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We had to get a new computer, which means I started a new dinner calendar. Then we couldn’t get it to work with our printer. It’s been a nightmare! But we finally got it working and made June’s dinner calendar.  I forgot to share it, so here it is.

  I’m way behind but here is the April dinner calendar. I know, we keep repeating dinners. Like I said before... we have picky kids, allergies, and we ourselves are a little picky. Anyway... here it is:

  Here is a list of all the dinners we make. We are a household of picky eaters and allergies (garlic, shellfish), so we don’t have a big variety of meals. Every once in awhile I will try a new recipe. If most of us like it, I will add it to this list. If not, then we don’t ever try it again. If you see a recipe on here and we haven’t added it to our blog, let me know and we will share it with you! I’m not usually an exact measurement kind of person, so you’ll either have to guess or just do what I do. Here is the list. I’ll try and link the recipes we’ve added to this blog. Here are the recipes that we’ve done: Biscuit Mini Pizza Chicken Nachos Potato Soup Rosemary Chicken Kabobs Taco Pan Pizza Porcupines Peach Chicken   BBQ Chicken and Pineapple Kabobs   Chicken and Rice   Mac & Cheese Bake   Hamburger and Macaroni   Bacon Chicken Pasta Side Dish: Twice Baked Potatoes

  Here is our February dinner calendar. I’ve told you all before that we have a house full of picky eaters. So our dinners don’t change much. Every once in awhile I’ll try something new. If most of us like it, it gets put on our List . If most of us don’t, it doesn’t make the list. Anyway... here is February:

  I was so busy, and at the same time not feeling like doing much, so I didn’t get a December Dinner Calendar done. Here is January’s. We are almost out of colored ink, so it’s not the blue colors it’s supposed to be (just a small glimpse into real life, right?).  We buy the XL one and it still doesn’t seem to last long. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄 Here is what colors it’s supposed to be: 🤣

Here is our November dinner calendar. The picture isn’t very good, but you can still see it! If you’re using it for ideas, I’m sorry it’s late. I e had a bad headache the last couple of days.

  Here is our October dinner calendar. Yes, I’m finally ahead of the month. 🤣 Remember... if there is ever a recipe that you want, please don’t hesitate to ask! I changed Saturday from Grill meals to Crockpot meals. October starts to get chilly here and not a good idea to be grilling. Haha!

  For September’s dinner calendar I did a different theme for each night. On Sunday’s we eat dinner with Nick’s parents so we don’t do anything for that night. Monday’s are Italian Tuesday’s are Mexican Wednesday’s are Comfort Thursday’s are Asian Friday’s are Pizza Saturday’s are Grill (at least for now. Once it gets colder, we will change it) Having a different theme every night really helps! It’s more organized and less likely to have something of the same theme in a row. Here it is: If there is ever a recipe on our calendar that you would like, just ask!

  Tonight I made individual pizzas. I used pre-made biscuits (you know, in the tube that you keep in the fridge), my homemade pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, and pepperonis. I gently smooshed and pulled the biscuits so they were bigger. Then I put the pizza sauce on it. I added about a handful of mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce and put pepperonis on half of them (4 biscuits). I cooked them at 350° for about 15 minutes (we have a convection oven). Once the cheese was a golden brown I pulled them out and put them on plates. I didn’t cut them, but I should have. Here is the ingredients. 1 can pre-made jumbo biscuits (8 count) Shredded Mozzarella Cheese Pepperonis  Pizza Sauce I used tin foil lined cookie sheets to cook them on Here are some pictures: The biscuit before I made it bigger After I made it bigger Add the pizza sauce Add the cheese Add pepperonis (I only did half since we have kids that just like cheese). All done! Obviously you can add whatever toppings...

  I have always had a hard time deciding on what to make for dinner. When I would finally decide, then it would either take to long to make, or we didn’t have everything we needed. So then I’d have to make something out of what there was, or go to the store and end up spending more money because we would grab lots more things.  So several years ago I decided to make a dinner calendar. I found a template in Excel, you can change the year and the days automatically change, and the squares are blank so you can type in the meals. Then once a week we would go to the store and get everything we needed for that week of dinner meals (and anything else we needed). It helps out so if the dinner takes time to make (crockpot, make bread, etc.) then I can start in the morning. Also, we are only going to the store once a week so we spend less money. We are all picky eaters (in one way or another) and some of us have allergies (shellfish and garlic) so it limits our choices. When we find a m...