On the menu for this week....

The butcher shop I normally use for all of my meat is closed this week, so I was a bit worried about what I was going to do for dinners this week. I took a tip from another blogger ( "Cheapskate Mom" at http://proudtobecheap.blogspot.com/). Before I did my shopping this weekend, I did an inventory of my cabinets, fridge and freezer and tried fo find things to make with what I had - the goal being to avoid a trip to the butcher shop, and save some money on our grocery budget this time. On hand, I noticed I had lots of lentils (I must've gone crazy buying those at some point) and quite a bit of rice. After some searching online, and a tip from one of my message board buddies, I came up with something called Koshari, which will use up a lot of the lentils and rice. All I had to buy was a couple cans of diced tomatos. :)



I spent maybe a 1/4 to 1/3 of what I would normally spend at the grocery store, and when combined with what I found in my house already, I've got enough for 8 dinners, breakfasts and lunches for at least a week, and snacks and goodies to last that long as well. Take in to account that we'll have at least 1 leftover night, and one night where we're hosting a potluck then we're good to go for a while. Not bad!



So on my menu for this week:

Meal 1

Koshari

roasted sweet potatos



Meal 2

Panko crusted pork chops

Oriental salad

peas & carrots



Meal 3

Hash brown quiche



Meal 4

Sweet & Sour pork

egg rolls

jasmine rice



Meal 5

Pasta with broccoli/cheddar sauce with chicken

Dinner rolls



Meal 6

tomato/basil marinated steaks

mashed potatos

green beans



Meal 7

Linguini with homemade alfredo sauce

Garlic peppered chicken



Meal 8

crock pot lasagna

garlic bread

salad



Our potluck contribution (since we are hosting)

honey baked chicken breasts



We're having the lasagna tonight. It's starting to smell really good in this house! :)







So on my dinner menu for this week