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I love easy dinners. I’ve cooked a lot of nice dinners the past few weeks (nice = not hot dogs). Super simple dinners, but they’ve been above average dinners to end the day with…It always makes me feel better when I can put something good on the table, that makes me feel like I spent A LOT of time preparing it, but secretly know it took about 20 minutes!
This was our menu a few weeks ago (prior to all the road trip and vacation craziness!)
Sunday: Tri Tip in the Oven, Rice Cooker Mac & Cheese, Caesar lite Salad (packaged bag), S’more Stuffed Brownies w/ Vanilla Ice Cream for dessert
Monday: Squash Carbonara, and Grilled Peaches with Vanilla Ice Cream for dessert
Tuesday: Costco Pizzas ($5!!! Love that!), Casear lite Salad and leftover Grilled Peaches nuked with brown sugar and topped with Vanilla Ice Cream for dessert
Wednesday: Orzo with Roasted Shrimp, and Plum & Peach Buttermilk Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream for dessert
Thursday: Grilled Tri-Tip tips, sliced tomato from the garden, Rice Pilaf, leftover cake for dessert
Friday: Cheeseburgers (frozen leftover patties from the 4th of July), leftover Orzo Salad, Peanut Butter ice cream sandwiches for dessert
In all honestly, I made every single thing shown above in a week. When needed, I would prep things early or while the girls played at 9AM. The Littles would “help” me with some of it (nice little activity for us all), or I would make it during play time at 4PM before Dada got home. Everything was VERY DOABLE and REALISTIC. I never felt like I was stretching myself and we ate REALLY good food! Give it a try, even if things look a little daunting, once you try it, you’ll see that you CAN do it!
Have a great weekend everyone! Hug your Littles, Gran Littles and Friends Littles!
I’m impressed. Everything looks so good!
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Everything looks so delicious. I haven’t seen those pizza’s at Costco.
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Dessert every night!! Now THAT is living it up!! :) Vanilla Ice cream seams the condiments of choise at your house! Ha ha!
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Those ice cream sandwiches look fantastic! I’m wishing it was later in the day so I could justify making and eating them right this minute.
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Everything looks so delicious, but when I got the peanut butter ice cream cookie sandwich dealies, my stomach audibly growled.
It’s nice to see I’m not the only one who meal plans. If I didn’t, my family wouldn’t eat. It keeps me on track with much less fuss during the week.
Great post! When’s lunch?
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Great Great recipes! Those peanut & choco ice cream sandwiches look awesome! I’ll have to try those for sure! I’m all about easy, quick, and tasty meals these days. This week, I’m attempting to stretch all of the stuff I have frozen and canned to clean out our pantry/fridge & stay on budget this month! Phew!
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Have you ever “roasted” a whole chicken in the crock pot? I saw it on line a few weeks ago & it is my new go to chicken recipe. (Citymama- May 26,2010) It is so easy & SUPER yummy–tastes better than rotisserie chicken from the store. I do remove as much of the skin/fat from my chicken as I can (except legs & wings) and the last time I made it I rubbed it down with sea salt mixed with tarragon. I also have never made it with the potatoes, just the chicken when you do it this way you can save the “stock” to cook your rice with later in the week & its super flavorful.
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