February Menu

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Grocery List

When making my grocery list, I list sections all over my sheet of paper, bread, produce, dairy, snack foods, canned food, breakfast, meat, frozen food. This helps me to fill in by looking at my menu and deciding what I need to buy for that meal each night. Remember to include snacks, lunch and breakfast, too. Then I organize it by my store and the order I will be walking down the aisles.

Be Flexible

Just because I do this monthly menu, doesn't mean we are not flexible. Tonight, I have down salmon, but I couldn't find any salmon that looked good. We are still doing seafood. Its just going to be shrimp instead! So, my point here is that it may look like I'm OCD, but I can always be flexible too! Have a great week!!!

Chipotle Glazed Chicken

Tonight I am cooking Chipotle Glazed Chicken. I have a recipe for a sauce that looks delicious, but I couldn't find one ingredient at the store I was in and didn't want to go to another, so I just picked up a bottle of Sweet & Spicy Chipotle sauce. I plan to marinade my chicken breasts in the sauce for a couple hours and then cook on my indoor grill. We will have wild rice on the side! Are you having Chipotle Chicken tonight too???

January Menu

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What's For Dinner?

"Mom, What's For Dinner?" The dreaded question that every mom, or dad, cringes when they hear around 5pm! That is any mom who is not planning in advance. Yes, I'm just going to say mom for the purpose of ease in this particular blog, even though I came from a family where my wonderful dad did all the cooking!

I started meal planning a few years ago. At first, I planned for the week by writing it on a cute kitchen calendar with puppies, you know the kind that your mom gives you every Christmas! It helped me with my grocery shopping for the week. About a year ago, I decided to start doing planning for the whole month. Now, I have become organized enough to sit down with my spreadsheet, not cute calendar anymore, to be able to do my heavy grocery shopping only once a month.

Recently, my lovely sister in law asked me to start sending her my menus. She said they have really helped her to start cooking at home more. We have emails going back and forth with recipes and discussions on how to make dinners delicious, yet easy!

I would like to start sharing with anyone who thinks they need help getting started. Let me share with you what we are eating!