Meal Plan Monday January 3rd, 2011

New Year, new chances.  If I am to make how I want to eat work, I need to start meal planning again.  This is all tentative and only for me and for the main meal of the day (the meal Mark is home for, varies due to his varying shifts).  If someone doesn't like what I have planned, I will make them something else.  I'm easy like that if it means sticking to what I want to eat, especially since I'm the only one eating all three meals a day at home (kids have lunch and sometimes breakfast at school and Mark eats at work).

Breakfast will generally be eggs and sometimes yogurt, maybe the occasional berries. My other meal will be leftovers, eggs, freezer stash food or something just thrown together.  I plan to occasionally spend a day cooking so I can have meals in the freezer that are easy for me to heat and eat.  Snacks will be things like hard boiled eggs, leftover bits of food, nibbles of cheese and lots of water.

I am eating lower carb but not no carb.  Veggies are good; they didn't make me big and unhealthy but I will avoid the high glycemic ones.  I am definately going to be no grain and I want to avoid treats for a while (there are tons of low carb healthy treats that I can make but they can be dangerous when trying to get back into the swing of eating right).

I will not repeat the above in future posts about meal planning :)

Meal Plan Monday January 3rd- Sunday January 9th 2011

Monday: Pork chops, mixed vegetables (broccoli, green and red peppers, onions)

Tuesday: Crockpot roasted chicken, green beans (freezer)

Wednesday: Corned Beef and Cabbage (at least I think it's corned beef; no potato for me)

Thursday: Chicken Stew (from leftover chicken and stock made from carcass; thickened with arrowroot powder)

Friday: Crustless pizza (regular pizza for family with sourdough crust.  If I'm motivated, I may make an oopsie-like crust for my pizza)

Saturday: Burgers (bunless for me; something like these French Onion burgers but without the icky ingredients sounds good!), coleslaw

Sunday: Ham or pork roast (have to see what we have in the freezer), veggies from freezer

I am doing Kelly The Kitchen Kop's challenge and I am also doing the Spark People 28 day boot camp challenge (but my own way).    I am determined to make major changes this year and I need accountability to myself in doing so.  This will be my year to shine!

Meal Plan: Sunday Nov. 14th to Nov. 20th

Saturday I actually cleaned out my fridge, sat down and made a meal plan for the week.  I am trying to get some of this stuff eaten up.  I love shopping then I have all kinds of things I don't know how I'm going to use it up!

I didn't include breakfast as for me it's usually eggs.  This is also mainly for me.  The kids usually bring different things to school and Mark brings whatever for his work meals.  During the week I will be posting some of the recipes of the things I have eaten.  As you can tell, I am kind of gluten free/low carb/paleo kind of diet.  I'm trying to eat more veggies because it is hard for me, even though I love vegetables.  Also, everything is open to change if something isn't going to work.

Sunday
Lunch: sandwiches (whatever everyone wants.  I'll soak the flour tonight and bake in the morning), soup
Supper: Crockpot chicken, potatoes, corn, brussel sprouts

Monday
Lunch: fried collard greens (in bacon grease), onions and sausage
Supper: steak, rice (soaked rice for family, riced cauliflower for me) and carrots

Tuesday:
Lunch: cabbage fried in coconut oil, broccoli salad, leftover chicken
Supper: noodles for kids, mixed veggies, pork loin chops

Wednesday:
Lunch: Onion leek soup with coconut flour garlic cheese biscuits
Supper: Pizza (soaked flour for family, cauliflower crust for me)

Thursday:
Lunch: baked sweet potatoes, leftovers
Supper: Spaghetti and meatballs (I'll have spaghetti squash)

Friday:
Lunch: stew with coconut flour garlic cheese biscuits
Supper: hamburgers with fries and carrots

Saturday:
Lunch: an all dressed salad (big salad with meat or tuna and hard boiled eggs)
Supper: Taco Bake