Weekly Menu Plan

 

Well, here we are again!  Back to the BUSY time of year!  It always seems to me that for most of the year, Christmas is way off in the future, then WHAM!  It's here!  And it seems to come faster and faster each year!  You would think that, by now, I would be more prepared, but no.  It always seems to surprise me!

This year, for me, December is full of meeting friends for breakfast and lunch, doctor appointments, school concerts and programs, shopping, wrapping, sewing, and baking.  I enjoy it all, but at the same time I am always glad when January comes and it's all over for another year.  But it's always fun at the same time!

This week, for meals, I relied solely on Taste of Home, my old go-to recipe site.  I subscribed to that magazine for years and years, and I have the entire collection.  I stopped my subscription a couple years ago because, mostly, I don't like the new magazine.  The old ones are my favorites!  But anymore, they include mostly recipes I would never make.  It's just not my kind of magazine anymore.  The old ones, though - that's a different story!  I use them all the time!  They are the best!  And the pages on the new magazine are like tissue paper.  I wish they made them like they used to!

So here's this week's plan.  It's pretty simple, because I've got lots of other things to do this month besides cook.  This week I am making some breads.  I can freeze them to give away later, but some of them I will give away this week.  I am seeing some friends I probably won't see again until after Christmas, so they will get their loaves early.  

Most of the recipes are easily adapted to gluten free, but if they're not, I have a ton of frozen gluten free meals I can use up.  For Christmas baking, I don't bake gluten free unless it's for my sister or something that I really want to eat.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  See you next week with another meal plan!