All I really do is just fine recipes online (with Brent's help, because let's be honest, he eats the food, too) and then I make them.
Lately we are just doing a lot of one pan dishes that make 4 servings each (leftovers are key).
When I make out my menu I don't do it in any particular order, I just put them all down and we'll pick out what we want to eat that night as we go.
So, I'll just write down our meal options and then write down the ingredients I need to purchase on the side and bring this along with me to the store. I've always got my spices and proteins on hand so I never have to put those on my list. Once every couple of weeks we'll make a run to Costco and get our fish and chicken. I know that spices can get old but honestly - I think it take a while and as long as you keep them in a dark, cool, dry place you're fine. Once I'm finished I'll hang it up in the kitchen so we can keep track of our week.
So this week we're going to make:
Chicken Power Bowls - with this recipe I actually don't make the dressing (it adds extra calories that I don't feel are necessary, I just use Kraft's Lite Raspberry Vinaigrette.
Tacos - extra lean ground turkey, Ortega taco seasoning, shredded lettuce, tomato, sour cream, shells, cheese... You know. Tacos. ;)
One Pan Healthy Italian Sausage and Veggies - we have been using this page SOOOO much lately but everything has been amazing so it's hard not to! I'm using Johnsonville's Three Cheese Italian Style Chicken Sausage Links for this.
Pioneer Woman's Chipotle Chicken Chili - it's no lie that I LOVE Ree Drummond and I LOVE this chili recipe. I could eat it every other week. For the beer I use a bottle of Kona's Longboard Lager or just Leinenkugel's Original Brew. And instead of buying a big ass bag of masa harina (corn flour) I cheat and buy a bag of Fritos and grind those up. Kind of 'hood but it's reaaaally good.
Chicken Quesadilla Soup - I'm not going to make it in a Crock Pot. I'm weird and don't like coming home to my house smelling like food. If I come home and my house smells like baking then I'm all about it. I haven't made this before but it seemed like a great idea seeing as we'll have some left over flour tortillas so I can make the cute mini cheese quesadillas for the toppings on this stuff.
All of our recipes make left overs so that will cover our lunches for the following days, too. I use MyFitnessPal to help figure out nutritional information on these recipes, however Chelsea's Messy Apron usually includes the nutritional values but a lot of times I cut back on oils and other items so I just prefer to figure out my own nutritional stuff on MyFitnessPal.
There we go! Dinner (and lunches) for the next week!
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