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Inspired by Keeping Sundays a Priority, our family has switched our main Sunday meal to Saturday night and on Sunday we have a self-serve brunch plus a second meal and dessert. So far we've had...
Main Meal:
slow cooker pot roast with onions, carrots, and potatoes + salad.
Greek Night - slow cooker greek chicken, pita, feta, cucumber sauce, hummus, kalamata olives.
Brunch:
Vanilla yogurt, granola, fresh fruit, hard-boiled eggs, muffins, juice, tea.
Other Meal:
Sandwiches, chips, soda, cole slaw
Dessert:
Pumpkin Pie
Gingerbread
I'm pretty good to go for the main meals, although I'm always open for suggestions  . During the day on Sunday, I want the meals stream-lined but I don't want them to grow stale.
What are your favortie Sunday meal planning tips? What special foods do you only serve on Sunday? Is there a special symbolism to any of your choices (like ice cream sundaes)? Seasonal faves?
Thanks so much!
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On the menu for this weekend...
Main Meal:
slow cooker turkey breast, stuffing, cran sauce, mashed potatoes, veggie green
Brunch:
Savory pesto spread (from Costco), crackers, pumpkin spice quick bread, yogurt, fresh fruit, hard-boiled eggs, tea, pomegranate juice 
Other Meal:
Sandwiches, pomegranate soda , apple chips, veggie tray
Dessert:
Not sure yet....
I found the IZZE pomegranate soda at Costco as well as a nicely priced Langers pomegranate juice.
What's on your menu?
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I'm bumping this topic because I'm eager to find fresh ideas for easy and ready-made Sunday brunch.
What do you keep in your pantry to serve for brunch?
What do you keep in your freezer?
What do you keep in your refrigerator?
Any 10 minute or less recipes?
How do you make plain food more special?
Thanks!
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For Sunday brunch.. check out the Christmas breakfast threads.. alot of those are make ahead and then toss in the oven things.
For us.. breakfast meats are pretty limited so Sunday when dh is home is the main time we have those.. so pancakes and eggs with bacon or a hash brown casserole with sausage crumbled on top.. or french toast and sausage links or biscuits and sausage gravy..
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oh and biscuits and gravy are easy to make ahead.. and then you just heat up the gravy and keep it warm in a crockpot.
It was a big hit at our Church potluck brunch.
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bagels with good toppings.. one of our favorite fancy bagels is a savory or plain bagel spread with cream cheese topped with shredded carrot, chopped green onions and chopped or sliced olives.. with a mustard dill sauce poured over the top.
Keep bagels in the freezer, cream cheese has a long refrigerator life, green onions and carrots.. mustard-dill sauce in the cupboard or fridge, canned olives.. set out bagels to thaw a day or two ahead.. all you have to do is set things out and chop green onions and shred carrots.. those are pretty quick.
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You can dress up your hard boiled eggs by making deviled eggs, or an egg salad for spreading on crackers or breads
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I'm reading with interest. By the time we get home from Mass, everyone is starving (Mass is at 11 and we don't get home until 12:30 ish.) No one wants to wait long enough for me to cook bacon and eggs or anything else that takes time, so we usually just pull out leftovers or make sandwiches. I would really like to make it more special, but I want to keep it simple so I'm not cooking all day and they aren't whining about how starving they are.
For special Sunday treats, we do stop on the way home after Mass and get doughnuts, as long as everyone behaved at Mass. It's easy now, because we almost always stop. It was really hard at first when we were training the kids to behave at Mass!!
After dinner on Sunday we always have icecream because Sunday is a feast day. We don't have icecream any other time (except maybe birthdays) so this is a special treat. I even had my ds turn down an offer to go somewhere with a friend on a Sunday evening because he would miss the icecream!
One thing I would like to do is have a Sunday afternoon tea time for the whole family. My kids always enjoy tea time during the week and they would love it on Sunday when my dh could take part too. I just haven't made it happen yet. I think, if I could make it work, it would be nice to come home from Mass and put a roast or something in the oven, then, instead of grabbing leftovers or making sandwiches, having a nice "tea", then eating an early dinner. I might have to wait until football season is over though. Sunday is also the time my dh and ds's enjoy watching football games together.
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I've got more ideas than time right now! But one thought is crockpot oatmeal. Offer bowls of special toppings like coconut, walnuts, raisins, chopped fruit, brown sugar, etc. Maybe cinnamon and cream, whatever your family likes. Each makes their own bowl with their favorite toppings. Kids LOVE to add toppings!
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We do brunch every Sunday after Mass and it's usually the same thing each week:
-Cinnamon rolls (made but not risen and baked the night before)
-bacon or sausage
-scrambled eggs
-hash browns
-fruit salad
I used to vary the "sweet" up each week, like coffee cake or strudel, but everyone prefers the cinnamon rolls so I go with that.
Everyone eats a bowl of cereal in the early AM, then we go to 9 am Mass, and I prep brunch when we get home and usually eat around 11:30.
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