Here's this months menu:
Week One
11-7 Grilled pulled pork sandwiches, potato salad, green salad, canned peaches
11-8 Leftover pulled pork sands, baked beans, carrot sticks, apple sauce
11-9 Spaghetti and Meatballs - spinach salad
11-10 Marinated chicken breasts, rice, steamed zuke
11-11 Meatball sands, whole wheat rolls, homemade baked parmesan french fries, steamed broccoli, fruit cocktail
11-12 Rachel Ray Shrimp Pasta Scampi with steamed zuke, green salad
11-13 Beef stroganoff over noodles, green beans, grapes
11-14 Roast chicken, spaghetti squash, corn muffins, green beans
Week Two
11-15 Open faced chicken sandwiches (leftover chicken), mashed potatoes, corn
11-16 Meatloaf (cook two) roasted white and sweet potatoes, green beans
11-17 Smoked Pork Chops, noodles, green salad, apple sauce
11-18 Leftover meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn
11-19 breakfast for dinner, Spinach Frittata, homemade rolls, canned peaches
11-20 Planned Eat out (family event)
11-21 Baked Ham, Scalloped potatoes, Broccoli, Zuke Bread
Week Three
11-22 Ham and cabbage in the slow cooker, corn muffins, apple sauce (leftover cubed ham)
11-23 Chicken Cordon Bleu, rice, steamed carrots (leftover leftover cubed ham stuffedin chicken, kids favorite)
11-24 Grilled Salmon, steamed butternut squash, green salad
11-25 Turkey Dinner (Happy Turkey Day)
11-26 Leftover Turkey
11-27 Crab Cakes over spinach greens, fresh bread, canned peaches
11-28 Pot Roast, Roasted potatoes, green beans
Week Four
11-29 Chicken Tacos, sliced carrots and celery
11-30 Turkey Pot Pies
12-1 Grilled chicken sandwiches, tomato soup, green salad
12-2 Baked ziti with veggies, sliced apples
12-3 Take out Pizza
12-4 Stew with potatoes, carrots, celery and dumplings
12-5 Grocery shopping day
I will say that we are a very meat and potato sort of family, but I do try to keep it all balanced. My kids are both a little on the skinny side, sometimes I'll make them milkshakes just to fatten them up.
Breakfast most days is choice of oatmeal, scrambled eggs, pb&j sandwiches, hard boiled eggs along with yogurt, fruit a lot of frozen strawberries blueberries and bananas. On the weekend we might make big breakfasts.
Kids pack their lunches and most snacks are homemade, jello with fruit is a recent favorite, homemade cookies, zuke brownies with icing. Fruit is purchased once a month at shopping. Beginning of the month we eat grapes, melon, bananas, later in the month we eat oranges, apples, pears, frozen bananas and go to frozen fruits like strawberries and blueberries and home canned peaches. Lunch for one week will be a boneless turkey breast that I roast and than slice for sandwiches, another week is homemade cold chicken fingers, next week bowls of wedding soup along with whole wheat breadsticks, week of thanksgiving that are taking ham and cheese handwiches (bread dough stuffed with ham and cheese, baked and can be eaten cold out of their lunch boxes)
Weekend lunches are crock pots full of soup, chicken noodle, chicken tortilla, broccoli cheese.
I menu plan for a month because I have started grocery shopping for a month at a time. I wasn;t sure it could be done but it can. However, it would be unfair of me if I didn't point out that I have chickens who lay eggs in the yard, greens growing in a cold frame in the garden through at least December and a stocked freezer with garden goodies and home canned goods. I also bake pretty much all of our bread. I do think that someone who doesn't do all of these things could still menu plan for a month, maybe with a quick trip to the store in the middle for eggs and or bread.
FYI I work full time at home. This has saved me an enormous amount of time, even though I cook most things from scratch. Just not having to go to the store every week saves a huge amount of time.