Every Workerette knows how important it is to plan ahead and try to streamline things like grocery shopping, meal preparation, and kitchen storage in order to (hopefully!) add a few more minutes to the day. Hopefully with Menu Plan Monday you'll be able to get some ideas for things to put on your own future menus - or maybe you'll become inspired to streamline things around your own house with menu plans. Remember, this isn't just for work-at-home moms like me! You can be single with no kids, retired with your spouse, or working nights with both your kids and your parents to care for - planning ahead for your personal situation with a little bit of wiggle room for longer than expected shifts, school events, and business travel still puts you ahead of the game!
Here's what will be cooking in my kitchen this week:
- Monday: Sandwiches & Salad (Ballet Night)
- Tuesday: Vegetable Cannelloni
- Wednesday: Creamed Chicken
- Thursday: Spaghetti & Meat Sauce
- Friday: Sweet Sausage Chili (leftovers from Sunday dinner)
- Saturday: Homemade Pizza (Family Movie Night)
- Sunday: Chicken & Artichokes
As you might recall from last week's Menu Plan, I wasn't really planning on making sausage chili on Sunday. However, we didn't make it to the commissary on Thursday as planned, so I didn't make minestrone. I bumped the chili leftovers a bit and we had pizza delivered Friday instead of making it Saturday. We finally headed to the commissary on Sunday and I found some black beans and corn on the reduced shelf. However, since the cans were dented I wanted to use them right away rather than letting them sit. Now we've got a nice big bin of chili for leftovers for this week! (And thus why the weekly menu plan stays pretty flexible at my house. *Chuckle*)
Need more Menu Plan ideas to get you thinking? Head over to OrgJunkie's blog and see what's cooking in other kitchens this week.
Menu planning has been helpful to me through my many transitions.
Posted by: Rona | January 30, 2008 1:24 PM | Permalink to Comment