{"id":10448,"date":"2025-02-03T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T20:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T20:41:44","slug":"monday-menu-planning-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=10448","title":{"rendered":"Monday Menu Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the\u00a0focus is on cleaning out the refrigerator\u00a0in preparation for Junk Food Sunday.\u00a0 I will be continuing the pantry challenge this month and plan a separate post tomorrow\u00a0to discuss the results in January.\u00a0 I am excited that Lily wants to help with cooking on the weekends.\u00a0 This should also be the least busy week for the remainder of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast- Saturday-\u00a0 Biscuit King . Sunday- Beef and Egg casserole (my recipe, not a hit but it used up several items from the fridge. . Monday-\u00a0 Apple sauce cake\/bread. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday\u2013 find it (breakfast burritos, oatmeal, omelets cereal and milk, French toast sticks, sausage, pop-tarts, and eggs, My goal is to make a baked oatmeal at least once this week but we shall see.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch- Bad Daddy&#8217;s\u00a0 \u00a0Sunday- Kiminons\u00a0 \u00a0 Monday- Corn chowder\u00a0 \u00a0Tuesday,- soup\u00a0 \u00a0Wednesday- eat out or leftovers Thursday- left-overs.\u00a0 Friday- eat out.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner- Saturday- Lily cooked\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Sunday- Left-overs with cheddar bay biscuits and Peanut butter pie. Monday-Gyros Tuesday- Taco Bombs in the Air Fryer\u00a0 \u00a0Wednesday- No peek beef stew and rice\u00a0 .\u00a0 Thursday- Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza\u00a0 Friday- Sloppy Joes on Hawian rolls<\/p>\n<p>Pantry Challenge<br \/>\n1<strong>.Purchasing items that we are completely out of that are staples such as diary as well as buns or other items that will help use items we already have. Total spending for the three months of the 2025 will be less than $1200\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Current total $11.30\u00a0 \u00a0I will have more thoughts on this tomorrow.<br \/>\n<strong>2. 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)\u00a0<\/strong>I pulled out a pack of beef tips for Wednesday and the Pizza\u00a0filling for Thursday was pulled several weeks ago.<br \/>\n<strong>3. Use at least 3 jars a week from the canning pantry.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Sloppy Joes on Thursday are from the pantry. I also will be using broth and salsa for Junk Food Sunday. Last week we used a total of 7 jars so this is actually going well.<br \/>\n<strong>4. Use one item a week from the connivence freezer in my room.\u00a0<\/strong>Hawian rolls are out of this freezer.<br \/>\n5.<strong>\u00a0Each Monday after menu planning 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 the\u00a0focus is on cleaning out the refrigerator\u00a0in preparation for Junk Food Sunday.\u00a0 I will be continuing the pantry challenge this month and plan a separate post tomorrow\u00a0to discuss the results in January.\u00a0 I am excited that Lily wants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=10448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menu-planning","category-pantry-challenge-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ySyX-2Iw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10449,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions\/10449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}