Menu Plan Monday

Sunday afternoons my sister Frances and I are in the kitchen, fixing most, if not all, of the dishes for the coming week. Although it takes a couple hours of our treasured weekend, we think it's time well spent, since it makes it a "snap" to get dinner on the table weeknights after work. Other than tossing a fresh salad or cooking some rice, all we have to do weeknights is take the food out of the fridge and warm it up.

It's been a year since we made a lifestyle change to reduce fats in our everyday diet, and to eat between 5-7 fruits and veggies every day. Having dinner ready to heat and eat means we eat healthy meals, rather than reaching for convenience foods or going for take out if we're "too tired" to cook after a hard day's work. Here's what's on the menu this week. Since I didn't publish our plan last week, this week I'm starting with tonight's dinner:

Sunday: Fragrant spiced vegetable curry ; rice; garlic-roasted carrots
Monday: Szechuan beef stir fry ; rice; Indian-spiced green beans
Tuesday: Chinese chicken fried rice ; leftover green beans
Wednesday: Fresh corn on the cob; leftover vegetable curry
Thursday: Leftover beef stir-fry and chicken fried rice
Friday: Take-out or eat out
Saturday: Last of the leftovers!
Sunday: Sausage and herb lasagna (Mayo Clinic recipe)

And for dessert this week: Apple cranberry crisp

For more meal ideas, click here! to go to the Organizing Junkie's blog. Scroll down to "Menu Plan Monday" to see her menus for this week, and for links to see what some of the other ladies will be dishing up.