Menu Plan Monday

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I took a break from the menu planning last week and it was a disaster. I had to actually plan the meals for the latter part of the week. So back to planning from the beginning. (I am actually using a number of the meals my mom suggested in the last post.)

Monday: Baked Breaded chicken, oven fries (I have been meaning to try baking sweet potato fries, or maybe beet fries), yellow wax beans

Tuesday: Guide Night, soup or frozen dinner

Wednesday: Spaghetti & meat sauce & garlic bread & salad

Thursday: Pizza (my mom usually uses a pita and sauce and veggies for her quick pizza) add some salad or raw veggies and dip and you have a great meal.

Friday: BBQ Steak, baked potatoes, salad, corn
Saturday: Get Anthony to make Sweet and Sour Meatballs (he does a much better job than I do.)

Sunday: Open

Some other suggestions my mom had:
Baked talipia fish with oven fries
Slow cooker baked beans & porridge bread
Lamb medallions with mashed potatoes and peas
Bbq spare ribs and rice

As always you can click on the banner to get to more menu plans at Organizing Junkie. Have a great week.

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Not Menu Plan Monday

Ok, so I didn’t plan meals this week and we are feeling the effects. The chats are something like this:

Gwen says:
any ideas for dinner?
Anthony says:
meatloaf?
Anthony says:
too late I suppose
Anthony says:
uh, no.
Gwen says:
ok well meatloaf tomorrow
Gwen says:
hmm, wendys, or chinese, or ??
Anthony says:
oh my
Anthony says:
see this is what happens when we (you) don’t do a MPM
Anthony says:

🙂
Gwen says:
I asked on sunday and didn’t get any feedback
Anthony says:
I know, maybe *I* might do a MPM one of these weeks …
Anthony says:
but boy, that seems pretty unlikely, doesn’t it.
Anthony says:
😛
Gwen says:
snicker

So here we are, Wednesday without a clue what we are going to eat for supper. So on to plan the rest of the week.

Thursday: Breaded Chicken and mashed potatoes and vegetables

Friday: Awesome Meatloaf, baked potatoes and vegetables

Saturday: Pot roast (slow-cooker) vegetables

Sunday: Oven Roasted Chicken

Any ideas for next week?

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The Sun Came Out

The sun came out today and we went out. You should have seen the grin on his face when I asked Aidan if he wanted to go to the playground. We went down for about an hour of playing and then an hour in the children’s section of Chapters. Uncle Steve, your nephew talked me into a grey Webkinz cat from you. He said “I love the grey cat Mommy,” and then there was no going home with out him. His name is Kitty. I will post a picture later.

Here are a couple of pictures from the only sunny day we have had in what feels like months.

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Mighty Machines

The boy has a new obsession and it is called “Mighty Machines.” To this end we started to record them on MYTH. (A linux based PVR.) I just discovered a huge mistake we made when setting them up to record three weeks ago. This conversation is quoted verbatim from a chat Anthony and I just had.

Gwen says:
I just realized you made a big mistake with mighty machines
Anthony says:
why?
Gwen says:
you had an episode limit
Anthony says:
OHNO
Gwen says:
you erased 3 episodes
Anthony says:
OHNO
Gwen says:
including the recycling episode
Anthony says:
OH NO
Gwen says:
i just changed it
Anthony says:
OH NO
Gwen says:

I think I am copying this for the blog
Anthony says:
OH NO
Gwen says:
🙂
Anthony says:
I wonder if there’s some where we can d/l them
Anthony says:
or something
Gwen says:
I don’t know
Gwen says:
right now he is watching “Trucks, Trucks, Trucks”

Anthony says:
the good news is that they’re mostly on DVD
Gwen says:
really?
Gwen says:
the bad?
Anthony says:
the bad news is that zip has “all about recycling” “on order”
Gwen says:
shit
Anthony says:
might be worth a walk to Blockbuster if the weather clears up
Anthony says:
🙂
Gwen says:
lol
Anthony says:
released July 07 …. might even have it at TRU, but it’ll be expensive for only 28 min of episode…
Anthony says:
wow, go to zip, they have tonnes
Anthony says:
ok, well, good that you caught that. sucks about the recycling episode. ah well. back to work…
Gwen says:
k, thanks

And there you have it, we don’t have Aidan’s favourite episode of “Mighty Machines” otherwise known as the NEW toddler crack. So I guess grandparents now have an idea for the birthday. 🙂

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