Clean Eating Menu for Week 1

Using Pepperplate, my favorite app for meal planning and recipe organization, I came up with my first week's dinner menu.  Some of these recipes I have tried and some are new to me.  I will let ya know how they are after we have tried them.  You will also see from the plan that I have added some snacks to make over the weekend for the week.  This is completely new to me.  I have started with some crackers, pumpkin oat balls, and fruit snacks.  We are snack eating family so I have to conquer this part of our life from the beginning otherwise I will feel stressed.

All of the recipes in my meal plan can be found on my Pinterest board, Clean Eating.

You will notice that I did not add breakfast or lunch to the menu.  I think it will be overwhelming to plan every aspect of our eating.  I usually do not struggle with lunches.  Morgan is pretty routine and her sandwiches and fruit or salads.  Belle is easy.  She loves hard boiled eggs, hummus, veggies, cheese, yogurt, and the like.  Belle's lunches are Bento in style.  I will incorporate some of my bento ideas into this blog, as well.  I can take left overs, but I also like the same kinds of things like Belle.  Greg usually doesn't take lunch but hopefully I can get him to take lunch.  He does enjoy hummus wraps and turkey wraps when I have made them for him in the past.  Breakfasts are usually quick.  Smoothies, bars, cereal, yogurt.....Just need to make sure that I add these to my shopping list :)

Below is my shopping list taken right the Pepperplate app.  I love that I can plan my menu for the week, then add each recipe to the shopping list, remove the things I already have in my pantry and add things that are not in the recipes.  While I am shopping, I simply check the box noting that the item is in my cart and it is removed from the list.  I love this app!

My shopping lists will be a work in progress, as I am learning what to buy to keep in my pantry and things for smoothies.  See, I just realized I forgot Quinoa milk and Almond milk...

Charlene