Sunday, August 31, 2008

The Plan for the Week

Every Sunday, I think about food for the week ahead. I try to come up with a plan for what we'll eat every night, and what I need to get at the grocery store. Most weeks, my plan is overly ambitious, and I skip 1 or 2 nights and we all have hot dogs or pasta with jarred sauce and frozen meatballs. But it's better than weeks I don't think about it at all. Those weeks, we eat badly every night: frozen pizza, takeout Chinese, chicken nuggets.

I have a pretty busy week. Monday is a holiday, which means I'll be exhausted by dinner time. Tuesday I have jury duty. Wednesday through Friday I'm driving all over the Bay Area for various interviews. So I need quick easy dinners every night. Here's my plan:

Sunday: BBQ with extended family

Monday: Pasta with Chicken, Tomatoes, Artichokes, and
Mushrooms

Tuesday: Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce, Broccoli, Mangoes,
and Lemongrass Rice

Wednesday: Chicken Burritos

Thursday: Clean-out-the-fridge: fried rice or salad

Since I went to Costco yesterday, my grocery trip today is pretty easy. All I need is mangoes, mushrooms, mozzarella, artichokes, tortillas, Amy's Organic Black Bean Chili, and salad stuff. Plus fruit. We eat a lot of fruit.

Posted by Lisa, Carb-Craving Mom at 10:52 AM
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hmccabe said...

This is what we're going to eat on the east coast, too! Thanks, Lisa.

September 1, 2008 6:36 PM
McKay 4 said...

more than a month ago, we started really planning our meals. http://mckay4.blogspot.com/2008/08/whats-for-dinner.html

we sit down every sunday and map it out. it makes everything easier - shopping, cooking, eating. it gives us a much more diverse menu that we had before too, even for lucas' lunches.

and because lucas is part of the process, we don't have so many of those moments at meals when he says, "i don't like _______". it still happens, but not nearly as often.

September 1, 2008 11:40 PM

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