Meal Planning

I started meal planning last year when I was pregnant, then as the pregnancy progressed, my meal planning ceased. Actually, much of my cooking ceased as well. Well, in light of the rising gas prices and food prices I am trying to go back to my meal planning and make things a little "simpler". One of the most important things I can share about meal planning though is to make it make it simple. Not necessarily the food, but the planning. You will just get yourself too bogged down if you try to complicate it too much! So one of the simple tools I found to help in the planning is this little weekly calendar I found at Michael's, for only $1.00 and they even have a magnet on the back so you can post it on the fridge if you want! I am not sure how many pages are on a pad, but probably at least 25.

On Monday or Tuesday we always eat with Frank's family, Friday nights are Praise Team Practice at Church, so we usually go out after that and the weekend I kind of leave open for leftovers or whatever we can make from the pantry. I think I will try to start sharing my meal plans for each week to help keep myself accountable for doing it also.


So here it goes for this week:
Monday--Pork Chops, Mac-n-Cheese, Corn on the Cob (thanks to James' garden!)
Tuesday--Eat at Frank's Mothers
Wednesday--Biscuits with Hamburger Gravy, with a vegetable
Thursday--BBQ Chicken with Rice
Friday--Praise Team Practice

Do you meal plan? Please share your ideas with me!!