Meal Planning
Source of Recipe
Woman's Day July 16, 1994
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 the page number.
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. (There will be cheers and groans.)
6. Put those cards into the "two weeks' meals" section, shop for them, and you're set. After two weeks, pick another bunch of cards.
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