Menu Plan Monday - end of summer grilling

Last week's menu was pretty basic, and even with the craziness of cleaning up after the wind storm and taking food to my dear daycare provider (who at last contact was still without power-ugh!), we made everything on the menu. The only thing that didn't go according to plan was that EmDee took all the beef and noodles for lunches during the week, so Wednesday became BLT day (yum!) and Thursday we ended up ordering pizza since there was a great special and not as many leftovers as I had counted on.

The pumpkin/banana pancakes turned out to just be pumpkin pancakes (still good, but oh I was missing that banana!) because the grocery stores in our area were still largely without power and I ran out of bananas before Friday. I used this recipe, substituted pumpkin puree for the oil (3 heaping tablespoons) and added about 1 tsp of pumpkin spice. The bananas were supposed to be in place of the blueberries or chocolate chips called for in the original recipe. We will definitely make these again - delish!

We wanted to have at least one more big grill out as the summer comes to a close, so this week's menu is largely centered around the food we grilled Sunday afternoon. Since it's MPM Family Favorites edition and I'm not really making much, I thought I'd include this link again to one of my all time favorites, Million $ Spaghetti.

Lunches: creamy chicken rice, salad, yogurt

Dinners

Monday: Grilled chicken salads, tomatoes and cottage cheese, frozen yogurt milkshakes

Tuesday: Brats and oven fries

Wednesday: hamburgers, mac n cheese, side salad

Thursday: grilled chicken Parmesan

Friday: Mexican rice skillet

If the Mexican rice skillet goes as scheduled and is good, I'll post the recipe next week!

For more menu plans, stop by OrgJunkie. Have a great week!