MEAL PLANNING SCHEDULE
Source of Recipe
BBR
Recipe Introduction
Posted by: Dawnzhere
List of Ingredients
I clipped this from Woman's Day, a '94 issue. When I used it, it worked great!!! Thought I'd pass it along.
1. Collect about 60 recipes. Include basics like pork chops, roast chicken and hamburgers, which can be fixed without a formal recipe, plus a few favorite recipes and some from cookbooks.
2. Put each recipe on a file card, along with appropriate simple side dishes (baked potatoes, frozen peas, tossed salad). If the recipe is from a cookbook, list the ingredients, the name of the book and page #.
3. Make three file-box dividers. Label them "meals not used," "meals used," and "next two weeks meals."
4. Put all the cards in the "meals not used" section.
5. Have each family member pick out an equal number of cards - enough for two weeks' worth of dinners - sight unseen.
5. Put these cards into the "two weeks meals" section, shop for them and you're set. After two weeks, pick another bunch of cards.
Each dish turns up only 4 or 5x a year, and new ones can be added now and then.
Grocery lists takes minutes, or just take the cards. Two weeks of marketing can be done in one trip, and makes good use of sales and coupons.
Recipe
Whoever gets home first knows what to do to start dinner early.
Cheating - making roast turkey on a 95° day may require that you "put it back" in the file-box
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