Meals for the week 12/17

Crash Hot Sweet Potatoes by Donalyn Ketchum

Here's our meal plan for the upcoming week.

We have three evenings out this week.  Two will be preceded by a meal at home, one will be a meal at a grandma's house.

We're starting to shop on Mondays, so our meal plans start on Monday instead of Sunday.  I've also taken to including a soup several times a week.  This helps fill growing boys a little before the meat and carbs are served!

By the way, if you missed my Two-Week Meal Planner printable, check it out!

This Week:

Monday

Baked Ham*
Crash Hot Sweet Potatoes
Salad

Tuesday

Taco salad (with homemade taco seasoning)

Wednesday

(early prep for evening out)
Navy Bean & Ham Soup

Thursday

Roast Sticky Chicken* (cooked surrounded by chunks of onion and carrots)
Roasted Potatoes

Friday

(dinner at Grandma's)
Split Pea Soup
Sirloin Steak
Brown Rice
Roasted vegetables

Saturday

Chicken pot pie
Salad

Sunday

(early prep for evening out)
Beef Stew  
Beer Bread (SO easy!)

*Notes:  Re-Using Leftovers

Leftover ham is chopped into bite-sized pieces for Wednesday's soup

Shannon at Grass Fed Cooking wrote a great post about getting ALL the meat off a chicken and making broth from the carcass.  You'll be amazed at how much meat is still on the chicken after the legs, thighs, and breast pieces are eaten!  We usually have one breast left over, so that, the rest of the meat, and the broth will be used for Saturday's pot pie.  Speaking of Shannon's site, she has some decidedly un-vegan natural soaps, candles, and such that look lovely and I'd love to try sometime.