Catching up with LOAD & Monday Meal Plannings

LOAD Day 13 - 2nd page of a spread about my son's day at school

 

LOAD Day 14 - My Dear Friends

 

LOAD Day 15 -  Catching up with Project Life/ Project 365

 These are photos from 2010. I just happen to be working on the same month a year later! 

 

 

MEAL PLAN MONDAY

MONDAY

Today I am making an impromptu recipe of tortilla soup. I'll let you know how it turns out. It is my attempt to fix our busy Monday situation. I have Chinese lessons from 2:30 to 4:00. I pick up my son at 4:15 then I have to get all three boys to swimming by 5:30. I stay for 45 minutes to watch my youngest son and the first 15 minutes of my older kids' lesson, then I am home by 6:30.  When to make dinner? There is no time, so I have to be ready with leftovers or a slow cooker meal. And since I didn't sit down last night with my plan for the week, I had to throw something together. Here is my recipe:

5 chicken breasts cut into 1 inch chunks

1 jar of mild taco sauce (tomato base) - 14 oz

2 tomatoes diced

2 cans of no fat sodium free chicken broth

1 teaspoon of powdered cumin

4 garlic cloves

1 red onion diced

1/2 cup of fresh cilantro

1 zucchini thinly sliced

1 can of black beans

1 can of corn

1/4 teaspoon of chili powder

I put the chicken in my slow cooker first, ground up half the onion and the zucchini with the beans and cilantro in my food processor (my kids don't like vegetables or beans but they will eat them ground up!), put that mix in the food processor, added the chicken broth, the jar of taco sauce, the rest of the diced onion, tomatoes and the sliced garlic, the powdered cumin and the chili powder. Turned my cooker to low and it is cooking now. 

I will let you know next week how everything turns out!

Here's the rest of the week's menus...

TUESDAY - Beef Stroganoff

WEDNESDAY - Mac & Cheese (my HealthIER yet still delicious version from The Best Recipe Cookbook by Cooks Illustrated magazine)

THURSDAY - Salmon Cakes (WW Pantry to Plate)

FRIDAY - Leftovers or Order Annie's

SATURDAY -  Falafel

Comments

[Melissa]

Great layouts and WTG with the LOAD! Just caught up on your blog today and I really liked that This Week layout from a few years ago and the friends layout was a nice take on the color hop!