The 2021 week 28 menu plan is complete! and…features a new format.
Breakfast
The breakfast plan for 2021 week 28 includes all Trim Healthy Mama E meals and includes new recipes for the Cherry Crisp, the Cinnamon Protein Pancakes and the Zucchini Muffins. We have enjoyed the cobbler and French toast in the past.
Bananas Foster French Toast Bake THM E
Cherry Crisp THM E
Berry Cobbler THM E
Oatmeal Zucchini Muffins THM E
Cinnamon Protein Pancakes THM E
Lunch
The lunches planned for the week are all proven favorites.
Crack Chicken Soup Keto
Spicy Bean Soup THM E
Taco Salad Crunch THM E
Loaded Baked Potato Soup THM S
Dinner
The dinner plans include two family favorites (the Soup and Lasagna) and several new recipes. Several of the new recipes are not within our current eating plan, but I hope to make modifications to make them compliant.
Salmon with Lemon and Dill Keto, THM S
Sausage Parmesan Cream Cheese Soup
White Lazy Lasagna Keto THM S
Hits and Misses
Lunch
I made this chicken salad last week, but continued to have all of the ingredients on hand, so I made it once again. This time I used Thai basil from my herb garden. This is a great unique chicken salad especially in the summer. The next time I might add edamame.
Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
This Keto Pie was more of a miss than a hit. It was easy to make and certainly fed us for 2 meals, however the flavor was quite bland. If I make it again in the future, I will try to develop more flavor.
Dinner
We have had this recipe for baby backs before, but this time I simply used the rub…no sauce. Delish. I learned this from my son. A good rub and slow cook adds plenty of flavor without glopping on sauce. I will continue to prepare them this way in the future.
There was a sale on zucchini and I had plenty to use. I have made this casserole in the past and completely forgot about it. This is about as good as a zucchini side dish can be and was perfect with the ribs. Yum!
Baked Cheesy Zucchini Casserole
OMG! I died and went to heaven. This salmon was absolutely delicious and oh so easy. Luckily I had all the fresh herbs in my herb garden. This is a definite keeper and restaurant worthy…fine restaurant!
Slow Roasted Salmon with French Herb Salsa
What to do when you have tomatoes that are fairly tasteless and need to be used? I had pinned this recipe as a potential side dish or maybe even a lunch, but decided to serve it with our salmon. It was not really a miss, but not worth doing in the future. (Just a note…this got better when reheated and eaten with the pork chops.)
I have not tried a new recipe for pork chops in years, because we love Emeril’s recipe so much. Well I tried something new and these pork chops were delicious…maybe not quite as moist as Emeril’s but definately delicious and rotation worthy.
Dessert
Oh how I love strawberry rhubarb…anything. I so hoped that this recipe would be a success. Way too sweet. I will admit that we like things more tart and tangy, so for sweet dessert lovers this might be fine. I plan to make it again…it has great possibilities, but I will definitely curtail a lot of the sweetener.
Recap
All in all a great week of eating. We did skip the Asiago Chicken (which is in the freezer) because wild caught salmon was available and beautiful at Costco. I did elect to prepare it in a new way and am so very glad I did. Best salmon ever.
The 2021 week 28 menu plan requires a lot of cooking…in fact more cooking than I have done in quite some time. I also have several challenges to make intriguing recipes into meals that conform with our current eating plan. Hopefully I can do that successfully. Our journey to eat healthy and enjoy what we eat continues. Bon Appetit!
Dry rub, no sauce = Texas style!