Weekly Menu

I'm so excited because more and more people are asking me about gluten/dairy free diets, shopping for these foods on a budget, preparing the foods, etc.  I'm having so much fun planning meals and helping to educate people about nutrition and that eating healthy tastes great and feels even better too.


Saturday--Baked Buffalo Chicken Pasta--lunch for Jaime and me,  Chicken Tamale Soup--dinner
Sunday--kale salad, Thai Chicken Pizza
Monday--Barbacoa beef tacos, guacamole, salad (I froze the left over beef, it was pretty tasty!)
Tuesday--spaghetti and meat sauce, kale salad
Wednesday--Green Chili Chicken Burgers (for the dairy free, use Daiya pepper jack "cheese"),
Thursday--Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Cups
Friday--Thai Peanut Noodle Salad

This week's snacks:
Popcorn--I buy the organic kernels and pop them on the stove top.  You can also put kernels in to a paper bag, fold it shut and pop it in the microwave like the expensive store-bought microwave popcorn.
Breakfast cookies (I've made double batches of these twice now.  The first time I added some sugar and the second time no sugar (except what's in the dark chocolate chunks) at all.  Everybody loved both versions.  I will be making these without the added sugar because, have you checked out how much sugar we consume?!  Simply amazing.)
Fruit, Veggies, Roasted Chickpeas

Breakfast
Monday--microwave berry muffins, breakfast sausage
Tuesday--scrambled eggs, fruit smoothies
Wednesday--oatmeal
Thursday--scrambled eggs, microwave muffins
Friday--peanut butter crispies, fruit

Weekly Breakfast Menu

Because the day starts better and goes better with a healthy well-balanced breakfast, I make sure my family eats well at this meal.  The kids can put away quite a bit of food at this time too so I'd rather them eat well instead bowl after bowl of cereal (which they will do if I don't plan a filling breakfast!).
Monday--Warm and Nutty Cinnamon Quinoa  and chunky monkey smoothie--banana, peanut butter, vanilla almond milk (this is a favorite often requested by all the males in the house)
Tuesday--Pumpkin Buckwheat Pancakes and applesauce
Wednesday--Pumpkin Granola and milk, scrambled eggs
Thursday--Oatmeal and sauteed apples with cinnamon and walnuts
Friday--Pumpkin Buckwheat Pancakes or cinnamon raisin french toast and scrambled eggs