1.25.2011

Menu Planning

Let me start off by saying, I DO NOT like menu planning. Every week, the day (usually Saturday) rolls around when it is time for us to do our grocery shopping. Grocery shopping means that you need to have food on your list. And you don't know what to put on your list if you don't know what you are going to eat. Which means, you have to plan. I don't know why I have such a dislike for it, but I just don't like roaming through cookbooks, blogs and websites to try to find good meals. My wonderful husband usually assumes this responsibility and comes up the a lot of the meals, leaving me one or two. Cooking in our house usually goes this way: Justin cooks two meals, I will cook two meals and then encore/going out nights.

This week, however, Justin challenged me to plan the menu for the ENTIRE WEEK! At first I was completely opposed to it. However, once I started finding fun recipes, I got into it and I'm rather excited about our meals this week.

Here is what is on the menu:
Monday- Lemon Pasta with zucchini, feta & chicken. Recipe here.
We actually had this for dinner last night and Justin loved it! He sounded like Bob! (What about Bob? movie reference).

Our dinner last night.

Tuesday- Sweet Potato Pancakes topped with Cinnamon Honey Butter and Pecans
Wednesday- Encore Night. (Fancy name for Leftovers).
Thursday- Four Cheese Stuffed Shells
Friday- Chicken Madeira with Smashed Potatoes. (This is a Cheesecake Factory dish that I am attempting to make).

I will probably blog about some of these dishes, so stay tuned!
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  1. Sarah PJanuary 25, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    I recently created an excell spreadsheet with all the meals we like seperated into catagories - breakfast, poultry, meat (like beef, lamb and pork), seafood, vegetarian and side dishes. When it's time to plan the weeks meals I pull it up and try to select items from each catagory and of course we often try new recipes to add to the collection.
    It makes meal planning quick and easy and it gives us good variety b/c we try to pick something from pretty much each section. It also helps reduce the food bill b/c I spread out the types and the amounts of meat/protien that we use. I can email you a copy if you want to check it out.

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  2. RebeccaJanuary 25, 2011 at 1:14 PM

    Wow! That sounds nice. Yes, please shoot me an email- rebecca.powlison@gmail.com :)

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