Meal Plans

Make a plan, or plan to fail.   Meal plans dont have to be a drawn out affair, but plans enable you to eat better and be more organized about it.   Taking a few minutes to do prep work I call kitchen management, keeps the kitchen clean and takes away a lot of the stress during the hectic dinner hour.  Your meals are 1/2 done an life is easssy.   

• Chicken Pot Pie 
• Pizza Pockets (homemade) 
• Roast chicken, oven roasted veggies 
• Homemade chicken nuggets , oven fries , veggie platter 
• Nachos
• Salmon, baked potato, salad, bread 
• Breakfast for dinner:   French toast, fruit platter, bacon?   

Notes: 

1. I bought pillsbury pie crust at GO for 1.50.  It is a double crust, so I will use one crust for chicken pot pie .  Add cooked cubed chicken breast from the insta pot, whit sauce from cream soup base, and frozen mixed vegetables. 
2. Pizza pockets are made from the other pie crust.   Add lettuce and tomato salad.. 
3. Roast chicken, and oven roasted veggies.  You would be surprised how good one roasted radishes are.  
4. Homemade chicken nuggets.  Chicken is cubed from a chicken breast.  It is not re constituted chicken.   Breading is bread crumbs from stale bread , chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts) and parm cheese.   We don't buy parm cheese in a can, or bread crumbs.  Why pay upwards of 2.40 a lb for someone else's dry bread.   Its so easy to pop crusts and leftover bread into the food processor  and whirl it.  ( granddaughters favorite job) .   Parmesan cheese in that cardboard container is just nasty.  Its been hanging around the store, has a lot of wood pulp in it to keep it from caking.   And, I have got more volume for less money fresh at Fred Meyers and winco.   Oven fries are potatoes, scrubbed with vinegar water, cut into wedges, and tossed with olive oil and garlic pepper.  Yum.
5. Nachos are a favorite, especially on movie night.   We got tortilla chips for free this week at qfc.  Add cooked hamburger, beans, cheese, diced tomato, black olives, and mild peppers.   
6. Salmon is still 5.00 a pound at winco in the frozen food section.   Add a salad and peasant bread.   Peasant bread is a no brainer and made in 10 minutes hands on time. And, that is spread out between two days.  Baked potatoes are easy.    LOL.  
7. French Toast is made with french bread from the Orowheat cart at the DT.  Add eggs and milk and some cinnamon.   Bacon was three dollars a pound for one day at qfc.   Fruit from last week.   It pays to have appropriate storage containers..who let the gas out!