I'm a little late getting this out, but I guess it's better late than never. Recapping my meals from the previous week really helps me when I am having a brain block and cannot come up with any ideas for the upcoming week. Here's how I usually do my meal planning:
Start thinking on Sunday about what we want to have during the week and which nights I know that we will be home. It does not always happen, but I like to plan at least two meals with a couple of repeat ingredients. Spinach is an ingredient that I use often; for example in a quiche, and then as a side with another meal.
On Sunday night or Monday morning, make a rough list of the meals that I have come up with, and then figure out if any of the meals will have large quantities of leftovers. If any of the meals will have big leftovers, I eliminate one meal and replace it with a leftovers night.
On Monday morning, make a grocery list based on the planned-for meals. Then I take an inventory of what I already have on hand and eliminate from the list as needed.
Then I head to the store.
Here are last week's meals:
Grilled peach and prosciutto pizza
Click here for my best homemade pizza dough
Thai Basil
Recycled pic. I actually had the coconut soup with chicken.
Ben and I also made a large batch of breakfast burritos for the freezer.
For Father's Day, I may Ben some of my homemade cinnamon rolls.
I also made a blackberry cobbler for the cookout that we had at Ben's parents after church. (Sorry, no photo.)
Do you meal plan?
Do you do weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or another way?
Sorry for the ghetto jpeg... I'm not very tech/blog savvy. ;)
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