Menu Plan Monday, March 10th!

The taco salad was delicious from last week! I had forgotten how much I liked mushrooms as a substitute for meat. The salad turned into a wonderful, large pile of veggies!

The theme for the Gluten Free Menu Swap over Celiac Family is potatoes. For some reason my daughter has suddenly refused to eat potatoes. However, the rest of us enjoy them! Yesterday since it was a beautiful day we decided to have a picnic and potato salad naturally made it on the menu. I loved adding celery, chopped pickles (in lieu of pickle relish which has high fructose corn syrup in it!), diced boiled egg, and minced onion. Add a light dressing of miracle whip, mustard, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper and my husband and I enjoyed it and will happily be eating the leftovers for lunch. I don’t think we plan on having potatoes any other times this week, but potatoes can easily turn into a baked potato bar for a light dinner or another favorite is roasted!

My Taco salad!

I don’t have any huge cooking plans for this week. The freezer is pretty full and I just have some simple meals as we recover from loosing an hour of sleep on Sunday!

Sunday
Breakfast:
Apple Cider doughnuts (subbed apple juice with some nutmeg added), protein bar with strawberries and vanilla almond milk, coffee
Lunch: potato salad, canned fish, green beans, sliced tomato
Dinner: broiled daiya cheese bread (kind of like grilled cheese, only one slice of bread and broiled until the cheese is melted), blackberries, brown rice chips

Rest of the week:
Breakfast:
Eggs all kinds and all ways!
waffles: van’s and whatever is left in the freezer!
Pink Power Detox Smoothie (missed this last week!)

Dinner:
Breakfast for dinner: Vegan (and GF modified) Apple Cinnamon Waffles
Some soup from the freezer (again!) either veggie or chili!
Chef Salad: toppings include croutons, boiled eggs, coconut bacon, daiya cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers, peppers, olives, carrots
Seafood Gumbo
Tomato/cucumber sandwich
Pizza, salad
Pink Panther Smoothie (trying to get my daughter to like smoothies AGAIN), popcorn
Pan cooked Fish with sauce DU JOUR, sweet potatoes
Leftovers!

For more menu ideas check out Org Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday! Or for gluten-free menus check out Celiac Family and the Gluten Free Menu Swap!

Menu Plan Monday, March 3rd!

I enjoyed the fish chowder from last week a lot! It was, however, a little more liquidy than my husband cared for so I am scrambling to eat up the leftovers all by myself! Another highlight from last week was reworking a favorite recipe for cranberry bread and having it turn out absolutely delicious. I will be sharing the recipe later this week!

The theme for the Gluten Free Menu Swap over Angela’s Kitchen is Salads. After being in a serious soup rut since fall I’ve been looking for a few salads to liven up the menu. I will be having a taco salad later this week with mushrooms instead of meat, spinach, brown rice tortilla chips, and other taco toppings. Later in March I know I have a chef salad on the menu. One of my favorite things about salads is the fact you can easily change the toppings depending on allergies/preferences!

The fruit of my labors from Saturday!

This weekend we visited the local strawberry festival and although the actual festival was rather scary (large crowds and temperamental preschoolers don’t mix well at all!) I had fun afterwards making some strawberry shortcake and some strawberry jam. It’s amazing how fast I can go through a half flat of strawberries!

Sunday
Breakfast:
Cranberry bread, scrambled eggs, coffee
Lunch: It was a good day to eat veggies!
Veggie burger over sautéed beet greens, roasted broccoli, steak fries
For dessert: coconut vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce!
Dinner: roasted broccoli, strawberry shortcake

Rest of the week:
Breakfast:
Eggs all kinds and all ways!
Pancakes
Pink Power Detox Smoothie

Dinner:
Breakfast for dinner: Pancakes and Paleo Pancakes
Some soup from the freezer either veggie or chili!
Chicken nuggets/butternut squash nuggets, french fries, veggie
Tacos (mushroom and ground beef), taco toppings
Bean Burritos
Broccoli Apple Soup
Pink Panther Smoothie (trying to get my daughter to like smoothies AGAIN), popcorn
Pan cooked Fish with sauce DU JOUR, rice pilaf
Leftovers!

For more menu ideas check out Org Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday! Or for gluten-free menus check out Angela’s Kitchen and the Gluten Free Menu Swap!