Menu Plan Monday...

Last week we tried Barb's spaghetti sauce and really loved it. We ate dinner off of it, put some in the fridge for leftovers and I froze four full quart size ziplocs with the rest. I didn't make the meatballs. I just browned some Italian sausage and we put that on top of our pasta, then covered it with sauce.....DELICIOUS!! Oh...and I put it in my crockput and let it cook on low for about 8 hours. I have a large crockpot and it was full the very brim!! Just a warning if you try this out in your crockpot...you might want to cut the recipe in half, especially if you plan on simmering meatballs in it.

We were also very busy last week. The week before, I had taken my youngest, Lucas, to his 18 month well-baby. He is small and I have been taking him monthly since his 15 month check up for weight checks. He had only gained 8 ounces in one month and they were getting concerned. Logan was also very small, but not as small as Lucas. At 17 months, Lucas was 16.5 pounds. At his 18 month well baby he was 17 pounds. They said they thought all tests would come back normal, but wanted to check to be safe. So, we drew blood and last week we found out that he had a low hemoglobin. She asked that we bring him back to the office and wanted to send him to the lab again and also get a urine sample with a catheter. We decided that if it was just a low hemoglobin, we didn't want to do more tests until trying other things first. When I took him to the office (exactly one week after his 18 month check up), he had lost that 8 ounces and was back down to 16.5 pounds. Turns out, he had WAY more stuff wrong with his blood, so we agreed to further testing. To make a long story short, we were at the doctor's office and or lab for three days in a row and I didn't get to all of our meals. We won't know any results until at least Tuesday.
We have two meals left over and I was bad this weekend and didn't plan for the rest of the week. I am not sure what order we will have things in, so here are the two carryover meals....
*= new recipe

--crock pot pork chops and potatoes (still haven't had this from two weeks ago), green beans

--orange chicken*, Jasmine rice,stir fry veggies, store bought egg rolls

I'm thinking for the other meals we will have:

--chicken salad sandwiches on homemade bread with tomatoes from the farmer's market, chips, fruit

--taco salad

--fish, cheese filled shells with sauce, bread

If you'd like to see more menus, head on over to Laura's!!