Menu Ideas and Healthy Meal Planning

I have an old post that I just found with great ideas for creating a menu.   My plan when I wrote it was I was going to simplify meal planning by following this pattern:

	Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Dinner
Monday	Smoothies	Sandwiches	Fruit	Mexican
Tuesday	Oatmeal	Green salads	Nuts and dried fruit	Italian
Wednesday	Eggs	Wraps	Vegetables	Chinese
Thursday	Pancakes/ waffles	Pasta	Grains	American
Friday	Muffins/ fruit salad	Soup	Fruits or veggies	Vegetarian

 

I love it, so I’m going to use it this week!

	Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Dinner
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday				BBQ Chicken and baked potatoes with green salad
Friday

 

My neighbor (who I mentioned last week, the dietitian) and I are working tirelessly on getting a new site for just meal plans! I’m so excited about it. I can’t wait till January 1st when we will have content there for you. We’ll have the meal plans, recipes, nutrition information for each plan, plus videos on how to prepare foods you might not be familiar with.  Stay tuned! Make sure you are signed up for my free newsletter and you’ll get all the details as soon as it’s ready.

In the meantime, don’t forget I still have all the free printable meal plans here, plus our blank meal planning chart.

2011 is almost over! The kids are starting to have performances at school with what they’ve been doing. Erica just finished a choir-play type thing about pirates.

But we still have a play about Fairy Tales, TJ is a pig.  A band concert, piano concert, flute recital, and a Christmas sing. hope we don’t forget anything.

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