This time it's changes going on in our house. I have recently decided that I am going to get better with meal planning. I have always done better when I planned out the weeks meals but I have never been very good at meal planning.
I am notorious for forgetting to take the meat out of the freezer to thaw which starts a vicious circle of "Now what do I make?" and usually ends up with us ordering something or forging for something to eat! It can be frustrating because we have a house full of perfectly good food and yet end up spending our money on take out. Now not to say I am anti-take out because I certainly am not but I would rather choose to order out rather than it be a last resort.
Also I am thinking this would be good for using up the food that has accumulated in the pantry and freezer. Since we have no meal plan we go to the grocery store and just buy what we want. This usually means we buy a box of brown rice thinking we are out only to get home and realize we have a whole box, you know the drill. This doesn't really matter for boxed/canned goods and frozen veggies but it does when it comes to fresh produce since now you have 5 tomatoes and inevitably some will end up going bad before you use them and you know where it ends up then.
So with the whole meal planning thing I have decided to add 2 "special" days into the week. The first is Meatless Mondays which is by no means a new concept, in fact there is an entire website dedicated to this very purpose. The other I have decided to institute is a leftovers night. For us this will usually be Friday's since I don't tend to cook Friday nights anyway for various reasons. I have been trying to think of a catchy name but it's just not happening. I am also going to try to cook red meat only once (max. twice) a week and stick to 2 legged or swimming animals the rest of the week.
So there you have it... the PLAN!
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