Meal Plan ~ February 2013 week 4

What a yummy week we have had! I have enjoyed my time in the kitchen this week. I have spent some time playing with my sourdough, mostly for breakfast, and served up a beautiful crepe recipe (I want to try it a few more times before posting it). I even had a chance to host a vegetarian guest last week and came up with a new enchilada recipe. I usually make my enchilada sauce and all of my beans in bone broth, so I had a good time experimenting with vegetable stock.

I am very content with my last week of freezer cooking, I have a total of 53 dinner entrees in my freezer in 25 different varieties. Not bad for one weekend cooking and three weeks of double/triple batches. I also have several gallons of soup in the freezer, some lunches, and a few breakfasts. My freezer is currently maxed out but well organized. I had originally wanted to set aside some more baked goods, but I am out of room. Instead this coming week I am looking at making some extra snack type foods. Fortunately the ingredients for these things will not be wasted if I happen to go into labor before I finish them (dried fruit, nuts, coconut, chocolate, etc).

February 22 – February 28, 2013

	Fri 22	Sat 23	Sun 24	Mon 25	Tues 26	Wed 27	Thur 28
Breakfast	Yogurt and Cinnamon Sourdough Muffins	Biscuits  & Gravy	Gyros Oven Omelet	Sweet Potato Muffins Eggs	Fried Potatoes and Eggs with leftover gravy	Banana Muffins Egg Nog Smoothie	Scrambled eggs and avocado
Lunch	Gyros Salad	Salmon and Cheddar Salad	Leftovers	Grilled ham & cheese	Leftover tacos (picnic)	Mahi Mahi w/ Ginger Butter Sauce	Lamb heart tar tare Crackers, salad
Snack/ Treat	Smoothies	Cookies (Large batch to freeze)	Sourdough Cheese Crackers	Granola Bars (x2)	Hummus (large batch)	"Lara" style bars	Crispy Chick Peas
Dinner	Bacon, Eggs and Potatoes	Squirrel Stew	Steaks Sweet Potatoes Sautéed spinach	Turkish Lamb & Veggie Stew	Beef Tongue Tacos guacamole	Church Bring Dessert	Roast Chicken Pickled green beans gravy
Notes:	Start Sourdough biscuits Cure Bacon Defrost meat	Soak nuts Dehydrate kiwi	Dehydrate nuts Package cookie dough & kiwi	Defrost tongue & sauce Make Kraut Soak chick peas	Defrost chicken 2 batches choc. syrup Homemade Mix Day	Roast chick peas Make large batch granola cereal	Refill all containers Make extra cleaning products Deep Clean!

I am happy to have an easy week in the kitchen. At 37 weeks I am ready to focus on some things that need to be done outside of the kitchen (seedlings, organizing, cleaning, and other baby prep). I am also feeling ready for baby! Of course my previous boys were both over 40 weeks so it is unlikely that I will be heading into labor this week, but it is nice to be prepared. I hope everyone has a delicious week!

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Please note that I use whole real foods in my cooking as much as possible. I may have linked up a recipe that calls for low fat sour cream, but rest assured I will be using whole fat sour cream, possibly made in my own kitchen (depends on cream availability at the farm). I use these recipes as a starting point and do my best to create something that works for my family