![]() Lunches are VERY low key in our house! I usually cycle through the same foods and don’t put much extra thought or effort into lunches as we have a quick lunch break during our homeschool days. Step #5- Plan out your Lunches and cross the items off the list once you have incorporated that ingredient into your menu! Again, our lunches are quite flexible because I might plan something, but realize we have a lot of left-overs from the night before, etc.! My real life examples from this week: S =Oatmeal and fruit, M = Peach Breakfast Cake (using the pre-made homemade muffin mix), T= Breakfast Casserole, W = Banana Breakfast Cake (using the pre-made homemade muffin mix again), TH= Oatmeal and Fruit, F = Fried Eggs and Toast (fried in coconut oil for health!), S = Grits Casserole I would recommend paying close attention to building breakfast casseroles (using many different items for the crust, and for the actually base), the homemade pre-made muffin mix that allows you to make any muffins or breakfast cake and the article on building fruit and veggie smoothies that taste good every time! Many of the recipes will allow you to create concoctions with items you have on hand. You can plan out your breakfasts based on foods on your list, you can also get ideas from our Building Better Breakfasts page. Step #4- Plan out your Breakfasts (use our Breakfast Ideas HERE) and cross the items off the list once you have incorporated that ingredient into your menu! Now it is time to plan! Please note, you can use any foods in your house to plan, just make sure to incorporate the foods on your list as the “need to use” foods too, but your menu is NOT exclusive to these items □ Just thought I would make that clear! In the pasta sauce, I mix cottage cheese into it and it turned out so well and has become a favorite! It changes slightly every time I make it depending on what foods I need to use up, but every time it is really, really good! This is just one example, but to help you in making up recipes to use all of your foods, you need to have the other two articles we wrote near at hand to help with that! I can make this with any pasta, any pasta sauce, it can be vegetarian or include meat. So I decided to make what I now call “lasagna casserole!” We usually eat it as a side, but it was on sale that week and we had a lot of it and being a side for most meals became quite boring. One recipe that I created was because one week we had a lot of cottage cheese. ![]() ![]() Remember the articles that we shared last week to create a no-food-waste menu? If you are like me, this is also going to be a lot of fun to even create new recipes. Once you have identified the foods you need to use up, then it is time to create your “no food waste” menu! My real life example this week: Mushrooms, Saute Express, peppers, rib steak, roast Meats, cheeses, or other foods that you need to eat and use up soon before they expire or that you have in abundance. Step #3 – Finally, do the same in your freezer. ![]() My real life example this week: Loaf of bread, BBQ Sauce, garlic bread, chicken broth, Dijon mustard, veggie chips, wheat tortillas, quinoa What do you have in abundance, or that will be expiring the soonest or that needs to be used for whatever reasons. Step #2 – Now do the same thing for your pantry foods. My real life example this week: Broccoli stems, grapes, chives, mangoes, Mexican cheese, hot peppers, fresh vegetable medley, carrots, 5 Fage yogurt, Cauliflower, sour cream, brussel sprouts, lettuce, pears, peaches, ginger sesame dressing, avocados, tomatoes, veggie dipĪs a note, almost always do pretty much all fresh produce go on the list so I can ensure I am using it all and so this is most often the longest list! Step #1- Go to your fridge and write down the foods you need to use this week – the ones that will be expiring soon, the fresh foods that have a shorter life (like fruits, veggies, salads, sour creams, etc. It is a pretty straight forward menu planner, but I will walk you through how to use it!
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