Meal Plan Monday!

{Make it Fun!}

My sweet daughter wanted to have the table set and looking nice for our family. All the boys even liked it!

I sat my 4 kids down last night before bed and asked them all what they wanted for breakfast, lunch and dinner this week plus the ever looming snacks!
Here's what they came up with:

Breakfast: " Coffee cake with that amazing buttery brown sugar topping" my picky eater said!
Oh's and waffles{they must be toaster for a busy school morning}
Smoothies and French Toast Stix {also must be the frozen kind or we can just give up on getting out the door on time}

Lunch: Turkey Hoagies, Tuna salad and the usual stuff to make lunch complete

Snacks: Cheese crackers, home made chocolate chip cookies, fruit etc.

Dinner: Baked Potato bar with Chili and fixings, Tostadas, Bread bowl with moms chicken noodle soup {my kids fave}, Pasta and on Friday, Homemade pizza!  Also, homemade rolls were requested and I have to figure out still what to make with those, probably for Sunday dinner!

Another Meal Plan..Weekly Menu

So I have just discovered some wonderful recipe/cooking blogs! It's like scoring an awesome deal at your favorite store!!!

Obviously the week is half over so I won't be planning the entire week but here is what we are eating!

Thursday: Potato Bar with all the toppings

Friday: Date night for Mike and me, yay, a night off from cooking! { Pizza for kids}

Saturday {Dinner with friends } But look what we are having for lunch!  Get the recipe here !  

Sunday: Grilled Shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo {my own recipe, all you do is open a jar of Alfredo sauce!} Try it with Barilla Plus! My kids love white pasta, but the really didn't mind the wheat version at all! Whole wheat though is a different story!
And: Caesar Salad {our Favorite dressing is Girard's}

I'm So Lucky, Look What I Found!

I love all this "refashioning" going on in blog land don't you?

Check out Ruffles and Stuff for this awesome tutorial.....if you are not careful you could end up spending your whole day there...not that that has happened to me or anything! LOL

The "D" Word

Diet!!!! I know for most of us January brings on a clean slate for our eating habits and this year I have better tools to help aid success! You really should go and visit Angela at The Grocery Shrink! She is a wealth of knowledge and information. I am so excited to get started and know that she is there {well her blog is always there} for me to go back to for reassurance!!!

I have the 1200 calorie a day cookbook and I really like it.....do you have other suggestions for low cal cooking? Bring 'em on!

Another Year ...... A Brand New Diary!

To quote Bridgette Jones......I love it!

If you ask my husband, my journal's purpose is to vent my frustrations about him on it's pages!! But I promise you that is only once in a while, better to write it down and hopefully throw it away then to say something that can't be unsaid I always say!

So the other day I found my old journal from when I had first met my husband! I couldn't stop laughing I tell you! I was hung up on the guy big time! I told him that if he ever needed an ego boost then he ought to read the pages in my hot pink book! {we met on my 18th birthday!}

I also keep a church journal. It helps me remember the inspirational speakers I hear and to apply thoughts with that inspiration into the days of my life!

I believe my blog to be a journal of sorts but the one thing it is missing is my own handwriting! In the years to come, some one some where will want to know more about me......and a handwritten journal fits the bill!
I have started many over the years since I was a young girl, and looking back and reading the pages warms my heart.

I don't know that I believe in resolutions for the sake of New Year's but I know that I do want to be better at:

drinking more water
writing in my journal
blogging
exercising
etc.