Meals within a category, I.e taco tuesday
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Monday - Asian food (rotation is: bulgogi, kimchi pancake, palak paneer, stir fry, Thai red curry, ramen, Tteokbokki)
Tuesday- taco Tuesday (rotation: ground beef, grilled beef, grilled chicken, shrimp) Wednesday- German/Austrian-ish (Kaiserschmarrn, Wiener Schnitzel, dumplings, Gulasch, Schinkennudeln, Käsespätzle) Thursday - Italian (minestrone, European style lasagne, spaghetti (carbonara, bolognese, or arrabiata), grilled seafood, risotto if I have time) Friday: American (Caesar’s salad with chicken, spaghetti with meatballs, burgers, fettuccine Alfredo) Saturday: take out Sunday: fend for yourself if there are a lot of leftovers, grill if the weather is good I typically do some prep work for the week on Sundays. Like I will batch cook Bolognese or grill meats. |
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"Breakfast for dinner" for my kids would mean sausages and/or bacon and pancakes or waffles. They would not literally want a typical weekday breakfast again for dinner. Who does that? Everyone listing "breakfast for dinner" please tell me it's not just cereal and toast night? |
Anonymous
Same. One night a week we have something Asian, Mexican/southwestern, Italian, American, and leftovers. A specific weeknight isn't assigned, it just helps me maintain variety. |
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Some other broader ideas -
baked potato bar - you could have chili, or bacon and cheese, or some other topping I'm blanking on now. maybe search jacket potatoes. Along those lines in fall/winter we might have chili night. You can vary the types of chili and you can also vary the things you put the chili on. (like spaghetti, or rice, or baked potato, or French fries, tater tots, etc). |
Anonymous
| Another idea not mentioned - sheet pan meals. Easy and usually a meal with protein and vegetable. |
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For your meatless mondays, I suggest
1) Homemade Fried Rice or stir fry w/ tofu and veggies 2) This Melissa Clark recipe for a baked pasta with broccoli and ricotta. https://mimbly.com/wordpress/2017/12/02/spicy-roasted-broccoli-pasta-by-melissa-clark/ |
Anonymous
| At our house 'Breakfast for dinner' usually involves eggs -- fried, poached, omelets or a dutch baby (very easy!) and fruit. |
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| Not in the summer, but we often do soup and chili nights. |
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I have seen Slider Sundays on Tiktok with various fillings for hawaiian rolls and I've been wanting to do that but I have yet to do so!
We do breakfast for dinner one night a week And I would do pasta one night Pizza one night |
Anonymous
Haha my mom's friend calls something similar her YOYO night - You're Own Your Own! |
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I plan for 5 nights a week - there's always one take out and then the other is leftovers or other plans or "ooh, look, a farmers market" or whatever.
When I'm feeling organized I prefer a monthly to a weekly calendar. Because taco Tuesday sounds like a lot of tacos, but it's not too much if it's every other week. Same with pasta - I don't really want it every week, but every other week is good. So I go down the Tuesdays on a grid and alternate tacos with pasta. But chicken is fine weekly, soup is fine weekly, beans are fine weekly. I also made a "menu" with things in regular rotation (looks like a restaurant menu) so I can tell the kids - pick 2 bean dishes, pick 4 chicken dishes, pick 2 pastas etc, as I'm filling in the calendar. They pick favorites from the menu and I throw in a few new things I want to try. |
Anonymous
We do egg sandwiches on a nicer bread than morning toast. A bigger fruit salad instead of one fruit. More likely to add veggies for a nicer omelet. Or a breakfast burrito. |
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What the heck is Prince spaghetti? Cannot find a recipe with anything called that. |
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| Meatball Monday is not popular than meatless Monday at my house. Modern Proper has lots of different styles of meatballs (not just spaghetti and meatballs) |
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