Meal Planning Monday & Tasty Tuesday

I always plan my meals on Thursday night and go grocery shopping on Friday mornings, so I thought I would share what's on the menu this week.



Monday- Chinese Veggies with Chicken, Egg Rolls and Asian Noodles

Tuesday-Tacos with Spanish Rice

Wednesday-Bratwursts with Baked Beans and French Fries

Thursday-Broccoli and Cheese Soup with Chicken Breast

Friday-Beef Stew with Veggies and Corn Bread

Saturday- Charleston Grits, Eggs, Bacon and Biscuits

Sunday- My Mom's for Dinner, yummy!



My mom got me this meal planning book and it has really helped! I look at the Harris Teeter ad on Thursday, match up coupons and make my meals from that. I always save tons. Just this week my grocery bill was $85.00 and I saved $70.00. Last week was even better. My bill was $160.00 (but I stocked up on lots of meat to freeze) and saved $101.00! I average about $550.00 a month in groceries, but I cook 2-3 meals a day, both the girls bring their lunch to school everyday and I pack Ryan a lunch for work each day, so it really is saving. When Ryan use to work uptown, he eat out everyday and was spending close to $50.00 a week, plus I was still cooking dinner and would just trash the leftovers, so now he just brings them to work. My grocery bill is about the same but I am saving close to $200.00 a month with Ryan packing a lunch and he loves eating a home cooked meal at work, verses fast food or over priced, fried, food lunches. We do eat out about once a week, and I love the wraps from the Harris Teeter deli, which if it's one of those days, I will just grab those and then of course, my mom cooks us a yummy meal on Sunday nights, so I do get a break. Hope everyone has a good week and please share some of your cooking ideas, I love to try new things!

Okay, so I have been super busy!!!! So busy, when I looked through my pictures I realized I had not taken any new ones in quite a while.

Busy, you ask.... dance class, church 2 times a week, girl scouts, swim class, homework, and everything else that goes in between, but we love it, I have never really been a home body, I like to stay busy as do the kids.

Kiley had H1N1 last week, along with 15 kids in her class, but has recovered and I managed to keep everyone else healthy, thank God for Lysol spary and Lysol wipes, I sure do keep them in business. She is doing great in school, perfect grades and she got star student the first week of school. She loves school and that makes me so happy!

Emma Grace is doing amazing in school. She gets new cycle words each week and is doing really well with them. She is on her way to reading. She has lots of little friends she talks about everyday. She is such a funny girl, the other day she asked me how do you spell "I don't want a baby brother anymore", after he hit her across the head with a toy.

Lathan, well he is SLEEPING through the night 12 plus hours:) and still taking a 2 hour morning nap but slowly weaning out that afternoon nap. He is running now and making me a nervous wreck, and with the running comes all kinds of cuts, scrapes and bruises. He is into EVERYTHING! He keeps us busy, but I wouldn't have it any other way. He is learning his body parts and animal sounds. He LOVES our cat Daisy and looks for her out the window at least 10 times a day.

That pretty much wraps up the last month or so. Pictures to come, when I remember to put the fully charged battery back into the camera.