Poll: Meal Planning

Tayrusso

Do you meal plan?

Do you follow a cookbook/website/weekly sales/wing it?

I need to start meal planning to help lower Casey's blood sugar.  Any tips, recs, advice?

xxSOMMERxx

I plan meals for my days off.  Usually Josh has to be at work by 6pm so by the time I get home from work he already has something made.

 

Have you looked into a diabetic cookbook?  Maybe even a low-carb cookbook will help also... 

CandiceNT

We don't meal plan...we prefer to make things fresh, so we generally only go shopping for a specific meal in mind. Makes for more frequent trips, but just something we prefer to do. I am sure by the time baby#2 comes around, we might have to revise that plan. We usually wing it...both have pretty strong cooking skills. Although we will skim over a recipe first to get the general idea, and just go from there.

Sorry that doesn't help, but have you looked at any sites that have diabetic recipes? I am sure there has got to be tons out there

ccoffman1

We shop once a week and use the meal planner on beachbody.com it gives snacks breakfast lunch and dinner and portion amounts

jware1985

I make weekly menu plans, then i just get what i need at the store and less temptation to get things we shouldn't be eating.  Also we like to try at least 1 to 2 new recipes a week.  Like pp maybe check out a diabetic cook book and see fi there are things in there that you both like. Or like for us... CJ's job is so physical and mine well isn't so i can't eat nearly as many carbs as he can. so I make dinners that accomidate us both but without extra effort.

So like tonight I am making chicken, with a rice or pasta side with green beans... i love me some green beans... Cj will eat more rice then green  beans and i will eat more greenbeans then rice.  

HTH

b15chik

i normally plan for 5 "dinner" meals a week, we usually end up going out to eat too. now that don's working nights, i have to make a bigger lunch and just a smaller dinner for dominic and i. i try to use leftovers to make another meal during the week. like if i make pulled bbq crockpot chicken, i'll make a bbq chicken pizza with the leftovers later in the week.

i've gotten a lot better about it. before i'd run to the store a million times a week getting stuff that i needed for a meal, and i'd end up spending way more picking up crap i didn't need too. 

b15chik

i also try to use the weekly ads to plan what i'm going to make, and i clip coupons. some things don likes to have every week regardless of if it's on sale or not...but i do try with everything else

NickDanielleB

I kind of plan. I get an idea of what I want to eat during the week, but its mostly chicken, ground turkey, pasta, fish. The rest I figure out what I have in the cabinets or need to get that may be missing. I tend to be the kind to make whatever I have available. As long as I have the meat I can figure out a side.

bhead81

I am really bad at meal planning, we eat on the fly.  I really need to start planning better, it will save money and time.  Let me know if you find any good methods.

sunswifey

We don't meal plan. We head to the grocery store and just pick stuff up. I eat whatever DH pulls out of the fridge to cook! (He is the cook out of the two of us - I'd rather bake)

imshell

I plan to get invited to other peeps houses as often as possible...

ya know chicas, I've been dropping hints on here for-ev-ah....hmmmm? 

jasnem

I am an insane meal planner. I have a monthly calendar that I follow religiously. I know... I have issues. But really I just don't like to think/worry about it, so it's what works best for us. I'm sure I could save some $$$ by shopping sales, but I really just don't have time. So yes... in our household every third Weds. of the month we will be eating lasagna (sick, sick, sick... I know...) I do leave a few spaces a month for trying new recipes as well. 

Syndelin

sunswifey:

We don't meal plan. We head to the grocery store and just pick stuff up. I eat whatever DH pulls out of the fridge to cook! (He is the cook out of the two of us - I'd rather bake)

 

Exactly that for me as well, right down to the baking.  LOL