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Sunday meal prep for family ideas
Posted on 10/6/19 at 9:55 am
Posted on 10/6/19 at 9:55 am
My wife is very pregnant and my kids have extra-curriculars seemingly every night. What are some of your favorites that you can make on a Sunday that simply require heating up on the stove during the week?
Red and white beans, chili, gumbo, spaghetti. Any other favorites?
Red and white beans, chili, gumbo, spaghetti. Any other favorites?
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Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:02 am to Sheepdog1833
Tacos. Hard or soft. Brown meat add seasoning packet, simmer a few minutes. Done.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:12 am to Sheepdog1833
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Tacos, soft
Cook meat & cool it completely. Assemble soft tacos & wrap in foil. Pop in toaster over 15-20 minutes until warmed inside. We make 12-15 tacos from a single pound of ground turkey for the week.
Also cook a pound of thin spaghetti & toss it lightly in plain marinara. Make meat sauce & store separately. Easy to pull the amount of noodles & sauce you need heatvin microwave& serve.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:19 am to Sheepdog1833
Chicken or beef stew, lasagna or other casseroles.
Look up King Ranch Chicken Casserole and give that a try. It is pretty easy to fix and comes out great.
I usually cook in pretty large quantities and put things up in quart bags in the freezer to use as needed. Things like red beans are cooked using 4 lbs. of beans. Meatballs/Italian sausage and red gravy is also cooked in bulk. Usually around 50-60 meatballs, 3-4 lbs. Sausage and about 3 gallons of gravy.
Quick soups like broccoli/cheese can be made in about 30 minutes and have that with some grilled cheese sandwiches.
Look up King Ranch Chicken Casserole and give that a try. It is pretty easy to fix and comes out great.
I usually cook in pretty large quantities and put things up in quart bags in the freezer to use as needed. Things like red beans are cooked using 4 lbs. of beans. Meatballs/Italian sausage and red gravy is also cooked in bulk. Usually around 50-60 meatballs, 3-4 lbs. Sausage and about 3 gallons of gravy.
Quick soups like broccoli/cheese can be made in about 30 minutes and have that with some grilled cheese sandwiches.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 12:59 pm to Sheepdog1833
Good ol’ tuna casserole. My mama fed us TC every Tuesday night for at least a decade, as it was her late night at work. She’d make a giant enameled steel pot of it at lunchtime, and it would sit on the back of the stove ‘til we came home for dinner time. It was the 70s, no one died of food poisoning.
Jambalaya or paella reheat fairly well for a family meal.
Black bean soup, with the entertainment of various garnishes (shredded cheese, sour cream, green onions, a few crumbled tortilla chips).
Veggie/beef stew, or beef/barley soup, if it ever cools off.
Lentils & rice
Grill or broil a bunch of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, simply seasoned:
—slice & use to top Caesar salad later in the week
—shred in food processor for a big batch of spready-style chicken salad; easy to make sandwiches or serve with crackers & raw cut up veggies for supper
—chop into pieces; boil some spaghetti noodles, toss w/a little sesame oil, refrigerate. When you’re ready to serve, toss cold noodles w/bottled peanut sauce & put the chicken on top. Serve warm or cold as your family prefers.
Grill a batch of beef or turkey burgers....very few kids will pass up a reheated hamburger.
Finally, there is no shame in a microwaved hot dog, prepared w/love. Top w/whatever y’ll like best. And a bunch of veggies on the side.
Jambalaya or paella reheat fairly well for a family meal.
Black bean soup, with the entertainment of various garnishes (shredded cheese, sour cream, green onions, a few crumbled tortilla chips).
Veggie/beef stew, or beef/barley soup, if it ever cools off.
Lentils & rice
Grill or broil a bunch of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, simply seasoned:
—slice & use to top Caesar salad later in the week
—shred in food processor for a big batch of spready-style chicken salad; easy to make sandwiches or serve with crackers & raw cut up veggies for supper
—chop into pieces; boil some spaghetti noodles, toss w/a little sesame oil, refrigerate. When you’re ready to serve, toss cold noodles w/bottled peanut sauce & put the chicken on top. Serve warm or cold as your family prefers.
