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| little piggy and cabbage |
Fall is here! I was traveling for a week and a half, when I returned fall had hit. The weather is crisp, leaves are turning, and my mums are blooming! I like summer because of my garden and the excitement of watching things grow, but I'm always ready for fall when it comes...ready for soups, lots of baking, and delicious fluffy adding foods.
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OCTOBER
1: Monthly Costco trip - eat there
2: BBQ meatballs
3: Veggie rice bowls
4: Slow-cooker honey sriracha barbecue chicken sandwiches, green salad
5: Grilled cheese, raw carrots, sliced apples
6: Leftover clear out
7: Date night
8: Saturday
9: Pork loin with spicy honey glaze, green salad, rice
10: Mac and cheese, raw broccoli, berries
11: Sesame chicken, rice, raw carrots
12: Tacos with leftover spicy honey pork loin, sliced cucumber
13: Leftover clear out
14: House guest
15: House guest
16: House guest
17: House guest
18: Chicken BBQ pineapple quesadillas {using frozen leftover rotisserie chicken}, green salad
19: Soup, homemade biscuits, green salad
20: Leftover clear out
21: Date night
22: Saturday
23: Grilled burgers, baked beans, raw carrots
24: Cereal, bacon
25: Black bean taco soup {homemade from freezer}, green salad
26: BLT {use leftover bacon}, fruit
27: Leftover clear out
28: Date night
29: Saturday
30: Homemade chili, corn bread muffins, green salad
31: Leftover chili and corn bread, sliced cucumber
- SIDES - I typically cut up fresh fruit and/or raw veggies each night.
- Leftover clear out, anything that is a leftover is pulled out of the fridge and you make your own creation.
- Saturdays I leave open, then if anything gets switched up during the week whatever I had planned for that night we can have on Saturday.
- As with any meal plan it's always subject to change, but planning the month out doesn't take me much longer than planning a week out AND it cuts my grocery shopping down by more than half! I'll get all non-perishable staples for the whole month the first week, then do a quick fresh items trip the remaining weeks.
- Staples {not listed above} on my weekly/monthly list are {as needed}: Milk, eggs, peanut butter, jelly, sandwich bread, carrots, broccoli, apples, fresh spinach, bananas, yogurt, seasonal fruit, seasonal vegetable, coffee, cheddar cheese block, oatmeal, cereal, tortillas, tortilla chips, ramen, and peanuts. These items we pretty much always have in house, so for example, if there isn't something leftover on a leftover night we can make something using items from this list. Or if we really don't have something for the Saturday night, then we make something from this list.
- Monthly grocery budget: $300 + $20 each Friday for Date Night.
Happy meal planning!
If you have a recipe favorite, please post in the comment section.
If you have a recipe favorite, please post in the comment section.
xoxojolleen
{you are beautiful and wonderfully made}
