Meal Planning Monday

                                                       Happy 4th of July!!!

We didn't do much for the Fourth of July, but we did take the kids to watch fireworks down by the river. Otherwise we just stayed around home and tried to keep cool. Did you plan anything special for the Fourth?

Shopping was a little depressing this week. Usually the stores put out some pretty great deals to lure customers in for the Fourth of July weekend, but that didn't seem to happen this year. I did stop by the Dollar store as they had those $5 off $25 coupons and I had been setting some money aside for that. They were giving out free bottles of water and packages of cookies to celebrate the holiday. The kids I had with me were pretty tickled with that treat!

Here is this week's menu plan. We are using more of that on sale bacon and chicken quarters I got last week, we'll be eating on them for a few weeks yet. It is supposed to be hot here this week so I tried to mix up cooked and noncooked things to try to keep the place as cool as I can. Hope you all have a great week!

 Monday-

• Breakfast- scrambled eggs, toast, 1/2 banana
  
• Lunch- Kids- Sandwiches, pretzels, grapes
  
• Dinner- Tacos made with ground beef and lentils
  

Tuesday-

• Breakfast- Fried egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches, apple slices
  
• Lunch- Leftover taco stuff mixed w/ refired beans and  made into burritos, carrot and celery sticks
  
• Dinner-Black bean burger, Spaghetti Salad , corn

Wednesday-

• Breakfast- Frozen waffle, 1/2 banana 
  
• Lunch- Sandwiches, pretzels, grapes
  
• Dinner- Blt's, leftover spaghetti salad, deviled eggs
  

Thursday-

• Breakfast- peanut butter oatmeal, 1/2 banana
  
• Lunch- hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, carrot and celery sticks
  
• Dinner-  Spaghetti, bagged salad, garlic toast
  

Friday-

• Breakfast- peanut butter toast, banana
  
• Lunch- Judy's Macaroni Salad, cucumbers and carrots, crackers
  
• Dinner- Schnitzel, garlic butter egg noodles, peas
  

Saturday-

• Breakfast- French toast
  
• Lunch-  Vegetable cream cheese roll ups, crackers or pretzels, fruit salad with whatever is around
  
• Dinner- Smoked sausage, semi homemade scalloped potatoes, green beans

Sunday-

• Breakfast- Egg and fried bologna sandwiches, fried potatoes
  
• Lunch-  Cleaning up leftovers
  
• Dinner-Baked chicken (from those big bags I bought last week), butter beans over rice, broccoli