Four Week Meal Plan--Week 1

Here's the plan for Week 1--

• Monday--Italian meatball subs and salad
• Tuesday--Spicy Lentils and rice--the spicy lentils are not hot spicy, just full of spices spicy.
• Wednesday--Chicken Ro-tel
• Thursday--Spaghetti, salad, and french bread
• Friday--Pinto beans in the crock pot with tortilla chips and toppings--cheese, tomatoes, sour cream, lettuce, guacamole, and salsa
• Saturday--??
• Sunday--Breakfast burritos

Recipes--

Italian Meatball Subs
Mix together--
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup bread crumbs (or oatmeal)
2 Tbsp. parmesan cheese (optional)
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/8 tsp. garlic powder
1 1/2 lb. ground beef

Gush it all together and shape it into 1 inch balls. Broil until brown and put in the crock pot. Then mix together--
15 oz. tomato sauce
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 cup red wine or beef broth
1/3 cup water
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. sugar

Pour the sauce over the meatballs and cook on low all day or on high for 6 hours or so. To serve, put some meatballs and sauce in a hoagie roll or french bread and top with provolone cheese.

Spicy Lentils---go here.

Chicken Ro-tel

1 whole chicken or bag of boneless chicken, cooked and shredded
16 oz. spaghetti, cooked
1/2 cup butter
1 bell pepper
1 onion
1 can mushrooms
1 can Ro-tel tomatoes
8 oz. velveeta cheese
1 can Lesuer english peas

Saute onion and pepper in the butter. Cut the cheese into cubes. Mix the cheese into the hot pasta to melt. Add all the ingredients to the cheesy pasta and put into a 13 x 9 pan. Bake for 30 minutes at 375 degrees.
Note--this can be frozen before baking, my plan is to double this recipe and freeze the second one.

Pinto Beans--see here for the recipe, when I am pressed for time--a bag of tortilla chips will work in place of frying corn tortillas.

Breakfast Burritos--
Eggs (1 per burrito)
large flour tortillas
hash browns
cheese
bacon
canned green chile (the little cans)

Scramble the eggs, fry the hash browns, cook the bacon, and warm the tortillas so that they are soft. To assemble the burritos--in each tortilla put a spoonful of eggs, some hash browns, cheese, green chile (I leave this out of the kid's burritos) and then roll it up. These can be made ahead of time and then heated in the oven. They can also be frozen.
You can serve them with salsa poured over the top as well.