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Change in Meal Planning

April 21st, 2012 at 08:50 pm

I never did make it to buy the chiles and other things I was going to buy the other night and I also decided I am too tired to make chili anyway. I am going to bump all my meal planning down a day and instead make spaghetti for dinner tonight. It's far less labor intensive, though I will char the chiles tonight.

We are going to go over to Trader Joe's in a bit to buy what is needed for school lunches and some produce and dried pasta. I was going to go tomorrow, but decided I just want to stay home tomorrow and have the most intensive thing I do be make the chili. I will have to go to Haggen to get the chiles though. I've never seen any at Trader Joe's. I'm lucky if I can find taco shells there. The most ethnic stuff they seem to have is regular sweet bell peppers, Naan bread, and tortillas.

So, list of stuff I'll be getting at TJ's is as follows:

8 potatoes
2 sweet potatoes
1 bag shredded cabbage
1 package additive free deli turkey
1 package additive free deli roast beef
2 pounds of Cappellini pasta
1 package of taco shells if they have any
1 bunch of bananas
3 packages of grass fed hamburger
1 package of additive free bacon
2 yellow onion
1 bag whole wheat flour

Then at Haggen I need to buy:
9 Anaheim chili peppers
1 jalapeno pepper
1 jug of orange juice
1 can of cocoa powder

I intend to stick precisely to my lists so I don't overspend but can have nice mostly organic food, and if I need to go back to the store later in the week I will. We've eaten lunch so we aren't going shopping hungry. I just wish I didn't have to take the kiddos.

So meal planning changes to:

Saturday--Spaghetti and Meatballs
(I will also be roasting some turkey legs to have on hand for my daughter who is always starving after school and wants protein. I will pick off the meat and package it up for her)

Sunday--Tacos for lunch, roast chicken, potatoes, broccoli/cauliflower, fruit for dinner (will pick off any leftover meat and throw the chicken carcass in the crockpot overnight with water and veg to make stock)

Monday--(My lunches this week will be egg noodle, veggie, and chicken soup made from the stock and chili and the kids will have sandwiches)
Dinner--Enchiladas made with leftover chicken, fruit

Tuesday--Baked potato soup (very hearty so will probably not add much in the way of side dishes, maybe some rolls)

Wednesday--Homemade cheeseburgers and fried potatoes

Thursday--Oven-baked chicken, sweet corn, green beans

Friday--Homemade pizza and leftovers that haven't been consumed for lunches.

I think that sets me up for the week nicely.

Posted in Grocery Shopping, Meal Planning | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Change in Meal Planning”

  1. ThriftoRama Says:
    April 21st, 2012 at 09:31 pm 1335043872
    1335043872

    I really really really need to start meal planning. I wish I had your organization! We spend too much eating out and on groceries, because I'm too distracted, lazy, or tired to cook or plan. I know I need to change, but it's hard to break the inertia.

  2. LuckyRobin Says:
    April 21st, 2012 at 11:19 pm 1335050350
    1335050350

    It really is hard to break the inertia. I spent far too much in the last four weeks on meals out though, so I am determined to make the effort to do this again.

  3. snafu Says:
    April 22nd, 2012 at 12:57 am 1335056264
    1335056264

    Have your compared per pound pricing of deli meat with organic, boneless roast beef or chicken breast or a turkey? Perhaps check-out pricing of a small, deli type meat slicer [Drake, on-line] as with these machines half a mid sz. roast can be sliced deli thin for lunches/snacks and the remainder for 'Sunday' dinner

  4. LuckyRobin Says:
    April 22nd, 2012 at 01:39 am 1335058765
    1335058765

    Snafu, I have a meat slicer but it is in the back of storage somewhere while we wait to sell the house and I don't want to buy another one. But honestly, it is very difficult to find an additive free turkey breast. What we have here is usually injected with stuff. We can get additive free full turkeys at the holidays but that is the only time. Same with hams. I could do it with roast beef, I suppose, but I'd have to find the thing.

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