What's for Dinner: This Week's Menu

Well, it is Thursday, but I don't have anything to post for Thrifty Thursday, so I decided to wait a day to post up our menu for this week.  I started implementing shopping every two weeks a few years back and it has served us really well in trying to keep within our budget (and saving shoppers from my son's unpredictable moods), so if you are looking at the picture above and thinking the fridge looks kind of bare, that's because we are one week into our two week shopping cycle :).

One nice thing about shopping online and doing pick up orders is that I can plan my menus a bit more carefully (and creatively) than before, which honestly has helped to stretch the dollar because I am a lot less likely to impulse buy when there are no clearance sales to shop.

So, let's get to it, shall we?

What's for Dinner this Week:

Thursday (today):  Eggs Benedict, tropical fruit 

Friday:  Pork Wellington, spinach salad, bread.    

This is a treat for my husband as beef Wellington is probably his favorite meal of all time and he's been under a lot of pressure at work and home of late.  I'm trying out pork instead of beef, because well...beef is out of budget pretty much unless it is hamburger unless there is a super sale.   I'm going to be messing with the recipe a bit...I'm using dehydrated and rehydrated mushrooms instead of fresh, using onions instead of shallots, etc. 

Saturday:  Chicken Chow Mein , using leftover rotisserie chicken and spaghetti noodles instead of the called for noodles in recipe.  Comes out really good!  This is one of my "saved and look up as soon as we want that dish" type of recipes.

Sunday:  Japanese Curry with chicken (just using Japanese curry roux blocks to make the recipe super easy to make), carrots and potatoes, rice 

Monday:  Chicken Lyonnaise (to use up some fresh onions I got as a surprise in a grocery order last week), fruit, salad, bread 

Tuesday:  Chicken Alfredo Tortellini (making recipe up as I go along with some frozen stuffed tortellini I have), garlic bread, salad or steamed broccoli 

Wednesday:  Cheeseburgers and fries

Leftovers will be eaten for lunch (including getting sent with my husband for lunch at work), or, if need be, I'll shuffle things around and not make something one night and we'll have a leftover night instead.  Vegetables like carrots are frozen, potatoes are stored in the fridge for longer shelf life.  I'll pull meat the day before to defrost in time for dinner the next day, so that lends me a bit of freedom in figuring things out on the fly.

And there you go folks.  Our dinner menu for this week.  

Enjoy!