I love Toy Story 3! If  your kids want to have a Toy Story Themed birthday party, you’ll enjoy these great ideas and free printables.

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First, you have to get the cute plates, cups and napkins. This Toy Story 3 Party Pack is really fun.

I am in love Bakerella’s Toy Story cake pops!! Aren’t these the cutest?

Love these Green Alien Cupcakes and Jessie’s Cowboy Hat treats as well.

Laurie from Whimsy Cookie Co. makes some really cute Toy Story cookies!

These free printable Toy Story tags would make great cupcake toppers. Especially if you have a 3 year old!

Get some decorating ideas from this adorable Vintage Toy party featured on Hostess with the Mostess.

Check out this space ship pizza that Jamie from Mommas Fabulous Playground made!

These Toy Story 3 alien party hatsand Buzz party favor boxes are too cute!

 
This Toy Story 12 Pack of Pez is perfect for party favors!

Disney has some great free Toy Story printables. Here are my favorites:

Toy Story Party Invitation and Teeter Toy Crafts

Printable Toy Story Fun Book and 3D Buzz Light Year

Squeeze Toy Alien Printable and Woody Marionette

Terri at Crafty Workin Mommy created a bunch of free printables for her daughter’s party. I love the pig cupcakes!

For an activity, print some Toy Story 3 coloring pages at Cartoon Jr.

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You might also like these parties:

• Lego Birthday Party
• Mermaid Birthday Party
• Red and Black Birthday Party
• Tron Birthday Party

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(photo by Smitten Kitchen)

This week, I am featuring a recipe a day from a few of my all time favorite food web sites. I hope you enjoy these sites too!

Monday – Sun Dried Tomato Cheese Pasta

Tuesday – Zucchini Goat Cheese Pizza

Wednesday – Honey Mustard Pecan & Walnut Crusted Salmon

Thursday – Slow-Cooker Beef Stroganoff

Friday  - Marmalade Chicken

** Printable Grocery List **

Ingredients on the grocery list are categorized by individual recipes, so if you don’t like a certain meal, you can scratch off those groceries.

Monday

Sun Dried Tomato Cheese Pasta

I found this yummy recipe on one of my new favorite food blogs, Italian Food Forever. Deborah lives in Italy and has a passion for Italian food. Looking at her photos will make your mouth water!

Head over to Deborah’s blog for this recipe. It looks very easy.

I’m adding chicken to mine. (I’m buying a fully cooked chicken to use for Monday & Tuesday’s meals.) This will be on the grocery list.

Photo by Italian Food Forever

Tuesday

Zucchini Goat Cheese Pizza

If you don’t love Smitten Kitchen for her recipes, then you will just for her beautiful photography! Since Monday’s meal called for goat cheese, I found this recipe that looks so delish!

Visit Smitten Kitchen’s site for this recipe. She makes it with homemade pizza dough, but I’m always short on time so will be making with ready made pizza dough. I’m also adding chicken.

Photo by Smitten Kitchen

Wednesday

Honey Mustard Pecan & Walnut Crusted Salmon

If you haven’t been to Tasty Kitchen, then you’re missing out! I could spend hours searching recipes there. I found this recipe by The Nutty Cook a while ago and can’t wait to try it. You can join the site for free to add your own recipes. If you join… add me as your friend!

You can print this recipe on Tasty Kitchen here or on Charity’s blog here.

Photo and recipe by The Nutty Cook.

Thursday

Slow-Cooker Beef Stroganoff

Another favorite web site is Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food! I’ve made this recipe several times and love it!

I’m not  a mushroom person, so I take them out. But this is a big hit at my house. Go here to get the recipe.

Photo by Martha Stewart Everyday Food

Friday

Marmalade Chicken

I try to cook healthy meals as much as possible. Eating Well has some wonderful healthy meals like this chicken recipe.

I will be serving this with brown rice and broccoli. Visit Eating Well to find this recipe and lots of other healthy ones.

Photo by Eating Well

Weekend is leftovers!

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Check out my other weekly dinner plans for more meal ideas!

