New meal plan fun

As far as meal planning goes, I hate it. I actually love to cook, but with 3 little kids always needing something from me, it is just so tedious planning the menu and following through on it. 

A groupon came out of 5dinners1hour.com and I decided to give it a go. The gist is, you pick 5 meals from their various menu types (skinny, Paleo, Classic, etc). They give you a shopping list and directions for (a) how to put the meals together ahead of time and (b) how to cook the meal the day of. Finding meals that will be accepted by my kids and husband, while still meeting my healthy needs, is always interesting no matter what, but I do my best. This week I only made 3, and I let my oldest son pick one meal, my husband pick one meal and then I picked the third. I figure there will probably be dud meals along the way, but I love trying new things and (hopefully) finding new things my kids will eat.

Our menu this week, courtesy of my fun new chalk board I got for the kitchen:

Most of the stuff used to make the 3 dinners:

Literally 20 minutes later they are ready to go. The coconut chicken gets baked in the oven, while the other 2 meals are going in the slow cooker.

I'm hoping this goes well this week!