A couple of weeks ago I shared my dirty little secret with Adrienne. Not everyone would get it - but Adrienne would, and would not judge. It has taken me six months to come out into the open with it, to accept that it is part of my life and that I am a shadow of a person without it.
Meal planning!
Actually, make that Extreme Meal Planning, with cross-referenced MS Word meal grid and corresponding grocery list. Whoa. I just knew that Adrienne, coming from an accounting and audit background, would go all warm fuzzy on me if I shared anything with that level of anal-retentiveness with her.
I happened upon a site months ago, following a search for a recipe, that made reference to the Organizing Junkie site. I happened to stumble upon it during Menu Planning Monday, where literally hundreds of readers submit their menus for the week via their own sites. A couple thousand clicks later among all the submitted menus (and a serious time-suck at work) and I was blown away. There were recipes, time saving tips, calorie/fat/sodium/diabetic conscious submissions and most important to me, ways to stretch a dollar that would not have ever crossed my mind. And all of it reader-generated. This was an amazing network of people with proven ideas for putting healthy meals on the table for their families without busting their budget. I was hooked.
So I lurked. Creating my own menu-planning routine (more on that later) with the help of Organizing Junkie & Friends and enjoying the lack of chaos that used to surround the question "what's for dinner?". But never would I have thought of *gasp* posting my own menu! That would require exposure, risk, being part of a community and um.... actually posting, which as you recall, I took a little break from for a while.
So without further ado, my dinner menu for the week below. I'm sensing a comfort-food theme here..
Monday: Leftovers (we indulged this weekend - my birthday!)
Tuesday: baked ziti + garlic bread + salad
Wednesday: meatloaf + green beans + scalloped potatoes
Thursday: chicken and biscuits + salad
Friday: quesadillas + soup
Saturday: steak + baked potatoes + salad
Sunday: rosemary chicken with white beans & artichokes + brown rice (scroll down the linked page)
3 comments:
It all sounds really good. Welcome to MPM. Sounds like I need to take a couple notes from you.
Your rosemary chicken sounds yummy! Welcome MPM, it's my guilty pleasure!
Thanks Mandy! I cannot take credit for the rosemary chicken though - it is from Jayne Maynard's(gorgeous) site, who provided some of the initial inspiration for my leap into meal planning. :) Yay Internet, huh?!
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