AK canning jar

The host for the Gluten Free Menu Swap this week is Gluten Free Goodness.  The theme is Cheep and Easy Foods which is pretty much all I make during the week.  We eat mainly whole foods, and do all our baking from scratch which keeps the cost down tremendously.  As the big kids are also helping with the cooking now (one time a week one of them makes dinner – yay!), the easy part is a must when you are teaching or learning different cooking techniques.  You don’t have to make dinner too complicated to get a great meal when you are using fresh, whole ingredients, thank goodness!  This week my menu is pretty chicken heavy, as our local free range chicken is on sale.

Gluten Free Menu Swap Monday

For more menu ideas head over to Laura’s for Menu Plan Monday.

Monday:  Mom subs in library/Boy Scouts

Pepper Steak over rice (brown jasmine, presoaked) and salad

 

Tuesday: Mom in school library/no piano this week/make cookie dough, chill

Mushroom Herb Chicken with broccoli

 

Wednesday: No dance this week/youth group/bake cookies

Tangy brown sugar-mustard chicken and mixed veggies

 

Thursday: Decorate cookies, freeze/bake mini carrot cupcakes

Chicken Escarole Soup with GF French Bread

 

Friday: Dye eggs/Decorate carrot cupcakes, freeze

Thai Chicken Pizza and salad

 

Saturday: finish prepping for Easter/make Easter Story Cookies with kids/set frozen cinnamon rolls and hot cross buns to thaw in fridge for morning

Omelettes and salad

 

Sunday: Easter/bake cinnamon rolls and hot cross buns for breakfast with homemade apple turkey sausage and fruit.

Apricot and herb glazed ham, salad, roasted spring veggies, fresh fruit, gf cardamon orange twists, rosemary-apricot rolls, mini carrot cupcake, brown sugar cookies, Easter Story cookies.