April 28 menu

 Weekend Breakfast:  

Italian pancakes - I made half the recipe. These were better than expected.  I little floury tasting, the fruit covers that up.

Blueberries and banana

Luncbox Recipe:   

I include other items in the lunch to make it balanced and healthy.  These are just the items that used recipes. 

Lemon blueberry bread decreased sugar to 1/2 cup, and used oil instead of butter. I didn’t make the glaze.

Apple butter muffins used coconut oil instead of butter, and decreased the sugar to 1/2 cup.  These turned out okay, but I thought they were kind of oily.  If I made again I would try decreasing the fat to 1/3 cup.

Dinner:

Sun:

Pancakes

Hashbrowns

Fruits

Mon:

Black bean sweet potato enchiladas

Fruit

Tues:

Spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread

Wed:

Emergency chicken not bad.  it was definitely quick and easy.

Roasted green beans

Bread

Thurs:

Mongolian beef

Rice

Air fryer frozen broccoli

Fri:

Homemade pizza

Sat:

Turkey tenderloin

Fresh cranberry relish - we never add this much sugar.  We only do a couple tablespoons.

Minnesota wild rice soup

April 21 menu

 Breakfast:  

Super easy pumpkin bread - it was regular easy

Pumpkin backed oatmeal - good warm not good cold

Dinner:

Sun:

Brats

Watermelon

Baked beans

Roasted potatoes

Mon:

Penne with spinach sauce

Tues:

Walking tacos

Watermelon

Wed:

Church pizza

Salad

Clementines

Cookies

Thurs:

Broccoli cauliflower salad  - skipped bacon

California grilled veggie sandwich - used onion rolls 

Fri:

Cashew chicken - added pea pods. Recipes was ok

Rice

Sat:

Tomato soup

Potatoes

April 12th menu

 Breakfast:  

Cranberry orange muffin

Banana bread

Apple cinnamon swirl bread - used decreased both sugars to 1/4 cup each.  B thought the bread was a little dry.

Dinner:

Sun:

Homemade pizza

Mon:

Apricot ginger acorn squash - I didn't care for this

Spicy (turkey) empanadas - the meat is bland and not spicy. I added garlic, worcestershire, pepper.

Tues:

Southwest potato corn chowder - just ok

Rolls

Wed:

Tortellini or ravioli

Salad

Thurs:

Vegetarian korma

Naan bread

Fri:

Sheetpan chicken fajitas

Sat:

Veggie stirfry

Brown rice

April 7 menu

Dinner:

Sun:

Rainbow roasted vegetables w/ turkey sausage - just used veggies I had on hand (asparagus, pea pods, potato, pepper, onion)

Black & blue grunt from Taste of Home cookbook

Mon:

Fridge clean out

Tues:

Eat out

Wed:

Leftover mashed potato pancakes

Roasted green beans

Ham

Apple sauce

Thurs:

Fast & easy vegan carbonara - it's ok.  Hubby wouldn't call it carbonara

Ceasar salad

Fri:

Sloppy joes

Baked french fries

Sat:

Oven baked chimichangas - these were ok, but they were done after 12-15 minutes

Corn on cobb

March 31 menu

Breakfast:  

Blueberry pancakes
Turkey breakfast sausage
Hashbrowns

3 ingredient pineapple muffins -worst muffins EVER.  They were chewy and kind of wet.  I didn't imagine these would work out very well, but I had leftover pineapple from the carrot cake.

Lunchbox:   

 

High protein smoothie - i wouldn't call this "high protein" it's just yogurt, more like medium protein.

Soft pretzel

Mixed fruit (strawberries, clementine, apple, pineapple, green grapes, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries)

Chocolate cover almonds

Dinner:

Sun:

"Best" Carrot cake - I wasn't the one to cook it.  It was definitely NOT the best. 

Glazed ham steaks

Roasted asparagus with lemon vinaigrette -I dry roast (no oil) and left the dressing on the side

Checkerboard dinner rolls

Mon:

Vegetarian broccoli soup- this was ok.  A lot healthier than broccoli cheese soup. I don't think I will make it again though.

Bread or cheese sandwich 

Easy spinach salad

Tues:

Asparagus pizza - a decent way to use up extra asparagus

Wed:

Garlic lime chicken it's ok.  I doesn't have a lot of flavor

Red roasted potatoes 

Salad

Thurs:

Spaghetti and turkey meatball

Fri:

Balsamic glazed onion cheeseburgers with roasted potato wedges - people weren't a fan of the onions.

Sat:

Quick veggie and rice burrito

March 24 menu

Apple pie muffins (half the sugar, decrease oil to 1/2 cup, and halved the topping)

Dinner:

Sun:

Pizza

Mon:

Broccoli apple salad - I've had better broccoli salads

Sloppy joe biscuit cups - the hard part about these is the the dough puffs up so much when they cook the filling is more of a topping.  I think maybe splitting them biscuits they were thinner would work better (might need the flaky layer dough for that)

Tues:

Grilled cheese

Tomato soup

Salad

Wed:

Quinoa with roasted veggies

Grilled chicken tikka - I adjusted the seasoning so it wasn't as spicy, but I still didn't love it.

Thurs:

Cinnamon sugar radish chips - these better than expected but wouldn't call them good

Budha bowl

Turkey meatballs

Fri:

Pasta w/red sauce

Spinach salad

Garlic bread

Sat:

Black bean and sweet potato burrito - I don't add oil or water to the beans

Southwest sautéed corn