Meal Planning.... and a very foggy brain

I have never really had to meal plan before. After years of watching my grandmother cook and shop, and helping, I was comfortable to just walk into the grocery store, remember what we need and plan on the go.

Well between being pregnant, wanting to eat healthy and well rounded, and just having a SUPER foggy brain lately, I have meal planned.

I'm not going to lie I was a little overwhelmed by it at first. I looked up a bunch of meal plans. They were super detailed, and a bunch of new recipes (which can be fun, but can also be scary) and just to start I felt like I had to re-stock my whole pantry... So I scratched the "follow a meal plan" and made my own.

I will probably get more detailed in time, but for the first go around, it goes something like this...

Week 1: Dinners (chicken themed)
Mon: Rotisserie chicken, veggie's, fruit salad (1 large Rotisserie chicken could last Kyle and I 3 meals)
Tues: use the left over Rotisserie chicken for a green chicken salad. (I like to add walnuts and apples or pears) with some garlic toast.
Wed: Use the Rotisserie chicken for some chicken tacos.
Thurs: Breakfast for dinner: Use the sauteed  veggies for omelets. Serve with Fruit
Friday: Rice and Veggie soup. I was able to use the left over veggies from the week to make a yummy soup and have almost no left overs!
Sat:  I must have bought a really large chicken because we still have a bit left. So I made grilled Chicken/Tomato/Pesto/Mozzarella sandwiches. YUMMY!!!
Sun: Sunday is usually a bit of a free for all. Kind of hard to plan. We might go to a friends house after church, or have people over... Sunday night is a snack night.

Week 2: Dinners (beef chemed)
Mon: Meatball subs
Tuesday: I use any of the left over mealballs add them to a pasta sauce and make meat sauce pasta with veggies.
Wed: Tostadas..
Thur: Wet beef bean and cheese burritos.
Fri: Good old fashioned Hamburgers
Sat: left overs

The theme makes it easy for me to just buy a couple of ingredients and make them last, and I end up buying a lot of good produce because you can cook up veggies in so many ways. I also like being able to use up everything that I buy. We end up with very few ingredients. 

We'll see how I do with time and a little practice.. I'm going to try and post the recipes of Kyle's favorites.

Side note on the whole foggy brain thing.. WOW I had no idea how clueless I could be. Kyle will ask me questions and I have the answer in my head, but the words are just so hard to get out... I hear this is normal.. but I still feel crazy. :) It has been very entertaining for Kyle.