Menu Plan Monday: Feb. 27- March 5, 2017

Planning my family's meals ahead of time based on what I have on hand AND what is on sale at Publix and Aldi is a HUGE $$ saving plan for my family! This habit of sharing it keeps me accountable!  (I share it on my coupon blog each week.)


I try to plan my family's meal plan based on what is already in my freezer/pantry/frig, so that very little shopping has to be done to feed my family for the week, except for the fresh items- such as dairy and produce.
We are once again doing Low Carb, so I plan 5-6 dinners that way and we usually eat out once a week (&/OR we have a cheat day at home). We are trying to get our family on a healthier eating track this new year, as well as getting away from more and more processed foods. My kiddo still eats some carbs during the day, but eats what we eat at dinner time.  My Hubby is doing Low Carb, so planning out the entire day has become my "norm" or else he feels like he might starve!!  He wants to see his options on posted on the frig!

By shopping the sales/deals and actually planning our menu, I rarely have to pay full price for anything to put together a menu plan. This saves so much money for my family! Try it, it will work for you too!

Do you have a plan this week?? I'd love for you to share it with me!

Here is our Dinner plan:

• Egg Roll in a Bowl 
• Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala, Riced Cauli
• Fat Head Deep Dish Pizza, salads
• Turkey Veggie Soup, Salads
• Goat Cheese & Spinach Stuffed Mini Meatloaves, Creamed Summer Squash 
• Weekend away:  taking snacks & lunch with us, eating dinner out.
  cheese sticks, nuts, trail mix, beef jerky, hard boiled eggs, Summer sausage & cheese, etc...

Breakfast Options:

• Power Protein Smoothies w/ Peanut Butter & spinach
• Eggs & bacon
• Scrambled eggs & sausages
• Cheese omelette W/ Avocado

Lunch Ideas:

• Leftovers!!!
• Egg wraps filled with turkey, avocado & cheese
• Pizza Salad
• Thai Cucumber salad w/ peanut dressing

Snack options:

• Trail mix, peanuts 
• Cheese cubes & salami
• Ham & pickle roll up
• celery & PB
• Fat Bombs (Low carb/High fat version of chocolate!!)

Do you have a menu plan?  Could you put together some sort of plan for this week OR start making a plan for next week?  Without a plan, your new eating style will fail!
Let me know how it goes!