This is fairly new, but something I've started so I'll use my blog to plan. This is for family meals so I won't state quantities. We have a higher protein content due to Rose's prediabetes and the rest of us eat pretty much the same as she does and we eat our largest meal of the day at lunch. I can plan to use up leftovers and know what items I need to make larger batches of by writing it out. That's all this post is about so if you aren't interested, skip on.
Day One
Breakfast
organic O's cereal with milk
blueberries
cucumber slices
eggs
Lunch
small salad
corn on the cob
chicken
green beans
milk
homemade strawberry frozen fruit bar
Dinner
chicken quesadilla
broccoli/cauliflower
Day Two
Breakfast
turkey ham
cantaloupe
whole grain toast with blackberry preserves
milk
Lunch
Spaghetti noodles with homemade sauce of tomatoes, garlic, scallions, oregano, basil, rosemary, thyme, red bell pepper
3 cheese garlic meatballs
Homemade French bread with homemade garlic/parsley butter
kohlrabi
milk
Dinner
Meatball sandwiches made with the lunch leftovers of sauce and bread
broccoli/cauliflower
apple juice
Day 3
Blueberry Muffin
Frittata (eggs, turkey ham, cheese, chopped broccoli/cauliflower) topped with a bit of leftover sauce from previous day
milk
Lunch
tacos (meat, lettuce, cheese, shell)
blueberries stirred into vanilla yogurt
carrots
ice cream
orange juice
Dinner
taco salads made with leftovers from lunch
milk
Day Four
Breakfast
Homemade beef sausage patties
organic O's cereal with milk and blueberries
Lunch
big beef pot roast
mashed potatoes (make big pot, save out half before mashing) with homemade beef gravy
cucumber slices
big batch broccoli/cauliflower
milk
Dinner
small salad
roast beef hash made with leftover potroast and leftover potatoes
nectarines
carrot/apple juice (freshly juiced)
blueberry muffin
Day Five
Breakfast
Hashbrowns (from saved out potatoes and 1/4 of an onion)
Egg scramble with cheese, low-sodium no sugar bacon, little chunks of broccoli and cauliflower, and onion
pineapple juice
Lunch
Homemade pizzas made with leftover beef sausage, pepperoni, ham, green peppers, onion and pineapple (pineapple only for DH's portion)
rest of pineapple (the rest of us will eat it raw only, not cooked)
milk
Dinner
Last of held out potatoes, pan fried, with salt, pepper, cumin, and oregano
canned salmon over lettuce
Day Six
Breakfast
whole grain toast with blackberry preserves
canned salmon omlette with cheese
milk
Lunch
Cod fish nuggets (homemade, just chunks of cod dipped in milk then in parmesan cheese
Baked potato with cheese and broccoli
vanilla yogurt with blueberries stirred in
Dinner
Meatloaf: dice up and throw in whatever veggies need to be used up as well as eggs, crumbs, cheese and a bit of tomato sauce into a ground beef/ground turkey base
Day Seven
Breakfast
Turkey ham
organic 0's cereal with milk
plums
Lunch
whole roasted chicken
roasted carrots and potatoes
green beans
cucumber slices
cherries
milk
Dinner
Leftover meatloaf sandwiches
cantaloupe
chocolate brownies
milk
For snacks it will vary between peanut butter celery or cream cheese celery, crackers with either cheddar or mozzarella, sunflower seeds and almonds with carrot sticks, air popped popcorn (2 cups at a time) and a bag of Bugles (to be eaten in one cup portions) with a small protein choice, usually nuts, and the bad one, Cheez Whiz on whole grain toast. I allow for a bit of junkiness in the kids's diets, but not much.
And that's all she wrote.
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