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Monday, 9 April 2012

Quick and Easy Cheap and Healthy Menu Plan Monday: Easter at the End of a Shopping Cycle

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Menu Plan Monday: Easter at the End of a Shopping Cycle

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:00 PM PDT

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This month’s focus in “Eating Intentionally“* is on “Fighting the Food Police”. What does that mean exactly? Well, I’ll be getting to that soon. For now, I’m really focusing on finishing up Your Grocery Budget Toolbox, so I can send it off for editing, then formatting, then publishing… whew! It’s gonna be a fun ride! In the meantime, I’m not really doing a lot of blogging, but I’ll be back to it very soon. And we’ll tackle Eating Intentionally once again when I do.

I hope you all had a fabulous Easter! Last week, Baby Boy came down with Hand Foot and Mouth Disease, and kindly shared it with his brother. So we kept our Easter celebration to ourselves, which meant that at the last minute, I had to pull together an entire Easter dinner. Thankfully, I had been smart enough to buy a ham on sale when I did my weekly mini-trip last week, so I put it to good use.

Even though the bare cupboards and echoing fridge testify to the fact that we are on the last leg of our monthly shopping cycle, I still found plenty of food to whip up the rest of the menu: potatoes, carrots, muffins, and fruit salad. Most of the recipes I used are not actually on my blog (yet), so I’ll link you up to them in case they look yummy to you.

Baked Carrots

Easter Ham - studded with cloves, cooked in the crock pot for 4 hrs on high with garlic cloves and grated ginger

Fruit Salad - pineapples, bananas and cantaloupe topped with toasted coconut

Roasted Potato Stacks

Sweet Potato Oat Muffins - I swapped 1/4 cup mashed sweet potato for the egg, and added cinnamon.

And now for this week’s menu…

Breakfasts

Sweet Potato Oat Muffins & Smoothies
Gingerbread Granola (I used molasses for the sweetener, and added ginger and cinnamon for flavor.)
Strawberry Cream of Buckwheat Cereal
Steel Cut Oats
Pancakes

Lunches

Leftovers
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Egg Salad Sandwiches

Dinners

Dinner w/ IL’s
Beef & Gravy over Mashed Potatoes, Steamed Carrots
BBQ Pork Pizza, Fruit
Baked Eggs, Fruit
Creamy Lemon Pasta, Carrots

Snacks

Nuts, Raisins, Cranberries
Popcorn
Brownies
Chocolate Coconut Nests

In My Kitchen Today

Yogurt
Ricotta

*My concept of “Eating Intentionally”, and the 10 principles we are working through this year, come from the book “Intuitive Eating” by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. I highly recommend it – I don’t agree with everything in it, but it is a great read for anybody who has ever been on a diet and/or is considering going on a diet.