menu planning

so i'm working on this whole planning and prepping ahead of time so i will cook dinners and not resort to eating out during the week thing. on saturday i spent some time looking through my pinterest cooking board and some cookbooks and planned out the entire week. it took some time, but i'm thinking it'll tend to get easier and easier, especially as i find recipes that i like to repeat. on sunday while sunday night's dinner was cooking i prepped for the next two nights of dinner so that all i had to do tonight was actually cook it rather than spending 20 minutes or so prepping and then cooking. it was so nice after a long day of work to have an awesome dinner take a total of about 15 minutes. i have high hopes for this process to make dinner-making easier. i'm going to put my menu plan for this week below in this post and i will be posting really successful recipes throughout the week. any links within the menu are links to the original source of the recipe. enjoy!

Menu Plan for Jan. 8th-Jan. 14th

Sunday

breakfast: coupons to BK

lunch: velo fellow after church

dinner: crispy cheddar chicken, baked potato soup

*bake blueberry breakfast cake tonight

Monday

breakfast: blueberry breakfast cake & yogurt

lunch: leftover soup, simple chicken wrap

dinner: lemon grilled chicken, couscous, spinach & feta salad

Tuesday

*put on dinner in slow cooker before leaving for work

breakfast: cereal & yogurt

lunch: spinach & feta salad, simple chicken wrap

dinner: cilantro lime chicken, cilantro lime rice

*cook chicken for tomorrow while fixing rice

Wednesday

breakfast: blueberry cake

lunch: leftover cilantro lime chicken
(also...lunches are flexible. sometimes i eat leftovers, sometimes i make a sandwich. depends on the mood, but i am trying to pack my lunch before i go to bed each night)

dinner: chicken pot pie (thank you elee)

Thursday

*put baked potatoes in crock pot

breakfast: cereal & yogurt

lunch: leftover chicken pot pie

dinner: beef stroganoff & baked potatoes

Friday

breakfast: starbucks gift card

lunch: teacher outing

dinner: in fort mill

Saturday

in fort mill