rainberryblue :: July

Late last week I picked up a ton of fresh fruit and veggies so this week’s meals will be a fridge and pantry challenge. There should be no need for me to go to the grocery store this week except possibly for milk towards the end of this week if we run out.

Monday: whatever’s easy - B fell asleep as I was beginning supper and is still sleeping so that meal has been moved to Tuesday
Tuesday: ground turkey and chicken pot pie with cream soup instead of gravy
Wednesday: turkey chili
Thursday: spaghetti with marinara sauce and garlic bread from scratch
Friday: Orange-Glazed Chicken Thighs made with fresh-squeezed orange juice
Saturday: slow cooker beef roast and sweet potatoes
Sunday: Ginger-Glazed Mahi Mahi with Lemon-Herb Quinoa

I was just beginning to get supper ready tonight and B fell asleep on the couch. He’s just woken up a little over two hours later. Getting him to bed tonight (bedtime is between 6:30 and 7) is going to be a treat even with a pushed-back time. I decided to continue the food prep and now supper is waiting in the fridge for tomorrow. I’ve simply bumped Monday’s meal to Tuesday. All I have to do tomorrow is add the wet ingredients to the dry for the dough, mix it up, roll it out, and bake it.

After supper was prepared, I took pity on the three brown bananas that were on my counter and mixed up a batch of apple-banana muffins, which I’ve just pulled out of the oven. It smells good in here! The batch makes 24 muffins and at the rate B eats them (double-fisted), I’m going to have to freeze some in 4-muffin portions or there won’t be any left by tomorrow afternoon.

If you’re interested in seeing other meal plans, head over to I’m an Organizing Junkie to see what 300 other people are going to be eating this week.