So I’m up in the middle of the night and of course the first thing I think of is how needed a new menu is because we seem to be in a rut.

 Looking in the freezer I see we have:

Fish
Chicken
Ground Beef
Sliced Ham
Beef Roast
Pork Chops
Boudain
Smoked sausage
Andouille

I also know that we have dried beans consisting of:

Northern
Black eyed Peas
Large Lima’s
Lentils
Kidney
Anasazi
Pinto

Basic veg’s of

Onions
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Green onions
Carrots
Celery
Frozen Okra
Frozen Shoe peg Corn
Tomatoes, canned, jarred and fresh

A ton of olives, cream cheese, eggs, milk, cream, sour cream, 7 different blocks of cheeses, flour, cornmeal and related sundries. Plus deli ham, turkey, chicken and about 40 cans of vegetables shoved way back in the pantry.

So why do the kids insist on tacos twice a week? And where does all this food go if they are just eating tacos?

We will eat better this coming month. I have family coming to stay soon and it’s getting warmer, which means the kids are more active. Active in this house means they eat about double their body weight a day I think. Out came the laminating machine and word perfect. I’ve spent the better part of my time sitting here going through recipes. I think I have next weeks menu all done. I’ll just have to sit down with the kids and we’ll add other things for the next few weeks menus this weekend.

Monday

Breakfast

Banana Granola Pancakes with fruit jellies and syrup

Lunch

Kraut and sausage
Onion rolls
Peaches

Supper

Court bouillon
Long bread

Tuesday

Breakfast

Poached eggs on whole wheat toast
Bacon

Lunch

Chef’s Salad pita’s
Sweet Potato baked fries
Yogurt with dried apricots

Supper

Lemon pepper baked chicken
Roasted potatoes and carrots
Steamed broccoli

Wednesday

Breakfast

Pain Perdu with pear preserves, muscadine jelly and syrup

Lunch

Deli meat tortilla roll ups
boiled eggs
Blueberry yogurt parfait

Supper

BBQ pork chops
Potato salad
Pinto beans
Tri veg of squash, broccoli and onions

Thursday

Breakfast

Nutella pancake wraps with apple butter, pears and strawberry jam

Lunch

Pasta salad with shrimp, tomatoes and hearts of palm

Supper

Gumbo with ham, chicken and shrimp
Rice
Long bread

Friday

Breakfast

Oatmeal with raisins and pecans or granola

Lunch

Meatball subs
Salad
Orange muffins

Supper

Glazed baked ham
Cauliflower mash
Twice baked potatoes
Succotash with green lima’s, corn, okra and tomatoes

Saturday

Breakfast

Daddy makes

Lunch

Pizza

Supper

Chicken stirfry

Sunday

Breakfast

Daddy makes

Lunch

Roast turkey with gravy open faced sandwich
Zapp’s chips
Carrot sticks with ranch dressing

Supper

Alligator boudain sauce piquante
Long bread

I’m sure I’ll hear some grumbling from the teens but I’ll just not listen as I enjoy not hearing “I’m hungry” for the 100th time in 5 hours.

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