Meal Plan Monday

For months now I've been posting my meal plans over at baby get green.  I'm happy to have Trader Joe's and Whole Foods so close and to be meal planning specifically with those stores in mind. That said, I'm sure with some simple tweaking (on some items and prices) the meals can be flexibly used even if you don't shop at one or both of these stores.

I do want to add that we are going with no meat or dairy right now.  I've been getting eggs and milk for Evee.  Meat and dairy will be basically out of our diets for this Monday's meal plan and the next, but after that it will go back to some meat, eggs and dairy for sure.   In the mean time, it will definitely look more like a vegan diet the next 2 weeks - thanks for being flexible!

I will do a follow up post on where we bought the items and how much it totaled.  I'll go to Trader Joe's first and then follow up with Whole Foods.  

Breakfasts and Lunches

• Oatmeal
• Fruit
• Vegetable Soup
• Veggies and hummus
• Pita and roasted garlic
• Brown rice and veggies

Meals

Monday - Brown Rice Palif (w/ sun dried tomatoes and pine nuts and w/out prosciutto) - recipe from "the whole deal"
Tuesday - Hummus with pita or homemade chapitas (how to cook dry beans for hummus), veggies
Wednesday - Whole wheat pasta with tomatoes & zucchini (without the cheese) - both a recipe from "the whole deal" and there is a similar one from More-With-Less Cookbook (World Community Cookbook) (under Spaghetti & Zucc sauce)
Thursday - Vegetarian tacos with whole wheat shells
Friday - Curried lentils
Saturday - Homemade whole wheat pizza with lots of veggies (and no cheese) - using this crust recipe
Sunday - Hearty Minestrone Soup - again from "the whole deal" - we will substitute with whole wheat pasta


Grocery List

• Brown rice
• Tomato paste
• Pine nuts
• Pinto beans - to make refried beans
  
• Whole wheat tortilla shells
• 2 medium zucchinis
• Fresh tomato (plum)
• Whole wheat pasta
• (Possibly) curry powder
• Carrots
• Savoy cabbage
• Celery
• Cannellini or white beans
  
• Fruit - whatever is on sale
  

I already have some of the other ingredients - lentils, olive oil, broccoli, peppers, canned tomatoes, garlic...  I also have started growing basil and parsley, so I have that fresh for the recipes calling for that. 

Hope your meal plan is a fun one this week! You can also always check out other Meal Plans over at Organizing Junkie!