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Do you meal plan?
What are you eating this week?
I agree with everything that muddled said. You should listen to her. -ESDReturns
Re: Do you meal plan?
I try.
Grocery shopping is stupidly easy for me right now (protein, veggies, sometimes a little stinky cheese for flavor, and then flavored sparkling water or something), so most things can mix and match fairly easily.
Yep. I usually do it Friday and then go grocery shopping on Saturday. It's getting really hard now between Joaquin & H's dietary needs and my being a vegetarian, so if I don't plan in advance it's like, 'whelp, pizza sounds good.' I'm seriously thinking about re-adding fish & chicken to my diet because I'm at the end of my rope, heh.
Yesterday Joaquin & I had fake chicken nuggets and a salad (she is still confused about lettuce, but ate the tomatoes out, heh). Today is grilled cheese with stuff in and tomato soup. Tomorrow is french toast with strawberries. Weds is spinach & black bean quesadillas and cumin & lime sweet potato fries. Thursday is parm breaded zucchini 'fries' and ravioli. Friday we'll grill out (fake italian sausage with peppers & onions for me) and have cucumber salad.
I'll make a meatloaf, turkey breast, meatballs, lasagna, stew, stuffed peppers, chili, etc. Saves time and trouble all week for dinner.
Mmmmmm... grilled cheese.
Are you really thinking about adding meat back into your diet, Broc?
Yes. Eating dinner together as a family is really important to all of us, so meal planning is a total necessity, since we both work FT and Baby Fuss likes to hit the hay by 7pm.
H and I trade off every other week, where one person plans, shops for, and cooks all the dinners for the week. There is a "cheat sheet" on the fridge where the week's dinner plan is written out. Most cooking is done on the weekend. We'll make one or two "big" meals that we'll get 2-4 dinners out of, using the crock pot or whatever. The extras go into the chest freezer, and then we pull one or two freezer meals during the week each week, which in turn get re-stocked the next weekend with the next weekend's cooking. Often, I'll make the next night's dinner after Baby Fuss has gone to bed, if it's something you can make ahead like a casserole, which I can then pop in the oven as soon as I get home from work.
Basically, I don't much like commercial processed "convenience" food, so we make our own. I even make my own cream of mushroom soup for leftovers.
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I try to but some weeks are harder than others. I always have a list in my head and if fi gets home before I do I let him know what to make or if something is already cooking.
I really should get back into the habit of writing the weekly menu on the whiteboard in our pantry so the poor guy isnt left guessing.
I think I want to be like Fuss when I grow up. I am amazed.
Nikki- I do what you do. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Now that spring is here, I try to plan meals around the produce I find at the farmers' market.
Broc, I am so lucky that Brad has always been very easy when it comes to what he eats. Now, he doesn't WAH, so it's pretty easy for him to inject the meats into his diet at lunch or whenever. Although, he usually takes leftovers. Our lives would be so much more complicated if he were as strict as I was about it.
eta- I totally hear you on the smell. I hate it. I hate it when my house smells like that.
I try to meal plan each week. It makes grocery shopping lots easier. We're having:
Turkey lasagna with homemade cheesy garlic bread
Chicken and pineapple fried rice
Grilled sirloin steaks with homemade mozzarella sticks and a pasta side
Plus one night we're eating at a friend's house.
LOL
The smell doesn't bother me. H has been getting these things which are basically very lightly breaded chicken cutlets and they smell freaking fabulous when he makes them. It's afterwards when there's a greasyass pan of congealed reconsituted fat... and it isn't even that freaking fatty! blechhhh.
Yep. I have ever since I was 18 (when I struck out on my own). My parents never did it, so I'm not sure where I got the idea.
I have absolutely no idea what to buy at the grocery store (outside of bathroom supplies, milk and butter) if I don't have a list and I can't make a list without planning meals. I went once without a list or any idea of what meals to make and I just wandered aimlessly, got bored and went to Chick-Fil-A.
I usually get the grocery list done at work on Friday, we go to the store first thing Saturday morning and then cook everything on Sunday morning.
This week is spaghetti, swedish meatballs, tacos, grilled chicken, and kielbasa. There are sides too, but that's the main dish.
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Oh yes, the dishes are especially nasty. I don't touch them.
That is a pain in the ass. Maybe you should just stop caring about your family's nutritional needs.
I think one of the reasons Brad has never complained just might be because he started losing weight when we moved in together. My way was better for some things. lol.
I usually do, but this week I didn't. I didn't get to the grocery store yesterday as planned and now my week is messed up. Of all week, this week I should have planned out. I have something going on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday either after work or in the evening.
Thank goodness for pressure cookers and grills!
FI does this! He usually looks at what is on sale for the week and plans basic recipes. We generally make enough dinners to eat for some lunches and than have our usual staples for snacks and other lunches.
This week is mainly chicken and ham. FI made a big pot of chicken soup w/ squash for us to eat on this week.