Dinner Ideas!

When we were last at Becky and Brian's I noticed that Becky had a menu of sorts for her daily meals. So I thought I should do one of my own. It's a pretty loose menu but it works because it's so flexible.  Here you go:

Mondays - Soup & sandwich

Tuesdays - Breakfast for Dinner

Wednesdays - Stir-Fry

Thursdays - Casserole

Fridays - Pizza (of course!)

Saturdays - Crock pot

Sundays - Meat

Let me tell you how it works. On Mondays I will either cook a store bought soup, we still have plenty of Healthy Choice soup from my shopping spree at Albert son's a few years ago. Or it could be a homemade soup or one of my home canned soups. And it's often accompanied with a toasted cheese sandwich. 

On Tuesdays I've been making pumpkin waffles or last night it was strawberry pancakes. And I bought some bacon which was on sale a while ago and I'll cook up 3 slices each. I've also done omelets and toast. Last week I made potato latkes!

Wednesdays are stir fry and this means I'll use up leftover meats and vegetables from the fridge. Tonight I mixed some sliced peppers that I froze from this summers harvest, mushrooms that we got on sale and froze, and sliced zucchini from our garden. To this I added leftover chicken from fajitas on Saturday and it was great. Here's how we make our stir fry. I'll cook all the veggies and meats in a stir fry pot on the stove and then I make the sauce. In a small bowl I'll mix 2/3 cup water, 3 Tbls.. soy sauce, 1 Tbls. vinegar and 2 tsp sugar. To this I'll whisk in 3 tsp cornstarch. Pour it slowly over the veggies and let it cook for about 5 minutes.  

Thursdays, it's a casserole using leftovers or frozen meat. I love casseroles because they take so little meat and instead use lots of pasta or rice which is a whole lot cheaper!

Fridays we make either a regular pizza, BBQ chicken pizza or pizza on bagels, English muffins or french bread. 

Saturdays are crock pot because we serve in the temple and I no longer want to pay to eat out as much. It's so nice to come home to find dinner pretty much ready.

Sundays are the only day that we have a meat like a beef roast or pork ribs. It's a special meal.

So there you have it. My food bill is low, low, low because of this and I'm grateful to be using our food storage.