Grill a batch of beef or turkey burgers....very few kids will pass up a reheated hamburger.
Finally, there is no shame in a microwaved hot dog, prepared w/love. Top w/whatever y’ll like best. And a bunch of veggies on the side.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:15 pm to hungryone
Spaghetti and meatballs reheats really well if you mix the noodles with the sauce before you refrigerate.
We eat off of a pot of gumbo for three days when the weather cools off.
Chili reheats well.
I can’t think of many thing a with chicken that I enjoy after it has been refrigerated other than gumbo. Chicken (IMO) just needs to be done fresh unless the chicken is supposed to be cold. Caesar salad with chicken breast is a good one to keep in the rotation.
Something that we have done in the past with fair success is hot sandwiches. Get a loaf of French Bread and make a big sandwich with it. Salami, ham, turkey, cheese, etc but no condiments on it. Wrap it in foil and put it in the fridge for later in the week. When you get home and are ready for it, just pop it in the oven (still wrapped in foil), and let it heat through. 15-20 minutes at 250 or so and then add condiments at the table. This works with hamburgers, chicken sandwiches (use the Tyson chicken patties or country fried steak patties that you pre heated and cooled), and hot dogs.
We eat off of a pot of gumbo for three days when the weather cools off.
Chili reheats well.
I can’t think of many thing a with chicken that I enjoy after it has been refrigerated other than gumbo. Chicken (IMO) just needs to be done fresh unless the chicken is supposed to be cold. Caesar salad with chicken breast is a good one to keep in the rotation.
Something that we have done in the past with fair success is hot sandwiches. Get a loaf of French Bread and make a big sandwich with it. Salami, ham, turkey, cheese, etc but no condiments on it. Wrap it in foil and put it in the fridge for later in the week. When you get home and are ready for it, just pop it in the oven (still wrapped in foil), and let it heat through. 15-20 minutes at 250 or so and then add condiments at the table. This works with hamburgers, chicken sandwiches (use the Tyson chicken patties or country fried steak patties that you pre heated and cooled), and hot dogs.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:24 pm to Sheepdog1833
A couple more ideas involving potatoes. Make a big bowl of potato salad and use that as a side during the week.
I also make a mean twice baked potato casserole that goes well with something simply like panne' meat, grilled or fried fish, thick ham steaks, etc.
Shepherds Pie is also a good meal in itself with the beef, vegetables and potatoes.
I also make a mean twice baked potato casserole that goes well with something simply like panne' meat, grilled or fried fish, thick ham steaks, etc.
Shepherds Pie is also a good meal in itself with the beef, vegetables and potatoes.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:31 pm to Sheepdog1833
We lean heavy on Mexican dishes for this. Cook some sort of protein and then do as you want each night.
Quesadilla, taco, burrito. Whatever
Quesadilla, taco, burrito. Whatever
Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:48 pm to Sheepdog1833
Jambalaya, any kind of pasta dish (crawfish fettucini, chicken alfredo, spaghetti, etc) Chicken salad, pulled pork in the crock pot (can be used for carnitas, sandwiches, nachos, tacos, salads), cabbage potato and sausage casserole, pot roast
Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:54 pm to Sheepdog1833
quote:Dude, slow down.
My wife is very pregnant and my kids...
Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:49 pm to Sheepdog1833
Buy a sack of potatoes and make stuffed twice baked potatoes. Freeze for later use. Bake sweet potatoes, refrigerate and candy them in a cast iron skillet.
Pot roast. Jambalaya. Spinach Madeline. Frozen taco meat, frozen BBQ. Chicken spaghetti. Leftover hamburgers. Whatever your family likes.
Pot roast. Jambalaya. Spinach Madeline. Frozen taco meat, frozen BBQ. Chicken spaghetti. Leftover hamburgers. Whatever your family likes.
Posted on 10/7/19 at 6:48 am to Sheepdog1833
Yesterday I did a pot roast, broccoli and cheese soup, spaghetti and red beans.
Thanks for the tips, I’ll try some more next weekend.
By the way, this is baby number five for us. The milkman is doing work.
Thanks for the tips, I’ll try some more next weekend.
By the way, this is baby number five for us. The milkman is doing work.
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