Here is our meal plan of dinners for the week! For breakfast, my husband eats cottage cheese and I usually have coffee. Lunches are generally leftovers from the night before. We also like to leave two nights open each week for either going out (take out for now, of course) or catching up on leftovers.
Saturday: Leftovers
We still had ground beef from taco salads on Thursday so we made these into nachos! An easy, and tasty, Saturday night dinner to enjoy while watching a movie (Goldeneye, which for the record is not very good lol).
Sunday: Egg Salad Sandwiches and Chips
Admittedly, this is a little weird as a dinner, but I had a craving. I love egg salad and add both red and green onions to give it flavor and crunch! This egg salad on ciabatta bread with those Hawaiian Sweet Maui Onion chips was totally droolworthy!
Monday: Smoked Brisket, Potato Salad, and Hawaiian Rolls
Here’s a fun fact about me: I don’t really care to eat smoked meats, but I love smoking meat. I love tedious recipes that require a lot of time and attention so smoking meat (we have a small smoker so it is somewhat high maintenance) is right up my alley! Today I smoked a 2.5 lb brisket which took about 8 hours. We paired this with store-bought potato salad and rolls, but I would not purchase these again. The potato salad (Resers brand) was weirdly sweet, even after I added salt and a couple extra hard boiled eggs.
Tuesday: Cilantro Lime Chicken & Pasta Salad
This dinner brings such a smile to my face! I was having a rough day due to work issues, so I was a real crabby Patty. My poor husband has to deal with my sourpuss attitude and I wasn’t very friendly when I got home. To cheer me up, he made this pasta salad with alphabet shaped pasta and I just love it! The pasta salad is actually this recipe, with pasta subbed for the quinoa. The chicken (which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!) is this recipe, and was so delicious! We used chicken thighs and it was the perfect compliment to the lime-y marinade.
Wednesday: Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed peppers for me are one of those things I hated as a kid. I don’t think I have touched one since I moved out of my parent’s home. Recently though, I’ve come to find I really enjoy bell peppers so I figured I would give these another chance. I used this recipe, but with just ground turkey (the chorizo blend from Jennie O), split among only 4 peppers, and used a LOT more garlic because of course I did lol. They were great and I definitely can imagine we will add these to our list of easy meals. The one thing I would note is that while they don’t take much effort, they do take a good amount of time since they bake for ~45 minutes after stuffing.
Thursday: Leftovers
Nothing exciting to mention here… Normally we would have leftover for lunch, but we knew we really wanted to get poke for lunch on Friday. Since we still had cilantro lime chicken and pasta salad, we had this for dinner tonight instead.
Friday: Cheese Plate
We accidentally ended up eating lunch quite late today so dinner was a thrown together cheese plate, and I ain’t even mad. I grabbed poke for our lunch since I had to go into my office, but I didn’t get home with it until 2:30pm. Since we ate lunch so late, we decided on a lighter dinner and settled on a cheese plate to share. This was very much a “whatever is in the fridge” version so it is nothing fancy, just salami rounds, apple, cheddar, colby, and pepperjack cheeses with crackers. This, with a glass of La Petite Perriere Sauvignon Blanc, made for the perfect end to the week!
