Menu Plan Monday - Week of April 15th, 2013

No real time today to add links or pictures, maybe I will later on.  For now I am going to record for records sake what I plan to have before I run out to work.  By the way, I LOVE THIS JOB! :-).  Playing with flowers all day is awesome.  It is a temporary position tho and I will be sad when it goes.

Monday:

My Baby Girl's Birthday

We are going to take her out to eat!

Making Against All Grain's Strawberry Cake

Tuesday:

Hamburgers

served with Lettuce, Tomato, Red Onion and Avocado

Wednesday:

Dinner at Church

Thursday:

NY Strip Steaks, sauteed mushrooms, broccoli

Camping Menu:

Breakfast:

• Pancakes (batter premixed)
• Eggs (pre-scrambled) and toast

Lunch:

• Sandwiches on Udi's Bread
• Chili and Foil Packet Potatoes

Dinners:

• Oscar Mayer Beef Hotdogs grilled over an open Fire (bun-less, just like my kids like it)
• Chicken marinaded in Italian Dressing and Veggies
• Hobo Packets (Ground Beef and Veggies cooked over a fire)
• Foil Packet Potatoes is a side for breakfast or dinner

Desserts

• Skillet Apples (apple pie in a jar cooked in a skillet) 
• Hobo Pies (Udi's Bread with Apple Pie filling)
• Roasted Marshmallows with Home Made Graham Crackers

Snacks:

• Enviro Kids Chocolate and Peanutbutter bars
• Carrot Sticks with Ranch Dressing 
• Old Wisconsin Meat Sticks
• Trail Mix Crunch (nuts and dried fruit)

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Menu Plan Monday: Week of October 15th, 2012 (Camping Menu)

It is egg week on the Gluten Free Menu Swap.  I am just going to show you this photo here below and link how to bake eggs.  Okay?  Cause my hubby is in charge of making the eggs around here and I do not really have any recipes.  Omelets and adding them to baked goos is all I got! :-).

Head on over to Lifehacker.com and read all about it.

By weeks end we will be camping. I will show you below what my Paleo Camping Menu looks like. It involves tons of pre made and the frozen foods so lucky I have off all week to work on it.  I need to get started early on making those Paleo Graham Crackers and almost paleo Corn free Marshmallows since those are the two that make me the most nervous.  I am pretty sure something based purely on sugar, like a marshmallow, could never be paleo but I will try my best to switch out ingredients (when I can).  Honey for Corn Syrup for example!

Still no weight loss!  I definitely would like to loose those last 10 pounds tho I find a marginal amount of starches is finding its way back to my diet.  Like for example I added 1/4 cup of white rice to my chicken and rice soup I made last night!  Hubby refused to eat it! :-D.   I have to can up the rest of the soup today!  It involves pressure cooking which makes me nervous.

Okay, onto the plan shall we?

Monday (Daughter is in Cheer Camp Show):

Asian Style Pepper Steak over Cauliflower Rice.  

I am going to have to muddle though a new version of this recipe that nix'es the A1, Soy and sugar.  Who knows, maybe I'll post my trial!

Tuesday (boys will be at WWE Smackdown, maybe girls will get to play soccer):

Green Leaf Lettuce Taco Dinner (our favorite).  

This way I can feed the boys quick and they can head out quick.

Wednesday (Church):

Hotdogs are being served up at Church Children's Program.  The adults will have to eat leftovers!

Thursday (karate & Soccer):

Photo and recipe courtesy of Urbanposer.blogspot.com

Paleo Chicken Pot Pie
One last hot oven baked meal before we head out!  Looks good huh?

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Camping Menu

Breakfasts: 

Fried Eggs and (pre-made) sauteed Veggies & Sausage, 

pre-made Almond Flour Pancakes and Bacon, 

Lunches: 

Sandwiches with Ham and Salami inside Lettuce Wraps (Udi's bread for kids), 

Bacon, Egg, Lettuce and Tomato Chopped Lettuce Salad w/pre-made dressing, 

Applegate Beef Hot Dogs

Dinners: 

Hobo Packs (Pre-made with ground beef, spices and diced veggies), 

Hamburgers served over layered Lettuce Leaves topped with Guacamole (packets), 

Applegate Beef Hot Dogs

Desserts:

Smores: Paleo Graham Crackers, Almost Paleo Corn Free Marshmallows, Dark Chocolate

Brownies (made ahead and frozen)

Banana Bread (made ahead and frozen into slices)

Apple Pie in a Jar topped with Paleo Granola
Campfire Cobbler (pre-making the topping and the filling and freezing)

Snacks:

Pickles, Olives, Mixed Nuts

Lara Bars, Kettle Chips, Beef Jerky, 

Cucumber and Celery sticks

Looking for inspiration? I can help in three different ways.

1. Head on over to Orgjunkie.com and visit Laura's Menu Plan Monday.
2. Visit Heather at Celiac Family, the Gluten Free Menu Swap headquarters!
3. You can also view my past menu plans here 

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Menu Plan Monday: Week of October 3rd, 2011

As of Friday this week, we will be camping so the end of this week reflects camping meals planned.  

