Back To The Kitchen

Back a few blogs ago I did meal planning on a weekly basis. At that time I was nanny/house manager/personal assistant, etc, etc, etc for a family in Chicago. I cooked the meals Monday breakfast through Friday lunch. That means 4 dinners a week for a family of 5 (6 if you include me, and please always include me when food is involved) were my responsibility.

Well, things are a little different now, but I am back to meal planning. This time around, I'm cooking for  three and we're keeping Whole30/paleo. For now, because life has not been going easy on me, I'm taking the easy way and actually following some menus I found online at The Nourishing Home. I need to gradually get myself back into the swing of things and this way I don't have to do all the brainwork upfront, just the manual labor during the week.

Week 1 of this menu went well.  I mean, I think it did anyway, I wasn't here to enjoy most of the meals because I was in Chicago dealing with emergency #5,732.  I had all the meals prepped though so they just had to be finished each evening I was gone. I was told that all the meals were good and not too difficult to complete.  I'm looking forward to actually eating the meals this time though!

On the menu this week:

Beef Stew
Chimichurri Kebobs
Herb Turkey Breasts
Chicken Tortilla-less soup
Zoodle Pasta
Slow Cooker Chicken

I promise to take some pics and report back about which recipes are delish and which ones to skip.  Bonus: just brought home some of my cute aprons from my most recent trip to Chicago...back to the kitchen in style!