Menu Plan Monday: Week of January 20, 2013, Pantry Challenge Week #3

One of our camping meals this past summer - I just reserved our site for this summer, so I have camping on the brain!  Here we have strawberries, grapes, and grilled zucchini, potatoes, and some very well done steak!
This is our 3rd week of our pantry challenge.  I totally didn't get to posting the shopping trip from this week but we have just enough money left to purchase some fruit next week.  Other than that, I bought basically fruit (oranges and melon), 2 gallons of milk (coupon) and 2 tubs of Smart Balance (sale w/coupons).  I ordered TP using Swagbucks or we'd have been in trouble - we have 2 rolls left right now from the package we had at the beginning of the month and no way will that get us to the end of the month!  We were so blessed to be given 2 bunches of bananas, 6 muffins, 3 dozen cookies and a half a gallon of apple juice after the Scout's Pinewood Derby on Saturday.  So we have loads of bananas and have eaten waaaay too many cookies since Saturday. 

Anyway, we have $4 and change left from our original $50 for the month.  We'll just squeak in.   We seem to do really well with $80 for the month but $50 is a tight squeeze, especially now that the children are bigger and eating more.

Anyway, here's what we're eating this week:

Sunday, January 20:
  Breakfast: Muffins and Milk
  Lunch: Breakfast Tacos
  Snack: Popcorn
  Dinner:  Butternut Squash Soup, Homemade French Bread, Orange and Grapefruit Wedges

Monday, January 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day:
  Breakfast: Muffins or Yogurt
  Lunch: Leftovers
  Snack: Yogurt
  Dinner: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce (Ground Turkey), Broccoli, Melon-Apple-Banana Salad

Tuesday, January 22:
   Breakfast: Oatmeal with Cinnamon and Almonds
   Lunch: Hot Lunch for the Children, Leftovers for the Adults
   Snack: Yogurt
   Dinner: Fried White Fish, Green Beans, Rice, Apple-Banana-Pear Salad

Wednesday, January 23:
  Breakfast:  Toast with Peanut Butter, Yogurt
  Lunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, Applesauce, Carrots or Tomatoes, Cookie
  Snack: Wasabi Peas and Raisins
  Dinner: Venison Stew in the Crock Pot, Homemade French Bread, Grapefruit and Orange Wedges

Thursday, January 24:
   Breakfast: Pancakes with Walnuts and Bananas
   Lunch: Hot Lunch for the Children, Leftovers for Adults
  Snack: Yogurt
   Dinner: Turkey Pot Pie, Orange and Grapefruit Wedges

Friday, January 25:
  Breakfast: Oatmeal with Craisins and Almonds
  Lunch: Hot Lunch for the Children, Leftovers for Adults
  Snack: Yogurt
  Dinner: Chili in the Crock Pot, Cornbread, Apple Slices
  Family Night Treat: Hot Cocoa and Hot Vanilla

Saturday, January 26:
  Breakfast: Oatmeal Muffins with Bananas
  Lunch: Leftover Chili, Baking Powder Biscuits, Apple Slices
  Snack: Popcorn
  Dinner:  Homemade Pizza and Bread sticks, Orange and Grapefruit Wedges
  Date Night Desert: Apple Crisp

What are you eating this week?  Visit I'm an Organizing Junkie! to share.

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