Meal Plan Monday - Two weeks to go!

Still in our Month of Nothing and so planning cheap meals this week. I'm starting to run out of the things I stocked-up on. I'm sure I will spend the whole $50 this week, unlike the last two weeks.

Meals for this week:

Breakfasts:

• Homemade instant oatmeal. I'm so glad I learned this because my son LOVES this! On Tuesday of this week he had it for breakfast, after-school snack and asked for it for bed-time snack, too. It is so easy. Put 1/3 c. oats in a bowl (I use old-fashioned oats), add 2/3 c. liquid (I use 1/3 c. water, 1/3 c. mik), put it in the microwave for 1 minutes 30 seconds or so. Stir and serve. I put out brown sugar, maple syrup and frozen berries. I let Kaden add his own. I read a study once that said that if kids put their own sweetener on something, they actually add less than if you bought the pre-sweetened kind.
  I like this oatmeal with dried cranberries and slivered almonds in it. Yum!
• cereal. It is inevitable, no matter what I plan, someone always has cereal. I don't even fight it anymore.
  
• Homemade bread toasted with jam.

Lunches:

• yogurt, cheese sticks, fruit, crackers, leftovers, PB&J's, etc

Dinners:

• Chicken and homemade rice-a-roni. Fruit, jello
• Homemade Mac and Cheese, sliced tomatoes
• Wagon Wheel Chili, biscuits, veggies and ranch
• Soup and rolls (whatever kind of soup strikes my fancy that day)
• Baked Beans over rice, veggies and ranch, fruit
• Toasted Cheese sandwiches and tomato soup
• Gardenburgers (from the freezer), home fries, fruit or veggies

So that's what we are eating this week. Tonight for dinner we had fried potatoes with ham. We scrambled some eggs into the potatoes and then served them with ketchup. Kind of breakfast burritos without the tortillas. It was really good and we ate every last bite!

For more menu ideas hop on over to Organizing Junkie and check out Menu Plan Monday!

Jill