Meals @ Home
Dear Self,
Consider this post proof that I do not need to go grocery shopping for the next 2 weeks with the exception of a re-stock of salad veggies and milk for Chris. You have fallen off the wagon with meal planning AND cooking which has resulted in many meals out and eating less intuitively which in turn has caused you to feel broke and unhealthy. You now have all the tools to turn it all around in the next 2 weeks . . . go for it!
Val
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I was pretty hesitant to drive 35min to go grocery shopping, but as you can see, it was the right thing to do. Besides, where can you get all of this for under $60 which included a lot of organic products?
If you guessed Trader Joe’s . . . Your right!
Of course, we wont be living off of just this haul alone. I have had things in the freezer and cabinets for quite some time now, and its time to use them.
I no longer want to be the ironic culinary student that doesn’t cook all that often!
Including the above and what is already hiding in the kitchen, I have enough to make the following meals.
Breakfast
- Fruit Smoothies
Lunches/Dinners
- Hamburgers
- Turkey Burgers
- Stuffed Peppers
- Veggie Burgers
- Spanakopita
- Homemade Pizza
- Italian Pasta Bowl
_ Salads
- Lasagna (frozen Easter leftover)
- Wraps (salad, salmon, veggie)
-Veggie Masala
Snacks
- Apples
- Hard boiled eggs
- Carrot sticks w/nut butter
- Ginger cats w/nut butter
I’m pretty excited about the prospect of eating more normal again. I just need to make a plan and stick with it and also not try to be perfect at it.
Do you plan your meals weekly? How!!!!??
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2 Responses to Meals @ Home
We *TRY* to meal plan every week…we feel better and so does our bank account if we do…I made a little weekly calendar in excel that I print and have in the kitchen. In the margins we make little notes of things we’d like next week and then on the weekend I sit down and fill in all of the meals and move them around depending on what’s going on in our lives that week.
We shop at two stores and I get the fliers and make my lists (and often menus) based on what is on sale. Because I pass both stores on my way home from work, I don’t feel too much like I’m going out of my way by shopping two places. And often the amount I save is totally worth it!
On the back of the scribbled on menu, I have three columns for grocery lists – one for each store and one of things I can buy either place – things that aren’t on sale or are basically the same price both places.
Once I’ve decided on the menu, I type it up and print and post it inside the cupboard…I find if I don’t post it, we head off in our direction and the plan goes out the window. Which often leads to spoiled foods…
UGH…I just wrote a novel in your comment section…sorry!
Ha, I’m awful at meal planning because I never know whether I’ll be hungry, what I’ll be in the mood for, if I’ll feel like cooking, etc. The only problem with this is that a lot of stuff goes bad, we end up with lots of little odds and ends that don’t get eaten and I end up eating the same easy things over and over. I have all kinds of stuff here but I haven’t felt that hungry lately, and by extension I don’t want to cook. I’ve been eating mostly peanut butter toast, eggs, big salads, fresh fruit, wild salmon burgers and pre-cooked chicken sausages with steamed veggies. Boring, but I like it and it works for me. All the ground turkey and chicken in my freezer, the beans and grains in my pantry, my spice rack and cook books are getting dusty (maybe not the freezer stuff, but you get the idea. )