Weekly Meal Plan

Ok you asked so here it is!!! 8/14 thru 8/19 Weekly Meal Plan!!!

Monday 8/15:  Pot Roast with Carrots, Potatoes and Salad

  • Pot Roast (Safeway BIGI sale, usually around $12.00 for 2) 
  • Organic Carrots (Safeway, $0.99/each for 1 lb bag, or cheaper at Costco)
  • *Potatoes (you may have some at home, if not pick some up at Costco they have the best price or Fred Meyers, 2 lbs/$1.00)
  • Salad (Romaine $0.99 each at Safeway or cheaper at Costco)
Total Cost for meal: Approx. $8.00 (depending the size/cost of your Pot Roast). Plus you will have an extra Pot Roast for another time! 

 

Tuesday 8/16:  Rack of Pork Ribs, Corn on the Cob and Ceasar Salad

  • Pork Ribs (QFC B1G1 sale, $3.99/lb approx $10.00 for 2)
    Use (2) $2/1 Fresh or Previously Frozen Pork Ribs 
  • Corn on the Cob (Fred Meyer, 5 for $2.00)
  • Salad (Romaine $0.99 each at Safeway or cheaper at Costco)

Total Cost for Meal: Approx. $6.00 (depending on the size/cost of your Ribs). Plus you will have an extra Rack of Ribs for another time!

Wednesday 8/17:  Roasted Chicken with Potato Salad and Easy Peach Cobbler
  • Roast Chicken from your Freezer Stockpile, (Fred Meyers $0.99/lb) or take it easy tonight and buy a pre-cooked Whole Chicken (QFC $4.99/each)
  • Potato Salad (make from ingredients in stockpile)
  • Peaches Cobbler (Fred Meyer $0.98/lb buy 2 lbs)
Total Cost for Meal: Approx. $7.00 (depending on what you currently have in your stockpile)

Thursday 8/18:  Sausage Spaghetti and Salad 

Total Cost for Meal: Approx. $3.00 plus an additional package of Sausage to add to your Freezer Stockpile!


Friday 8/19: Left overs or Pizza night!!!

Recipes for this weeks meals:

Pot Roast

Ingredients

  • Pot Roast
  • 1 Can Cream of Mushroom
  • 3 cups of Carrots
  • 2 cups of Potatoes
  • 1 Onion Diced
  • 3-5 Cloves of Garlic
  • Salt, Pepper and Garlic Powder
Directions

1. Season with Salt, Pepper and a pinch of Garlic Powder. Pan sear in a saute pan, until brown on all sides with 1 onion sliced and 3-5 Garlic cloves finely diced.

2. Place in the oven (324 degrees)  or crock pot (high).

3. Add 1 can of Cream of Mushroom (or Cream of Chicken) on top of Roast.

4. Let cook for approx. 4 hours, then add 3 cups cut carrots and 2 cups potato. Add another pinch of salt and pepper.

5. Continue to cook for approximately 1 hour more.

6. Serve once Pot Roast is tender and falling apart and Veggies are tender.

 Rack of Ribs

Ingredients

  • 1 Rack of Ribs
  • 1 bottle of your favorite BBQ Sauce
  • 3-5  cloves Garlic
  • Salt, Pepper and Garlic Powder
Directions

1. Cut rack into 3-4 sections and place in a pot of boiling water with 3-5 cloves of garlic. Boil for approximately 1 hour.

2. Season boiled ribs with Salt and Pepper.

3. Slather Ribs with BBQ Sauce.

4. BBQ (or cook in the oven for approx. 1 hour)

Roast Chicken

Ingredients

  • 1 Whole Chicken
  • 3-5 Cloves of Garlic
  • 1 Onion
  • Salt, Pepper and Garlic Powder
  • 3 Sprigs of Thyme
Directions

1. Rub Chicken with 2 tbsp Olive Oil and season raw Chicken with salt, pepper and garlic powder.

2. Place Chicken in a roasting pan or dutch oven with 1 sliced onion, 4-5 cloves of garlic and 4-5 sprigs of Thyme.

3. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 3.5 hours or until Chicken is falling off the bone.

Easy Peach Cobbler 

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 4 cups fresh peaches – peeled and sliced (blanch whole peaches in boiling water for 2 min and the peel will come right off!!)
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
  • 1/2 cup milk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Pour butter in the bottom of a large casserole dish.
  2. Toss together the peaches and 2 tablespoons sugar.
  3. In a mixing bowl, combine the 1 cup sugar, salt, baking powder, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and milk. Spoon batter over the peaches.
  4. Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until top is golden brown.

Spaghetti Sauce

Ingredients

  • 1 Onion, finely diced
  • 5 Cloves of Garlic, finely diced
  • 1/2 cup Orange/Yellow Bell Pepper, diced
  • 1 can Italian Tomatoes
  • 1 can Tomato Sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1/2 Tbsp of Tabasco Sauce

Directions 

1. Sautee onions, peppers and garlic in a pan until onions are transparent.

2. Add 1 can of Tomato Sauce and 1 can of Italian Tomatoes to pan.  Add Worcestershire Sauce and Tabasco Sauce. Let simmer for 10 minutes.

3. Add Sausage to sauce and let simmer for another 10 minutes.

**PS. Sorry that the fonts are all funky I have spent 2 hours trying to fix them and can’t 🙁

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