Meal Planning

Time for weekly meal planning.  I ended up making easy stuff like soup and sandwiches on more than one occasion last week (plus loaded nachos), so I have a fair amount of carry over.  This will be my second-to-last grocery store trip before Christmas.  The freezer is mostly empty, but I'm still working on clearing out my pantry.

Avocado Grilled Enchiladas with Red Chile Pesto and Black Beans 
I cooked the black beans two days ago to make the seven layer tortilla pie, so the ingredients are ready to go.

Vegetarian Sweet & Sour Pork Bites with Brown Rice and Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup
I need to buy some more green onions, but otherwise this dish will be quick and easy.  The bell peppers are already chopped.

Tofu & Veggie Stir-fry and Brown Rice 

Rigatoni alla Anthony
I'm going to use a mixture of whole-wheat penne and rotini simply because I have three open boxes of those particular noodles and I want them out of my pantry.  I think I already have canned artichokes too.  I'll probably use up any leftover spinach by throwing it into Tropical Kale Smoothies for breakfast.

Easy Healthy Veggie Pizza and Green Salad
I haven't made this "pizza" in ages.  I had actually forgotten about it until I was browsing my old recipes today.  I'm not sure if Sim will still eat it -- she has gotten pickier -- but I tend to eat mostly a huge green salad with homemade ranch dressing whenever I make pizza anyway, so I think this will be a reasonable amount of food to fill up on.

Artichoke-Bean Wraps  and Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup
This sandwich was originally a pita pocket, but I'm going to have those Food 4 Life sprouted grain tortillas for the Easy Healthy Veggie Pizza anyway, so I'm making wraps.  Those tortillas go bad FAST and need to be consumed within about a week.  It seems like a good way to use up some of that baby arugula from the pizzas too.  I don't care that I'm planning to make vegan broccoli soup twice this week.  It's leafy green, oil-free, high in fiber and protein, and really good.  None of my other soup recipes taste nearly as good, especially the ones that are equivalently healthy.  I can't remember the last time I didn't finish off all the leftover broccoli soup for lunch.