January's Monthly Menu

I had a request from a friend to post my monthly menus.  As you can see, I didn't quite finish this month's, but it's my first attempt!!  Three weeks worth isn't bad!  I'll try to post in the blog if I'm going to stock up on a certain item that will probably be in the next month's monthly menu, in case you want to stock up on that item to make it easier to use my menu.  I went ahead and put the shopping list for each week, too.  Not so much so you can buy whatever I'm buying, but just to show the format I've used.  And my format might change, depending on what I learn from doing it more and more.

January 2010

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
					1 Hoppin' John	2 Bertolli Meal
3 LO Hoppin' John	4 Black Beans & Rice (w/ smok. saus.)	5 Spaghetti w/ turkey and garlic toast	6 LO Black Beans & Rice	7 Tacos and Refried Beans	8 LO spaghetti and garlic toast	9 Nobody home for dinner
10 LO Tacos and Refried Beans	11 Baked Chicken (2 LQ, 2 thighs, 2 drums), salad, & veggie	12 LO Chicken Thighs & Drums	13 Frozen Pizza (thaw chicken breasts)	14 Chicken Fajitas & Black Beans	15 Fajita Quesadillas & Black Beans (make slaw)	16 Crockpot Barbecue , Vinegar Slaw, pot. chips
17 LO Barbecue & slaw	18 Breakfast for Dinner (eggs, bacon, hash brns, pancakes)	19 LO Barbecue & slaw	20 Soup & Sandwich	21 Sloppy Joes, baked beans & Potato chips	22 Chicken Strips	23 LO Sloppy Joes, baked beans & Potato chips
24	25 Chili & Cornbread	26	27	28 LO Chili & Cornbread	29	30
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Shopping List Week of Jan. 4th Zatarain's Black Beans & Rice 1.25 lb. Ground beef bag of salad for tacos tomatoes for tacos Tortilla Chips Hamburger Buns x3 Shredded Cheese	Shopping List Week of Jan. 18th 6-8 slices bacon from meat dept. 1.25 lb ground beef Potato Chips Eggs
Shopping List Week of Jan. 11th Flour tortillas for fajitas and quesadillas Sour cream Black Beans – 2 cans Shredded Nacho cheese Cabbage & 2 carrots Potato Chips	Shopping List Week of Jan. 25th .5 lb ground turkey

As you can see, I only made it through about 3 weeks of planning, but it's helped me tremendously!


This was a little bit hard to get into html, but hopefully I can reuse the code next time I put my calendar in! Hope this helps you! Sorry it's not complete!!