Next Week’s Meal Plan

I’m on a Crock Pot kick lately, thanks to the overwhelmingly popular Crock Pot Girls

I wrote out my meal plan for next week (which is way easier now thanks to Pinterest!) & thought I’d share it with you, in case you’d like to do it too since all the work is already done. 🙂

I found almost all of the dinner recipes there.

This week I’m using these recipes:

Toast Cups
(I’ve already made these once & they turned out really well!)

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Meat sauce

Apple Bacon BBQ Chicken

Crock pot apple sauce

Here Goes:

Week 1

Mostly Crock Pot Dinners

When I’m writing a meal plan, I try to match up ingredients for the week as best I can without making it too boring. For instance, the bacon will be in the toast cups and the apple bbq chicken and the apples will be in the chicken and the apple sauce. I also try to be thoughtful about what I will probably have left-over in order to save money. That’s why broccoli & cheese baked potatoes are for lunch the day after broccoli is our dinner vegetable. Then I’ll probably have left-over potatoes so I’ll use them the following week for something.

I wrote out a shopping list (which is in no particular order, sorry!) but I already have a lot of this stuff in my pantry, so you probably do too. I didn’t include any of the dry spices or things like sugar in the meat sauce recipe because I know I will always have those on hand.

2 packs boneless skinless chicken breasts

2 lbs ground beef

Pork chops

Minced garlic

BBQ sauce

10 Apples

Bacon slices

Sweet potatoes

Russet potatoes

Frozen broccoli

Lemon juice

1 can corn

1 can black beans

1 can South West tomatoes

1 pack taco seasoning

1 can cream of chicken soup

4 cans tomato sauce

Shredded Cheddar cheese

Shredded mozzarella cheese

1 dozen eggs

Loaf of bread

Frozen spinach (I like to put this in my baked zitti)

1 box spaghetti

1 box zitti

2 cans tomato paste

1 onion

Cereal

Oatmeal

Bisquick

Tortilla chips

Sour cream

Milk

Cheese slices

Carrots

Celery

Ranch dressing

Raisins

Peanut butter

Jelly

Pretzels

popcorn

Blueberries

I’m trying to get a few weeks like this together w/ meal plans, shopping lists & recipes, using lots of crock pot meals so that I can make my life easier after the newest baby comes this winter.

Hope it makes your life a little easier too!