Sunday Meal Planning

Menus for the week! During my volunteer hours at the book fair, I purchased a cookbook- Cooking Light 3 Step Express Meals- easy weeknight recipes for today's home cook.

I love the pictures in it and the pantry ideas. It's a realistic cookbook for me because it allows you to prepare a home cooked, healthy meal by providing some shortcuts and simple solutions.

 A few of their ideas on how to stock your pantry and prepare your meals with time saving products:
1. Buy fresh produce in treason.  Berries in summer, apples in Fall, and root veggies in winter.
2. Keep things simple.  Season your fresh chicken with salt, fresh ground pepper, and lemon rind.
3. Do a bit of work on the weekend.  Make your toasted breadcrumbs, roast veggies in a big batch, chop your vegetables and store in fridge in air tight containers, to simplify your cooking during the week.

 I'll add more next week!

For your pantry:
1.  Canned beans-preferably organic
2. Canned broth -low sodium and preferably organic
3.  Raw nuts
4. Vinegars

Again, I'll add some more next week.

The kids and I looked through the book today and found some meals to try. In fact, the cookbook is filled with post it's so I'm happy that it is a hit with all!

Sunday night- leftover BBQ pulled chicken, broccoli slaw, salad and brown rice

Monday- Baked macaroni and cheese made with either whole wheat pasta or brown rice pasta and their recipe calls for cottage cheese

Tuesday - Mexican Chicken Hominy soup

Wednesday- pasta pork bolognese(. I am going to use ground turkey)

Thursday- cumin spiced fish tacos with avocado and mango salsa

Friday- homemade individual pizzas and big salad

Saturday- spicy sweet chicken thighs with roasted asparagus

Sunday- herbed fish and red potato chowder

Thank you Cooking light for your recipes!  Hopefully my dinners will turn out as beautiful as their photos!

Happy week all.  Contact me if you want the full recipes.  Happy to pass them along.

Donna