Menu Planning

If you have read my previous post Home Budgets and Extreme Anxieties you know that I do a monthly menu plan to help save money. (If you haven't read it you should check it out after you read this post!)
Thursdays are my days to go through coupons, search for freebies online and update my weekly menu according to any sales or leftovers we have in the house. Every week I will be posting my weekly menu plan, any sales it correlates with and one recipe of an item on that menu.

You can thank me and my culinary degree later!

                                              Vegetables in a grocery store   Photo by MFinderup

This weeks menu (beginning June 2nd):

Sunday:
Breakfast - Eggs, waffles and fruit
Lunch-Tuna salad (made from leftover tuna from previous week)
Dinner- Baked chicken, corn on the cob and broccoli

Monday:
Breakfast- Cereal and fruit
Lunch-Chicken salad with grapes (made with leftover chicken)
Dinner- Cobb Salad

Tuesday:
Breakfast- Toad in a hole
Lunch- Egg salad (made with extra eggs from Cobb salad)
Dinner- Sweet and Sour pork, rice and veggies

Wednesday:
Breakfast- Eggs, waffles, grits, fruit
Lunch- Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with banana smoothies
Dinner- Spaghetti and meatballs

Thursday:
Breakfast- Cereal and fruit
Lunch- Grilled cheese and fruit salad
Dinner- Leftovers

Friday:
Breakfast- Muffins and fruit
Lunch- Peanut butter and banana sandwiches and strawberry smoothies
Dinner- Nachos

Saturday:
Breakfast- Eggs, pancakes, fruit
Lunch: Leftover spaghetti
Dinner: Cook Out!

Items on Sale at Food Lion

Serves 4 to 6
- Whole chickens 99 cents lb.
- Cantaloupe is 2 for $3
- Honeydew/ personal melons are 2 for $5
- Rice 2 for $4
- Green Beans $1.69 lb
- Cucumbers 99 cents each
- Green peppers 2 for $1
- Yellow squash or zucchini $1.49 lb

Sweet & Sour Pork Recipe

                                                         Chopsticks     Photo by vivekchugh
1 lb Diced pork
Sauce:
1/2 C sugar
1/3 C ketchup
2 T Soy sauce
1/2 C Water

Mix sugar, ketchup and soy sauce in sauce pan. Bring to boil.
Add water and and pork. Cook for an hour.
Ladle over over rice and steamed veggies!