Monday 

I will be making Alton's Grilled Pork Tenderloin recipe made in the crock pot.  Served with Wild Rice and Green Beans.

I have never made this particular recipe in the crock pot before, but I am still willing to bet that this is still an outstanding Alton recipe in the crock pot. 

Tuesday:

Oatmeal Parmesan crusted Chicken FIngers, Mac & Cheese, Green Beans

Wednesday:

Nacho's, Cheese & Chili at Church.

Thursday:

Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes

Below is my planned camping menu.  Click here for my Gluten Free Camping Ideas Post.

Friday Camping Menu:

Lunch:  Sandwiches (either Balogna or Ham and Cheese), Mayo, Lettuce & Tomato with Chips

Dinner: Open Fire Grilled Hot Dogs and Baked Beans

Dessert: Smores using my home made Graham Crackers

Saturday Camping Menu:

Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs, Foil Packet Potatoes, Hormel Little Sizzler Breakfast Sausages, Udi's Toast.

Lunch: Sandwiches (either Balogna or Ham and Cheese), Mayo, Lettuce & Tomato, Chips and a drink.  Back packing lunch.

Dinner: Marinaded Chicken (Wishbone Dressing), Instant Mashed Potatoes, canned veggie.

Dessert: Smores or maybe we should try out Hobo Pies with Udi's bread and my apple pie in a jar!

Sunday Camping Menu:

Breakfast: Pancakes and Hormel Little Sizzler Breakfast Sausages

Lunch: On the Road

Dinner: TBD

Find other fabulous menu planning ideas over at Orgjunkie's Menu Plan Monday.

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Gluten Free Camping Menu

My little cub scout has a family camping event this next weekend and we decided to go as a family.  Traditionally parents feed kids cereal or pop-tarts for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch at these events because the scouting activites mean that you are out and about all day long.  Cereal is fine, we can do cereal but pop tarts are not exactly Celiac friendly. And thinking about sandwiches right before our first trip, I was not even sure that bread was do-able.  Not to mention that I do not have very good luck with bread that is not eaten right away.  Gluten Free bread around here tends to get stale.  Tho I did accidentally leave out the Udi's bagels and the next day they were still super soft.  Maybe I'll be packing those instead.

This is not the first time we camped as a Celiac Family.  This past summer we camped our way across country (cool huh?). We packed a footlocker full of Gluten Free non perishable foods such as Tinkyada spaghetti, Puffins breakfast cereal, Idahoan instant mashed potatoes, canned vegetables, Pamela's pancake mix, trail mix, Sunkist fruit snacks, Glutino chocolate cream cookies, Peretzels with Lays Cheese dip, and small bags of potato chips. The list is pretty long but I am sure that you get the picture. We shopped for fresh meats along the way. It really is not as intimidating as it may initially seem.  As long as you do all of the necessary planning you can enjoy eating just about anything you do at home.  I am not one to go "all out" while camping though.  My idea of camping is providing easy to prepare foods.  Limited packing space prevents us from bringing all sorts of ingredients to camp for one weekend.

I do recall planning for our first camping trip as a family.  I was completely overwhelmed at the idea of planning a trip where all your comforts were literally still at home.  I knew just who to call for advice.  My mother and brothers used to go camping and all the really owned was a tent.  They told me that they would bring two cinder blocks and the grate right off the grill out back to cook.  Sheets and pillows came from the beds.  They owned nothing that was purchased only for camping.  Foods were anything they can cook right off that grate (chicken, steak, hotdogs). I am sure they too had some sort of quick breakfast foods.  

Most of the prep work for our camping trip will be done at home.  The chicken will be marinaiding in a ziploc, steaks will be tenderized or marinading, Hobo packs will be fully prepped and seasoned, foil potatoes will be fully baked, sliced and layered with butter and onion, eggs will be pre scrambled and kept in a portable container and even the pancake mix will be premixed.

OK, are you ready for our weekend camping trip plan?  OK, here it is...

Breakfast:

• Pancakes (batter premixed) and Hormel Little Sizzlers
• Eggs (pre-scrambled), Hormel Little Sizzlers, foil packet potatoes and toast

Lunch:

• Sandwiches on Udi's Bread. (Hope this works out otherwise its chili)
• Chili and Foil Packet Potatoes

Dinners:

• Oscar Mayer Beef Hotdogs grilled over an open Fire (bun-less, just like my kids like it)
• Chicken marinaded in Wishbone Italian Dressing and Instant Mashed Potatoes
• Hobo Packets (Ground Beef and Veggies cooked over a fire)
• Foil Packet Potatoes is a side for breakfast or dinner

Desserts

• Skillet Apples (apple pie in a jar cooked in a skillet) with Udi's Granola topping
• Hobo Pies (Udi's Bread with Apple Pie filling)
• Roasted Marshmallows with Home Made Graham Crackers (Smitten Kitten's recipe made GF)

Snacks:

• Enviro Kids Chocolate and Peanutbutter bars
• Carrot Sticks with Ranch Dressing 
• Old Wisconsin Meat Sticks
• Trail Mix Crunch (nuts and dried fruit)

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