What is on your menu this week?

Hi everyone!  I'm starting out the week right by menu planning.  (I'm actually writing this on Sunday evening.) Hope you all had a great weekend!  This weekend was great!  We had beautiful sunny weather on Saturday for soccer and football games.  Sunday was our yearly children's presentation at church (or you could call it the "primary program").  I get to work with the kids at church and look forward to this Sunday all year.  Even my three year old had a part.  He said "I can choose the right by not hitting or kicking" in his weird silly voice.  And he added some emphasis my jumping when singing the chorus to Scripture Power!  This year the theme is "I know the scriptures are true."  It's been fun to focus on reading the scriptures and I can tell a different (good one) in my life when I study them often. It was my husband's birthday last week and we celebrated with him by making our favorite chocolate bundt cake....

Confession time.  I've been struggling with lunch and snack ideas lately.  I've noticed after I eat a healthy lunch that I don't feel full (or maybe just not satisfied) so I look for something else to snack on.  This usually means that I open up my favorite tortilla chips from Costco (Late July multigrain) and eat a few too many of them or I eat some nut butter mixed with chocolate chips (yummy, but not a great choice).  I've noticed that my stomach hasn't felt very good when I've done this and it's time to make some changes. I made a list this morning of healthy snacks which have low or no cholesterol.  I looked a little bit online for some ideas and was happy to see that most of what I've been eating were suggested ideas (except maybe the tortilla chips and chocolate chips...I have a love for "chips" that I need to get over). Maybe I should think of dried apples as apple "chips"... That might work.  :) Here are 8 of ...