Since it is Monday, I'm creating my menu for this week (Tues-Mon). I have a master grocery list that I use. I print it out and then as I make my menu and look at the ingredients needed, I highlight the ones that are on my printed list and add ones that aren't. I go to three different stores, so I have it sectioned off by the stores I frequent, as I get specific things at each.
I've seen several menus listed online and in emails, some free and some pay-for-service. However, they usually all plan for less than 7 days and as such are no help to me, as we generally eat at home every day! We live way out in the country and driving into town just does not make sense. And although dh does work in town, it doesn't make sense to have him bring home dinner when it is both cheaper and better for us if I just cook it myself. Anyway, I digress . . . I can come up with 4 meals easily but those last three I really have to think about. So, I thought I'd post my menu from LAST week, you know the things we ACTUALLY ate, in hopes that it will help someone else and maybe even myself, in the future.
I am following the Let's Do Lunch (LDL) eating plan, so all of these meals are compatible with that, and thus good for losing weight.
Let's see . . . last Tuesday we came home from grocery shopping and I wasn't feeling good. I was supposed to go to a special dinner with my homeschool support group so I planned a meal that was NOT LDL friendly and had to make some substitutions for me.
Tuesday: (My children cooked all but the fish.)
Fried Potatoes
Cornbread
Beans
Hot Dogs (for the kids)
Herbed Baked Halibut (for dh and me)
(I think I had green beans or corn with my fish.)
Wednesday:
Chili
Thursday:
Turkey (I was going to make a chicken soup with a whole chicken but chickens were $1.24/lb. or 98¢/lb for cut-up whole chickens. They still had some turkeys, and since they were only 78¢/lb and we love roasted turkey and leftover turkey meat sandwiches, I decided it would be a good deal. I roasted it in an Oven Roaster Bag with some Poultry Magic on it.)
Corn
Green Beans
Friday:
Fajitas (I had mine on romaine lettuce leaves instead of the corn tortillas that my family had. Also, my children don't care for onions, mushrooms, and peppers, so my dd stir-fries broccoli and carrots for them to eat with their chicken.)
I eat fat-free cheese while they have 75% fat-free cheese.
Saturday:
Turkey soup, which I made from the carcass of the turkey. I did eat some No-Yolks noodles, which are an occasional LDL food.
Sunday:
We had quite a few leftovers, so today was leftover day, including turkey sandwiches. (I had turkey on Corn Thins and light mayo, which I use instead of fat-free mayo because there is more sugar in the fat-free.)
(Me and my dd, Tiffany on an easy to climb tree limb on vacation in VA in 2007.) These are my ramblings on homeschooling and whatever else comes to mind.
Counting Down
The Holidays are over and I'm not quite ready to start a new count down yet. Maybe I should start a counting up the number of days I've stayed on my "diet".
