First Week!

So this is the first week that I've started working through my cookbooks! From now on, I'm going to try to post my weekly meal plan and grocery list on the weekend before. This week's will be a little retro active. I thought it would be okay the first time around!

I'm working on Best of the Best 500 Fast and Fabulous Five Start 5 Ingredient Recipes by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley. I thought a 5 ingredient recipe cookbook would be a great place to start - it won't be too overwhelming and the recipes won't be too advanced (the back of the book tells me so! - "Fewer ingredients means less work!")

Meal Plan for this Week (it didn't exactly go to plan because of some unexpected things, but that's okay! I may or may not continue to post my whole meal plan, I may just list the recipes for the week. I'll decide as I go along.)
Items with a color came from the cookbook (each color stands for a different section of the cookbook).

Beverages and Appetizers

Bread and Breakfast

Soups, chilies, and stews

Salads

Vegetables

Pasta, rice, etc.

Meats

Poultry

Seafood

Cakes

Cookies and candies

Pies and other desserts

Meal Plan

Monday

Breakfast-Power Drink

Snack-banana

Lunch-chicken ceasar salad

Snack- Apple

Dinner- Basil Cream Tomatoes p. 75

All together Light Bacon and Eggs

Tuesday

Breakfast-Power Drink

Snack-banana

Lunch-sandwich with chips

Snack- apple slices

Dinner- All together Light Bacon and Eggs, orange

Wednesday

Breakfast-All together Light Bacon and Eggs

Snack-apple slices

Lunch- salad with Creamy Mustard Dressing and sandwich with chips

Snack- Lovely lime luscious

Dinner- Autumn Soup p.61

Thursday

Breakfast- Cool Banana Shake p10

Snack- apples

Lunch- Autumn Soup p.61

Snack- banana

Dinner- taco flavored grilled cheese

Friday

Breakfast- Cool Banana Shake p10

Snack- apple slices

Lunch- chicken salad with mustard dressing or ranch

Snack- Lovely lime luscious

Dinner- honey baked chicken cubed

Good ole basic fried okra

Other-Creamy Sherbet Margaritas

Saturday

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks - leftovers

Dinner - Fried green tomatoes p99 

Fried Buttermilk Chicken p158

Shopping List (Keep in mind for this first list, Eric and I just moved and we were having to get a lot of staples that most folks already have on hand, like flour, sugar, etc. Also, this list includes all of the items for the meal plan, not just the ones for the recipes. I may not always do this, we'll see.)

Oranges

Mixed greens

5 Tomatoes

2 large green tomatoes

1 red onion

3 bananas

Lime juice

Lemon juice

2 (11oz) cans shoe peg corn, drained

1 (16oz) can solid-pack pumpkin

4 (14oz) cans chicken broth

1 can swettened condensed milk

Frozen raw chicken strips

Frozen cooked chicken

1 pound frozen okra

Lime sherbet

Vanilla ice cream

1 8oz carton cool whip

Buttermilk

OJ

1 quart Half n half

1 6oz strawberry yogurt

Dozen eggs

lunch meat

Slices of cheddar

American cheese

2 packages whoppers/milk duds

3 oz vanilla instant pudding mix

9in graham cracker crust

Marshmellow crème

Powdered sugar

Sugar

Self rising flour

Cornmeal

Celery salt or Mrs. Dash table blend

Taco seasoning mix

Apple cider vinegar

Worcestershire

Peanuts

Honey

Baked lays

Bread

Croutons

Protein powder

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