Menu plans have never worked for me in the past. In fact, if you search my blog you might even find some amazing plan that I found, tried it for a while and then decided that that "style" of menu planning wouldn't work for our family. I believe that these haven't worked for us because:
- The plan still takes too long to create.
- I get bored.
- I spend too much time in the kitchen for these fabulous plans that I make.
Family Favorites
I made a list of 20 meals that my family loves. Not likes, loves. Meals that they want to have OFTEN. Some of the meals I don't care for, but I will still eat them. Some of the meals take longer than others to prepare. Some of the meals cost a lot more to make.
Every week I can choose to cook the meals from that weeks' plan or I can throw it out the window if need be (ie. don't have any money for groceries or my freezer/fridge/pantry need to be cleaned out).
What I won't let myself do, is take a family favorite from "week a" and cook it on "week c". Otherwise I find that I start spending more money and cooking the same kinds of meals all the time. Mexican - my default meal!
I say the plan is *ALMOST* working because I have been lax about figuring out the cost of each meal. Now that I've been working on that, I need to change a few of the menu plans.
This week we'll be eating off of "menu plan A". For my open days I'm cooking:
- refried beans (cheap!)
- steak (from our beef) over salad
Check out orgjunkie.com for a lot more meal planning ideas.
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