Monthly Menu: July

This is how our menu for July turned out. There were, as usual, changes in terms of flip flopping days and deleting entire meals. This was the first month where we were completely out of left overs at the end of the month. Usually we have NO issue with left overs especially at the end of the month. At the moment one of us has to cook for us to have dinner and lunch the next day. It will be interesting to see how soon we get a "stock pile" of left overs again.

July 2011 Meals

Friday, July 1^st: Chicken Paprikas and oven rice, use thighs

Saturday, July 2^nd: Out

Sunday, July 3^rd: Fend, RAH @ Carolines

Monday, July 4^th: Out :)

Tuesday, July 5^th: Mom's Penne Rigate, double Mom's tomato sauce recipe and freeze half

Wednesday, July 6^th: Fend

Thursday, July 7^th: Garlic Lemon Mahi Mahi

Friday, July 8^th: Curry Chicken Pot Pie, use breasts

Saturday, July 9^th: Out

Sunday, July 10^th: Fend, RAH @ Carolines

Monday, July 11^th: Oven Honey Chicken, use breasts

Tuesday, July 12^th: Fend

Wednesday, July 13^th:Mom's Chicken Sausage Tortellini, use breasts

Thursday, July 14^th: Mom's Mac and Cheese, buy real milk

Friday, July 15^th: Vicki made dinner :)

Saturday, July 16^th: Carolines :)

Sunday, July 17^th: Chicken Tetrazzini 

Monday, July 18^th: Garlic Roast Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon

Tuesday, July 19^th: Ravioli with creamy tomato sauce

Wednesday, July 20^th:Slow cooker upside down chicken pot pie, use thighs

Thursday, July 21^st: Fend

Friday, July 22^nd: Chicken Bog, use breasts

Saturday, July 23^rd: Pizza

Sunday, July 24^th:Fend, RAH @ Carolines

Monday, July 25^th: Fend

Tuesday, July 26^th: Roasted Chicken with Balsamic Vinigrette

Wednesday, July 27^th: Fend

Thursday, July 28^th: Brian's Mahi Mahir

Friday, July 29^th:  Fend

Saturday, July 30^th: Out

Sunday, July 31^st:Fend, RAH @ Carolines

I didn't realize until I was editing this page that we had done Fend so often this month. This obviously is why we didn't have as many left overs as we normally do. We have also skipped a couple meals entirely. This also probably means that I do not have to plan/cook as many meals but sometimes it can be hard to know how much left over we will actually have. I can make the same meal the same way and have enough left overs for a week or only two days. 

August's Grocery trip was more then I was hoping but still ending up right around where we have been at. I will go more detail when I break it down but when planning the meals I was really trying to pick recipes where we had the majority if not all of the ingredients already here. I was successful in that but I guess it just didn't work. I also didn't have any coupons as I don't get the newspaper and I was wondering if it was worth it to just order the Sunday paper for the coupons. Have not decided yet.

Our printer has died so I do not know how I am going to print off the menu's etc. It will print/see that it has paper when we turn it off and on and it prints a test page but if we send something to the printer it will say "no paper" no matter how full/empty the tray is. We have also tried to see if the paper was too far out for the sensor and that wasn't the case either. :-\ We really do not want to have to buy another one