Menu Plan for the week of 1/10/11!

Here's what we will be eating this week:

Breakfasts: oatmeal, toast, eggs, leftover whole wheat buttermilk pancakes , cranberry struesel muffins (to use up canned cranberries leftover from our turkey meal last week)

Lunches/snacks: leftovers, sandwiches, soup

Dinners:

Monday: Turkey Divan over brown rice

Tuesday: Jerk Turkey Soup, yeast rolls, salad

Wednesday: Cheesy Beef and Rice Casserole(didn't get to this last week), green beans

Thursday: Vegetable Bean Soup & Salad for the ladies Bible study (everyone who comes is on a very strict diet of some kind right now...pretty much veggies only are safe:) and grilled cheese for the kidlets and hubby/dad

Friday: Chili Rellenos or Enchiladas (mom said she would buy the chili rellenos stuff to make...but if we have a blizzard that might not happen!

Saturday: Pizza and breadsticks, carrots

Sunday:Leftovers, meal out or one of Saturday's meals

What's on your menu this week?

Food Pavillion shopping trip

There are some *hot* deals at Food Pavillion this week, but unfortunately they panic if you use a single coupon. That is what happened to me and I did just that...use ONE coupon:). So the store was dead and they called for backup to look at my one Special K printable...so I ended up with a line of 8 behind me! Talk about encouraging shoppers to come back! Anyway, I got some great produce deals.

Total for all above: about $15. There is enough fruit there to last our family of 6 for a week and a half plus 4 huge heads of Romaine lettuce ($0.58/each!). Milk was $1.67 with in-ad coupon limit one.

Baby Bump: 24 1/2 weeks

Yes, I know I look 8 months pregnant already! But overall I am feeling good and still exercising (mostly walking or aerobics about 30 minutes a day 4 days a week). The holidays were bad news and I gained 7 extra pounds. So all this week I've started to write down everything I eat and that seems to curb some of my extra snacking or sugar overload. Baby boy kicks all the time and is measuring right where he should be for a late April/early May arrival.

The plan is to move to Bremerton mid-April so we can have the baby in Seattle again. Praying for a little quicker labor this time (less than 44 hours would be nice!;)

Cooped up but still having fun

The girls playing with their video machine (thanks CeeCee!!!) hand-me-down in the parents' walk-in closet.

Liv playing with the same video machine, but chilling out on the top stairs that goes down to grandpa's man-cave.

I cannot resist the cutenest of those cheeks! By the way, the girls' leggings are from Wal-mart...Christmas clearance for $1! They aren't "Christmasy" either.

M and her huge puzzle from the grandparents (so fun!)

These cold winter days cooped up inside test my mothering creativity to the max. And my organizational skilz(of which I am working very hard on developing!) are getting a workout. But here are some fun things the girls have been doing, especially over winter break when the grandparents have been vacationing too (or as in this week, which finds my mom home from work with a bad cold).

Weekly Shopping Trip (loves me some grocery bargains)

Rite Aid and Walgreens: $15, but I have $10 in RR for WAGS next week. The special K was less than $0.30 a box after bogos and UP rewards. We are SO stocked for breakfast!

Freddies: $25. This was my last stop late at night but I scored a few freebies and good deals. I FINALLY found Toby's products and got some tofu dip with two free coupons I've had for almost a year. Also found a breathe right free coupon in the coupon Xchange. The Adam's PB was $2 each (not an amazing deal) but I found rebate sheets in front for buy 2 Adam's PB get a $10 gift card! I thought that would come in handy sometime for the hubby:), $0.49 FE salad kit, $1.50 for string cheese, $1.49 for Jimmy Dean Delight breakfast sammies (a treat), and cheap oranges, bananas, pickles round out the big trip.

Albies: $7. Most of this was from the Newspaper $2, eggs $1.99 and the Sprite $2 for $3. We have sickies here who requested sprite so it was an okay deal for me. The Fiber Plus, Wholly Guac, and Xtra detergent were free, bestlife spread was $0.50 even w/o a double.

I finally ran into some other serious couponers last night @ Albies. A bunch of cute young ladies (mommies?) were comparing notes and transactions and the bagger gave them a new sheet of doublers after each transaction! I knew I was in the right place:)

Spent $2 @ Wal-mart today on white beans and brown sugar so that brings my total for this week (and also the new month's total) to $49.

Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun!

Grandma and Daddy took the girls out for some sledding fun in the backyard last week and they had a blast! Grandma and Grandpa have a paved driveway and it was perfect for sledding fun:).



This girls got some serious speed going on and LOVED it. Takes after grandma Karen:)


The tragic end to Liv's sweet ride:

Menu Plan for January 3rd, 2011!

Happy New Year!

Three of us are sick right now (and I had some random dizziness/stomach bug last night for several hours) with ugly colds. So my ambitious plans to get my coupon bag organized, up my exercise quotient and start some simple pre-school activities with the girls may need to be a little flexible.

Here's what we will and have already been eating this week:

Breakfasts: oatmeal, toast, eggs, whole wheat buttermilk pancakes (have already made these with two variations--blueberry and chocolate chip...very good!), eggs in a window

Lunches/snacks: leftovers, sandwiches

Dinners:

Monday: Chicken with fruit salsa in the crockpot over rice

Tuesday: Spagetti, Peas, breadsticks

Wednesday: Cheesy Beef and Rice Casserole, green beans

Thursday: Turkey, stuffing, carrots

Friday: White Turkey Chili in the crockpot

Saturday: Pizza and breadsticks or Fried Rice and Salmon

Sunday: Leftovers, meal out or one of Saturday's meals

What's on your menu this week?