Weekly Menu

Here is our menu for the week...

Monday -
Breakfast: Eggs, Bacon, Strawberries
Lunch: Salad
Supper: Crockpot Baked Potato Soup
Snack: yogurt and granola

Tuesday -
Breakfast: Muffins (not sure what kind yet), Fruit, Yogurt
Lunch: Leftover Baked Potato Soup
Supper: Tacos or Taco Salad
Snack: Spicy Jicama Strips

Wednesday -
Breakfast: grapefruit w/ agave syrup
Lunch: Sandwiches and Salad, homemade salad dressing
Supper: Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes (or pureed steamed cauliflower), Brussel Sprouts
Snack: Apple Slices and Nutella

Thursday -
Breakfast: Yogurt, Granola, Fruit
Lunch: Tuna Salad served with apple slices, black grapes, sweet pepper strips
Supper: Lasagna, Salad, Gluten Free French Bread
Snack: Orange Slices sprinkled with cinnamon

Friday -
Breakfast: Oatmeal and Fruit
Lunch: Lettuce Wraps
Supper: Beans, Fried Potatoes, Salad OR Chop Suey
Snack: yogurt and fruit

Saturday -
Breakfast: Gluten Free French Toast, Fruit, Bacon
Lunch: Grilled Cheese and Bacon Sandwiches, Sweet Potato Fries
Supper: Salmon, Grilled Crab Stuffed Shrimp wrapped in Bacon, Baked potatoes, Sauteed Green Beans, Molten Lava Cakes (Gluten Free, of course)
Snack: 7 layer Bean dip, nacho chips

The baked potatoes for the soup are left over from Sunday. It's easier to cook 12 baked potatoes at once than 6 at two different times. I also cooked more bacon than needed yesterday; we had bacon pieces on our baked potatoes last night and there is enough left over to be sprinkled on top of the baked potato soup. Every Monday is crockpot night. If I don't do this, we tend to eat out on Mondays.

Tuesday we are having muffins for breakfast. I have many, many wonderful muffin recipes that I have collected over the last 15 years. We have many favorites, among them are Blueberry-Banana and Ginger Pumpkin along with many others. Since going gluten-free almost a year ago, we have not enjoyed our weekly, or sometimes twice a week muffins. I'm not sure if I will replace the flour with my gluten-free flour mix in one of my existing recipes or if I will make gf muffins from one of my gf recipe books. I'm going to let the kiddoes choose.

On Thursday, supper will be so easy because the lasagna is already made and in the freezer. I made spaghetti on Saturday night and made three times as much sauce as I usually would. Part was for supper that night, part was for the lasagna, and part was for the freezer for pasta or for pizza sauce. Little Miss Muffet wanted to make the lasagna, so I handed the kitchen over to her. She was excited to make it herself, instead of just helping.

The grilled crab stuffed shrimp wrapped in bacon is something that I made for my dear husband last Valentine's Day. I made two for each person, placed them on a salad plate, curved one to the left and one to the right which made a heart shape. This is a tradition I plan on continuing. A couple of weeks before Valentine's Day last year, dear husband was at a conference for work. One night at dinner he had a steak and this shrimp. He raved about it. When he and his boss returned home, I called his boss to help me get better understanding of this dish my husband loved so much. I found out it was like a crab cake mixture and took it from there. He was so surprised to see the shrimp and impressed that I went to the trouble to recreate it for him.