salad

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Menu Plan Monday (week starting 5/17)

We are trying out a CSA for 10 weeks so I have a lot of vegetables to use up this week, including cabbage!

Monday: Russian Pirozhki (recipe found here)

Tuesday: Homemade Pesto & Pasta with Sauteed Swiss chard as a side

Wednesday: Calzones with this leftover pizza dough
I use the pizza dough and then add sauce, cheese and a veggie, usually spinach. My kids love these!

Thursday: leftovers or beet pancakes for dinner. For beet pancakes, take your normal pancake recipe and use a little yogurt or cottage cheese in place of some of the milk and add a 1/4 cup of roasted pureed beets. They are really good and good for you! I got the idea from Deceptively Delicious.

Friday: Fish + homemade challah


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Healthy & Yummy Crumb Cake?

I recently found two different recipes for "light" coffee cakes. I love a classic crumb cake so I am excited to try these out.

This first one, from Cooking Light, looks good and I will hopefully have time to make it this week.

This other one, from All You, is a blueberry crumb cake and it also looks delicious. I will save it for later this month. I need to go to Costco to get their frozen berries. I love them for baking and smoothies!

Jelly Donut Muffins

On our "snow day" my 3 year old and I made these muffins.

They were delicious!

Salmon Burgers

Take one 6 oz can, add one egg, 1 tsp dijon mustard, approx 1/4 cup breadcrumbs, 1/4 cup chopped onion, and some lemon juice.

Mix all together, form two patties about 1/2 in thick. Cook in pan with a little bit of oil for 4-5 minutes per side.

Finally good salmon burgers! The recipe can be played with a lot in terms of spices...

Butternut Squash Muffins

I have tried to get my family to eat butternut squash, I think it is delicious, they do not. They loved these muffins though. I wish I had pictures, but we ate the entire batch in less than 24 hours.
When making the muffins be sure to note the comments, 1/2 pound of puree=1 cup. I roasted the squash in the oven along with a yam while we were eating dinner. It was much easier than peeling and chopping and I *think* it maintains more nutritional value.

Menu Plan this week (11/30) Reinspired

I have not posted a menu plan in a long time. I have been menu planning, but mostly in my head and by the end of the week I forget Thursday and Friday's menu and we end up getting take out or eating spaghetti.

So in the interest of eating healthy and being frugal, I am back on the menu planning wagon:

Sunday: We had Tilapia with a lime/olive oil marinade, yam fries (loosely based on this recipe, I cut mine lots thinner and used paprika) & green beans
Monday: a new slow cooker vegetarian chili recipe, it was great! (recipe to follow later this week) & corn bread muffins
Tuesday: easy enchiladas
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Salmon burgers (either canned salmon patties, I need a good recipe please! or frozen Salmon burgers that we have) and more sweet potato fries & green beans
Friday: Homemade pizza

So sweet potatoes were on sale last week for 19 cents/pound, which is a great deal. I bought a few pounds. The produce guy showed me the difference between yams (red and skinny) and sweet potatoes. Apparently yams are naturally sweeter. I bought mostly yams and they were delicious in the "french fry" recipe last night. I was planning on freezing the leftovers but there were none!

For lots of ideas and inspiration, check out more menu plans here at Organizing Junkie