Weekly Meal Plan 2-4-22 to 2-10-22: Feeding the Family

Oh, the weather outside is frightful!  Two snow days last week and it's snowing again!  Winter is letting us know who is in charge.  We still have a wrestler concerned about making weight, and this same wrestler will be going on a retreat this week (Wednesday thru Saturday).  The meal plan for this week will look a bit different than usual.

Friday - Eating Out:  Three of us had sushi, the wrestler (with food allergies) ate leftovers

Saturday:  Burgers and sweet potato fries in the air fryer

Sunday:  Air fryer Asian Glazed Chicken Thighs, brown rice, and salad:  This was a huge hit and they asked me to add this to the rotation (recipe from skinnytaste.com)

Monday:  Cajun rice and beans with sausage

Tuesday:  Turkey Tacos

Wednesday:  Pasta and meatballs with rolls

Thursday:  Eating Out 

Breakfast:  Egg and cheese sandwiches (freezer)

Lunch:  Vegetable Soup

The son going on the retreat has food allergies.  Everyone else will be fed by the retreat, but my son can't eat there so I'm sending food for him.  The following is the meal plan that he and I decided on for him (and it tries to make sure we take his wrestling weight into account). There is a refrigerator and microwave for him to use.

Breakfast: Turkey sausage, fruit, yogurt

Lunch:  Grilled chicken salad

Dinner:  Turkey tacos, left over Asian Glazed Chicken thighs with rice, GF Pizza

Have a Blessed Week!

Weekly Meal Plan 1/28/22 to 2/3/22: Feeding the Family

Last week's meal plan got completely blown out of the water.  We have a wrestler in the family, and last week his coach changed his weight class and our wrestler needed to cut 10 pounds.  That made all of my meals with cheese or cream, or beef obsolete.  So, I pivoted.  And that's the beauty of meal planning.  You have food in the house, you may just have to change how you use it depending on changes that occur during the week.  Usually, it's a schedule change that causes me to pivot, but last week was a new one for me.  This child is still cutting weight, so you'll notice that this week's meal plan is heavy on chicken.  They told him to concentrate on eating chicken or eggs, and since he's anaphylactic to eggs, we stuck with chicken.

Friday:  Leftovers for the wrestler, and the rest of us ate out due to a late indoor baseball practice.

Saturday:  Chicken Au Champagne, baked potato, and vegetable

Sunday:  Chicken Italian Sausage and Peppers in Rao's low sugar marinara sauce

Monday:  Teriyaki Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry with gluten free ramen noodles

Tuesday:  Hot Dogs and Veggies (requested by the wrestler)

Wednesday:  Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

Thursday:  Chicken and veggie sheet pan meal

Lunches:  Italian Wedding Soup (meatballs made with no egg, gf breadcrumbs, and ground chicken)

Breakfast:  Cinnamon toast for the 9-year-old and egg and cheese sandwiches (in the freezer) for the hubby.

This is a very chicken heavy meal plan.  I tried to keep it interesting and tasty while keeping it low fat/low carb for the wrestler.  Any meal that included carbs were for the others and the wrestler had the option to eat them or not.

For most of next week, he'll be at an overnight retreat, so our meal plan should look a bit different.

Have a blessed week!!