A visual weekly family menu plan including five weeknight meals, a breakfast and dessert idea. Each featured recipe includes multiple photos for each dish. Downloadable grocery list included!
Great news! In an effort to make the task of menu planning even easier, we’re now including a grocery list for each week’s menu. Just scroll to the bottom of this week’s post to download, print and head to the grocery store. Mission accomplished!
When we moved into our new home this summer, the menagerie (my term of endearment for our four children) hit the jackpot with a new playroom space. It’s light and bright with a mountain view and has an amazing space that they’ve turned into the ultimate play kitchen. It has two half doors and two cut-outs and they can lose themselves in there for hours on end creating new dishes and playing restaurant for anyone willing to place multiple orders and wait for their creations to emerge.
When my friends at Step 2 offered to have us test drive their new Grand Luxe Kitchen, I knew it would be the perfect addition to our new space. Or rather, the menagerie’s space. It has working appliances, an oven that has it’s heating element light up when in use and a clear front refrigerator that I dream about for my own real grown-up kitchen! Although the kitchen is large, we’ve made it work in our new space easily by simply not screwing each of the tower pieces together. With the sloping ceiling that’s also not high at all, it works perfectly.
I caught our 8 and 4 year olds preparing for a movie night complete with smoothies, cupcakes and popcorn earlier this week. Love that this toy has been a hit for all four of my children, even with an eight year age span. This amazing kitchen will no doubt be a hit for years to come and is available exclusively at Toys ‘R Us.
Although my children may be making a sweet and salty menu in their kitchen, here’s what’s on our actual menu this week:
Pineapple Beef Stir Fry | Melanie Makes
30 Minute Chicken Enchilada Pasta Bake | Cooking & Beer
Chai Spiced Pear Coffee Cake | Cooking & Beer
Beer and Cheese Skillet Bread | Diary of a Recipe Collector
Skillet Shepherd’s Pie | The Grant Life
Chicken and Wild Rice Soup | Fake Ginger
Maple Bacon Rice Krispies Treats | Fake Ginger
Want to make planning your menu this week even easier? Click here to download your grocery list for this week’s dinners, appetizer, dessert and breakfast ideas.
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We received this Grand Luxe play kitchen from Step 2 at no charge. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting this sponsor that allows me the opportunity to create content, such as this, for Melanie Makes.
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