Menu Plan for Week of Feb 22, 2009
This week, I anticipate being very busy so I’ll be using the crockpot for several meals. Right now, I have a crockpot cooking away for split pea soup that I make with celery, carrots, and a ham hock and use a hand blender to make it creamy before serving. I’m also planning on making crockpot shredded chicken later in the week that I’ll use for 3 meals: once for chicken soft tacos, then two meals of shredded chicken chili. The chicken chili and salmon potato cakes use a number of tips that I outlined last week on simplifying cooking. The menu should be gluten free.
Breakfast: Healthy oatmeal bars, kefir smoothies, fruit
Lunches: Leftovers, apples
Dinners:
Sunday: Crockpot split pea soup w/ spinach, salad (didn’t have last week)
Monday: Leftover soup, brown rice, salad, fruit salad
Tuesday: Crockpot shredded chicken: Chicken soft tacos, refried beans, Mexican zucchini, leftover fruit salad
Wednesday: Chicken Chili (using chicken from day before), sweet potatoes, apple ginger coleslaw
Thursday: out
Friday: Salmon and potato cakes, broccoli, chipotle mashed sweet potatoes
Saturday: Leftover chili, greens, fruit
see more menu ideas at Org Junkie and gluten-free ideas at Asparagus Thin
Your menu looks good. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Lynn,
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I would love to know how you make the chicken chili! Is it in a crockpot as well?
Hi Kristen, yes, I tend to make chicken chili in the crockpot. What I do is to put all of the ingredients in the crockpot: 2 cans of rinsed white beans, 1 14 oz. can of diced tomatoes, a small can of chilis, chopped onion, garlic and peppers, plus all of the spices into the crockpot and stir. I might add about a cup of chicken stock if it seems too dry. Then I put the raw chicken breast on top and cook for about 8 hours on low.
For these meals, I will remove the cooked chicken with about 30 minutes to go and shred all of it with 2 forks and set aside half for chicken tacos. I then stir in the remaining half of the shredded chicken into the chili. I might reverse the order of the meals that I wrote above and instead have the chili on day one and the remaining shredded chicken as tacos on day 2.