Meal plans

Meal plans take a couple of mnutes , but make life a whole lot easier.  Its the answer to “What’s for Dinner and goes a long way towards making your meals for efficient.  It aids in the concept of using everything up out of the fridge and avoiding waste.

• Sloppy Joes, oven fries, veggie platter 
• Chilli ....traditional Halloween fare.  
• Chicken stir fry 
• Salmon cakes, rice, broccolli (make rice once, eat twice) 
• Chicken burrito bowls 
• Pork Pot Pie.  Fruit salad 
• Breakfast for Dinner 

Notes : 

1. We have buns to use up.   
2. Chili  is easily made in the insta pot, or its on sale at Alberways this week.  Its a traditional Halloween fare.   Warm the children’s tummy before they go out in the cold. LOL 
3. Chicken stir fry and the burrito bowls are stair step menus.  Cook once, eat twice. Ditto the rice. 
4. Breakfast for dinner is a mainstay here.  Its a family affair and everyone does something. Granddaughter a few years ago got the job of buttering the bread.   She got half way through and announced, “I cant believe I get to do this!”

Stair stepping ingredients is another way to save time in the kitchen.   

Spending more time planning and shopping, and less time cooking scratch is to your benefit. 

You don't get paid to cook, but spending some planning and research on the shopping end can save a lot of money.   It can very well cut your food bill in half or more without sacrificing good nutrition.  

My aim is for balanced meals: protein, starch, fruit or veggies and avoiding too much salt, sugar, trans fats, hydrogenated oils, and HFCS.