Make My Menu Monday~ 4/30/18

Welcome to Make My Menu Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Yesterday a friend and I meal prepped for 3 of the meals for this week. It took about 3 hours and it will be such a time-saver for this upcoming week!! Even cooking up taco meat or chopping up vegetables can make a big difference in how your evenings go!!

My Weekly Menu:

Monday:

Cool Ranch Tacos (I make a few edits to her recipe)

These are super, super easy & here is what you need~

Crockpot

Chicken Thighs

3 Tablespoons of Olive Oil

2 Tablespoons of Red Wine Vinegar

1 Taco seasoning packet (or click here for a homemade version)

1 Ranch seasoning packet (or use a homemade version-1T dried parsley, 1tsp garlic powder, 1tsp onion powder, 1tsp dried onion flakes, 3/4tsp dill, 1/2tsp pepper, and 1/2 tsp salt)

*Throw everything in the crockpot, Cook on low all day, at least 8 hours

Holy Cow- it doesn’t get much easier than that!!

Tuesday:

Almost 5 Ingredient Spaghetti Pie by Paleomg- click here for the full recipe & because Julie is hilarious and you should read her blog 🙂

Ingredients:

• 1 spaghetti squash
• 1 lb itallian sausage
• diced yellow onion
• 1 cup pizza sauce
• 1 tsp dried basil
• salt & pepper
• 3 whisked eggs
• add-ins~ mushrooms & mini pepperonis

Directions:

Prepare the spaghetti squash- click here for the easiest way to do this!!

1. In an 8×8 baking dish add the spaghetti squash “noodles”
2. In a large skillet cook onion until translucent then add sausage & cook until done.
3. Add pizza sauce, spices & add ins
4. Put sauce mix into the pan with the spaghetti squash
5. Add the whisked eggs & mix until you can no longer see the eggs
6. Bake in a 400 degree oven for an hour or until it is not “jiggly”

This recipe makes the BEST leftovers.

Wednesday:

Steak Rice Bowls

Thursday:

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:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Dice up your 2 pieces of baconand throw in a frying pan to cook up for about 5-7 minutes.
3. 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.
4. Now grab 2 bread loaf pans and add an equal amount to both. Top the meat off with bacon.
5. Cook for 45 minutes.

BBQ Sauce Directions:

by juli

Friday:

Leftovers

Saturday:

Tacos & Guacamole!!

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Sunday:

Hamburgers with broccoil & sweet potatoes

Making sweet potatoes in the crockpot in 3 easy steps:

1. Wash sweet potatoes
2. Wrap them in foil
3. Place in crockpot & cook on low 6-7 hours

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Thanks for stopping by & Happy Meal Planning!

Faith ♥