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Meal Plan: June 12 through June 17

This week’s meal plan.  I’ve picked a few different kinds of food this week.  We’ll be having an Italian and Asian theme this week.  Can’t wait to make the soup and taste the tart.  What better way to clean out the pantry than a nice sweet dessert!!

DATE
MEAL
TYPE
RECIPE

6/12/2010
Dessert
Recipe
Périgord Walnut Tart

6/12/2010
Dinner
Recipe
Lo Mein with

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Meal Plan – June 05 through June 11

I am starting to focus on cooking at home again.  By doing so, I can focus on several things better including saving money, controlling what goes into my food, and eating healthier.  For the past two months, I’ve been eating out a lot more and not planning our meals.  This comes with a price as,

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Meal Plan - Week of January 10th

In light of last week’s common theme of tomatoes, I decided to try to be a bit more varied in setup for next week.  I’m going to reuse mushrooms in a few of the dishes.  Beyond that, they’re all pretty different.  I’m going to start with a standard roast chicken a la Julia.  We’ll use

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Meal Planning - Attack of the Tomato!

Now that we’re back in the saddle with working five days a week, it’s time to get back to regularly scheduled meal planning.  Having a pork roast in the freezer (self-cut from a whole pork loin!), I looked in one of my Gourmet Magazine Cookbooks for a recipe.  Found a great Hungarian-style pork recipe, Pork

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Pacing ourselves for Thanksgiving

So…It’s Thanksgiving week.  What should we eat?  Given the fact that we haven’t spent much time on the treadmill lately, I’m of the opinion that I shouldn’t eat anything!!!  I love getting together with family and really love to eat good food.  However, I realize that I probably should eat some food prior to Thursday!!!

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Week off from new foods

This week is all about re-visiting old favorites.  Paired with some long-needed (and deserved) exercise, we’re having some old staple recipes from when we first moved in together over 7 years ago.  (Next year will be 10 years…crazy!!)

Day

Meal

Sunday

Broccoli Cheese Soup

Monday

Turkey Stroganoff

Tuesday

Ham and Cheese Calzones

Wednesday

Salad with Turkey, Apples, and Cheddar

Thursday

Turkey Stroganoff

Friday

Ham and Cheese Calzones

On a

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Dinner Plan - Week of October 25th

Day

Main Course

Sides

Sunday
Roasted Chicken

Wild Rice & Broccoli

Monday
Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Tuesday

Black Pepper & Molasses Pulled Chicken Sandwiches

Coleslaw

Wednesday
Taco Night

Thursday
Black Pepper & Molasses Pulled Chicken Sandwiches
Coleslaw

Friday
Dan Dan Noodles

Saturday
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

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