Thursday Temptations Feb 7-13th

Sorry this is a day late.  And I know I haven't been blogging about my menu at all really.  But since it's been through a lot of plastic surgery lately, I figured I better let it heal a bit before talking about it.  It used to take me a couple hours to make the menu and grocery list and now it takes a little bit longer.  I am really trying to count carbs and watch calories and with doing these things, it makes the job that much more tedious.  To help myself stay organized, I created my own version of this Week at a Glance worksheet from Mommytracked.com.  This one was a free download and while I loved it and it totally helped keep us organized, it didn't have as many boxes as I needed.  So here's mine:

Obviously I adapted it a lot from the Week at a Glance.

This allows me to have room for all my 8 billion meals and snacks and helps me keep track of doctor's appointments, David's ever-changing work schedule, and any chores or shopping or cleaning that needs to be done that day.  It definitely works well for us and because of this wonderful little piece of paper, we have successfully not eaten out unless we were supposed to per the sheet.  It's really been a time and lifesaver.  Love organization, don't you?!

Anyway, here's my organized menu for this week!

Thursday:

Since I'm desperately trying to eat fish twice a week I wanted to utilize David's connections and have the best tasting tilapia I could have.  We are going to have Logan's Tilapia, cheesy broccoli and sweet potato fries for our meal today.  I really have been anti-seafood for the majority of my pregnancy so I'm trying to force myself to eat what I can.  Dang pregnancy taste buds!

Friday:

With David's day off and it being our date night, we're going to make a simple and easy dinner.  Pioneer Woman's Mulligawtawny Soup is warm and tasty.  We'll pair it with a side salad.  I love that it's so easy to throw together!

Saturday:

I made a lot of soups and such a few weeks back and froze the leftovers for days where I needed a quick meal.  So today we'll have leftover Pioneer Woman Chicken Soup and BLTs.

Sunday:

To use up most of the leftover PW's Mulligawtawny Soup, we'll have it again today and a grilled cheese sandwich on the side.

Monday:

Second serving of seafood today!  We'll make grilled shrimp, grilled zucchini and mushrooms, and a baked potato.  Surprisingly our FL weather has been pretty mild lately.  Only going to the high 70s or low 80s so I'm trying to utilize the grill as much as we can before it gets too blistering hot.

Tuesday:

Grilling again!  We are making grilled steaks, steamed green beans, and sweet potato fries.  Last time I marinated the steaks overnight in soy sauce and teriyaki sauce and they turned out to be very, very tasty.  Marinating really does the trick for tougher meat.

photo from www.simon.com

Wednesday:
Today we have our Happiest Baby on the Block class at the hospital so that definitely throws a wrench into our cooking/diabetes schedule.  So to combat this, we are going with Logan's To-Go:  Ribs, salad, and a sweet potato.  We will call it in on our way back to Oviedo and hopefully it'll be piping hot and ready to go when we get there.

Enjoy!