For those that like them, I found a great weekly dinner planner.

[cbayer]

I love these things, but have never found one I like as much as this. The menus look really tasty, interesting and not terribly complicated. Each day includes a salad and dessert and there are shopping lists for the entire week. It also looks like they concentrate on what is seasonal. So I have done the shopping and will start the first one tonight!


http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/everydaycooking/weeklydinnerplanners


Anyone else know of any similar sites?


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[hippywife]

1. I'd really like to do my own.

I keep telling Bill that we need to sit down on Thursday night and do a menu plan for the following week, so I can do a grocery list. It seems I'm always just winging it and cooking the same things over and over again anymore.

Maybe planning menus will get me out of these doldrums. I haven't been excited about cooking anything in a while. Recently it seems that I would just as soon not cook. Sigh.

:hi:

[greenbird]

2. I've been thinking the same thing.

I'm really in a rut right now. We are having the same five things over and over, which is weird, because we're both really good cooks. I need to break out of the box.

[hippywife]

3. I think the big problem is that it's winter

and fresh ingredients just aren't as readily available right now. I miss the excitement of spring and summer produce. Not to mention what days upon days of no sunshine does to my mood.

Hope things get better for you soon, too. :hug:

[Phentex]

4. I plan but it's often shuffled...

came home one day this week to find out there was an unexpected basketball game. No way to cook around it so I threw a soup together.

I sometimes plan based on what I have remembered to thaw, lol.

I like to add something new so I look for ideas in this forum or in cookbooks. I find it funny when I flip through my own recipe books and find an old favorite that I have not made in a while. The family will act like it's some great new thing! Thank goodness they aren't picky eaters.

[BarbaRosa]

9. Sounds like my story.

Every so often I'll memtion to MamaRosa that we need to plan out the weeks meals.


Yeah...end of discussion.

Sometimes I wake up and know exactly what's for dinner, sometimes it's dinner time and I still have no clue.

thanks, I'll check it out.

[grasswire]

5. I used to cook that way.

Plan a whole week's meals down to the details, and shop once a week.

Nowadays, it seems that we don't decide about dinner until lunchtime, and walk to the store nearly every day for one thing or another. I need a happy medium.

[cbayer]

6. I only get to the store about once a month, so this suits me perfectly.

I shopped for 2 weeks worth of these menus, then bought the usuals. So we will have 10 meals this month from here. Other nights will be leftovers or the usual fare.

I just need to pay attention to the perishables. I love having everything I need for a meal available and I love trying new recipes.

:hi:

[Tesha]

7. I'm afraid I couldn't do it...

I work from home, so I have the wonderful opportunity of going to the kitchen to start a casserole or prepare the loaf for the second rise whenever I think of it.
Quite often we want something specific - but the store's a 30 minute walk away or he drives by it on the way home.

Epicurious is a great site tho'

[NMDemDist2]

8. i have SOOOOOO downloaded that app for my new itouch

now if I could just get Mr. K to eat cous-cous/bulgar

:banghead:

[supernova]

10. Nice site

The recipes are really yummy. I found a chocolate flourless cookie that looks good.

I'm not much of a supper planner. I tend to eat more during breakfast and lunch and eat light during dinner, salads and soups mostly, or even a protein shake.

But if I had a big family to feed, that site would be ideal.