Weekday Dinner Ideas

If it's Sunday, it's time to start thinking about the rest of the week's dinners. I'm conflicted about tomorrow, since I have two possibilities. I'd really like to use the organic grass-fed ground beef that Sprouts has on sale for $3.97 a pound, so dinner will most likely be chipotle sloppy Joes from Cooking Light. This would also make use of the organic onions on sale at Sprouts for $1.99 for a three pound bag. Rather than serving the sloppy Joes on buns, I'd rather put it over a small baked potato, and lo, organic russets are currently $2.50 for a five pound bag, also at Sprouts.

While the sloppy Joes seem to be a dinner made for the Sprouts sale, competing with that is the fact that the current Whole Foods sale will end Tuesday, which means that tomorrow and Tuesday will be my last chances to grab their large pepperoni pizza for only $8.99, and they have the organic red or green leaf lettuce for a side salad at just $1.50 a head. Hmm, which dinner to do.

Then of course we've made a large pot of something over the weekend that will serve as a quick midweek reheat, in this week's case the smoky shrimp and halibut stew from Bon Appetit.

Then it's time for something involving rice, so to again capitalize on the shrimp on sale at Sunflower for $3.99 a pound, we'll turn to a winter favorite, butternut squash risotto with shrimp. Maybe I can catch the organic kale that's $1.50 a bunch at Whole Foods for the side dish before that sale ends Tuesday.

Finally for Thursday, before the planning begins all over again on Friday, we'll have Sprouts' yummy stuffed chicken breasts, purchased at $3.99 a pound in time for the sale that runs through Wednesday. Baked potatoes from the organic russet bags currently on sale there will go on the side.

And that gets us to the end of the week, ready to plan again.