"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!
Ok, so I have some questions.. I need to get better about cooking at home more. I do cook at home about 60% of the time, but I would like to increase that to about 90% (to save money, and for health reasons)! My problem is getting the organization together for planning ahead and then doing large quantities of shopping at once..
ReplyDeleteI work nights so alot of the time, my husband is cooks dinner for him and Trey and then I the leftovers the following night for my dinner at work.
I would LOVE to see suggestions from you on how to organize my grocery shopping so as not to have lots of wasted groceries. I find myself going to the store at least twice a week.
Love this Erica- will follow and learn. I was inspired after watching Julie and Julia, a little :) Would love to be cooking more at home but I get "stuck" on what to cook then I don't have what I need..blah, blah, blah, blah. What an inspiration you are!
ReplyDeleteHi Jodi! Eating at home saves SO much money! I'd say if you use my menu look at it with your husband to see what on it he would want to make and adjust.
ReplyDeleteWhen 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 for that meal each night. Remember to do snacks, lunch and breakfast, too. Then I organize it by my store and the order I will be walking down the aisles.
If you see something on my menu, please ask for a recipe if you need it. I'm going to try to start adding more recipes to this blog too. Good Luck!