Today I've been revisiting menu planning....but not just a little bit. Like a whirlwind, helps that the man has math homework to complete and is busy upstairs leaving me to be with all my cookbooks and mini laptop. ::insert evil laugh:: but seriously after being stuck home for 4 days you'd think I would have attempted this previously and not spent most of Sunday revisiting and reworking my methods. I was home recently due to bronchitis with pharyngitis, which was most likely strep but the doctor didn't want to waste my or his time by doing the throat swab when he was already prescribing me to antibiotics. So I've been not just a little sick, but REALLY sick, per doctor's orders I've been home. Sleeping and spending way to much time on Facebook. But I get to go back to work tomorrow. :-D
Anyways back to the whole menu planning. I decided I was going to menu plan because I got an email that some website had a new planner option. Not wanting to go there. I was like I need to do this, so I carried my mini to the kitchen table and looked at the desk which had been piled high in the kitchen since we moved in...and decided it was time to unearth it. So I went through all the papers and sorted and tossed what needed to be dealt with, so now I sit at my desk with my swivel chair so I can turn and use the kitchen table too. It's not perfect but it's now usable space. Which is pretty awesome I might add. Anyways back to the point. I've been attempting to plan not just one week but one MONTH of meals. My problem has always been that when I plan X for Monday, Y for Tuesday I never want those items that day throwing off my entire week and making me have to rewrite everything as I used the dry erase method before. So I was looking around the internet and like the idea of index cards but not sure I'd use them but I might try a few just listing ingredients to help with grocery list making.
Anyways I came up with a plan I think will work for me, I created a word document that lists just "week of: date" then below I've bulleted meals I plan to make that week. But I make the sheet for the whole month/4 weeks, so it's massive planning but it shouldn't have to happen too often, and I'm basing it upon what's in the house now, what we stocked up on at Bulk store, and what I'll get at the grocery store tomorrow after work. So I can get the pantry staples were running low on and maintain that easier if I'm planning this far in advance that's the plan so far, it's still a work in progress but I'm excited and the man doesn't understand why. :-D So I'm blogging. I'll update on how it goes.
