Menu Plan Monday - July 29 - August 2

Long time no... well nothing.

A lot has happened here. Life has been busy with lots of family in & out of town constantly, preparing for baby, my already in this world boys, work, summer and well this pregnancy.

I found out a few weeks back that I have Gestational Diabetes. What? How? I'm not overweight and I don't eat bad? Apparently enough people in my family do because it was in my genes.

The hardest part has been finding dinner ideas that can serve our whole house. My husband is a meat and potato guy and my kids LOVE their bread, pasta & potatoes. Yes they still get it but even my husband agrees its not fair for me to have to cook that every night for them and not be able to eat it myself. So the whole house has taken on a new and healthy version of eating.

The Internet is not my friend here. Pretty much when you search for food ideas for gestational diabetes you find the same 4-5 meals over and over. With that I decided it was a good time to get back into sharing my menus with OrgJunkie to help others out.

As always I will try to update the post throughout the week with recipes as created.

   

Crock Pot Pulled BBQ Chicken

INGREDIENTS:

1 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breast
1 bottle of BBQ sauce of choice (Sweet Baby Rays)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/8 cup Italian dressing
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 medium onion chopped



DIRECTIONS:

1. Place frozen chicken breast in crock pot.

2. Cover with chopped onion.

3. Mix together BBQ sauce, brown sugar, Italian dressing and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over chicken and onions.

4. Cook on low for 6-8 hours (or high for 4 hours).

5. About 30 minutes before time to eat shred chicken in crock pot so all those shredded pieces can absorb some flavor.

**I add about 1 tbsp. of corn starch after shredding if the sauce is water thin as we like thicker sauce for the sandwiches. This is optional.

Menu Plan - May 20th

Hello fellow menu planners! It has been a while hasn't it?

With being pregnant for the 3rd time, with a boy, I can officially say to you without a drought that every pregnancy is different and no signs point to boy or girl. My first two were so easy and nice; this one has been crazy from the start, which only lead to person after person insisting it was a girl. Liars.

In about the last 2 weeks I have became a semi-normal personal again. I'm cooking, cleaning, etc. I have in no way started nesting (at 5 months now) and am slowly becoming paranoid about that since I am OCD about planning everything. The other day a dear friend of mine told me with her last child she never hit the nesting phase, ever. Lord, please.

So on with that, we have a menu plan this week. Money needs to save and I need to get back on track.

1. Eggs with sausage and potato hash

2. Shake & Bake Chicken Parmesan with noodles


Yes, normally I make this homemade but I'm slowly
trying to clean out the processed stuff from my pantry.

3. Tacos and rice

4. Pork Chops with mashed potatoes and corn

5. Crock Pot Vegetable Soup
Recipe to come!

6. Pizza

Linking up with Org Junkie Menu Plan Monday.