September Meal Plan (& making peace with my Instant Pot)

Yesterday, “monthly meal plan” came up on my digital to do list. The past month or two, I’ve been operating week to week, which is better than nothing, but monthly is one thousand times better. As usual, I was dissatisfied with available methods/templates for this task, so I whipped up my own. I think I love this. Highlighting weekends is important to just give me a little grounding for where we are in the week.

You’ll probably notice a lot of instant pot recipes on there in the first half of the month. I’m still in the middle of my tour de instant pot - the end of which will come at whatever time I determine whether or not the beast gets voted off the island. Lots of people gave me lots of suggestions, plus ones I looked up on my own and people said they wanted to try. This has been going on for almost 2 weeks now, and so far only 2 recipes have gone directly into the recycling.

Here’s what we’ve tried (and liked enough to keep) so far:

https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/instant-pot-meatballs-red-potatoes-creamy-parmesan-sauce/

https://www.sparklestosprinkles.com/instant-pot-shredded-chicken-burrito-bowl/

https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/instant-pot-brown-rice-pilaf-with-chicken-sausage/

https://instantloss.com/instant-pot-chicken-tortilla-soup/

https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/instant-pot-lemon-herbed-chicken-and-red-potatoes/

The ones we didn’t like were a pork chops with green beans recipe that was fine, just not good enough. And a mac & cheese with chicken and broccoli that Dave and my dad thought was ok, but I couldn’t even finish.

So we’ve got about half a month left of recipes stacked on my kitchen counter. I’ll let you know how it goes.

For this month, the only things up in the air still are what Dave and I will do for our anniversary and what my dad wants on his birthday (stroganoff probably), but the rest is dummy-proofed. Hooray!

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