Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Menu Planning
I started menu planning for the month of October and I have already failed. I do not have the ingredients for anything I have on the menu for the next 3 days and I didn't have anything on the menu at all for last night and tonight. Menu planning is hard and takes so much time. I am wondering if it's worth it. Someone please tell me it is!
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Menu planning IS a lot of work. But its also soo worth it. Its all that work 1 time a month instead of each and every night.
When I plan I make 3 lists. 1 list of dinners, 5 for every week since we always end up doing leftovers or sandwiches or going out or SOMETHING twice a week.
My other 2 lists I make at the same time and its ingredients I need to make those dinners. The first list is the stuff that I can buy at the beginning of the month because it will last all month long (dry goods for example). The second is the perishables for the second two weeks that I have to wait halfway thru the month to buy (veggies, more milk, ect).
I still run out of dinners a few days early from time to time, or I forget an ingredient, especially as the month drags on but I LOOOOOVE monthly planning. It really works once you get used to it! Good luck!
Thank you Courtney, you are so very helpful, always! I appreciate it!
It IS worth it! Like Courtney, I make several lists - my menu, plus everything I need to make my menu. I do all the shopping at once (of course, I will return to get perishables as needed). You can't menu plan without a big trip to the grocery store!
I've been going through this lately too. It's so hard! I'm determined to do it though. So Courtney and Annali's advice really helps. I somehow ended up putting too much thought into it and yet not enough. Ugh. I'll be trying again starting next week! Good luck!
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