Menu Plan Monday - March 23rd

It's the hubby's birthday on wednesday and for dinner that night he chose his Mom's meatloaf recipe and a version of the Olive Garden's lemon cream cake for dessert - I hope it turns out somewhat like the original as he loves that cake, and I've never tried to make it before!

Monday: Carolina pot roast with ginger snap gravy

Tuesday: Tangerine bbq chicken with curry couscous

Wednesday: DH's birthday - Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green bean bundles, with lemon cream cake for dessert

Thursday: Roast pork tenderloin with orange marmalade mustard sauce, roast asparagus and potatoes

Friday: Grilled pineapple chicken with coconut jasmine rice

See other menu plans over at Organizing Junkie

Orange Chicken

I found this recipe on another blog a few months ago (I don't remember which one though, sorry) and this weekend I just so happened to have all the ingredinats for it, so we decided to try it. I made a slight mistake by putting the full teaspoon of red pepper flakes into it, as it turned out out a little too spicy!


Ingredients:
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 onion
1 green bell pepper
1 15 oz can of mandarin oranges
4 tbsp olive oil
Flour for coating chicken
1 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 cup orange juice
1 tsp red pepper flakes (optional)

Cut chicken into 1 inch pieces and lightly coat with flour. Heat oil and add chicken, cook until lightly browned and crispy.

Add chopped onion and green pepper to chicken, cook for a few minutes, add mandarin oranges, the garlic powder, soy sauce, red pepper flakes and orange juice. Reduce heat to medium low, cover and let simmer for 35-40 minutes until the sauce has thickened.

Grocery Deals - March 15th

I did quite well this week at Kroger, and I even managed to get a number of expensive items - a $15.99 automatic shower cleaner as ours quit working, trash bags which were almost $8, and a number of other things DH added into the trolley.


Shelf price : $206.05
OOP : $59.93
Saved : $146.12
Pct : 71%







Pepsi 6 bottle pack
A&W root beer 2 ltr
Dr. Pepper 2 ltr
Scrubbing bubbles automatic shower cleaner
2 Cottonelle 4 pack
2 Stouffers chicken a la king frozen meals
Stouffers frozen spaghetti
Snuggle fabric softener
Cattlemans bbq sauce
5 Ken's thousand island dressings
Lysol disinfecting spray
Birds eye frozen green beans
Birds eye frozen sugar snap peas
Frozen vegetable medley
2 Toaster strudels
Edy's samoas ice cream
Joy of cooking frozen carbonara
2 Quaker instant oatmeal
Owens hot sausage
Air freshner glass container and scented beads
La choy sweet and sour sauce
McCormick pepper grinder
McCormick salt grinder
Nail saver kitchen sponge
4 ziploc zip n steam bags
3 Shedd's spread with calcium
3 Shedd's spread country crock
Ore-Ida potatoes O'Brian
Chex snack mix
Pepperidge farm wheat crackers
4 Mahatma yellow rices
Laughing cow cheese wedges
Sargento provolone cheese slices
Sargento salad finishers
Planters nut bars
Fiber one bars
3 Bertolli sauce pouches
Betty crocker potatoes
Noodles
Hefty trash bags
3 Frank's hot sauce
Borden organic 2% milk
2 Quaker quakes
Pepperidge farm garlic bread
Pepperidge farm Texas toast
1 Cucumber
3 Green bell peppers
4 Sweet yellow onions
1 Lettuce
6 Sweet potatoes

Menu Plan Monday - March 16th

Monday: BLT's with avocado and butternut squash soup

Tuesday: Indian spiced chicken with crash hot potatoes and sugar snap peas

Wednesday: Crockpot bbq pork ribs, mashed potatoes and corn

Thursday: Chicken fettucine alfredo and salad

Friday: Sticky coconut chicken with mango coconut jasmine rice

This weeks menu plan monday is being hosted by Erin at $5 dinners

Apple-Cheddar Turkey Burgers

I found the recipe for these burgers in the current issue of the Rachael Ray magazine. They were supposed to be made with english muffins but I forgot to get those at the store, so we just used rolls instead. The recipe also calls for mixing mustard into the cranberry sauce, and I tried it, but I much preferred the plain cranberry sauce on my burger.

Apple-Cheddar Turkey Burgers
Serves 4

2 pounds ground turkey
4 scallions finely chopped
1/3 cup flat leaf parsley chopped
1 tablespoon grill seasoning
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 apple cut into 12 slices
8 slices extra-sharp cheddar cheese
1/4 cup whole berry cranberry sauce
2 tablespoons grainy mustard
4 english muffins, split and toasted
8 leaves of lettuce

In a bowl, combine the turkey, scallions, parsley, grill seasoning and poultry seasoning. Form into 4 patties.

In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium high heat. Add the patties and cook for 6 minutes on each side. Top each with 3 apple slices and 2 cheese slices, tent with foil and cook until the cheese melts.

In a small bowl, mix together the cranberry sauce and mustard, slather on the tops of the muffins. pile 2 lettuce leaves on each muffin bottom, top with patties and the tops of the muffins.

Grocery Deals - March 8th

Kroger has buy one get one free chicken this week, so we stocked up and got 6 packages.

I ended up not using that many coupons this week, and so my totals were definitely helped by all the b1g1 frees!


Shelf price : $135.98
OOP : $65.72
Saved : $70.26
Pct : 52%







2 packages of chicken breasts
2 packages of chicken thighs
2 packages of chicken drumsticks
Taquitos
Ice cream sandwiches
Stouffers flatbread
2 quaker oatmeal boxes
Light bulb
3 fuze drinks
Sea salt grinder
Cottonelle
4 saffron rice packets
Jasmine rice
Sea bonds
Jimmy Dean sausages
2 rubber maid containers
2 rubber maid 4 pack mini containers
Yogurt
2 Sara Lee breads
Deli roast potatoes
3 hamburger helpers
Glucerna cereal
Purina one dog food can
Sharp cheddar cheese block
1% milk
Grapes ($0.77lb)
4 green bell peppers ($0.55 each)
1 cucumber
2 red chilis
Mushrooms
Yogurt covered pretzels
Root beer
Organic large brown eggs
Curry paste
Coconut lip balm

See other grocery deals at The Grocery Cart Challenge

Menu Plan Monday - March 9th

Breakfast options:

Pumpkin oatmeal with wheat berries, shredded coconut and honey
Vanilla chobani yogurt with almond cherry granola
Weetabix with banana
English muffin with scrambled egg beaters
Oatmeal with wheat berries, banana and honey

Lunch options:

Butternut squash soup
Spinach salad with tuna
Quinoa salad
Spinach wrap with tuna and veggies


Dinners:

Monday: Apple-cheddar turkey burgers with cranberry sauce and broccoli cooked in coconut oil

Tuesday: Beef stroganoff, with egg noodles for DH and courgettes cooked in coconut oil for me

Wednesday: Roti chicken and jasmine rice

Thursday: Beef rigatoni and salad

Friday: Pepsi pot roast

See other menu plans over at Organizing Junkie