Happy New Year! In the spirit of getting organized, here is my menu plan, workout plan, and organizing plan for this week!
Menu Plan
As you might remember, I’m one of the Lean11 bloggers. So I’m trying to NOT eat out, therefore I have purchased some Lean Cuisines for those “just in case” moments.
Breakfasts: Steel Cut Oats or Scrambled Eggs
Snacks: Oranges, Grapefruit, Skinny Cow
Lunches: Leftovers or Lean Cuisines
Dinners: (note, recipes will be coming a day or two after they’re made. Be sure to check back!)
Monday – Chickpea & Colored-Carrot Couscous
Tuesday – Spicy Asian Chicken with Brussels Sprouts
Wednesday – Honey Mustard Chicken & Rice Pilaf
Thursday – Tilapia Citrus Couscous Salad
Friday – Quinoa and Sweet Potato Salad
Weekend – We’ll see!
Workout Schedule
I’ll be doing the RevAbs program, and I’ve decided to do it in the mornings. Yikes, it’s going to be hard getting up early after being off work all last week!
Monday – Total Strength & Mercy Abs (60 minutes)
Tuesday – Fire Up Your Abs (40 minutes)
Wednesday – Power Intervals (30 minutes)
Thursday – Total Strength & Mercy Abs (60 minutes)
Friday – Fire Up Your Abs (40 minutes)
Saturday – Power Intervals (30 minutes)
Sunday – Mercy! (15 minutes)
Homekeeping Plan
How did my 3-day cleaning spree go last week? I did manage to get my entire pantry cleaned out and organized, most of my house decluttered, and most of my clothes sorted. I am trying to get rid of everything I don’t *love*. I also bought some Cubeicals for the den and am moving my candles and DVDs/CDs to those storage cubes. I’ve decided I’m going to try to do one thing a day if I don’t have anything else going on, that way I can continue getting things in order.
Monday – finish going through CDs and DVDs (and yes, a couple of VHS cassettes in there LOL)
Tuesday – pick up milk share from the farm
Wednesday – go through workout clothes
Thursday – clean refrigerator
Friday – talk DH into getting a veg box
Saturday – menu plan & grocery shopping
Sunday – church, dinner at mom & dad’s
This post linked to Menu Plan Monday and Frugal Friday
Wow what a great menu plan and workout plan, I need to take some inspiration from you. I’d love that Tilapia Citrus Couscous Salad recipe.
never fear, it will be posted next week!
Good luck on that Friday thing…..
Wow… you are on it girl! I’m so glad you are in this Lean 11 group. I am totally impressed with your menu plan! No wonder you are the Local cook! lol Looks like a restaurant menu to me.
Also impressed by your work out goals.
Also love the organizing section of your plan.
Be sure to take before & after pictures!! You can link that to my organizing link party if you want.
I hope you mean this post and not my before picture LOL.
I love your weekly plans! Such a great idea to sort it all out that way!
we’ll see how long it lasts 😉
Thanks Jenn – between work and blogging and life I decided I NEED to make lists.
What a great way to get organized! I do my menu planning every weekend, but really should start making a Housecleaning plan as well.
Happy New Year from Mexico!
I actually stole the idea from FlyLady. I haven’t been able to implement her whole system, but I do like having a “mission of the day.”
I ? FlyLady! She’s the reason I started planning my Menus in the first place, but I never thought to plan my housework out the same way. 🙂 Thanks for the great idea.
She is AWESOME! I just downloaded her Office Control journal to try to get my workspace organized in the New Year.
the honey mustard chicken sounds good. I’ll definitely be checking back. Family loves to eat chicken, they’d probably eat more meat if I felt comfortable cooking it but I tend to make sure everything is DONE. lol. Drives hubby mad. hehe. I like the plan idea, I can use it for myself but I tend to change up family meals. Mine works since right now it is Lean Cuisines. 🙂 The dvds sound interesting who are they by?
oh my gosh, I do the same thing! I overcook meat way too much. I always have DH check to see if it’s done LOL. The DVDs are by BeachBody, the same company that does P90X and Insanity. So far I really like them.
Thanks for the update! Not familiar with Cubeicals and am wondering if veg box means TV?
Cubeicals are furniture with cubes – here’s a link: http://www.closetmaid.com/whats_new/Cubeicals.cfm
As for the veg box . . . that makes sense too! Actually it’s a vegetable box offered by a local farmer. Kind of like a CSA except in the winter they just have you put your order in the day before and you pay on pickup.
Oh nice! I figured it could even be one of those fancy and PRICEY refrigerated vegetable drawers that install in a kitchen island, so your produce is right where you work. Saw them at a home show a few years ago and they want thousands of dollars for them. We haven’t joined a CSA yet but should. I think the one local one available has a waiting list though.
Thanks for the link to the cubes!
I wish! Those refrigerated vegetable drawers sound nice. Thousands of dollars is WAY out of my price range though.