What does a weeks dinner menu look like for you?

[bumbold]

I am totally out of idea.  I just stopped having horrible morning sickness.  We have been eating way too much take out and need to get back on track. I need some ideas. 

The big problem is meat isn't that appealing to me right now.  So I need things that don't highlight the meat. 

what are your go to meals?  Do you make a plan for the week?

Thanks

[lillianava]

I have 2 children and I am currently pregnant with my 3rd.  I make a real meal every night for my family.  I usually jump around to try to include everything.  If you are having problems with meat perhaps you can make some of the dishes without mean.  I dont really make out a meal plan I just kind of wing it.  I prepare lasaguna and freeze it for the days Im not feeling well enough to stand at the stove and cook.  I make pot roast in the crock pot with potatoes, carrots, onions, ect.   Lazy nights are my fav. Pizza :)  Chicken rice and vegi like broccoli or carrots.  When I cant stand the meat I eat alot of rice meals.  Try maybe the chinese meal thing without chicken  perhaps?  Its good to keep up on the grains starches and vegis too.  Eat the meat when you can.   I make meatloaf mashed potatoes stringbeans.  You can also make casseroles.  Pretty much anything can be frozen so you can prepare them in advance when you have the energy.  My family likes tuna casserole.  I do porkchops with the hawaiian sauce mac n cheese and usually broccoli.  I hope this can be of some help.  I eat alot of ppj's to lol.  Dont stay with the fast food or microwave food there is was to much sodium 

[Magelet]

We do a lot of stir frys and curries over rice.  Hummus and pita and feta and yogurt (either raita-y with cucumbers, or with dill or mint, or sometimes just salted).  ummm lots of things that I'm totally blanking on right now. Oh, lentil salad, bean based stews...

[rjruiz_415]

I use cookingtf's mailers. I am relatively new to TF though... I do have the occasional dinner out, or packaged freezer meals, and a handful of meals that I know how to make... But since eating TF, I have been relying on CookingTF:-)

[craft_media_hero]

Well, Idk if I'm doing TF "right" coz I just started being intentional about it, but I've always cooked whole foods, so hopefully this will help:

Monday- roast chicken and veggies potato/brown rice/quinoa

Tuesday- tacos/burrito/tostada with leftover chicken meat, pan fry leftover grains or beans for on the side, all the fixin's 

Wednesday- chile made w/ yesterdays beans, vegetarian or cook ground beef and use part for chile, save the rest ground beef for lunch quesadillas

Thursday- usually big garden salad and lentil soup

Friday- fish day, usually grilled salmon but maybe sardine spread on crackers for "appetizer dinner" or tuna sammiches, etc

Saturday- splurge and have steak, pork loin, a nicer cut of meat, whole baked potato, big green salad

Sunday- cook a big pot of beans and have bean soup or scratch together burritos, etc

This will change when we start getting our garden CSA, then we will probably eat a lot more stir-fries and curries, like a pp said

Btw, Gloria Lemay says a baseline for pg mamas:

either one whole baked potato or brown rice daily (I sub quinoa or other cooked grain)

1 big colorful garden salad daily

4 veges/day

2 fruits/day

So I try to use that as a guideline (even though I'm not pg, it just is a good guide anyway) for meal planning, alternating brown rice and potatoes with dinner and alternating salads with dinner or for lunch. Always cook veggies w/ dinner and serve on the side for lunch and have fruit for snacks. That's how I roll! It works pretty good, is pretty simple, too.

[rjruiz_415]

Oh, I didn't even say what the meals are that we are eating:-) This week, for example, we are eating (Or have already eaten, since it is the middle of the week...) Chicken and Dumplings, Orange Beef Stir Fry, Black Beans and Quinoa, Lasagna, and Burgers:-)