This coming week is going to be a busy one, so I attempted this weekend to do a bunch of cooking in anticipation of the busy-ness. Here’s the menu:
Monday–oven tacos with the fixings, canned black beans (I love these!)–ETA: share this with my family as we celebrate my nephew’s sixteenth birthday!
Tuesday–supper with Nana; moms’ night out at Panera for me
Wednesday–breakfast for supper–pancakes, eggs, and bacon–unless I’m too tired to cook; then we’ll eat out. I discovered that pancake recipe last week, and these pancakes met with rave reviews. It’s a keeper!
Thursday–knockoff Panera broccoli cheese soup or knockoff Wendy’s chili. I made both of these this past weekend, so they’ll be leftover. All of this is really iffy because this week is my nephew’s sixteenth birthday (!!!), and his family and friends will be celebrating with dinner out that night. It’s further complicated by the fact that I’ll be preparing for a medical test on Friday, so I won’t be eating at all. 🙁
Friday–leftovers, eat out, or take out–depending on how I feel, I’m sure 🙂
Yummy broccoli cheese soup
I don’t really make a plan for our other meals, but I did want to share a couple of things we do each week. On Mondays we’re busy right up until lunchtime, so we usually have baked potatoes from the crockpot for lunch. We just pop them into the crockpot early Monday morning, and they’re ready in time for lunch. I can’t tell you how much it helps me to have that done each Monday; lunchtime is one of the several times during the day when things can get pretty hairy around here, and I find having lunch ready (and girls who are plenty big enough to fix the potatoes themselves!) a moral victory at a low ebb in the day. 🙂
I eat oatmeal (the old fashioned kind) almost every day of the week. I eat it with natural peanut butter and and jelly stirred in. Sometimes, though, for a change, I’ll bake up a pan of oatmeal. One of my IRL friends shared Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures blog on FB, and I’ve been baking her oatmeal ever since. My favorite is the peanut butter and jelly oatmeal. Really, this stuff is good enough to be a dessert. I eat it for a bedtime snack, too, so it’s good at any hour.
What’s cookin’ at your house this week?
I wish more of my kids would eat oatmeal! I’m not an everyday person with it, but it’s a favorite when the mornings get chilly. I am thoroughly enjoying your menu posts. Somehow I managed to invite folks over for dinner three different nights this week and I’ve had to be on my A-game about menu planning as well.
I am so glad that you enjoy my baked oatmeal! And I hope you enjoy the oven tacos. My kids love it when those are on the menu plan. Have a great week!
My mom was just saying she ate oatmeal every day for breakfast, with pb mixed in. She loves it! I wish I liked oatmeal — it is so healthy, but I just don’t! Those black beans do look good. I’ll have to look for them in the store. Happy birthday to your nephew, and I hope your test goes well!
We love oatmeal too! I love baked oatmeal especially, but my kids don’t seem to care for it very much unfortunately. Homemade granola is another oatmeal-related hit here.
I also wish my kids would eat baked potatoes for lunch like that…they barely tolerate them as a dinner side dish. I am trying to think of more variety for lunch. We do mac and cheese, tomato soup, sandwiches, french toast or pancakes, sometimes pizza or quesidilla…but we still seem to get bored of our lunch choices. Other ideas that are equally quick to make are things I have on the dinner menu (I rotate through 4 weeks of diner ideas…can you tell I like variety?), so I end up with too few diner ideas if I steal those ideas for lunches.
I love the baked potato idea and I think my kids would think it was great!
What is the consistency of the baked oatmeal? I have always wanted to make it, but am never sure how to eat it?
Beth,
The oatmeal isn’t “gloppy” at all–it’s fairly dry, at least after you refrigerate it overnight, which is what I do. I eat mine warmed in the microwave and with almond milk over it.
I am going to have to try it. My kids have been on an oatmeal kick and even though it is only the instant kind they want me to cook it since they can’t get it just right. If I can talk them into eating it they could serve themselves!