Week #51 $50 Weekly Menu Plan

Week #51 Grocery Notes: The holidays have officially arrived! We’ve worked diligently to avoid the stores the last few weeks and I made it a point to only need basic items this week. A quick trip to Aldi’s and we scored great deals on lettuce, potatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, cream cheese, milk, crescent rolls (.25 a tube!), apples and walnuts. Total spent $19.76 – well within our budget!

Monday 19th:

• Breakfast: Oatmeal or Cereal
• Lunch: Leftover Chicken Pot Pie, Cranberry sauce from Sunday’s Dinner
• Dinner:Tacos

Tuesday 20th:

• Breakfast: Fresh Grapefruit, toast
• Lunch: Taco Wraps from leftover taco meat
• Dinner:Marinated Saucy Chicken(grilled), Au Gratin Potatoes, pickled beets, homemade applesauce

Wednesday 21st

• Breakfast:Cinnamon Apple Cherry Cheese Ball & Apple Slices, Raisin Toast
• Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup
• Dinner:Meatloaf, Baked Potato, salad

Thursday 22nd: Blessed Yule!

• Breakfast:Apple Walnut Butterhorns
• Midday Meal:Baked Ham with pineapple & spiced brown sugar glaze, steamed green beans, mashed potatoes, yeast rolls, apple pie

Friday 23rd:

• Breakfast:Pumpkin Cranberry Bread
• Lunch: Meatloaf sandwiches
• Dinner:Ham & Broccoli Mac-n-Cheese

Saturday 24th:

• Breakfast:Dunkin Donuts Honey glazed (copycat)
• Lunch: Leftover Ham/Mac & Cheese
• Dinner:Split Pea Soup with Ham (one of hubby’s favorites), Flaky Biscuits

Sunday 25th: Merry Christmas!

• Breakfast: Land o’ Nod Cinnamon Rolls
• Midday Meal: Dinner with Friends/Family- Fried Turkey, Riced Potatoes, Salad, various potluck dishes. yeast rolls

Various Snacks:

• Fresh Fruit- Grapefruit, Oranges, apples
• Granola bars
• Popcorn
• Apple cheese ball & apple slices
• Walnut Date Balls

Drinks included: * Iced Tea (Sweet Tea)
* Coffee
* Lemonade
* Copycat Gatorade
* CopyCat Arizona Green Tea
FYI:

School’s out for winter vacation and the sports schedules have slowed slightly for a couple weeks. Throughout the week you’ll notice that several times we have “midday meals”, these are usually larger meals that are eaten around 2 in the afternoon. A late lunch/early dinner – as such there is much snacking of various dishes that family and friends have a tendency to arrive with. This time of year people are coming and going out of the house so much that meal plans have a tendency to go right out the window!

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