Recipe for Menu Planning
No matter how busy you are, you’ve got to eat!
1. Organize Recipes. Some of my favorite recipe websites are: AllRecipes.com, American Profile, & Taste of Home.
2. Plan meals as part of your weekly planning. Consider sales and seasonal foods, nutrition, variety, visual appeal and textures. When there is little time for cooking, use crockpots, make-ahead mixes, and quantity cookery. After planning, make a grocery list of items you need to buy.
Plan A: List some of your favorite meal plans on cards. Include a main dish, side dishes, and dessert. Make about 10-15 cards, on the other side list ingredients needed for a shopping list. See MealsForYou.com and Menus4Moms.com for ideas.
Example:
- Pork Chops
- Sour cream scalloped potatoes
- Green Beans
- Rolls
- Apple Crisp
Plan B: Make separate lists of main dishes, side dishes, and desserts, then randomly select an item from each. You could even use a dart-board for this! A healthier version could provide alternatives too.
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MAIN DISH |
SIDE 1 |
SIDE 2 |
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Pizza |
French Fries |
Pudding |
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Hamburgers |
Onion Rings |
Cottage Cheese |
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Tacos |
Curly fries |
Applesauce |
Plan C: Eat out! Keep a list of favorite restaurants.
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You have done it again! MealsForYou.com is an awesome resource that I have never seen before. I love that it has the whole meal planned out. Plus, I can easily put together the list of things I need to buy. Perhaps I will surprise my wife with a home cooked meal.
Thanks!
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Incredible resource. Thanks.