Week 1 - Menus

At this point, I'm not being super specific with my meal planning and menus. We have enough food and incredible amounts of spices and seasonings in the house that I can sort of make it up as I go. It feeds my need to be spontaneous I suppose.

We have plenty of the following items in the house for breakfast:

-cereal
-oatmeal
-eggs
-bread for toast (I make my own bread)
-yogurt
-granola

As you can see, there is really no reason to "plan" breakfasts. At least for right now. Lunch will get tricky after this week. Right now I have some lunch meat, tuna and other items. Next week I may need to start getting a little more creative. I also LOVE to eat dinner leftovers for lunch.

Dinners for this week? I have thawing in the fridge:

-chicken thighs (6)
-pork steaks (3)
-2 lbs of ground beef from which I plan to make meatloaf
-leftover beef roast including potatoes and carrots

There is one issue I have not yet addressed, eating out. My $40/month ($10/week average) budget is for actual groceries/toiletries/cleaning supplies. My goal for eating out is once per week. Considering we ate out yesterday (Ray's last full day in Nebraska before leaving to finish his deployment) and this morning, we are done until next week.

How will week 1 turn out? Wait to see!!!!!!