Meal Prep- Salads

It's summer, and its HOT! I dont know about you but when its hot I hate cooking. Tonights dinner is in the crockpot, but tomorrow is a different story. Tomorrow Sage has a girl scout meeting and I have to work tomorrow night so I know I am not going to want to cook anything. I found these great containers on Amazon that make meal prep easy! You can free in them, you can microwave in them and best of all they are dishwasher safe. They come in packs of ten. I use two compartment ones and three compartment ones.

I love that they stack nice, and don't take up a lot of room. I have done more than salads in them but today was salads for dinner tomorrow. All the family will have to do is warm up the chicken in the fridge that is already cooked add their salad dressing and go. If you are making salads ahead for work or on the go meal three compartment containers would probably be better as you could put your salad dressing in it's own spot.

Menu Mondays Week of 12/29 -1/4

I have been trying to make menu's everyweek for awhile now. We do have a lot of FFY (fend for yourself) days it seems like, which is good days for left overs, or things only one of us likes. 

I like to print menu's off from $5 Dinners. You could make your own calendar or even use the one on your wall. Here is the weekly menu I use from $5 Dinners. 

My menu for this week consists of

Monday

Breakfast: cereal

Lunch: tuna sandwich

Dinner: turkey pot pie (made with left overs)

Tuesday

Breakfast: oatmeal

Lunch: FFY

Dinner: Mac and Cheese

Wednesday

Breakfast: cereal

Lunch: soup

Dinner: shrimp

Thursday

Breakfast: toast

Lunch: sandwich

Dinner: Nachos

Friday

Breakfast: cereal

Lunch: mac and cheese

Dinner: pancakes and eggs

Saturday

Breakfast: oatmeal

Lunch: FFY

Dinner: Baked Chicken

Sunday

Breakfast: eggs/toast

Lunch: FFY

Dinner: Left overs

I always look at our schedules to see what is going on before planning out meals. Sage has Awanas, we do Girl Scouts, and other homeschool activities during the week so we try and plan around these. My crockpot meals unless planned out are normally chicken, or a freezer meal I just have to throw in there to cook. 

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Frugal Fridays- Menu Planning

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Do you plan a menu? Have you ever wanted to? If so what's stopping you? 

I just started doing menu's a few months ago. I can tell you it really HELPS keep us on track for eating at home. There for while even though we couldn't afford it we were eating out way to much. There is many places you can print off printable menus. Or you can make your own. I normally just print mine off $5 Dinners she has some already pre made along with grocery lists and more. 

We keep breakfast simple during the week. The weekends mostly Sundays I might cook something fancy like eggs and toast. Other wise its cereal, oatmeal, or breakfast bars. 

Lunches depends on the day mostly sandwiches, mac and cheese, left overs, easy lunches as we homeschool and on the days i work it needs to be easy. 

Dinners depends on the day. I plan of what's going on what nights. The nights Sage has Awanas is normally fend for yourself. Some days we do crock pot meals, some days its easy like breakfast for dinner.

Check every Monday for our weekly menu. While it doesn't change much maybe it will give you ideas? 

What ever you do if you have it planned out it will help you save money in the long run! Not eating out, having meals ready to go into the crock pot, or freezer meals ready for the oven they all help to be frugal, eat better, and feed your family!

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