Hey guys! Remember this? Right before I had Camper I went all nesty and made a whiteboard monthly menu- even went so far as to print up magnetic meals to arrange on the calendar. Like whoa. I had TIME on my hands, huh? So I’m doing it again. My Mom and I planned out the month this morning, split up the next week for who cooks what, and I just KNOW this is going to work. I have yet to figure out how it’s going to work with Weight Watchers…but we will see.
I was super inspired by this post over at SAJ. I looked at her shopping list and her recipes, and thought, “I CAN BE THAT THRIFTY.” I was once, why not now? I was thinking about how to go about doing it, and realized that I had already put the effort into making a plan. I actually did really well on my cooking plan until Camper came along, and 9 months later I’m ready to try again. The one modification that I’m going to make (a la SAJ) is allowing a little more time for leftovers. When I did this before I found that my “weeks” worth of food usually lasted about 10 days…and to stop wasting it’s good to plan a leftover day a couple times of week to eat up everything that would otherwise just sit in the fridge.
Pictures to come…I’m sure. Meanwhile, just enjoy the blast from the past.
Tags: inspiration, mean planning, menu
I don’t know if this helps you but I tend to plan my weekly meals every Saturday before we go grocery shopping. I plan Mon-Thurs. (Friday is date night, Saturdays we’re all over the place so it’s different every week and sometimes I’ll plan a Sunday meal depending if we’re going to my parents or not for dinner.) I usually cook enough for 4 servings – 2 for dinner and 2 for lunch the next day. That way, we’re eating good home-cooked meals and not eating out plus we’re eating our leftovers. :) After we’re done eating at night, I put each extra serving into some sort of gladware so it’s easy to make the next day – just pop it into the microwave and voila! Lunch! (Plus then you get to wash your larger dishes that night in case you need to use them for dinner the next night.)