Meal Planning
So, I'm the grocery shopper in the family. I know I can be a little OCD in a lot of areas and this is probably one of them. I have a notepad that hangs on the refrigerator. On the right hand side of the notepad is our 'running' list of items that we need. Then the night before I grocery shop, I write the day of the week on the left side of that notepad. From there, I comb through my recipe books or 3-ring binders of printed recipes to decide what I will be making for each of the meals. Since the recipe is right there in front of me, I can then add any ingredients that I know I don't have to my 'running' list of items on the right side. Now, in a perfect world, I would cook each of those meals on their perspective day of the week... haha... my world is so far from perfect it isn't even funny!! However, this paper is a great guideline! If one of my days turns upside down and I don't have time to cook the meal I had planned, I can either pick a more sim