In honor of the new school year starting tomorrow, I'm attempting once again to better organize our household. One idea I've had (stolen from a magazine) is to create a "monthly menu." My hope is to list 20-24 different meals and just go through the list each month. That way, I don't have to come up with a meal every night if it's already planned out and we won't be eating the same meals each week, which you know is such an easy habit to fall into. Plus, if the meals are already planned, grocery shopping and list-making is much simpler.
So your job is......suggest recipes for me! I'm always in search of good family recipes for a little variety. So please send me any favorites your family has and we'll be happy to try them out! Think of how much fun this will be - you can read other people's recipes and get ideas for yourself too!
I'll let you know how my other organizational projects turn out and if they're worth the effort!
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Good luck with your menu!! I have no idea what I'm cooking any day this week :) My kids do not care!
ReplyDeleteYou have inspired me to attempt to do the same...but for a week instead of a month!!
ReplyDeleteWe had pasta last night with an eggplant puree...super easy and you can't taste the eggplant at all...then jambalaya, and tacos this week...that's as far as I've gotten! But that's more progress than I usually have for a week. If you want any of the recipes, let me know.
Yeah, I'll take the eggplant puree recipe! Send it on!
ReplyDeleteYou should start a recipe blog! Hmm, I wonder if we could start one blog for all of us and we could all add to it when we have a good recipe to share... Maybe I'll attempt that if I have time later.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I usually try to plan out my menus a week at a time...I can never think of enough to fill a whole month. Although I do have a list of dinner ideas in an excel spreadsheet, along with the ingredients for each meal (as well as how much it costs to make it--I'm anal). So if I need ideas, I go to my list and choose a couple meals and then have the ingredients right there to add to my grocery list. My latest favorite is BBQ chicken sandwiches: Cook chicken breasts (about 2 lbs)in the oven. When they're done, shred them and add them to a bottle of bbq sauce in a pot and heat it all up together on the stove till heated through. Serve on buns. Or, if they're like my kids, they'll only eat it dip-style with potato chips.
I usually have a lot of recipe ideas but since it's still summertime at our house we are relegated to eating rotisserie chicken multiple ways - in burritos, on a salad with a ton of different veggie topping options and bbq ranch sauce, in soup... Also frozen pizza. Sorry, I will try harder soon.
ReplyDeleteI was just reading Berd's comment and my sister in laws and I did something like that - http://westbrookgirlsdinein.blogspot.com/ - where we all had access and could contribute. It just fizzled after a while. But it's not a bad idea. What is a better idea is those of you who live close should just start a dinner exchange where one person cooks for multple familes one night and then gets dinner brought in on others. Not sure if you live close enough for that but I wish I could do something like that.
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