Here are more links to some of my favorite food sites that weren’t featured today:

This Week for Dinner
Giada De Laurentiis
goodLife {eats}
The Pioneer Woman Cooks
$5 Dinners
Ellie Krieger
Rachael Ray
The Sneaky Chef

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It’s all about fast and easy this week!

• One Pan Dinner – Cheesy Chicken, Rice and Broccoli
• Parmesan Crusted Tilapia
• Make Your Own Pizza Night
• Salmon Patties & Mashed Potatoes
• Spicy Turkey Crock-Pot Lasagna

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The list is categorized by meal so you can pick and choose what you want to buy.

MONDAY

One Pan Dinner – Cheesy Chicken, Rice and Broccoli

• 1 package of chicken breast tenders
• 1 tsp olive oil
• 1 can of 98% fat free cream of mushroom soup
• 1 3/4 cups chicken broth
• 1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper
• Salt to taste
• 1 1/2 cups instant whole grain brown rice
• 2 cups chopped fresh or frozen broccoli
• 1/2 -1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese

Directions

1. Heat oil in pan, add chicken and cook until it’s brown on both sides. About 5-10 minutes.
2. Remove chicken and add soup, chicken broth, salt (optional) and pepper until boiling.
3. Stir in rice and broccoli then reduce the heat.
4. Add chicken back to pan, cover and cook until rice is tender and the chicken is cooked through.
5. Sprinkle cheese over the top.

TUESDAY

Parmesan Crusted Tilapia

• 3/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 2 tsp paprika
• 1 Tablespoon chopped parsley
• Extra-virgin olive oil for drizzling
• Zesty Lemon Seasoning such as Weber Grill Creations
• 6-8 Tilapia Fillets
• Lemon Juice

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 400.  In a shallow dish, combine cheese, bread crumbs, paprika and parsley.
2. Drizzle the fish with olive oil and dredge in the cheese mixture.
3. Place on a foil-lined baking sheet.  Season with Zesty Lemon Seasoning and sprinkle with a little Lemon Juice.
4. Bake until the fish is opaque in the thickest part, 10-12 minutes.  Serve with a little more Lemon Juice and your favorite sides. (Try sweet potatoes and corn.)

Recipe and Photo by Cheryl @ Tidy Mom.  Check out more of her recipes, she has awesome desserts:-)

WEDNESDAY

Make Your Own Pizza Night

This is fun for the whole family! I like to have little bowls of toppings to try to get my kids to try new things. I usually doesn’t work… but I try. LOL!

• Ready made pizza crust or pizza dough (I use Pillsbury Pizza Crust)
• Mozzarella cheese
• Pizza sauce or pasta sauce
• Favorite toppings

Toppings for Margherita: Olive oil, salt and pepper, fresh mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, fresh chopped basil.

Directions

1. Spread out pizza dough for individual pizzas (put two small pizzas on one baking pan)
2. Spoon on sauce
3. Add your favorite toppings
4. Spread a little olive oil around the edge of the pizza crust
5. Cook in oven according to pizza crust directions.

THURSDAY

Salmon Patties & Mashed Potatoes

The original recipe I found is by Ellie Krieger, but I change it up a bit for my family.

• 6 slices whole-wheat sandwich bread (or bread crumbs if you don’t have a food processor)
• 3-4 Large pouches of boneless salmon (use cans if you’d like, but you’ll have to remove the bones)
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 scallions chopped
• handful of chopped fresh cilantro leaves
• 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tsp olive oil
• Potatoes for mashing or store bought instant (I’ll be using instant this week!)
• Vegetable of your choice

Directions

1. Remove crusts from the bread, break into pieces, and process in a food processor until you get a fine bread crumb. (use 3/4-1 cup of bread crumbs as an alternative)
2. Mix the salmon and eggs together.
3. Add chopped scallions, cilantro, pepper, and the bread crumbs to the mix.
4. Shape into patties.
5. Heat half of olive oil over a medium heat. Add patties and cook a few of the patties for 5 minutes on each side. Add the remaining olive oil to the pan, and cook the rest of the salmon patties.
6. Serve with mashed potatoes and vegetable of your choice.

