Okay, I do love menu planning. But, ordering my groceries online and having them delivered is the best! That’s reason enough to move across the pond, no? I usually double recipes for leftovers- with the exchange rate here, it’s just not cheap to grocery shop.
The menu
- Monday: Spinach Tortellini Soup (see recipe below), crusty bread, Caesar salad
- Tuesday: Homemade Chicken Pot Pie, mashed potatoes
- Wednesday: Left-Overs
- Thursday: Lemon Chicken over brown rice
- Friday: Coke Pork Roast (see EASY, delicious recipe below) with veggies
- Saturday: Left-Overs
- Sunday: Roast Beef sandwiches with Swiss cheese on baps, with Arby’s Sauce, and oven-baked fries
Recipes
Spinach Tortellini Soup: (easily doubled)
-3 cloves garlic , minced -2 cans chicken broth
-1 T butter -1 can spinach
-2 cans chopped tomatoes (Italian if possible) -1 pkg cheese-filled tortellini
-Fresh-grated Parmesan
Saute garlic in butter. Add tomatoes (undrained)and broth. Bring to a boil. Add tortellini and cook according to package instructions. Then, add spinach and simmer for 10 minutes. When you serve it, grate some fresh Parm on top.
note: If you use frozen spinach, add it before the tortellini, then boil both.
Coke Pork Roast (so easy!!!)
-couple pound pork shoulder joint -1 pkg sliced mushrooms
-1 2L bottle of Coke -1 or 2 sliced onions
-1 or 2 sweet potatoes -4 sliced carrots
Toss it all in the crock pot! Cook all day. Enjoy!
Note: Do NOT use diet or zero coke- must be regular coke (needs the sugar).
Good eating! And for more menu ideas, check out Orgjunkie.com.
so for real- thank you for posting this. it really really helps.
p.s. where have you located chicken broth? i thought I had found some at sainsburys, but it was definitely soup when I opened the can.
I see some recipes I know!! Sounds like you’re very organized. I might be that way when I retire!!! Hope you have a great week.
I am liking your Pork Roast recipe, we have tried that with beef in the past..so/so results, but I can see how it would work much better with pork and since I have a couple of roasts in the freezer I am going to put that down for next week
Thanks for visiting my blog. I fixed the font colors so now you can see the clickable link for Spud Nachos. I have marked your soup and Arby’s Sauce to try sometime myself, thank you! I am a big soup person. Also, which Lemon Chicken are you linking to? That link just goes to Food Network. Baps link is mislinking also and I am dying to know — what in the world is a bap?! Have a great day!
Nice menu – I look forward to eating this week! FYI: I fixed your broken links (lemon chicken & baps).
Great ideas! Thanks for sharing the Coke Pork Roast recipe. I am definitely going to try that as it looks so easy and scrumptious. Thanks for sharing!
Hey, y’all! So sorry for the messed-up links. My fault. My wonderful husband fixed them- Tiffany, it’s a Rachael Ray lemon chicken recipe. A bap is the Scottish term for “roll.”
I will post in your comments, too.
Joy- no canned broth here unfortunately. You need to by the bouillon cubes (try OXO or Knorr’s) and dissolve in water. If I need to add broth to a soup, for instance, I use the kettle for the water to get hot, then I add the water to my soup and dissolve the cubes in the hot water in the soup.
Leah- I think the pork will work better- more tender? Plus pork shoulder joints are pretty cheap here.
That Spinach soup sounds soooo good!!! Love that Josh fixin everything… miss you guys and LOVE Menu Planning Mondays!!
I’m gonna try that spinach tortellini soup!
You should join me in MPM!
Let me know how it goes. I forgot to turn my crockpot on this morning- apparently that is pretty clutch in actually cooking it. So, I just poured it all in a big pot, brought it to a boil, and let it simmer on stove top for an hour, then returned it to said crockpot. Still turned out great, so must be easy!
Oh, that soup sounds delish! You had me at “tortellini”…