Trying New Things

I’ve started getting creative for dinners, I’m kind of tired of the same ole things every week. And a friend of mine, Jane, loves menu planning, so I’ve started doing that. I went on Pinterest and found a few recipes that I’d like to try. Plus we got a new crock pot with the Christmas money my grandparents in VA gave us to Kohl's (and we earned Kohl’s cash to buy a new deep fryer, so win win!) I’d been using, and will continue to use, the crock pot the LT’s grandmother gave us. But this one is bigger, and I can make more in it, and then we have lunch the next few days! So here is what we’ve had for dinner this week, and will have the rest of the week (because well it’s Thursday after all…)

Monday: Honestly, I cannot remember what we had, LOL

Tuesday: Crockpot Beef Stew from laaloosh.com (I found it on pinterest)
It was really good, I left out the black beans, because I only bought one can and that was for another recipe. I think next time I’ll use different meat, or more. And I’ll put a smaller can of green peas (because I hate them, and the LT loves them!) I had gotten a bag of frozen soup veggies a few weeks ago, and added those as well, it was carrots, potatoes, onions and celery.

Wednesday: We cheated, and had fast food, I know, I know, horrible…but I didn’t feel like cooking nor did I have time to since I unexpectedly had to baby sit.

Thursday: Clean Eating Slow Cooker Southwestern 2 Bean Chicken from The Gracious Pantry (another Pinterest find)
I don’t think my version is very “clean eating” as I’m not using organic ingredients. But it’s chicken, tomatoes and salsa, Kidney & Black beans and corn. That’s it, in the crock pot for a few hours…it took all of 3 minutes to throw together, maybe 5…

Friday: Poppy seed Chicken, we use to eat it at my dads house, and I found a recipe on, you guessed it, Pinterest. The recipe can be found at Cupcake Diaries, and she calls it Ritz Cracker Chicken.

This weekend I’m not sure what we’ll make, since we cheated Wednesday I have stuff to make Chili, so I might make it. I also have chicken and ground beef I can use. And then I’ll plan the next weeks menu. It seems to help to plan out what we’re going to eat. And I think I might just document it at the beginning of the week instead of the end of the week. Makes more sense that way anyways!