This Week: Dinner Menu

Since last week's dinner menu plan worked so well, I decided to keep going with it. It saved a lot of time each night because I already knew what I was cooking, and sometimes I even got some things ready the night before. It also helped me with my grocery shopping, because we all know you can end up walking around endlessly and just buying things on sale. Then you get home and realize you don't have the right ingredients to actually make meals. I also set a $100 budget for my weekly grocery shopping, because I realized that I wasn't paying attention to cost at all and just buying what I thought we needed. I came in at $100.18 this week, not bad!
Here is this week's menu (all meals are clean unless otherwise stated):

Monday
Turkey burgers-amazing! I tried to make some on the bbq once but they were very dry. These ones turned out very moist and flavourful.
Salad
Recipe
Instead of poultry seasoning I used cajun seasoning


Tuesday
Leftovers

Wednesday
Chinese chicken and vegetables
Brown rice
It was yummy! The marinade for the chicken was so full of flavour, I will definitely be using it a lot in the future.

Thursday
Treat night!
Greek salad
Gyros (not clean) on a whole wheat pita
It was take out but still fairly healthy

Friday
Lean  Cajun pork chops-this one was my own creation. Cut the fat off the chops. Marinated in EVOO, and cajun seasoning.
Sweet potato-I bake these in the microwave! 2 potatoes for about 8-10 mins and they're perfect. Just stab them with a fork or knife all the way around before you put them in.
Salad

Saturday
We had a late lunch today so I made hummus as a snack/dinner and we ate it with whole wheat tostitos (not clean).
It was my first time making hummus but it was SO easy and tasty. I added in some roasted red peppers as well.
1 can of chick peas drained and rinsed
juice of 1 lemon
1/4 cup of tahini
1-2 cloves of garlic
sea salt and pepper to taste
Throw all the ingredients in a food processor and add water to get the consistency you like.

Sunday
Slow cooker corn chowder
Recipe
The corn chowder I'm used to has only bacon and corn in it. This chowder was a little busy for me. i could have done without the leek, I didn't like the texture of it in the soup. I think it needed the bacon to add the smokey flavour that I like in a chowder.
Mike said he really liked it though!

Slow cooker corn chowder