Well, hello friends! How was your weekend? Welcome to Make My Meal Monday! Meal planning is one of the things that makes the week go smoothly. There is something about having all the meals planned for the week that makes everything else fall into place much easier and simpler. Also it usually allows for leftovers, which then makes for easy lunch options. When possible, doing some meal prepping makes the whole thing go even better! Not everyone has the time to make all of the dinners for the week ahead but even the smallest bit of meal prepping can help:
- Slicing veggies for an upcoming recipe
- Cooking up taco meat
- Doubling a recipe & freezing the extra one for another time
Monday:
Pulled pork rice bowls
Use left over meat from pulled pork on last week’s Saturday recipe (click here to go to that post)
Whole Food Frozen Rice
Tuesday:
Taco Salad
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Avocado Dressing from Paleogrubs.com-
- 1/2 avocado, pit removed
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tsp fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 tbsp water
- Pinch of salt
Wednesday:
Spaghetti pie left overs
This Spaghetti pie recipe from Paleomg makes the best leftovers.
Thursday:
Hamburgers with broccoil & sweet potatoes
Making sweet potatoes in the crockpot in 3 easy steps:
- Wash sweet potatoes
- Wrap them in foil
- Place in crockpot & cook on low 6-7 hours
Friday:
Leftovers
Saturday:
Bacon Meatloaf from PaleOMG- click here for full recipe
Ingredients
For the Meatloaf
- 2-2.5 lb grass fed ground beef
- 1 cup almond meal/flour
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 yellow onion, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 tablespoons garlic powder
- 3 tablespoons onion powder
- 11 sliced uncured bacon, 2 sliced cooked and diced
For the BBQ Sauce
- 1 (6oz) can tomato paste
- 1 onion, minced
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/3 cup water or broth
- 2 tablespoons apple butter (optional)
- 1 tablespoon ground mustard (no sugar added)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon allspice
- pinch or two of ground cloves
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- splash of hot sauce, to taste
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Dice up your 2 pieces of baconand throw in a frying pan to cook up for about 5-7 minutes.
- While the bacon is cooking, mix together all other ingredients (except for your 9 slices of bacon) in a large bowl. Once your 2 pieces of bacon are done cooking, add them to the bowl and fully incorporate into the mix.
- Now grab 2 bread loaf pans and add an equal amount to both. Top the meat off with bacon.
- Cook for 45 minutes.
BBQ Sauce Directions:
- In a large frying pan, add some olive oil (or other fat) and brown the onion–about 5 minutes.
- Add the garlic and stir together to cook a bit more.
- Add all other ingredients and mix together, then let simmer for 10-15 minutes (or longer if you have time-I usually want to eat as quick as possible).
- Now plop that sauce on top of your meatloaf and store the rest in a cute Tupperware container in the fridge.
Sunday:
Shrimp, Sausage & Grits
- 1 lb shrimp (I personally like getting the pre cooked, deveined you can find behind the meat counter)
- 1 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
- 1 package of Smoked sausage precooked then cut into thick slices (I use the one that is the big giant link that is shaped like a big U)
- 2 cloves of garlic minced
- 1/4 cup of water
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 T butter
- Heat skillet with butter. Saute garlic for a few minutes. Add shrimp and Old Bay seasoning. Shrimp cook FAST & if you have the precooked ones then you are really just warming them quickly. Remove from the pan but keep them warm.
- Add more butter to pan, then add the cut up sausage. Just lightly brown it. Then add back in your shrimp that you have been keeping warm. After cooking that all together for about 1 minute, add the 1/4 cup of water and cook for 30 seconds. Make sure you scrap the pan to loosen the little brown bits.
Cheese grits
- 3 cups water
- 1 cup uncooked quick cook grits
- 1 cup of milk
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- dash of hot sauce
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- Bring water to a boil
- Stir in grits- cover & simmer for about 5 minutes
- Stir in the milk then remove from heat
- Add the rest of the ingredients
Add some cheese grits to your plate, then put the shrimp and sausage mixture over the grits- enjoy!!!
Tools to make menu planning easier:
Don’t forget to stop by Organizing Junkie’s blog for even MORE meal ideas!! Thanks so much for stopping by & Happy Meal planning!
Faith ♥
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