What a weekend! We had a great time with our houseguests and got to see several people we hadn’t seen for a long time. I’ll share more and show you pictures on Gratituesday!
Now…we’re putting our house back together and working to get things back to normal. (normal?)
Here’s our menu for the week…
Sunday, Oct. 12
Breakfast Cake (recipe coming this week!)
Beef stew
Leftovers
Monday, Oct. 13
Sourdough biscuits, peaches
Grilled cheese, tomato soup
Thanksgiving celebration with our Canadian friends!! I can’t WAIT!!
Tuesday, Oct. 14
Scrambled eggs, oranges
Bean dip with tortilla chips, strawberry-peach slushies
BBQ beef, potato wedges, peas
Wednesday Oct. 15
Orange muffins, bananas
Tuna topped tomatoes, cottage cheese with peaches
Crunchy ranch chicken, stir fried rice and veggies
Thursday, Oct. 16
French toast
Alphabet soup (an experiment that hopefully I’ll have a good report on soon!), homemade soft pretzels (because if the Alphabet Soup experiment doesn’t turn out to be a happy thing, at least we’ll have pretzels)
Beef enchiladas, taco salad
Friday, Oct. 17
Peanut butter honey toast, pears
Lentils and cornbread, fruit salad
Hamburgers on homemade buns and onion rings
Saturday, Oct. 18
Whole wheat cinnamon rolls
Homemade pizza
Potato soup, carrot sticks
Snacks I’ll make this week:
Mudballs
Whole wheat graham crackers
Trail mix
Are you working on your pie recipes for the ebook we’re putting together???!!! Only a few more days left! Read the details here! Everyone join in!
You need to start getting excited, by the way! My Website-Aversary is coming up in just a few weeks…and besides having that great new FREE pie ebook ready for you…we’re going to be having a week or two full of giveaways and free stuff and special sales! It’s going to be SO MUCH FUN. I can hardly sleep thinking about it!
But don’t you lose sleep over it too. I mean, it’s exciting…really exciting. But I’d hate for you to lie awake wondering and dreaming about all the fun that’s to be had at Heavenly Homemaker’s Website-Aversary. Leave that part up to me. Really. We don’t all need to be so excited that we can’t sleep. Some of us should really be getting sleep. Really.
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Sherry says:
Great looking menu, Laura! I have got to try those pretzels and onion rings. They sound wonderful!
October 13th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Trixie says:
Hello!
Your orange muffins and crunchy ranch chicken sound so yummy!
Can you share your chicken recipe?
Take Care,
Trixie
http://farmhomelife.blogspot.com/
October 13th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Marcia "HDMac" says:
Great menu and love tomato soup!
October 13th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Michelle M. says:
That pie e-book sounds like fun. Happy almost Website-Aversary
Check our my Menu over at Ourlittlemonkeys.net
October 13th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Tabitha Blue says:
Glad you had a good time! I really need to try making homemade pizza. I’ve only made kinda-homemade pizza… with the refrigerated dough and pizza sauce from the store. I’d like to REALLY try and make it.
Thanks. Great menu plan!
October 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Staci says:
Your menu looks yummy this week
Glad you had a nice time with your family! We are headed to Costa Rica until next Tuesday…so I’ve been running around like crazy preparing! I will have a lot to get caught up on when I get home! Have a great week and I’ll check in next week 
(I’m hoping to make your pretzels when I get home!)
October 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Tammy says:
Great menu, Love all the fruit for breakfast. Four boys huh, I have 3 boys & 3 girls!
October 13th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Lisa says:
Your menu looks great! We’re having homemade pizza tonight and potato soup this weekend.
Have a week full of blessings!
October 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Donna says:
Do you soak your nuts for the trail mix?
Your graham cracker recipe is great! I’m amazed at how crispy they get!!!
October 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Steph @ Problem Solvin Mom says:
Sounds like a yummy week. Can’t wait to hear more about the breakfast cake!
Have a great week,
Steph
October 14th, 2008 at 9:35 am