Sunday, August 28, 2011

Meal Planning

Well hello!  New posts coming soon, insha'Allah.
About my meal planning: I slacked off most of the summer (being off school) and definitely during Ramadan.  Now that we have a busy week ahead and school starting on the 6th, I've started up again with planning ahead.  I started this by writing down what we normally ate on recipe cards (one dish per card) and trying to collect at least 30 dishes we all like to have for dinner.  I even wrote down the easy peasy spaghetti and sauce b/c the method is that I go through my cards on a Thursday or Friday to plan the grocery list for the weekend for the upcoming week. (We do our grocery getting on the weekend since I try to avoid this errand with the kids as much as possible)  Once you know the main dishes you're having for the week it's easy to buy accordingly and to better plan your free hours in the day.
Without further ado.... the PLAN for this week starting with today:

Sunday:  Roasted Chicken Leg Quarters, Homemade French Fries, Big Green Salad

Monday:  Homemade Hamburgers, More Homemade French Fries (can you tell I bought a big bag of potatoes and my husband asked for fries!!), Fresh Cut Veggies

Tuesday: Eid Day... we'll have brunch out.  Main dish of pureed vegetable soup with homemade bread, cheeses, olives, veggies. 

Wednesday:  Crockpot Chicken with Rotel Sauce, Tomato Sauce, side of Rice and Salad

Thursday:  Leftover Rotel Chicken

Friday:  American Style Meatloaf, Broccoli w/ Cheese, Mashed Potatoes (wink, wink)

Pictured: Fava Bean salad

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

IPad Apps for Ramadan

Assalamu alaikom! Hope everyone's Ramadan is coming along nicely. The first few days sure are the hardest, for sure, as our bodies and minds get used to the fast.  May Allah give us patience and endurance during this time and help us to increase our worship and good deeds.

A friend of mine has a put together a neat list of Apps you use on your iPad or iPhone.  I downloaded a few of them to be used by myself and some for the kids to use.  Here is the link to her site Muslimas Oasis on the page of the App Reviews.  Take some time to read the rest of her site, it's really nice, masha'Allah. 

We're currently playing Stack the Countries and listening to Quran on the Quran Majeed app.