{"id":10529,"date":"2025-03-03T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=10529"},"modified":"2025-03-03T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:17:59","slug":"monday-menu-planning-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=10529","title":{"rendered":"Monday Menu Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">This week we have officially\u00a0begun our Spring Schedule. I am also going to continue to try and reduce our grocery budget and continue\/modify the pantry challenge. The hard part is that we have to eat at home for most ballgames to make this work.<\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Breakfast- Saturday- Pancakes, and sausage (left-overs will be used all week) . Sunday-Homemade biscuits and gravy. Monday-\u00a0 \u00a0Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday\u2013 find it (breakfast burritos, oatmeal, omelets cereal and milk, , sausage, pop-tarts, and eggs. I also made some English muffins to use this week.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch- Saturday- Left-overs Sunday-Mcalister&#8217;s deli in Charlotte.\u00a0 \u00a0Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday- left-overs.\u00a0 Friday- eat out.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner- Saturday- hot dogs, smores and biscuits, Sunday-Ham and potato soup (new recipe) Monday- Steak and 7-layer salad (using up veggies in the refrigerator) Tuesday- Taco Pasta, Wednesday- Chicken Lasagna Thursday- Chicken pie from Freezer, Friday- Depending on what the refrigerator looks like we may do left-overs or insta pot hamburger helper.<\/p>\n<p>Pantry Challenge<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Use at least one \u201cmeal\/meat portion of the meal\u201d from the stand-up freezer each week. (This is where most of the meals are) Both<\/strong>\u00a0the Taco pasta and Chicken Lasagna are from this freezer.<br \/>\n<strong>2. Use at least 3 jars a week from the canning pantry.\u00a0<\/strong>I used 2 jars of chicken broth from the fridge instead this week. We also opened a jar of strawberry syrup from the cabinet. If we make the hamburger helper, it will be using a jar of canned hamburger.<br \/>\n<strong>3. Use one item a week from the connivence freezer in my room.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Frozen chicken pot pie and hot dogs were from this freezer.<br \/>\n<strong>4. Each Monday after\u00a0<span class=\"x_gmail-il\">menu<\/span>\u00a0planning provide a list of how I followed the guidelines for the week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have officially\u00a0begun our Spring Schedule. I am also going to continue to try and reduce our grocery budget and continue\/modify the pantry challenge. 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