This Week's Eats! {A link up}

Yesterday, while I was hanging out with some awesome blogger friends, painting portraits of our pups, my fantastic husband planned our meals for the week, without me even asking.  Granted he forgot that I will be out of town for a portion of the week, but I'll take it.  Here's what he planned:

Sunday: my favorite turkey chili
Monday: BWW to watch the NCAA game, he's a UK fan and I'll never say no to BWW
Tuesday: Slow Cooker Biscuit Chicken Pot Pie
Wednesday: "Spaghetti. that's all; just spaghetti. oh, and garlic bread"

Thursday I'm taking my cousin out for her birthday then hopping on a red eye back to Ohio to spend the weekend with some of my favorites!  A hockey game, bridal shower & bachelorette party for my BFF, a baby shower for a good friend and lots of family time.  I cannot even begin to express how excited I am, this week cannot go by fast enough.  I have been craving some family time and time with my best friends like crazy lately.  Be prepared for me to blow up your IG feed this weekend!  Follow me, @bleudressjes, to see all the festivities.

This Week's Eats! {A link up}

Having friends in town for a week means no time for blogging, reading or writing (except for that one scheduled post that I totally forgot about until someone commented on it).  I hope to catch up this week!  1st things 1st, back to meal planning that doesn't involved eating out at all our favorite local restaurants.  Before our friends arrived, this month's FNM arrived in my mailbox.  It sat neglected for too long, until I flipped thought it today and found the best spread I've ever seen in a food magazine!

I walked over to my husband and told him, "This is what we're having for dinner this week".  We agreed that this is a pretty much perfect week of meals for us.  Lots of international flavors, lots of chicken (I don't eat beef or pork) and they can all go into the crock pot and be ready for us when we get home from work/school.  PERFECT!  We're trying 5 new recipes this week, if any of them turn out well, maybe I'll share the details.

Sunday: Moroccan Chicken & Squash

Monday: Chicken Nacho Soup (SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE!)

Tuesday: Chicken Tikka Masala

Wednesday: Ginger Chicken with Watercress

Thursday: Turkey Pot Roast

Friday: Dinner with friends at a gender reveal party (not mine) that you will certainly see more about next week.

What are you eating this week?  Link up with Jessica Lynn.

This Week's Eats {A link up}

Another menu link up!  I love how this keeps me accountable for my meal plan each week.  Meal planning, when I stick to it, helps us save money, waste less, and it's just so nice not having to think about what I'll make for dinner every single day.  Jason doesn't often make requests for dinner so when he does it's almost a given that I'll make it for him, whatever it is.  Even though we just had sausage and kraut, he asked for it again so it's back on the menu for the week.   We have a fundraiser for our Relay for Life team at a restaurant this week (if you're so compelled, you can make a donation via that link over on my sidebar, I'll be talking more about that more in the near future) and we have friends coming to visit next weekend so this is an exciting and unusual week for us.

Sunday:  Grill
Monday: Sausage & Kraut
Tuesday: Chicken Tikka Masala
Wednesday: Relay for Life fundraiser at Rubio's in LaJolla

 (if you're in the area, come out for dinner and support the fight against cancer!)

Thursday: Crockpot BBQ Chicken and homemade coleslaw
Friday: Tasty Shrimp {this has been on my pinterest for ages and I always put it in the running for the weekly meal plan and it always gets nudged out by something else, not this week.  It better not dissapoint!}
Saturday: Rebecca & Seth arrive in SoCal!!!!!!!!!!  Late night bites will be had in LA!

This Week's Eats {a link up}

More catastrophic fails sticking to the plan last week but that's the past.  We're moving forward with a positive attitude this week.

Sunday: takeout on the beach, soaking up the last bits of a warm weekend!
Monday: Chicken Bacon Ranch mac & cheese
Tuesday: French bread pizza (the perfect way to use the other half of a loaf used for garlic bread over the weekend)
Wednesday: Our favorite Crockpot tacos
Thursday: Chicken Salsa Enchiladas
Friday: French Onion soup and paninis

What are you eating this week?

This Week's Eats {A link up}

How is it already Sunday again?!?  Now that I'm back to working full time, after a 6 year hiatus, I find that the weekends go by so much faster than they used to.  I love having a jam packed schedule on the weekends but then I feel like I get no rest before the week starts all over.  We are back to having softball games on Wednesdays (it's the only form of exercise my lazy butt gets these days) and some big plans on Friday but I'm still excited to eat some of these meals this week, especially tomorrow's dinner!  I'm still not a huge fan of most CrockPot meals so I'm struggling to to find meals that are easy to make after a long day of work and still healthy or at least mostly healthy.

Monday: Chicken Bacon Ranch Mac & Cheese (this better be good, I've been thinking about it for 2 weeks now!)  This is also the only link I have for you this week, sorry about that!
Tuesday: French Bread Pizzas
Wednesday: Crock Pot Tacos that will be ready when we get home from softball
Thursday: Grilled chicken wings and corn on the cob
Friday: PENGUINS GAME IN ANAHEIM!!!!!!!!  (We'll have to grab dinner on the way to make it on time with the traffic)
Saturday: Kielbasa, sauerkraut and German fried potatoes

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This Week's Eats

I love this link up because it keeps me accountable to meal plan every week, even when I don't want to.  Somehow last week I only planned for 5/7 days, like we weren't going to eat the other 2 nights.  I made sure to account for dinner all 7 nights this week.  I've also started our meal plans on Saturdays since that is when I go to the farmers market and I can start with the ingredients that need to be eaten first (for freshness factor {what up unintentional alliteration}).  Plus it keeps all of my recipe links for the week consolidated nicely.

Saturday: Fondue!  Cheese, cheese and chocolate.
Sunday: The Pioneer Woman Sloppy Joes
Monday: Minestrone Soup
Tuesday: Sesame Ginger Salmon & Veggies
Wednesday: Okonomiyaki
Thursday: Eggplant Pasta with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce (this is SO GOOD)
Friday: BBQ Chicken Quesidillas

I'm so excited to eat this week!