With Vince not here, I haven’t been making menu plans per se but I always know ahead of time what I’m going to eat. This week I made two kinds of soup on Monday (or Sunday . . can’t remember). I used a jar of home canned chicken and made the Green Enchilada Soup and Chicken Noodle Soup (with storebought frozen noodles). It was all so easy and I’ve and soup all week and I don’t mind one bit.
Nicole and I are going to start working together to hopefully get her in the habit of making menu plans, or using mine, and doing some planning so she isn’t having to go to the store so much and dinner is ready when Chad gets home.
So . . tomorrow I’ll hopefully start sharing menu plans again and I’m going to do it on Friday for the next week. Nicole and I decided it was easier for me to post them to the blog, then share the link with her. I hope these will be a bit more than my traditional menu plans, with some instructions of what to do each day so she can stay on track. Mostly these will be recipes that are fairly kid friendly and picky eater husband good and easy for a working mom to get done.
These will be enough for at last two adult and one child serving.
I will do five menus per week. I will plan and note things that makes an extra dish for the freezer so that every fourth week, there’s a dish in the freezer that can be pulled out, heated and . . no cooking for a week.
Hope this helps someone and I’m pretty sure it will help Nicole.
Helen says
Judy, you’re a wonderful mother-in-law, Nicole is a lucky girl, Looking at this from the other direction, you are lucky to have such a wonderful daughter-in-law!
Linda B says
Looking forward to your menu plans! I have learned so much from you. Thank you.
Helen Glover says
That sounds great! I seem to have the same 5 meals over and over again. it will be good to have someone elses’ ideas and work with those. Thanks for this!
Laura says
I could use some ideas! I feel like I’m getting in a rut. In my defense, my husband doesn’t like most vegetables and would rather not try unfamiliar foods.
Nelle Coursey says
I love seeing menu plans. I don’t plan for anything!! As you know I am not organized. I buy things that I can make certain dishes out of and we have those when we can.
yayatrudy says
I will try and follow some of your suggestions on the menus. We get tired of eating the same things so you may have some new ideas. Now just bring me the bread….
Peggy says
I have to echo everything Helen said above! AND I look forward to seeing these plans. I’m a former “bulk cooker” (do all prep & a lot of cooking on Sunday for the rest of the week), but I’ve gotten out of the habit and just can’t seem to get inspired. It’s just the two of us now, so your plans will probably be perfect! Thank you!!!
Julie says
I’m interested as well! I would love to be more organized with meal planning.
Linda Garcia says
I have tried many recipes of yours over the years. Several of these I still use/make regularly. I used to do a lot of crock-pot cooking before I retired (and before instant pot invention). I don’t do menus and plan ahead like I did back then, but I do plan about 3 days ahead. I look in the fridge and see what I need to use up first, so that is how I plan what I need to cook in the next day or two. But I still have days where I go stare into the freezer to see what I can take out for dinner. Now that I am not feeding kids, my husband doesn’t mind whatever I fix. Maybe with your menus, I can be more time efficient and not stand over the chest freezer wondering what to make.