December's Menu Plan

Menu planning is the first step in maintaining a routine for eating at home around the table.

I have tried MANY ways to menu plan and the one that works the best for our family is make a plan for the month. A month is twenty means for us. Every week we have a meal of leftovers and a pizza night.

I then just come up with twenty meals. I do not assign days to a meal. I just have the menu plan and ingredients ready. That way if I go to my menu plan and see fried chicken and I'm not hungry for that, I can just skip it. I also do not assign side dishes or vegetables. I just have the main dish and then add sides as we want. One of the many benefits of putting up vegetable in the summer. The are right at your finger tips as you want them. :)

Here are our twenty meals for December -

1. Cheesy Chicken Lasagna
2. Salmon Patties
3. Meatloaf
4. Oven Fried Chicken
5. Chile Colorado Burritos
6. Ham and Cheese Sliders
7. Beef with Broccoli
8. Mexican Chicken Casserole
9. Crockpot Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti
10. Sweet and Sour Meatball
11. Baked Ziti
12. Ground beef, Black bean and Cheese Taquitos
13. Ground Beef Stroganoff
14. Classic Patty Melts
15. Chicken Pot Pie
16. Chicken and Dumplings
17. Tacos
18. Soup and Sandwich
19. Bourbon Chix
20. Appetizer night for New Years! :)