Menu Plan Monday - Week of March 29, 2015

Potato Soup (with bacon and cheddar), biscuits and fruit salad. Yum!
We're hopefully warmer this week.  The snow is basically gone and it's starting to feel like spring. Hurray!  My rhododendron is budding out and the irises next to the house are starting to stick their little green tops out of the ground.  We took the insulation off the roses and hopefully the tulips and paper whites will poke through this week too.  I'd love to have them blooming by Sunday for Easter, but that may be way too ambitious! Either way, it's Holy Week and I'm pretty optimistic that my children will not be hunting Easter Eggs in the snow this year.  I'll take it!

We went to Sam's Club on Friday night to buy toilet paper and ended up spending our grocery money there instead of the regular store.  We bought milk ($1.98/gallon!), apples, oranges, bananas, and canned corn at prices cheaper than our regular grocery.  We also bought the toilet paper and onions at the same price per pound as we would at the grocery.  Our other deal was strawberries at slightly over $1 per pound so we bought 4 pounds and we sliced and froze some since they were starting to look very ripe.  Anyway that was the shopping this weekend: basically fruit, corn, onions, milk and TP.  Aren't we exciting? 

Here's our menu for the week;

Sunday, March 29, Palm Sunday:
    Breakfast: Leftover Coffee Cake
    Lunch:  Salad with Chicken and Leftover Soup
    Snack: Crackers
    Dinner: Leftovers (yes, we lead an exciting life some days!)

Monday, March 30:
     Breakfast: Breakfast Tacos (eggs, bacon, diced potatoes in a tortilla)
     Lunch: Snackey-lunch (crackers, cheese, carrot sticks, fruit)
     Snack: Yogurt
     Dinner: Green Peppers Stuffed with Rice, Tomatoes and Spices, Strawberry-Banana-Orange Salad

Tuesday, March 31:
     Breakfast: Cinnamon-Craisin Oatmeal
     Lunch: Extra Stuffed Peppers
     Snack: Homemade Bread
     Dinner: Veggie and Chicken Stir Fry, Rice, Orange Wedges

Wednesday, April 1:
     Breakfast: Pancakes with Strawberries and Almonds
     Lunch: PB&J, Carrots Sticks, Oranges
     Snack: Veggies
     Dinner: Turkey Divan, Cornbread, Orange-Banana Salad

Thursday, April 2, Maundy Thursday:
      Breakfast: Oatmeal Muffins, Bananas
      Lunch: Apples with Peanut Butter, Matzoh
      Snack: Matzoh
      Dinner: Sandwiches, Oranges

Friday, April 3, Good Friday:
      Breakfast: Hot Cross Buns
      Lunch: Vegetable Soup, Matzoh
      Snack: Matzoh
      Dinner: Fish Tacos, Rice

Saturday, April 4, Holy Saturday:
      Breakfast: Cinnamon Breakfast Biscuits
      Lunch: Vegetable Soup, Matzoh
      Snack: Popcorn
      Dinner: Homemade Pizza, Tossed Salad

What are you eating this Holy Week?

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