I got basically none of the baking done that I had planned on when I posted up the last menu plan, so some of that is going onto this week's "menu goals" as I am liking to call them. I did finally manage to get sugar cookies done the last couple of days and the kids decorated them last night (the son with help from me, but he sure seemed to enjoy himself). A result of their efforts are seen up top. I did end up going to the store and trying to find Halloween themed sprinkles to put on the cookies, but couldn't find any. I did find candy eyeballs that were safe to get with the son's peanut allergy and I had a coupon my mom had given me for 2.00/1. Still cost me over 2.00 for the package of them, but they did, indeed, make the cookies come out nice and Halloween-like (between that and mixing colors with the food coloring to create some Halloween type of colors...although the purple was the daughter's idea it did make good monsters *laugh*). Times like this I am happy I took so many art classes to know how to mix colors as the instructions on the box with the food coloring made me flinch. I mean 20 DROPS of ONE type of food coloring to make a certain color? Your cookies would taste like food coloring!
At any rate, I am working hard on making Halloween treats slowly but surely this month (more on that in the Monthly Goals post I'm working on), so at least I can scratch sugar cookies off of my list :).
When it comes to food this week I need to go to the store tomorrow and buy some meat when dividends come in. All I have for meat, literally, in the freezer right now is chicken and beef roasts and a Thanksgiving turkey. That's it. I need to get bacon, maybe some sausages for breakfast dinners...pork in general really and hopefully some fish. I'll have to see what I can find. My shopping list of things I need keeps expanding...it's kind of depressing. I am now completely out of powdered sugar after making icing for the cookies yesterday (thank goodness my sister-in-law had given me some in with the food she gave us or I would have been packing the kids into the car to go and try to find some at 8 o'clock, which would NOT have made my son happy), I went to get baked beans to cook for dinner tonight only to find I was completely out of those as well, black olives are gone (which made taco night last week a bit of a wet blanket)...just ugh. I am VERY grateful for what we have in the house, don't get me wrong. It's just one of those things that happen when you live on what you have for so long....still depressing I have to restock them though *laugh*.
So, yeah, here's how the menu plan is shaping up right now. I am going to bank on the idea that I'm not going to find much in the way of meat at the store (prepare for the worst and hope for the best) and so am going on what I have in the freezers. So let's get to it, shall we?
Wednesday: BBQ beef ribs, rolls, chili spiced beans (since we were out of baked beans)
Thursday: Balsamic Thyme Chicken (crock pot), pasta with carrot pesto, fruit cocktail
Friday: Beef and Veggies (potatoes, carrots, turnips) in gravy, biscuits
Saturday: Chicken fried steak (thin slice pieces off of a beef roast for this and Sunday's dinner), mashed potatoes, turnip greens (from freezer).
Sunday: French dip sandwiches (use other half of thin sliced beef roast for meat), pears (from pantry)
Monday: Chicken noodle soup with home made noodles
Tuesday: Chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, corn
Desserts: Oatmeal raisin cookies (from freezer), "Spooky" sugar cookies, soft and chewy snickerdoodles (to make), Rhubarb Dream Bars
Snacks: Cookies and milk (see above for cookie choices), apples, Ants on a Log (celery with Wowbutter and raisins on it), cheese and crackers
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