Planning Your Meals
October 1st, 2007When planning your meals, assume dinner groundwork will take between 15 and 45 minutes. While this may not seem like it, in the end this simple process can be a real time saver, in addition to eliminating the stress of not knowing what to cook.
An easier way to plan your meals is to visualize the five nights of the week as slots that need to be filled with a menu. If your family likes a wide variety in their menus, your weekly menu could include fish, chicken, pork, beef and some kind of meatless casserole. If they like chicken better than anything else, have chicken two nights in the week. A desk calendar or any calendar that has room to write works great for meal planning.