Midweek meal planning 3/10/16

Welcome back to Midweek Meal Planning for the week of 3/10/16! It’s more traditional to meal plan on the weekend, but since our Chicago grocery deals mostly flip on Wednesdays and since midweek is when many of us start to run out of steam, we buck the trend here. In Midweek Meal Planning, we plan dinners for the rest of the week while also looking back to see how we’ve done so far.

Here’s our week

We’re all going different directions this week, how about you?

• Sunday: Grilled salmon with potato & cauliflower packets, fruit. This is our Sunday night go-to lately.
• Monday: I was going to make chicken, but pulled it out of the fridge and it was definitely off (eww). So this became an impromptu scrounge things out of the fridge night, including leftover salmon & more.
• Tuesday: Slow Cooker Buffalo-Lime Chicken with Gorgonzola Guacamole. This was an experiment — a yummy one, so I’ll be sharing the recipe with you soon.
• Wednesday: I went out to lunch with a friend & brought home leftover pizza for the kids’ dinner (+ spinach salad & fruit), while working-late MashupDad had rotisserie chicken and I had leftover buffalo-lime chicken.
• Thursday: MashupDad has a work dinner, and the kids and I are having (decidedly not low carb) Slow Cooker Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Chili (using up the rest of the rotisserie chicken).
• Friday: Leftover chili for me and the kids + leftover buffalo-lime chicken for low carb MashupDad.
• Saturday: Mr. 9 is going to a birthday party at which he’ll have pizza etc., while the rest of us are again going different directions, so it will likely just be something simple like sandwiches and salad.

Your turn

How’s your week of meal planning going? Are you cooking mostly out of your pantry, or are you taking advantage of this week’s grocery sales? Let’s inspire each other!

And if you’re looking for additional inspiration, read all the Midweek Meal Planning posts and others’ comments here.