Menu Plan Monday: It worked, so I’m doing it again.
Last week I posted a really simple, no-fuss menu for the week. I said it was an experiment, and if it worked I might do it again. It did work, and it worked well. So, as promised:
Monday - Chili (Leftover from the weekend. It will be even better today.)
Tuesday - Fruit to nuts (Fruit salad with a generous helping of raw nuts, raisins, etc.)
Wednesday - Breakfast for supper (Eggs and pancakes, leftover fruit salad.)
Thursday - The chicken salad from last week. (I didn’t make it last Thursday because we had leftover pork carnitas. Mmm.)
Friday - Pizza
Saturday - Hamburgers w/lettuce and a side veggie (Maybe fried okra instead of fries? Will the family mutiny?)
Sunday - I don’t know and don’t know if I care right now! One blogger who does meal plan Monday calls it “foraging.” We won’t exactly forage, because we sit down to eat meals together, but we’ll come up with something.
There you have it. Could it be any more basic? I make up for the pitiful lack of veggies in some meals by making my family eat fruits and raw veggies for snacks and sneaking a few healthy ingredients into otherwise-lacking meals. And onions are a vegetable, aren’t they?)
Just to be clear, I’m not a newbie to meal-planning. I used to plan meals every week, and I was very specific. (I even used SOFTWARE, for goodness sake.) I consulted the grocery store ads, looked through my stash of coupons, scoured cookbooks and the Internet for recipes. But I wasn’t working from home at the time. I was a full-time homemaker and I considered it my job. Even then, it wasn’t necessarily my forte, and it took a lot of energy to keep doing week after week, year after year. Eventually I just got so exhausted with the entire process that I just quit. But now I think a simple plan is better and easier than no plan at all.