Meal Planning

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Meal Planning

Indecision about what is for
dinner is one of the biggest road
blocks to getting dinner on the
table in time.

On most days, the average cook
still doesnt know what is for
dinner by 4 p.m. After a long
frustrating day, dinner usually
comes from one of three ideas:

*Preparing an old favorite, one of
a few dishes that you serve all
the time

*Stopping on the way home for fast
food

*Fighting your way through the
super market after work (we all
know how much fun that is)

There is an easier way, and
believe me when I say it is
easier! 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.

Sit down and write in the main
dish for each of those slots. If
there is something your family
really likes, plan on cooking a
double batch and freezing half of
it for those hectic days.

After you have entered your main
dish, go back and enter your
bread, vegetable, salad and desert
if you want to, it really makes it
easier to plan your shopping list
when you do this.

Another advantage to the calendar
pages, if you and your family have
busy after school and work
schedules. Plan your meals around
those activities by writing them
on the same calendar.

When 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.

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