Menu Planning: January 2012

This blog is more like a food journal for me. Because of its definition, I also post my menus, so I don't feel remorse for deleting old menus on my computer. I just put them here. So the following is our menu for a couple weeks in January. Inevitably, a trip takes a place, a night out instead of in, or sheer laziness makes sure that this menu is carried out perfectly, but you get the idea.

A couple of tips that have worked for our house:
1. Economy. For anything freezable, I make twice as much and freeze it.
2. Diversity. We plan our meals roughly around the world. I mean, one night is Asian, the next Mexican, Italian, and so forth. On top of that, I try to get in one night of red meat, one night of fish, one night of vegetables, one night of chicken/pork - but I don't like chicken right now. I don't know why. I'm just sick of it. But sometimes it still has to be cooked.
3. Greenity (that's a word right?). Each week, I try to do at least two to three meals vegetarian. A night of just vegetables is good for everyone and my pocketbook.

Here's my plan:

Sunday Monday Tuesday b: eggs, green smoothie l: on your own d: turkey chili, salad, cornbread with honey butter b: crepes with berries and bananas l: sweet potatoe fries d: porch lettuce wraps from here   b: pancakes with blueberries l: pizza d: chicken cacciatore Wednesday Thursday Friday & Saturday b: green smoothies, oatmeal l: cauliflower popcorn, pbj d: spice-rubbed pork chops, potatoes, green beans, applesauce dessert: apple cobbler   b: eggs, smoothie l: leftovers d: broccoli soup (freeze half) date night and leftovers

So no fish this week right? Okay, let's try it this next week then...

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday
b: eggs, green smoothie l: on your own d: slow cooker fajitas	b: pancakes, fruit l: tuna salad d: broccoli soup from freezer, fresh salad, bread	b: green smoothie, oatmeal l: roasted vegetables with hummus d: spice-rubbed salmon with spinach
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday & Saturday
b: oatmeal and fruit l: tuna sandwich d: bean burritos from here	b: green smoothie, egg l: roasted vegetables d: beef stir--fry	date night & leftovers