Meal Planners -- do you have any tips?
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Meal Planners -- do you have any tips?
| Sun, 01-11-2009 - 9:32am |
Hello all of you expert meal planners! I haven't been very good with meal planning for a week at a time like most of you. Due to that, I tend to fall in a habit to the same few foods we like, and have them over-n-over.
Anyone have any "expert" tips on how you do your planning? I have a lot of recipes copied to start trying. I'm big on cooking large portions of freezer friendly options so we can have for lunch during the week.
Do you start with a spreadsheet, listing the recipes, items needed and merge into a grocery list, etc? Just handwrite a list?
Just looking for some easy what works/didn't work from those who are successful with this!
Thanks.
Sue

Well, that's easy enough.
This is what I do to avoid food ruts:
After I write the weekly meal plan, I archive them in a notebook, that way I can look back and see what I've made in the past that I haven't made in awhile.
Set a goal to make 1 new recipe a week. 1 or maybe 2 new dishes a week is good; 7 new recipes=overkill.
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