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A new member asked for ideas for daily menus, and that reminded me that I used to post a week's worth of dinner menus once a week on another online forum. I'm going to start doing the same thing here (though I can't promise it'll be every single week, due to my work schedule), and I invite everyone else to post their menus on the thread.

I eat the same things for Breakfast most days, and lunch is almost always leftovers from the previous day's dinner. Occasionally I have to work nights, so I don't cook dinner on those days (it's "every man for himself" then). Here's a week's worth of dinner menus from my vast archives (saved because I'm writing a cookbook called Menus Made Easy).

Some of these are from recipes in my cookbook, Bandwagon Cookery. I noted the page # beside those dishes.

SUNDAY

Roast chicken w/ lemon & rosemary

Baked onions & cranberries p.136

Cooked greens (spinach, kale, turnip)

MONDAY

Crab cakes w/ lemon sour cream sauce on the side (light sour cream, grated lemon rind, onion powder) p. 278 & p.145

Green Beans - roasted - p.314

Mashed sweet potato

TUESDAY

Tex-Mex chicken casserole (using leftover roast chicken)

Grapefruit & avocado salad w/ cilantro p.188

WEDNESDAY

Baked cod w/ a "crust" of crushed pretzels (with more of the lemon sour cream sauce on the side)

Asparagus

Brown rice

THURSDAY

Steak - herb marinated - p.259

Grilled potato wedges, summer squash & zucchini (basted with Italian salad dressing)

Tomato salad w/ reduced-fat feta cheese - with lemon Salad Dressing on p.184

FRIDAY

Baked tofu w/ spicy peanut sauce p.293

Korean-style cooked spinach p. 313

Barley cooked w/ chicken broth

SATURDAY

Parmesan polenta topped with spaghetti sauce (with cooked ground turkey or beef in it)

Green salad with lots of veggies - with roasted red pepper salad dressing p.187

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Thanks Jean! Some of these sound absolutly wonderful. Are these recipes in your current cookbook? I've got so many cookbooks that I resist getting another. I always find a handful of recipies in any book I get - but I have not had any luck with any of the cookbooks for bandsters I've got. They all taste like diet food, and that doesn't work for me. I may have to break down and order yours after seeing this!

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Hi Jean,

Your menu looks yumcious!

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Thanks for sharing! I've done a similar thing to your lemon sour cream using low fat greek yogurt. YUM!

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A new member asked for ideas for daily menus, and that reminded me that I used to post a week's worth of dinner menus once a week on another online forum. I'm going to start doing the same thing here (though I can't promise it'll be every single week, due to my work schedule), and I invite everyone else to post their menus on the thread.

I eat the same things for Breakfast most days, and lunch is almost always leftovers from the previous day's dinner. Occasionally I have to work nights, so I don't cook dinner on those days (it's "every man for himself" then). Here's a week's worth of dinner menus from my vast archives (saved because I'm writing a cookbook called Menus Made Easy).

SUNDAY

Roast chicken w/ lemon & rosemary

Baked onions & cranberries

Cooked greens (spinach, kale, turnip)

MONDAY

Crab cakes w/ lemon sour cream sauce on the side (light sour cream, grated lemon rind, onion powder)

Green Beans

Mashed sweet potato

TUESDAY

Tex-Mex chicken casserole (using leftover roast chicken)

Grapefruit & avocado salad w/ cilantro

WEDNESDAY

Baked cod w/ a "crust" of crushed pretzels (with more of the lemon sour cream sauce on the side)

Asparagus

Brown rice

THURSDAY

Steak

Grilled potato wedges, summer squash & zucchini (basted with Italian salad dressing)

Tomato salad w/ reduced-fat feta cheese

FRIDAY

Baked tofu w/ spicy peanut sauce

Korean-style cooked spinach

Barley cooked w/ chicken broth

SATURDAY

Parmesan polenta topped with spaghetti sauce (with cooked ground turkey or beef in it)

Green salad with lots of veggies

Wow!! Thanks for posting these menus...I am encouraged that the limited horizon of food choices is much more broad that I once thought!

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Wow!! Thanks for posting these menus...I am encouraged that the limited horizon of food choices is much more broad that I once thought!

Being able to eat a wide variety of foods I like is one of the reasons I chose the band, though I'll admit that my tolerance of particular foods has varied over time, and food tolerance requires consistent use of good band eating skills. It also depends on cooking methods (moist is best).

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Thanks Jean! Some of these sound absolutly wonderful. Are these recipes in your current cookbook? I've got so many cookbooks that I resist getting another. I always find a handful of recipies in any book I get - but I have not had any luck with any of the cookbooks for bandsters I've got. They all taste like diet food, and that doesn't work for me. I may have to break down and order yours after seeing this!

Some of the recipes are from Bandwagon Cookery. I just edited my original post to add the page numbers in the cookbook, and next time I do a post like this I will use as many recipes from the book as I can.

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Hi Jean,

Your menu looks yumcious!

Yumcious?! I love that word!

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This also helps me to plan ahead and not stand in front of the fridge wondering what to do again... Thank you again sooooo much!!

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This also helps me to plan ahead and not stand in front of the fridge wondering what to do again... Thank you again sooooo much!!

I plan a week's dinner menus in advance so I know what to buy at the supermarket and so I don't have to throw together a meal at the last minute. It's nearly impossible for me to make good food choices when I'm starving or rushed.

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This is awesome!! Thank you!

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