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Meal Plan: Slow, Southern and Sunny

Slow because I love my slow cooker. Southern because I am and that’s the finest kind of frugal, comfort food. Sunny, simply because it’s spring time! I’ve been browsing my Southern Living magazines and their site for a fresh, two weeks worth of meal ideas. With a few Hodgepodge favorites thrown in for good measure.

First, Cooking Fun.

  • Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies (made with Sunbutter® and egg substitute)

  • No Bake Honey Cheerios Sunbutter® Bars
  • Grilled Sunbutter® and Chips Sandwich
  • Sunflower Peeps cake – maybe during spring break
  • Grahamwiches – we didn’t get to those because we did April Fool’s Day fun instead
  • A Southern Living Two Step Pound Cake. My all time favorite I’ve been making since 1995.

Breakfasts: All of these look great! Kid-Friendly Breakfast Bites. Also we’ll do bagels, pancakes and our favorite Sunbutter® toast.

Lunch: I promised to post greener, healthier, arthritis friendly recipes. I’ll concentrate on that for lunch! (above, sometimes Mama has apples, avocado, apple, olives and Sunbutter. A grown up nibble tray!)

  • Anything with avocado (like the chicken, spinach and avocado wraps above). Salads and Southern Living’s Guacamole
  • Strawberry and Spinach Salad
  • For the children: wraps, quesadillas, mac and cheese, sandwiches, leftovers, nibble trays.

Southern and Slow Cooker Suppers:

  • Southern Recipes – I had fun browsing here!
  • Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice from April Southern Living

  • Buttermilk Fried Chicken
  • Chicken Drumsticks (from the deep freeze) and White Barbecue Sauce
  • All in one Spaghetti and spaghetti with Jenny’s Pink Sauce
  • Crock Pot King Ranch Chicken by Southern Living
  • Crock Pot Chicken and Cornbread Dumplings by $5 Dinners
  • Crock Pot Pizza by Taste of Home
  • Crock Pot Chili and Hot Dogs (Shelby’s chili mix – pull cooked ground turkey from freezer)
  • Crockpot Cranberry Chicken by Hillbilly Housewife
  • Breakfast for Supper: Southern Living Creamy Grits, Biscuits, fruit, turkey bacon
  • Our favorite Slow Cooker Spinach Lasagna (pictured at top) from Menus for Moms
  • Italian Stuffed Shells
  • Grilled Pimento Cheese Sandwiches

  • Chicken Packets from Once a Month Cooking
  • Burritos with refried beans and cheese from Happy Housewife
  • Lots of lovely leftovers!

*all Hodgepodge meals prepared with care due to our Trials and Triumphs with allergies

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Filed Under: Cooking Fun with Children, HomeCooking, Meal Plans, Southern Recipes Tagged With: allergy adaptations, chicken, Cooking Fun, frugal living, I'm Writing My Own Cookbook, meal plan, simple suppers, slow cooker, southern, Southern Recipes, Sunbutter

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Tricia faces a daily dose of chaos homeschooling five children. The biggest lesson she’s learned? At the end of the day – when the dishes are put away and the children are tucked in bed – truly what matters is each child’s relationship with the Lord. Raising children is a God-given privilege and, folks, the time is short.

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  1. Angie W says

    April 2, 2011 at 9:15 AM

    I think I’ll just print this and put it on the fridge. 😉

    I’m not sure why the feed isn’t going to my google reader, I’ll have to check and force it through. I love that I get updates on my FB page!

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    • Hodgepodgemom says

      April 4, 2011 at 10:46 AM

      Angie! We had that slow cooker lasagna (pictured at top) for Sunday lunch yesterday. An all-time favorite! Thanks for stopping by my friend 🙂

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  2. Alea Milham says

    April 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    I love the mom’s “nibble tray”. I went back and read your post on eating healthier for arthritis because I missed it. It is funny because it was published on my son’s 4th birthday, which was also the day I decided it was time to lose the last of my “baby fat” and decided to cut out sugar and and any other processed foods. A couple of days ago, I noticed that my arthritis symptoms had lessened significantly. I even went a whole day without taking ibuprofin. I had been wondering if it could be related to my new diet and now I am even more curious!

    The turkey and avocado wrap looks delicious. Thanks for sharing the Southern Living site; I am always happy to find a new resource.

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    • Hodgepodgemom says

      April 5, 2011 at 8:25 PM

      Alea! another something we share – arthritis 🙂 So glad that you, too, are finding relief in eating healthy and cutting out sugar. It is a big deal when you can go without ibuprofin a whole day. Let me tell you, I have been eating a ton of avocado!! Sort of my sugar replacement. Let me know the recipes you end up trying. Thanks for stopping by.

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