Meal Planning: Post #3

Plain and simple: my menu posts last week had too many steps for busy people like us! I did end up making everything I had planned and the WINNER recipe for the week was the grilled chicken with avocado salsa, MAN was that good!

This week though, I'm all about good taste and simplicity! I actually already placed my Walmart pickup grocery order too. Did you know that they have same day pickup now? It's still free; definitely impressive.

It's supposed to be REALLY cold here this weekend, including a chance of snow later on Saturday, so on Sunday we are definitely having comfort food of chili!

Here's my menu of options for the week:

• Sunday: Red bean and turkey chili (packed with cuisinarted vegetables because they're easy to disguise). My go to recipe is always the red-checked cookbook from Better Homes & Gardens.

For the rest of the week:

• BBQ Tacos - I bought precooked pulled pork from Aldi last week, I'll serve that in corn tortillas with this homemade cole slaw link (that you can make ahead!). I haven't tried this person's recipe before, it sounds good, hoping it tastes good too ;)
• CROCK POT: pork tenderloin cooked low and slow (add about 1/2 c of chicken broth to it to make sure it doesn't overcook/dryout). This will be served with green beans & baked potatoes.
• Pasta night - trying out quinoa/brown rice noodles with a Trader Joe's pasta sauce and their turkey meatballs. Will also roast a medley of vegetables to top the sauce: zucchini, yellow squash and sliced carrots tossed with olive oil, salt & pepper, roasted about 30 minutes at 375 degrees.
• IRISH Meal for St. Patrick's Day on Friday! We are going to tryout this CROCK POT recipe Slow-Cooker Corned Beef & Cabbageand I'm going to attempt to make Irish soda bread too link. I tried it once and it did not turn out right; I'm willing to try again! Serving all of this with a pint of Guinness too! I might attempt Guinness Chocolate cupcakes but the jury is out :)

Happy eating!