Sunday Morning Meal Planning

Doing our typical Sunday morning thing today.  Usually Saturday I devote to Wholesome Family Fun, but Sunday is all business.  Sunday is laundry day, meal planning and grocery shopping day, clean-the-house day (must. sweep. doghair.), and usually get-a-jump-on-work day.  We also go to church Sunday mornings (Wholesome! Family!), and so all in all Sunday’s kind of a whirlwind.  Saturday is my oasis – Sunday I batten down the hatches for the coming week.

I am second chairing a trial the day after Memorial Day weekend, which is both awesome (second-chair! already, only 8 months in!) and also sucks (working Memorial Day weekend thankyouverymuch.)  So I will be doing a lot of work to prep for trial today, while also trying to get the meals and house situated to sustain us for two weeks.  I’m thankful that the Professor is out of school for the semester, and now lives at home with us full time.  So it’s not quite as hectic or impossible as it would be if he were gone half the week.  He is a full partner in the house and kid duties.  However – and I say this with love – he always has been, and always will be, a pretty terrible cook and an even more hopeless meal planner.  Since I love to eat, and eat well, I very rarely hand him the reins on that front.

Anyway, I am by no means committing myself to do this every Sunday, but since I usually pull up a laptop and search for recipes on Sunday mornings, I thought I’d list out what I plan for the week’s meals here.  Normally we only eat meat once or twice, but we just had a couple of parties and are trying to eat up some leftover brats/sausages and the rest of a seemingly endless ham, so this week will be meat-heavy.

Sunday: Broccolini Sausage Pasta

Monday: Cobb salad, Asian style (but sans oranges and with ham instead of chicken)

Tuesday: Some penne dish I made before and froze, don’t even know what’s in it!  I’ll figure it out when the thing defrosts.

Wednesday: Ham quiche (using this base recipe), green beans, french bread.

Thursday: Sausage hoagies and potato salad

Friday: Udon noodle bowl (might throw in some pork, might keep it meatless)

Saturday: go out! Or order in!