06
Jul
Weekly Menu
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One of my favorite new traditions in my household is to cook a lot of things on Sunday and then just eat the leftovers throughout the week for lunches and dinners. Once we found the perfect leftover containers (2 cup glass Pyrex dishes with lids), we haven’t missed a week. Not only do neither of us need to go out for expensive and potentially unhealthy fast food lunches, we always have healthy, fast options for dinner, as well.
This week, our menu includes :
- 2 dishes leftover from last week of an Asian Turkey Breast Stir Fry with Crunchy Cabbage
- Bowl Burgers – turkey sausage and apple, heated separately and then eaten over a salad
- Shrimp over Brown Rice (I added corn and peas to the rice)
- Chile Lime Turkey Tenderloin over Spanish Rice
- Bre’s Favorite Coban Salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, onions, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, oil)
- Mini Pumpkin Pies
- Various Bananas, Peaches (shaped like UFOs, no less!), and Nectarines
- Pineapple and Strawberry Fruit Medley
- And leftover chile lime tenderloin, minced onion, and chopped green pepper for breakfast omelets.
Before we started our healthy cooking and leftover plan, we ate a lot of boxed meals and rices, cooked dinner every night, and had mostly sandwiches for portable lunches.
How do you guys approach your meals for the week? Do you bake/cook every night? Eat out a lot? I’d love to know!
breakfast has pretty constant options:
fruit (banana & apple), breakfasty bar (Kashi apple & cinnamon), maybe pretzles and peanut butter
Lunch is almost more consistant:
Sammich (toast the bread, ham or turkey, cheese, raw spinach, tomato)
fruit (today it was watermellon :D )
Dinner changes, and we always make more than we will eat in a single meal. Justin really enjoys cooking different things though, so he doesn’t mind cooking every night (mostly). Dinner recipes come from our ’1000 lowfat recipes’ cookbook, a book we borrowed from my sister-in-law or the light cooking magazine that we get.
Breakfast is nearly always oatmeal. Not so much because it’s healthy but because it’s easy and I wake up lazy.
Lunch generally involves looking in the cupboard, realizing I need to cook something, and saying the heck with it I’ll eat at dinner time.
Dinner is whatever I found at lunch time that (hopefully) is now thawed enough to cook. Generally involving rice, but not always.
@KristenSue
Mmm, sounds delicious! I’d love to see some of your favorite recipes from your cookbook!
@Dechion
Egads, skipping lunch? That would be nigh impossible for me, I start getting hungry by 10, even if I eat breakfast.