Menu

Friday: BBQ pork, baked beans, Emily's great potato salad, dessert. Company comin'!

Saturday: Picnic! Turkey sandwiches with cheese and lettuce and pickles, boiled eggs, leftover potato salad (if there is any left after the piranhas dear children get hold of it on Friday!), Chex mix, celery and carrot sticks.

Sunday: Jalapeno Chicken Casserole, Brownie Pudding.

Monday: Baked chicken, Vegetable Lo Mein from the Five in a Row cookbook.

Tuesday: Beef Stew in the crockpot because I'm getting my hair done that morning! Yay!

Wednesday: Chicken Soup with WW noodles.

Thursday: Beans and Rice.


When I first met David, his mom made this dessert sometimes. Since I like anything chocolate, I've made it ever since. It's from The Better Homes and Garden's New Cookbook (the red-checked one) and it just begs for a scoop of vanilla ice cream or some whipped cream to go with it.

Brownie Pudding

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1 3/4 cups hot water

Sift together first 5 ingredients; add milk, oil, and vanilla; mix till smooth. Stir in nuts. Pour into greased 8x8x2 baking pan. Combine remaining ingredients; pour carefully over batter. Bake at 350 about 40 minutes. Serve warm. Makes 6-8 servings.

Menu

Thursday: Sloppy joes, whole roasted potatoes with olive oil and kosher salt rubbed on the skins, baked beans.

Friday: Chili.

Saturday: The girls and I are going shopping, Katie will be out of town, David and Rach are going to a concert, Joshua will come over at lunchtime, so we'll all be eating at different times, probably. Beef stew in the crockpot.

Sunday: Heavenly Chicken Lasagna, French bread, Girdle-Buster Pie (this is a new recipe for us and I'll post the recipe if it turns out well). Since Katie is going to be gone, everyone wants milk, milk, milk for lunch.

Monday: Hamburgers, black beans with garlic, peppers, and onion. I'm trying to get away from baked beans because of all the sugar.

Tuesday: Roast, baked sweet potatoes.

Wednesday: Chicken noodle soup with carrots and peas.

Thursday: Pinto beans, rice, tortillas.

Weekly Menu

Friday: Out to eat.

Saturday: Taco Salad

Sunday: Pork roast with BBQ sauce, baked beans, potato chips, cookies and cream ice cream, Hamantashen cookies. The ice cream is a carton of vanilla ice cream, softened, mixed with one package of crushed Oreos and a container of Cool Whip (any size will work). Mix and freeze.

Monday: Mandarin Orange Chicken, homemade egg rolls.

Tuesday: Grilled chicken, Cajun sweet potatoes, fried okra.

Wednesday: Bean soup, cornbread.

Thursday: Minestrone, bread

Someone asked me to post our menu for breakfast, too. We have company and aren't being particularly healthy this week.

Thursday: We had gingerbread scones.

Friday: Blueberry muffins.

Saturday: Buttermilk and milkless biscuits with chocolate gravy.

Sunday: Homemade white bread with homemade peach jam.

Monday: Oatmeal, ww toast.

Tuesday: Either French toast or pumpkin pudding, which is a new recipe we're going to try.

Wednesday: WW banana muffins, another new recipe.

Thursday: Cereal, homemade granola.

Menu For the Week

Friday: Chicken pies

Saturday: Yorkshire Beef Pie, mixed vegetables (Mine is more tasty-looking than the photo on the link, but my recipe is so old, I don't know where it came from originally. This recipe seems to be the same as mine, however.)

Sunday: Sausage-Wild Rice Casserole, lima beans, homemade rolls, something or other for dessert, plus Blue Bell ice cream. A Sunday without Blue Bell is like a Sunday without sunshine!

Monday: Lemon Chicken Soup ( I will post this recipe soon.)

Tuesday: Hamburgers, roast potatoes, baked beans

Wednesday: Roast, potatoes, carrots with gravy

Thursday: Chili

Menu For The Week

Thursday morning is for groceries and errands. The kids say that I run through Walmart, hit my local grocery store for bargains, go by 2 libraries, and the cleaners and any other errands on the list. I guess I do run - I'm not crazy about shopping, unless it involves Joe Muggs or Starbucks or time with my hubby or the girls or my friend, Shelley, who is kind enough not to tell you about all the stuff I ate at Panera Bread when we met last week.

Friday: Crab Soup. Katie and I are going to be gone, so I'm making soup with milk in it for everyone else.

Saturday: Beef Stew. Busy day and I need a crockpot meal.

Sunday: Jalapeno Chicken Casserole, a family favorite, and cherry pie. I have a big hen in the freezer and I'll have enough chicken for Monday's meal, as well.

Monday: Chicken Minestrone Soup and homemade bread.

Tuesday: Hamburgers, roasted potatoes, baked beans.

Wednesday: Roast, cooked in the crockpot, with undetermined side dishes.

Thursday: Beans and rice with tortillas, salsa, and cheese.