Monday meal plan: Lasagna rolls, tacos, salmon & more!

Posted: January 28

The new recipe of the week is Giada's Lasagna Rolls! We'll also be enjoying chicken tacos, baked salmon, "deluxe" grilled cheese, omelets and more! What's on your menu??

Meatless Monday

“Deluxe” grilled cheese sandwiches on rye bread (marked down to .99 for a loaf at Lowes Foods this weekend!) with choice of cheese, tomatoes, spinach, onions)

Vegetable Soup

French bread

Tuesday

Baked salmon

Mahatma rice – free at HT and LF with .50/1 coupon from 1/27/13

Steamed carrots

Wednesday

Omelets with choice of sautéed veggies (mushroom, onions and spinach), turkey bacon, cheese

Pasta salad with green peppers, onions, tomatoes, black olives

Orange slices

Thursday

Chicken tacos (with all the stuff to stuff them with!)

Spanish rice

Sugar snap peas

Friday

Veggie Lasagna Rolls from Giada at TheFoodNetwork.com. I just love to watch her cook. She has so many good ideas. With this recipe, I will be amending it, as usual. Instead of ricotta, I use cottage cheese (cheaper and my husband prefers it). Instead of prosciutto, I’ll be using chopped and sautéed mushrooms to add to the cottage cheese and spinach mixture. I will also be using 2% milk for the bechamel sauce.

French bread

Salad

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M-Cod $5.99/lb at HT this week, spinach salad Earthbound Farms organic spinach $1.50 last week at HT. Tu-Stromboli-$0.50 pepperoni at Dollar Tree with the Hormel coupon, cheap Kraft cheese at HT this week, dough for $0.99 last week at HT, shrooms at Aldi. W-Chili-Jennie-O turkey sausage-used a raincheck & $1.00 off coupon for $1 per roll of turkey sausage, black beans, tuttoroso tomatoes-raincheck for B2G3 plus $1/2 coupon during 2/$3 sale at HT this week. Th-crockpot-chicken-$1.99 every day price at HT in the fresh meat case, tomatoes, various veggies from Aldi, wild rice. F-"Ficken Parmesan" like chicken parmesan, but with Boca fake chicken. Free pasta a while ago and cheaper Boca-still more than I'd like to pay-$2.50 per box at HT w/ coupon. Sat - Light salad, then heavy snacks for friends-chicken crack (all ingredients on sale at HT this week, split breasts, Frank's, Kraft cheese, Wishbone dressing), cheap nuts, almost free HeluvaGood at HT, Lowe's cheap carrots, free Wholly.

erinlikescoupons
January 28, 2013 11:48 a.m.

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I just adore Giada as well! I also was in awe of her slim figure with all the delicious and NOT low fat dishes she makes until I read a magazine interview in which she revealed her strict 90 minute daily workouts and that she doesn't eat much else on days she films! I was hoping she had discovered the wonder pill that prevented our bodies from absorbing calories...but alas...just good old diet and exercise! LOL

pss3
January 28, 2013 12:34 p.m.

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Our meals for the week are a bit different, my hubby is having to commute for the next two weeks from JoCo to Rocky Mount everyday so we need dishes that I can eat at normal time with my son and will still be good a couple of hours later for him.

Monday: Chicken and dumplings skillet, grands biscuits.

Tuesday: Taco bar with rice:)

Wednesday: Frozen pizza, salad.

Thursday: Chicken stir-fry, vegetable egg rolls.

Friday: Sirloin steaks, oven roasted potatoes with rosemary, honey carrots.

pss3
January 28, 2013 12:41 p.m.

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My husband always says she doesn't eat her own cooking, from the looks of her! LOL. I just love watching her cook and every recipe I have tried has been wonderful.

watchhillgirl
January 28, 2013 12:43 p.m.

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I love reading this thread about menus for the week!

M-Bacon wrapped mini meatloaves, roasted vegetables, T- WWLinguini with shrimp scampi, W-Lentil and Kale soup, Th-Cranberry/pecan chicken salad, Fri-A menage of leftovers :)

kat08858
January 28, 2013 12:44 p.m.

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kat - I love your "menage of leftovers"! That's a fabulous phrase.

Your Giada intel makes sense, pss3 - there is no way she could eat her food every day and still keep that amazing waistline.

Faye Prosser - Smart Shopper
January 28, 2013 12:48 p.m.

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Mon- leftover spaghetti and meatballs (cheap meatballs from a SD at HT and free pasta), green beans

Tues-bbq chicken (from .69lb at HT a few weeks ago), garlic pasta (free pasta), peas

Wed-leftovers

Thurs-probably omelets using cheap eggland's eggs from HT, toast, fruit

Fri-not sure but maybe soup and sandwiches

Sat-IDK

Sun-Superbowl bash with homemade pizza and maybe wings

carelesswhisper
January 28, 2013 12:50 p.m.

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Ohh and Giada is too thin to me. Thin is good but boney is not hot (as my busband says) LOL.

But I love to watch her cook.

carelesswhisper
January 28, 2013 12:53 p.m.

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MON- fried tenderloin nuggets(bogo HT) w/rice and gravy, collards TUE- smoked sausage (sale/cpn at HT) w/sauerkraut on hotdog buns w/spicy brown mustard (ht sale & cpn), anazazi beans WED- kickin chicken (breast HT)w/roasted vegs (Aldi), THU- bacon mac&cheese, salad, FRI- Meal Deal Pizza/honey bbq wings/chips, SAT- Tacos, saffron rice, strawberries (Aldi), SUN- pork shoulder (frozen from prior HT sale), spicy BBQ slaw, hushpuppies.

chipper4800
January 28, 2013 1:17 p.m.

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May I contribute a recipe to today's post? Microwave bechamel AKA white sauce. Yield is 2 cups and serves as the base for any cheese sauce like for mac & cheese, as well as the cream sauce for creamed spinach. The ratio for a medium sauce is 1 T. (tablespoon) butter to 1 T. flour to 1 cup milk. In a 4-cup pyrex measuring cup, melt 2 T. butter. Mix in thoroughly 2 T. flour. Whisk in 2 cups of milk (no leaner than 2%)**about 1/4 cup at a time** making sure the flour/butter mixture is completely dissolved into the milk. Microwave on high for 1 minute, remove and whisk. Repeat until sauce has thickened and is creamy. It may take 2 to 4 minutes total depending on the microwave. For a thinner sauce, add a little more milk. For thicker sauce, use less milk. For cheese sauce, add 3 cups shredded cheese, 1 t. (teaspoon) worcestershire, and 1 T. dry or dijon mustard. For cream sauce for creamed spinach, add 1-2 T. dry onion flakes, 1/2 t. salt, good grating of fresh nutmeg. Enjoy! :)

jdouglas13
January 28, 2013 1:59 p.m.

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