Menu Plan: Fall (November 3-9)

OUR MENU PLAN FOR THIS WEEK

*Note: I include links to the recipes if they are available online. Some recipes are from cookbooks we have at home, and while I can't share the recipe I can direct you to the source. Other dishes or meals are created by myself or my husband, and we can do our best to explain how to recreate it. If you'd like additional information on any of the meals or our menu planning, then please feel free to contact me. :) 

Breakfasts

- yogurt with granola, bagels with cream cheese
- muffins, hardboiled eggs
- bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches
- sausage biscuits
- pop tarts (May not be the healtiest, but they are the easiest when we have to get out the door fairly early for our weekly homeschool co-op)

Lunches

- tuna salad, crackers, dried cranberries

- peanut butter and banana sandwiches, cheese, dried fruit (apricots?), carrots with ranch

- apple slices, peanut butter (in a cup), hardboiled egg, pita/whole grain bread, cheese, other fruit

- ham & cheese sandwiches, berries, celery and carrots with ranch

- veggie mac n' cheese (I toss several handfuls of frozen mixed vegetables in with the water boiling the noodles)

-apple slices, carrots and cucumbers with ranch, pretzels, cheese

Dinners

-pork chops, brussells sprouts, cauliflower, fried apples

- bean enchiladas, rice

- pot roast with carrots, potatoes, celery, onion etc

- spinach quiche

- "jacket potato" fish pie

-  (small group dinner) lasagna, bread, salad, green beans

Snacks

- apples

- animal crackers

- treat & tea

- granola bar

- graham crackers (the children love them with peanut butter and sprinkles)

- popcorn

Weekly Menu Planning Sheet

*Note: Reviving Homemaking is not affiliated with any of the sites or companies included in the links, and was not asked to include or recommend them or their recipes in this post. (I simply like what they have to offer!)

What's on your family's menu plan this week?

North Pole Breakfast 2018

      With a new baby and three other little ones this Christmas, our Christmas activities have been few. I hope to do more next year, but for this year I simply tried to hit the highpoints. One such activity was a "North Pole Breakfast!" 

      I picked up some festive plates, napkins and cups and the dollar store. Such a simple touch, and yet the children were so excited! I think next year I may add a festive table runner. (If you know me, then you know that I'm a believer in adding to collections one piece one year at a time). 

     For the meal, we made cinnamon pancake snowmen! I used mini chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth, bacon for the scarf, blueberries for buttons and whip cream for snow and snowflakes. (The snowman print plates just happened to work out where the print of the plate created a hat and arms for the pancake snowmen. haha!). It was such a fun and slightly indulgent breakfast!

     I love doing such as this! As I think towards the upcoming new year, I'm thinking so much on how I might do special meals like this to turn the ordinary to the extraordinary. In the eyes of a child, such as this is so special. (And, truthfully, it's special to me too).