Cheap & Cheerful Suppers for the first week of November

Friday
It's been a very busy day, today. Taking one daughter someplace, an hour long appt for myself, grocery shopping at WinCo, peeling trimming and chopping 15 pounds of carrots, and I still need to do laundry and clean up the house. I'm too tired to do much for dinner. I'm thinking something that will use canned veggies, some of the carrots I chopped and use the food processor to do onions, all combined with frozen turkey in broth.

• turkey, vegetables and dumplings

Saturday

• leftover turkey and dumplings

Sunday

• turkey tacos, using frozen turkey, refried beans, cheese and chopped tomatoes, in a fried corn tortilla shell
• carrot sticks

Monday

• turkey, bean and cheese burritos
• oven-roasted carrots

Tuesday
Baking day. I baked 2 weeks of bread for us, 4 loaves of sandwich bread and 4 loaves of French bread. I plan on using one loaf of French bread to go with dinner tonight.

• tomato, kale and onion frittata
• French bread
• canned corn
• canned green beans
• pickled beets
• pudding/stale cookie dessert

Wednesday

After several meals of turkey, we are on a meatless streak for a few days. I soaked some black beans overnight, and I'll make a large pot of soup to last 3 nights (and a couple of lunches).

• black bean and veggie soup, topped with cheese
• home-fried tortilla chips
• last of pudding dessert

Thursday

Last night's soup was delicious. Tonight, I'll serve more of the soup, along with garlic bread on one of the loaves of French bread, that I baked on Tuesday.

• leftover black bean and veggie soup
• garlic bread
• carrot sticks and 1000 Island dressing/dip

This weeks big cooking used my large stock pot, both times! I made the turkey and dumplings that we ate for a couple of dinners and a lunch, and then later in the week, the large pot of black bean and veggie soup. So far, we're not tiring of the repetition. And this is giving me more time to do other things, like make gifts. 

We'll eat the last of the black bean soup for tonight's dinner, which is very handy considering I have an appointment this morning, then a few errands, and later this afternoon, if both daughters are home in time, we'll go over to our local Christmas store for a little holiday inspiration.

So, what was on your menu this week? Wishing you a wonderful weekend!