{"id":9271,"date":"2023-03-13T19:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2023-03-13T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:54:03","slug":"monday-menu-planning-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=9271","title":{"rendered":"Monday Menu Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be quite honest, I am done.\u00a0 I am tired of cooking food, tired of planning to cook food and maybe a little bit bored with the food we have.\u00a0 But I know in my brain we can do this. I can keep the grocery budget low for the rest of the month and then enjoy Disney with all it&#8217;s wonderful food that I am not responsible for planning, preparing or cleaning up from.\u00a0 \u00a0So for the time being I have to figure out how to make this work.\u00a0 This week, I wanted to use up food that is already in the fridge. I did have enough time on Saturday to do some preparing ahead. I hope this makes lunch this week much easier.\u00a0 I am also very hopeful that I can stick to the plan!<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast- Saturday- Big Breakfast including sausage, bacon, eggs and a hashbrown casserole. Sunday-Biscuit and Gravy casserole Monday- Left-over biscuit and gravy casserole. Tuesday Wednesday and Friday- find it:\u00a0 oatmeal, omelets cereal and milk, French toast sticks, bagels, Thursday- zucchini bread (I was able to find several more packs of zucchini\u00a0in the freezer and would like to completely clear it out before May.<br \/>\nLunch- Saturday-left-overs Sunday Mexican at Don Juan&#8217;s. This week I fried up 3 days&#8217; worth of beef liver and onions, I will add some left-over veggies to make this a complete meal.\u00a0 Matt has made 3 hamburger patties to use up the 3 hamburger buns that are on the table.\u00a0 The kids can either take leftovers or sandwiches or grab and go.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner- Saturday-leftovers um yum chicken (not a repeat) and squash casserole. Sunday-My Dad&#8217;s chicken stew (this leaves only 1 additional soup in the main freezer).\u00a0 Monday- Left-overs (I will encourage either left-over breakfast or soups, but we will see how this goes). Tuesday- Baked Ziti (one more in the freezer) Wednesday- More Left-overs (We have most of a tater tot casserole to eat) Thursday-Cheesy Chicken Pasta (This was a hit a couple of weeks ago). Friday-Hamburger Helper Stroganoff (These are the last two boxes on the shelf).<\/p>\n<p>My overall thought is that if I can make it through this week, it will get easier and we will be ready for some easy repeating food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be quite honest, I am done.\u00a0 I am tired of cooking food, tired of planning to cook food and maybe a little bit bored with the food we have.\u00a0 But I know in my brain we can do this. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=9271\">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":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menu-planning","category-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ySyX-2px","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","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=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9272,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/9272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}