Monday Menu Plan

Theoretically, menu planning is supposed to save time, energy, and money. This assumes of course, that one actually sticks to the plan.
One night last week we were supposed to be having chicken with spaghetti. I knew this all day long, but every time I went to get the chicken out of the freezer, I got distracted. So come dinner time, we had no chicken.
No problem, I thought, we'll just have the spaghetti and add another side. Wouldn't hurt to go vegetarian for one night right? So then I looked in the fridge for the cream to make spaghetti sauce and... we were out.

At this point I was mildly frustrated, and  decided to quickly whip up a skillet of my favorite back-up meal - kielbasa-potato hash. Only to look into the freezer and see.... everything but kielbasa.
I consulted with Gabriel and he decided that we should go get some kielbasa from the deep freeze I share with mom up at her house.
When we got there mom was having a busy evening and saying something about finding something to make for supper, so we ended up making the hash and having supper with the whole family.
So, it all ended up working out well. Still, I hope to be a little more organized this week.

Here's the plan:

Lunches:
Burritos
pulled beef sandwiches,
Shepherd's pie
Chicken ceasar salad
leftovers x2

Dinners:
roast beef with potatoes and carrots
Spaghetti with cream sauce
Meat balls and rice
Chicken and dumplings
pork and beans
Chicken fried steak

Freezer cooking: Shepherd's Pie

I decided not to bother listing the side dishes this time around since we're always changing them up.

Now I just need to write out a daily to do list so I don't forget to thaw out the next days meat :p