Menu Plan Monday: at HG & Strider's

Since Strider works the night shift (4:30 pm through at least 1 am, very shortly to be 3 am as the factory will start running ten hour shifts) and the Striderling isn't yet of the I'm Awake! And What's For Breakfast?! Stage (actually, he is, but his breakfast is very predictable: donor breastmilk ;), our menu plans aren't done in quite the traditional style. We very rarely have a traditional breakfast, for one. I get up a few hours before Strider does and eat something on my own and then when he gets up, we'll shortly be having a big lunch. I pack him a work "lunch" (dinner at the factory is around 9 pm) and then eat something by myself in the evenings. When he gets home, he feeds himself before bed. Thus, breakfasts and dinners are very, very simple and I often make enough of the big meal to work into one of the other meals we eat (my dinner, his work lunch, etc.)

Breakfasts

* Yogurt

* Cinnamon Raisin toast with peanut butter and homemade apple butter (found the cinnamon raisin bread for .59 at our local bread store and bought enough to stock the freezer with)

* omelettes

* smoothies (oats, yogurt, fruit, juice or water)

* apples and cheese

* cous cous

Lunches

* Tortellini Soup with Quick & Easy Garlic Breadsticks and fruit on the side

* Ham, Mashed Potatoes, and broccoli (ham found marked down at the grocery store)

* Split Pea Soup (made with the hambone, of course!), bread, fruit

* Crockpot Pasta & Fagioli Soup

* Marinated Chicken Thighs (still working on what I want them marinated in), butternut squash, cous cous

* Black Beans and Rice, carrot sticks & cottage cheese

* Ravioli, creamed spinach, apples & cinnamon

* Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, apple slices with cinnamon

Strider's Work Lunches

* ham salad sandwiches (made with leftover ham)

* boiled egg sandwiches (he likes to have a sliced boiled egg, with salt and pepper, and on bread with Miracle Whip. Much easier than egg salad!)

* peanut butter and homemade apple butter sandwiches

* Muffin Tin Meatloaves

* Leftovers