Im trying to limit our intake of pork to once a week (or twice) – usually when Edil is here. The kids don’t like pork too much and well, it would not do me any good if I *ate* pork. So I bought around 3kilos of chicken last Saturday to be made into different meals to last us the whole week.

The question is: What to do with the chicken?

So far here is my list: Afritada (Martha really really loves this, can eat it everyday), Chicken with Pineapple, Quail Eggs and Milk (What’s this name?), and ____________.

I dont want another tinola, nilaga in the week so I was looking for chicken recipes at Glo’s EZRecipe site. I am very curious about the Green Thai Coconut Curry Chicken Wraps but Im sure my kids wont eat those.

So besides fried chicken and soup (prikaknorr!), what would be the best option for kid-friendly CHICKEN meals?

Im in a bind. I never knew meal planning for THREE people will be this hard. Take note the three people consists of one adult (ME), a grade schooler (age 7 - Matthew) and a toddler (age 2 - Martha). Clearly, we require very different calorie intake and food types.

My kids are not really big eaters but they have voracious appetites - they eat all the time, but are like goats, they graze a lot So meal planning is hard. I want to make sure we maximize our food intake health-wise but do not spoil food (Last week, we always had some rice spoiled. Isat kalahating gatang lang un ha ~ for the whole day!)

The tricky part here is, what to cook for all of us? I love eggplants and veggies but the kids are not that enthusiastic on this. Martha loves tomato-based dishes (afritada and menudo) while Matthew loves anything with soup (sinigang, tinola, crab and corn). Since we have cut back so much on grocery I can now afford to get some pork twice or thrice a week for us.

Im going to play around a little this week and test the waters if this will work for us.

Monday: Menudo
Tuesday: Chicken Sopas, Porksteak
Wednesday: LEFTOVERS day (Eat what was leftover food from the previous days), have Fried Chicken on hand for backup
Thursday: Lumpiang Shanghai, Crab and Corn Soup
Friday: Carry over food from Thursday, Porkchop (Leftover from Porksteak)

Let us see if I can get pictures of the food we have, our dining area is a bit dim I would need compact flash for the SLR.