The part of making dinner each night that I like the least is trying to decide what to have. I find that more taxing than actually making the meal or cleaning up after it.
(Side note: I also heard a story that the since the president must make many decisions every day, he has cut down on at least one and wears the same type of suit every day so that he doesn't have to stand at his closet and make a choice. Perhaps he chooses his tie, but I really can't say for sure. Maybe they are on a rotating schedule....)
Anyway. I have come up with a plan to help me with this food thing. For every day of the week I have designated some sort of meal. One day when I teach until 5:00 I get take-out, and I have a list of places I can rotate through. Another day I have a list of about 4 favorite vegetarian meals, and I just pick one, preferably one that I didn't make last week. One day I make soup. Another day when I teach until 5:00 I have leftovers. (I love leftovers, and since we only have two people eating at home every night, we usually have something in the fridge.) On Fridays we have grilled salmon. Weekends are up for grabs.
So far this has made making grocery lists so much easier for me. I will change the basic plan over to a warm weather version (no soup) about May or June. I do not know why I haven't done this earlier.
1 comment:
I agree - deciding on the menu is the worst (hardest?) part. I used to keep my weekly menus and then just go back and grab one. For awhile we did Crockpot one day, salad/soup one day, Mexican one day, grill one day but my husband got tired of the rotation. Sounds like a good system that's working for you right now!
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