Meal Plan Monday #19

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It’s that time again.  Time to figure out what food we’re going to serve this week.  How are you doing with meal planning?  I’m still plugging along.  I will say it forces me to cook more.  Which is a good thing since there are days that I just want to throw something easy together.  It can be such a pain cooking for just yourself.  I have no clue when the day will come that Nick will actually eat dinner with me.  Even when I try to plan things he actually likes he still wont really want to eat.  I did read recently that young kids actually get all of the calories and nutrients that they need before dinner time rolls around which is why many of them don’t care much about dinner.  It makes sense, but it doesn’t make dinner any easier.

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Last week the meal that I reviewed was Crockpot Italian Chicken.  Now I have actually eaten this many times before, but it was a meal that Jason always made.  I had never made it myself.  It was a breeze to cook though.  Of course you know how much I love Crockpot meals.  They make life so much easier.  The flavor of this meal is so good.  I actually modify the amounts of the ingredients it calls for.  I only use half of the cream cheese and one can of soup.  We originally made this change because it was less dairy for Jason, and I was more than happy to cut back on the calories.  I still did this when I made it.  Having eaten it both ways I can say it doesn’t take away the meal at all so I figured why add more when I don’t need it?  This is still a good summer recipe, but it makes a great meal on a cold day.

Meal Plan – Week of August 4, 2014

Monday – Leftover Sweet Potato and Black Bean Casserole

Tuesday – Leftover Crockpot Italian Chicken

Wednesday – Crispy Cheddar Chicken and Rice (Recipe to review next week)

Thursday – Breakfast for Dinner

Friday – Pizza

Saturday -Fried Chicken and Mashed Potatoes

Sunday – Popcorn Shrimp and Baked Sweet Potato

More Meal Plans

Check out these other great blogs that share weekly meal plans for more great ideas!

Play 2 Learn With Sarah – You’ll not only find a lot of great ideas here, but you’ll find many gluten free ones!

Carrie Elle – Lots of good meal ideas, with adaptations for young kids. Plus Carrie includes some free printables to help you out!

I’m an Organizing Junkie – You’ll find lots of great meal plans here. The weekly post there also contains a linky that gives you tons of weekly meal plans to check out.

Mommy in SPORTS – Here you’ll find lots of great kid friendly meals from a mom that has little time to cook.

For lots of great easy dinner ideas follow my Menu for a Month recipe board on Pinterest. It’s full of a lot of great dinner ideas that aren’t too hard to make!