When making my weekly meal plan, I like to create things that my children love because that is easier than dealing with picky eaters and complaints. However, I also can’t exist on chicken nuggets and pizza! I need more things, so I am constantly on the hunt for delicious, nutritious, and kid friendly meals. This …
Valentine’s Day is this week, so we have some special plans for the meals. However, the rest of the week is our normal weekly food menu. When you make your meal plan each week, do you consider holidays? This weekly food menu includes recipes as well as a printable menu and shopping list. All the …
How many times has this happened to you? You decide to cook baked potatoes for the family and you don’t want to risk running out. So you bake enough for everyone to have one, plus a few extra. What happens? You end up with leftover baked potatoes. Don’t throw them in the garbage! You can …
Raise your hand if you’ve ever boiled too many potatoes for mashed potatoes! I know I have! LOL! It’s super easy to cook too many potatoes at once, especially if you’re cooking mashed potatoes or potato salad for a large crowd. Then you end up with a pot of leftover boiled potatoes that just sits …
Are you going shopping on Thanksgiving & Black Friday so you can stay home on Saturday and watch the Iron Bowl online? This year’s Iron Bowl is predicted to be the most watched game in SEC History… are you going to be watching #4 Auburn take on #1 Alabama? For the 2nd time in history, …
This Scalloped Potatoes from Leftovers Recipe is one of the best! Perfect side dish and great to use up those leftovers. Be sure to check out my tips for Over 22 Ways to use your Thanksgiving Leftovers! Whenever you cook potatoes, it’s always a great idea to cook extra because it makes for easier meal …
What are you planning to do with your Thanksgiving Day Turkey leftovers? Giving families an alternative to a hot open-turkey sandwich the National Pasta Association (NPA) has a few recipes for pasta dishes which feature left-over turkey as a main ingredient. These recipes pair protein rich veggies with leftover turkey and pasta – one of …
I have surgery today and will be in the hospital for at least over night, so my menu is a bit bare this week. However, while pre-planning my posts, I again made you a free menu printable just like mine above, except blank! See, I am super stinking nice! Tee Hee. Just click the image …
This week is going to be CRAZY busy. We had our EF Welcome Orientation this past weekend and I can already tell that I am going to be doing some major emails and phone calls with the students, host families, and Boston. So, I want my menu to be pretty easy this week. I also …
This is one of those easy meals that we all love. 🙂 We call it leftover soup, because it is made from leftovers. We keep a gallon ice cream bucket in the freezer and put most leftovers in it: Spaghetti Chili Manwich Veggies Meat Drippings Gravy etc When the tub is full we make soup. …