FRIDAY

Spicy Turkey Crock-Pot Lasagna

I found this original recipe on Parents.com, I’ve never made lasagna in a crock-pot, so this will be first. It sounds pretty good! We shall see:-)

• 1 lb. ground turkey
• 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasonings
• 1/2 teaspoon salt and red-pepper flakes to taste
• 15 oz. container ricotta
• 1 package of mozzarella
• 1 – 10 oz package of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
• fresh ground pepper
• 12 lasagna noodles, uncooked and broken in half
• 1 large jar pasta sauce (your favorite kind)
• 1 cup water

Directions

1. Cook turkey in a pan. Season with Italian seaonings, salt and pepper flakes.
2. Mix ricotta, mozzarella and spinach in a bowl. Add salt and fresh ground pepper.
3. In a crock-pot, put a spoonful of pasta sauce to coat the bottom of the pot, then add a layer of the noodles.
4. Add half the meat mixture over noodles. Pour on half the pasta sauce and half the water. Spread half the cheese mixture on top. Repeat layers.
5. Cover slow cooker; cook on low heat 4-1/2 hours.

Weekend is leftovers!

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Here is what’s for dinner this week…

Hash Brown Ham & Broccoli Quiche
Homemade Cheese Pizza & Salad
Grilled Salmon with Rice & Spinach
BBQ Grilled Chicken & Corn on Cob
Leftover Chicken with Broccoli & Rice Casserole (Slow cooker)

Monday

Hash Brown Ham & Broccoli Quiche

• 3 cups frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
• 1 1/2 cups frozen broccoli cuts, thawed
• Diced ham or turkey (optional)
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack & Cheddar cheese

DIRECTIONS

1. Press the hash browns onto the bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. pie plate, forming a shell. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until brown and crispy.
2. Sprinkle with broccoli and ham.
3. In a bowl, beat the eggs, sour cream and salt; stir in cheese. Pour over broccoli.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F for 55-65 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting.

**For kids- Make a some in a muffin pan! Let them help you make this:-)

Tuesday

Homemade Cheese Pizza & Salad

We make this a lot at our house. It’s a favorite!

Just add cheese and sauce to a store bought crust. Add some parmesan cheese around the edge of the crust. Top with veggies to spice it up!

Optional recipe:

Margherita Pizza: Olive oil, salt and pepper, fresh mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, fresh chopped basil. Add some parmesan cheese around the edge of the crust.

Margherita Recipe & Photos By: This Week For Dinner

Wednesday

Grilled Salmon with Rice & Spinach

• Salmon fillets
• Ginger & Sesame Teriyaki Sauce
• Brown Rice
• Fresh Baby Spinach

DIRECTIONS

1. Cover the salmon in teriyaki sauce and add to grill or pan drizzled with olive oil.
2. Grill for 3-5 minutes on each side
3. Cook rice
4. Add torn pieces of spinach on top of rice after it’s cooked. Cover for 5 minutes while spinach gets tender.
5. Mix spinach with rice, add salt and pepper for taste.

Thursday

BBQ Grilled Chicken & Corn on Cob

• 1 tsp. olive oil
• 1-1/2 to 2 pounds chicken breasts, thighs and drumsticks
• 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 1 cup barbecue sauce
• Corn on the cob

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Heat olive oil in a heavy skillet or grill pan over medium-high heat.
3. Season chicken with salt and pepper.
4. When grill pan gets hot, add chicken. Sear until browned on each side. Transfer to a baking dish.
5. Spread barbecue sauce evenly over chicken.
6. Cover dish with aluminum foil. Bake 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
7. Fill glass bowl with water and cook corn in microwave 6-10 minutes until tender.

Friday

Leftover Chicken with Broccoli & Rice Casserole (Slow cooker)

Broccoli & Rice Casserole (Slow cooker)

• 1 small diced onion
• 1/4 cup butter melted (optional)
• 2 cups quick-cooking rice
• 2 cups water
• 1 can 98% fat-free cream of mushroom soup
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 5 oz. jar of low-fat sharp cheese spread
• 2- 10 oz. pkgs. frozen broccoli, partially thawed

DIRECTIONS

1. Combine all ingredients in slow cooker. Stir
2. Cover. Cook on low 6-7 hours or on high 2-3 hours.

What are you having for dinner this week? Let me know if you have a great recipe I need to try.

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