June Menu Plan

With our CSA share coming in now, we've got a ton of veggies to go through.  We've also been getting quite a bit from gleaning at the food pantry (just this week we got a huge bag of sugar snap peas, broccoli, and about 10 portabello mushroom caps), so we're looking to make the most of it this month.  We'll try to keep our expenses low, mostly spending on fruit, dairy, and a few frozen items.  And we're also trying to clean out the freezers since the house is on the market and we're not sure when we'll get an offer.

Baby and I seem to have healed our gut issues, so we're slowly reintroducing some higher sugar fruits, occasional gluten (neither of our tests came back with a sensitivity), and a tiny bit of sweetener.  We're grateful for good health, and want to keep it that way, so we won't overdo it on these items too much.

So, here's the plan:

Breakfasts:

• French toast casserole or egg casserole with veggies
• Egg sandwiches on gluten free bread with sauteed greens
• Fried eggs, roasted veggies or greens, and smoothies
• Breakfast burritos with sauteed greens, onions, and mushrooms
• Almond flour muffins or lemon poppyseed muffins
• Leftover quiche and roasted veggies
• Banana bars
• Yogurt and homemade granola
• Strawberry cream cheese coffee cake and fruit or eggs

Lunches:

• Leftovers
• Grilled cheeses or quesadillas and soup
• Smoothies
• Healthy snacky lunch in the car (lots of summer activities with the boys) such as apples and peanut butter or almond butter, dried apricots, crackers and cheese, popcorn, nuts, etc.
• Occasional meals at the restaurant (it's a nice perk of Benny working there)

Dinners:

• Quiche with greens, mushrooms, onion, and dried tomato served with salad
• Dinner salad with tuna, salmon, or hard boiled eggs
• Tuna salad lettuce wraps
• Grilled sausage, cooked greens, and crock pot German potato salad
• Grilled chicken and veggies
• portabello burgers with lettuce and grilled onions, served with oven fries
• sweet potato and quinoa salad served with salmon
• Asian crock pot chicken with rice
• Breakfast for dinner:  French toast, eggs, roasted veggies or fruit
• Cheddar and spinach waffles with sausage
• turkey salad sandwiches with lettuce and veggies and dip
• loaded beans and rice with salad and almond flour cheddar muffins or scallion corn bread
• black bean crock pot chili with salad
• loaded crock pot baked potatoes with chili, cheese, and Greek yogurt
• homemade pizza 
• picnic dinner at the park:  hard boiled eggs, crackers, cheese, fruit, veggies and dip, maybe pasta salad

Snacks:

• cheese and crackers
• homemade foccacia
• pineapple jello (from scratch with good quality gelatin)
• popcorn
• carrot sticks and homemade ranch dip
• fruit
• banana bars

So, our shopping list for this month looks like this:

• Avocados
• Cheddar cheese
• "Pizza" cheese (as it's known in our house... aka mozzarella)
• Sweet potatoes
• Frozen pie shells (I could make my own, but it's just too tough when I'm home full time with the boys)
• Onions
• Baking potatoes
• Plain Greek yogurt

What do your meal plans look like for this month?  I'd love to hear from you!